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NOTICE Numbers appearing in square brackets (ex. [45]) within the transcript indicate the pagination in the original, hardcopy version of the oral history interview. See also Stephen J. Spingarn Papers and Files RESTRICTIONS
Alien property, jurisdicition controversy, 1000-1003 Allen, George, as "court jester", 151 Amerasia case, 1090-1094 Americans for Democratic Action, 187-188 Arnold, Thurman, 267 Ayers, Eben, 119-120 Ayres, William, 652
Bailey, Stephen K., 254 Barkley, Alben, 208-210
Bell, David, 74, 92, 378
Bernstein, Barton, 103, 159-160, 168-175, 178-180, 222-227, 314-419, 414-415, 925-926, 967 Biffle, Leslie, 204, 211 "Big Four" (Congressional) meetings, 388-391 Bimson, Walter, 1074-1075 Bingham, Hiram, 987, 1003-1004 Blair, John, 906 Branscomb, Ann, 350-351, 426 Brooks, Philip, 221 Buckley, William, 12-13 Buffington, John A., 905 Bureau of the Budget and budget requests, 637-738 Burns, James MacGregor, 253-254 Butler, Paul, 237-238, 261-262
Carliner, David, 409-411, 923 Carroll, John, 219 Carson, John, 651-652, 1064, 1078 Carter, Clifford, 244 Caudle, Lamar, 860-862 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1033-1042 Chambers, Whittaker, 934 Chatfield, Helen, 134 Cherne, Leo, 479-482, 545 Chewning, David, 458-461 Civil rights, 28-36, 104-105, 158-159, 174-175, 178-185, 200-204, 219, 573-578, 925-928 Civil Rights Commission and Truman's civil rights message, 28-30, 31-33 Clark, Tom, 42-45 Clifford, Clark, 57, 59, 65, 67-68, 71-73, 89-91, 96-97, 99-105, 815-858 Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, (Nimitz Commission), 127-132, 135 Communism in government, See Internal Security Congressional liaison, 201, 204, 219, 388-391, 1067-1068 Connelly, Matthew, 123, 124 Consumer Dollar Study, 308-314 Cosgriff, Walter, 1074-1075 Costa, Carla, 993-994 Cox, Oscar, 670-674, 1000-1002 Criswell, John, 249-254, 473-478 Croce, Benedetto, 699-701
Defense Production Act of 1950, 205-208, 362-372 Democratic Advisory Committee, 607-608 Democratic National Committee, 423-425, 446, 450, 458-466, 472, 483-484, 554-560, 608-609, 1005-1009, 1012-1015 Dennison, Robert L., 98, 154-157 District of Columbia, "Home Rule", 401-413, 918-924 Douglas, Paul, 254-255 Dudley, Ted, 196-198, 403
Edwards, Corwin, 907 Eisenhower, Dwight D., and Harry Dexter White case, 709-711 Election campaign of 1966, 1005-1009 Election campaigns: of May 1950, 20-21 Elman, Philip, 223-225 Elsey, George, 67, 97, 102, 141-144 Espionage. See Internal Security Espionage, in Italy, World War II, 683-701, 961-962, 981-984, 991-992 Ethics in government, 265-279, 1029-1033
Fair Employment Practices Committee proposal, 202-204, 347-350, 352, 382-383 Fair trade legislation, 643-645 Farmer, James, 182-183 Federal Bureau of Investigation, 49, 51-54, 767-774, 776-777 Federal Trade Commission, 271-277, 283-285, 308-311, 579, 591-604
and reorganization of, 591-592, 595 and role of, 909-917, 1042-1043 and Spingarn, Stephen, nomination to, 626-634 staff of, 894-911 Fish, Hamilton, 11-12 Foley, Edward, 447-450 Forrestal, James, 48-49 Freer, Robert, 879-883
Genocide treaty, 1070-1073 Glasser, Harold, 726-732, 737-740, 952-953 Golos, Jacob, 1097, 1101 Goodrich, Stanley R., 63-64 Gore, Louise, 618 Graham, Dr. Wallace, 158 Grunwald, Henry, 862-863
Hale, Matthew, 372 Hamby, Alonzo, 179, 925-927 Hansen, Donald, 75, 101 Hardy, Mrs. Willie, 488-489, 493 Hardy, Willie, 667 Harper, Alan, 974-978 Harris, Abe, 227 Hastie, William, 391-394 Hechler, Kenneth, 120-121, 144-148 Henderson, Larry, 258 Historians, and the Truman era, 965-978 Hoey, Senator Clyde R., 798 Homosexuality, and the security issue, 798-804 Hoover, J. Edgar, 54, 767-768, 1095-1097, 1101-1102 Horan, Michael, 59 Howrey, Edward F., 595-597 Humphrey, Hubert, 242
