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Henry H. Fowler Oral History Interview
… wpb and they weren't familiar with government routine and red tape. so a lot of the matters under investigation, from my point of view, was the result of ignorant conduct rather than conscious misbehavior. they were hailed before the truman … board throughout the war period. fowler: until february of 1944. we were pretty well organized and mobilized by that point. all of the orders: the l orders, the m orders, the p orders, the various kinds of regulations that were necessary to … and arrangements, and becoming international investment bankers in a big way. johnson: you weren't involved in the point iv programs? fowler: no. well, as secretary of the treasury you are automatically--although your name is sent up and you're …
Stuart W. Rockwell Oral History Interview
… loy henderson felt very strongly that the situation in the middle east was going to become very, very complicated from the point of view of u.s. relations because of the creation of the state of israel; that he opposed the instant recognition of … from the marshall plan, latin-american countries were clamoring for it, and, of course, in 1949 truman announced point iv. in the middle east, you had a situation in which there were adversaries vying, i take it, for aid. could you [24] …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, February 21, 1968
… of disagreement or lack of unity, coordination [321] and cooperation in the administrative side of the government. the one point in the report that i was very much disturbed about was the emphasis on eight million unemployed, even though there were … of just a minute ago. this is executive order 9651 of october 30, 1945, that amended 9599 of august the 18th, and the main point of the order is stated in its first paragraph: the stabilization administrator, designated pursuant to executive order no. 9620 of september 20, 1945, shall approve, under section 2 of part iv of this order, a wage or salary increase falling into any of the following three classes in any case in which such …
John K. Hulston Oral History Interview
… ozark boy's story , which covered my life from 1915 to 1945, and that was published by the school of the ozarks press at point lookout, missouri, in 1971. the next book was an ozark lawyer's story , which covered the years 1946 to 1976, and that … that turned him around. he came to lebanon, got him to come to drury and got him a job. that, he said, was the turning point in his life. he said, "i might still be down at lebanon if it hadn't been for dr. meador." johnson: you were a pre-law … when it was interpreted in the united states and around the world, and the people that interpreted it saw the point iv program -- which we people sitting out in the audience there on the bleachers missed -- it ranks among the fine inaugural …
Donald S. Dawson Oral History Interview, August 8, 1977
… stay there too long did he? dawson: i merged the two jobs into one. fuchs: oh, you did. dawson: and carried on from that point. no, george schoeneman had not been there very long, and i think his career ambition was to be the director of the … be balanced out in the long run. sometimes you'd do it for this fellow and later on you'd take care of the other fellow's point of view. it's a matter of practicalities. we had no trouble in that regard, but if it were not for the help of senators … mr. truman said that the principal accomplishment that he would be remembered for would not be the marshall plan or point iv, but it would be for reorganizing the white house office in such a manner that no future president could make a mistake. …
Clifford C. Matlock Oral History Interview
… enhanced or at least not hindered. matlock: that certainly was on my mind and hubert havlik's. we were not lectured on the point, but it was a common understanding that the british were up against the wall financially. this played a part in the … speak, of european economies through the years 1946 and 1947? this is my way of asking whether or not [15] and at what point you recognized that there was some kind of serious problem in europe that was going to have to be dealt with? matlock: … draper. it wasn't given to the state department or the defense department by draper. it attached a chapter called chapter iv that emrick and i had co-drafted. it covered political, economic, and military aspects of u.s. defense policy for europe. …
Lincoln Gordon Oral History Interview
… use of lend-lease materials. later, i got to know harriman very well and heard at firsthand how he saw it from his vantage point in moscow. mckinzie: i talked to you two or three years ago, at which time you briefly mentioned this incident and you … sure of that. we sat around a big conference table and after a few polite words at first, baruch said, "from our point of view this is an extremely serious [37] business. i'm afraid you were ill advised, and here's the document that sets … over what to do about the administration and coordination of foreign aid. by that time, of course, there was a point iv agency, the technical cooperation administration run by a splendid agricultural college ex-president from oklahoma, henry …
Paul C. Daniels Oral History Interview
… but if i had, i think, showed a little more enthusiasm for it, i'd have gone into that russian service. i hadn't at that point given any thought to specializing in latin america, though it subsequently turned out that my entire career was in that … had this sort of monkey business going on, but it was under control. mckinzie: president truman in '49 talked about the point iv program, and then the institute for inter-american affairs kind of became the operating agency for all of that . henry …
Hubert F. Havlik Oral History Interview
… energy development problems. mckinzie: there was some discussion, was there not, of development of synthetic fuels at that point? havlik: there was not very much that i knew of. we were under heavy time pressures', and people would have to look at synthetics from the longer point of view. there may have been some thought of synthetic fuels, but i wasn't involved in that. when i got through with … then began to look more thoroughly into it and was able to come up with a suggestion which resulted in mr. truman's point iv program. but earlier -- in '47 and '48 --it was the subject of lunch talk, "what can we do about this? how can we get into …
Fisher Howe Oral History Interview
… a constantly increasing amount of baggage. as the u.s. foreign policy expanded, in a sense, taking on such things as aid, point iv, technical assistance, and as the cultural exchange programs increased, it would seem that the list of duties became …
Col. R. Allen Griffin Oral History Interview