Internal Security, 726-757, 989-990, 1017-1018, 1098-1110 Internal Security bill, (McCarran bill), 210-213, 352-362, 1061-1062 Internal Security Subcommittee hearing, April 1953, 726-736 International Petroleum Cartel report of 1953, 271-279, 583-590
Japanese-Americans, relocation of, 758-762 Jenkins, Walter, 243-244, 1049 Jenner, Senator William E., 746-747 John Birch Society, 296-301 Johnson, Kenneth D., 788-789 Johnson, Lyndon B., 193-194, 659, 1050-1051
and Democratic National Committee, 246-247, 466-467, 471-472 and staff, relations with, 332-333, 342-343 Johnston, Olin, 1046 Jones, Roger, 373-374
Kaplan, Harold, 524, 537-539 Kefauver, Estes, and election campaign of 1956, 228 Kelly, Frank, 121-122 Kern, William C., 599-604 Key West, Florida, and White House staff, 137-138 King, Larry, 332 Kintner, Earl, 475-476, 880-883, 897-899, 900-905, 1064, 1077-1078 "Knock on Every Door" campaign tactic, 228-256, 556-560, 606, 662-663 Korean War, 161-162
LaRue, Paul, 902 Lawton, Fred, 99 Legislation, and role of Bureau of the Budget, 373-375 Lend-lease Act, origin of, 670-676 Leuchtenberg, William, 159, 174, 966 Lewis, John (chairman of SNCC), 182 Lincoln, Abraham, as a "politician", 85-87 Lincoln, Evelyn, 241 Lightner, Herbert, 747-756 Littell, Franklin, 302 Lloyd, David, 74, 92, 97, 117-118 Lobbyist and influence peddling, 863-893 Lobbyists in Washington, 283-290 Lomax, Louis, 182 Longaker, Richard, 966, 1017 Lowenthal, Max, 125-126, 214-216, 1063-1064, 1078 Loyalty program, 42-55, 58, 59-64, 127-131, 136, 352, 679-683, 702-706, 928-964
See also Internal Security Lynch, Thomas, 40-41
McCabe, Thomas, 133, 1073-1074 McCarran, Senator Pat, 127 McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 125-126, 135-137, 256-261, 292 McCarthyism, 423-424, 615-616, 1079-1080 McClellan, General George B., 161 McCormack, John, 234-235, 251-252 McCune, Wesley, 303 McGuire, Charles, 476, 478 MacIntyre, Everett, 905 McMillan, John, 411-412 McNeill, Robert, 245 Marks, A1, 462-463 Marshall plan, 417-420 Mason, Lowell, 641-642, 645-650, 899 Maylon, Charles, 201 Mead, James, 592-603 Meloy, Larry, 788-789 Messing, Gordon, 691-692 "Military mind", 155 Mitchell, Stephen, 260-262 Morgan, Edward, 259-260, 1079-1080 Morgenthau, Hans, 321-322, 324-330, 1025-1026 Morgenthau, Henry, 659-661 Morison, Samuel Eliot, 263-266
Mrowa, Kamel, 278-279 Mumford, Lewis, 9-10 Mundt-Nixon bill, 361-362 Murphy, Charles S., 26-28, 45-46, 70, 73-74, 91-94, 100-103, 105-106, 204, 289, 386-387, 924
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 5-7, 345-346 National Counter Intelligence Association, 741, 747-753, 754, 990 National Counter Intelligence Corps, 985 National Issues Committee, 291-292 Navajo-Hopi rehabilitation bill, 79-82 "Negro" vote in 1948, 343-347 Neustadt, Richard E., 74-76, 96, 102, 394-398 Newman, Sarah, 197-198 Niles, David, 108-109, 219, 1063, 1065
O'Conor, Senator Herbert R., 211-213, 1060-1061 Oil companies, and cartel controversy, 271-279, 1018-1023, 1081-1084 Oliphant, Charles, 859-863 Oral history, methodology of, 676-679
Perlman, Philip, 223-224, 226-227, 384-386 Perlo, Victor, 726-731 Pfretzchner, Paul, 455-457 Phillips, Cabell, 71-72, 90 Phillips, William, 486 Poker-playing, 124, 1076 Politics, myths of, 468-471, 510-516 Poverty programs, in Truman administration, 415-416 Powers, Ralph, 748, 756 Presidential campaign of 1948, 46-48, 56 President's Loyalty Commission, 784-796 President's Temporary Commission on Employee Loyalty, 59-64, , 928-964 R
Raum, Arnold, 226-227 Rayburn, Sam, and Defense Production Act of 1950, 370 Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), hearings, 139 Reese, Matthew, 450-454 Republican National Committee, and election of 1966, 463-465 Rice, Steve, 27 27 Roche, John P., 247-248, 479-480, 482, 485 Romagna, Jack, 132-133 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1085-1086
Rose, Chapman, 716-718, 720, 723 Ross, Charles G., 115-117, 119 Rostow, Walter, 551-552 Rush, Dean, 1079-1080 Russell, Bertrand, 169, 171-173
"Scandals" in Truman administration, 265-269, 862-863, 893 Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 429, 431-432 Schwarzwalder, John, 754-755 Shackleton, Polly, 194-196 Shannon, William V., 89 Shea, Frank, 1001-1002 Sheehy, Joseph E., 905 Shulman, Marshall, 399 Siler, Carl, and "police bruality" case, 494-509, 665-668 Small business program, 132-133, 1073-1078 Smith, Bedell, and communism in government, 989-990 Smith, Stephen (Kennedy campaign), 241-242 Souers, Sidney W., 979 Speech writing, in 1948 campaign, 46-48 Speech writing for President Truman, procedures of, 117-119 Spingarn, Edward, 263 Spingarn, Jerome, 490 Spingarn, Natalie Davis, 492-493 Spingarn, Stephen:
civil rights program, role in, 31-34, 174-175 candidate in Democratic primary, Washington, D.C., 185-193 Clifford, Clark, assistant to, 66-68 as Commanding officer, 5th Army Counter Intelligence Corps, 24-25 and Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights (Nimitz Commission), 126-132, 135 and consumer protection program, 196-198 in election campaign of 1956, as debater, 439-443 election campaign of 1956, as Director of Special Activities, 228-231 election campaign of 1956, speechwriter in, 426-433, 436-438 and election campaign of 1960, 445-447 and Elsey, George, 142-143 and Federal Trade Commission: as "gadfly", 669-670 and Harry Dexter White case, 713 and Harry S. Truman Library, deposit of papers in, 1086-1087, 1102-1103 and Home Rule Committee (District of Columbia), 921-924 and Internal Security issue in 1953, 726-757 and Johnson, Lyndon B., 21-24, 1050-1051 and inflation, fact sheet on (1966), 561-572 as "legislative counsel" on White House staff, 77-78 and liberalism, 181-184, 199 and Lowenthal, Max, , 1078 1063-1064, 1078 and loyalty questions, 57-59 military record of, 683-700 political philosophy of, 15-23 and Siler "police brutality" case, 494-509 and "spy articles", author of, 698-700 and Truman, Harry S., 576, 1062-1063, 1084-1085 White House, early invitations to, 8-9 White House staff, appointed to, 41-42, 57-58, 93, 1065-1068 wire-tapping, position on, 58 Staebler, Neil, 248-249 Steelman, John, 107 Stevenson, Adlai, 279-281, 443, 609-610 Stitt, Art, 738-741 Stoll, Norman, 69 Strout, Richard, 330-331 Symington, Stuart, 366-367
Tillet, Gladys, 439-440 Tinsley, William, 905 Tipton, Stuart, 617-621 "To Secure These Rights" - civil rights report, 315-318 Truman, Bess, 624-625 Truman, Harry S.:
and civil rights, motives for supporting, 576-578 civil rights policy of, 31-34, 158, 175, 200-204, 219-220, 224-225, 925 and Home Rule, for District of Columbia, 918-924 as "non-political", 83-85 and Spingarn, Stephen, 217-218, 576-580, 605-608 and White Harry, Dexter, case, 612-614, 707-725 White House staff, relations with, 334 Tubby, Roger, 97 Tydings Committee report, 127, 131 V
Vaughan, Harry, 148-150, 152-153 Vietnam War, 160-168, 516-552, 1104-1105
Walston, Lord Harry, 170 Warner, Sturgis, 404 Washington, D.C., "home rule", 401-413, 918-924 Watson, Marvin, 250 Wheelock, John, 907-909 White, Harry Dexter, case, 612-614, 707-725, 934, 1087-1088 White, Walter, 222 White House, administration of, 108-109 White House files, organization of, 133-134 White House manual, 382-390 White House staff conferences, 109-113, 379 White House Staff:
operations of, 1065-1069 organization of, 30-31, 372-382 Spingarn's evaluation of, 88-104 Williamsburg (yacht), 388 Wire-tapping, 58 Wright, Joseph, 627, 894-896
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