… of eca? why were you selected? griffin: on account of john barleycorn. roger lapham and i were both members of the cypress point club. he was really the first president of the club and was the president for many years, and he took the club through … "do you want to go?" i said, "i really do." she said, "do you want me to close the house again?" i said, "that isn't the point." i said, "do you want to go?" she said, "i'll go anywhere you're going." "well, that's settled." so, it was settled in … i got rid of them. that made things better and easier because then we were purely an economic mission interested in point iv and economic gains and had not one damn thing to do with the military. my own personal belief that while we were in china, …
Wesley McCune Oral History Interview
… married and had two children, but we've been divorced for a long time. johnson: did you start to get into politics at this point? commentaries on new deal programs? mccune: there was one i remember. i was on the rebel side in the spanish civil war, … the washington staff of newsweek magazine. so this is preceding your work for newsweek . mccune: we're right at that point now. the food stamp job was excellent. johnson: what did you find out? what was your conclusion about the food stamp … that i wanted to write and took a day off. i can't remember just what they are, but what may have become part of "point iv" was one of them. i took an interest in that, because i believed in it.* *drafts of this speech, to the food and …
Loy W. Henderson Oral History Interview
… field, would fire roosevelts advisers and go out all alone in the world. mckinzie: i wonder if you might speak to the point of your thoughts about the postwar world? there was a lot of energy expended in the department during the war in making … greece, turkey, and iran, for instance, the continued independence of which was in great danger. mckinzie: well, on the point of the near east, you mentioned that the people in the economic division were . . . [39] henderson: softer. mckinzie: … dr. bennetts special assistant; mr. james t. mitchel, a photographer who was making photographic records of various point iv activities; miss emijean snedegar, a commissioned officer of the u.s. public health service, who was on a mission for the …
James H. Rowe Oral History Interview
… for the campaign of 1948, and to institute congressional government (or end executive domination, depending on ones point of view). they will move along the traditional channels of legislative obstruction until finally they arouse and … kind) is that by accepting them the president yields his one source of strength -- the backing of public opinion for his point of view. he brings that opinion to his view only by means of public statements. but reaching agreement with the four … which although compelling in themselves would be dangerous to follow as precedents for general principles of conduct. iv. the future exercise of presidential responsibilities in relation to congress 1. legislative recommendations . the …
James W. Riddleberger Oral History Interview, June 24, 1971
… riddleberger: the political transition that truman had to make--was a very complicated one. don't forget the morgenthau point of view was still very popular. a lot of people, you know, simply said, well, let the bastards starve and so forth, and … at the paris conference, and we commenced to draft what eventually became byrnes' stuttgart speech, which was the turning point of american policy. mckinzie: yes. riddleberger: that's the background of it. the forty-year disarmament treaty was … work not only in germany but in other places. riddleberger: i agree with you. mckinzie: the man who had that job of point iv administrator before stanley andrews, after stanley left the military government, was henry bennett. bennett made an …
Philleo Nash Oral History Interviews
… place of religious revivalism in the foundation of the intercultural community on the klamath reservation, 1871-1872," 32 point iv, 444 , 706 , 707 political action committee of the congress of industrial organizations, 734-735 popular democratic party … tucson, arizona, 321 , 322 turkey, 647 , 648 turnip day announcement, 1948, 343 tuskegee institute, 70 , 547 twenty-one point message to congress, 105-106 , 574 u udall, stuart, 257 , 260 , 688 , 707 , 765 union of soviet socialist republics, …
Sue Gentry Oral History Interview
… by elizabeth paxton forsling, jackson county historical society journal , vol. iii, no. 8, may 1962, pp. 7-12; and vol. iv, no. 12, november 1963, pp. 6-11; with supplement by lewis mccoy, vol. v, no. 13, march 1964, pp. 13 and 16. there are … had kind of a reputation such as you describe. the one thing that i've heard alluded to that brought him to the breaking point was his involvement in a little bank scandal when mr. truman was senator; i think he just said the investigation was … ii: forsling, elizabeth paxton, "remembering delaware street, part ii," jackson county historical society journal , vol. iv, no. 12, november, 1963, pp. 6-11 (material subject to copyright, not reproduced herein). appendix iii: mccoy, lewis, …
Lorain H. Cunningham Oral History Interview
… in the hospital just a few days. johnson: do you remember where that hospital was? cunningham: yes, it was in that big point down there at the southwest corner of france. johnson: do you remember the town that that hospital was near? … to have it so far away that if you're going to fire out here. well at night that would be hard. johnson: have an aiming point? cunningham: yes. you've got an aiming out here, you know. here is your aiming point out here, see; now here you're … to cunningham's written communication with the white house. the letter itself has not been located. also see appendix iv for a copy of another letter from cunningham to president truman, february 22, 1951, concerning an appeal for orville …
Robert B. Landry Oral History Interview
… said this, but he truly loved the military. he just loved a man in uniform; and he often told me, "i wanted to go to west point, but," he said, "i couldn't go, i had bad eyes." he really told me that any number of times, that he would have loved to have gone to west point. he idolized [george c.] marshall as a military man; thought he was one of the great living americans. he thought [omar … those with whom he had contact to relax and enjoy the benefits of mutual understanding and friendship. (see appendix iv for a photograph inscribed by president truman for general landry, on the eve of the president's departure from office) …
Dillon S. Myer Oral History Interview, Chap I-IV
… dillon s. myer oral history interview, chap i-iv oral history interview with dillon s. myer director, war relocation authority, 1942-46; commissioner, federal public … after a while when he thought things were going all right and the minute he turned his back we loaded the machine to the point where it had to be cleaned out by hand and everybody could sit down and rest for a little while. this was the only … the fire in the middle and not to lay the hickory sticks so that any pieces would drop off when they burned down to the point where they might be heavier on the outside. so it never occurred to us that we might have a fire in the smoke house. i …