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Oral History Interviews with
Leon H. Keyserling
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Member of legal staff, Agricultural
Adjustment Admin., 1933. Secretary and legislative assistant to
Sen. Robert F. Wagner (New York), 1933-37. Gen. counsel, U.S.
Housing Authority, 1937-38; deputy administrator and gen. counsel,
1938-42; acting administrator, 1941-42. Acting commissioner, Federal
Public Housing Authority, 1942. Gen. counsel, National Housing
Agency, 1942-46. Vice chairman President's Council of Economic
Advisers, 1946-50; chairman, 1950-53.
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See also Leon H. Keyserling Papers finding
aid
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NOTICE
These are transcripts of tape-recorded interviews conducted for the Harry
S. Truman Library. A draft of each transcript was edited by the interviewee
but only minor emendations were made; therefore, the reader should remember
that these are essentially transcripts of the spoken, rather than the
written word.
As an electronic publication of the Truman Library, users should note
that features of the original, hardcopy versions of the oral history interviews,
such as pagination and indexing, could not be replicated for the online
version of the Keyserling transcripts.
RESTRICTIONS
These oral history transcripts may be read, quoted from, cited, and reproduced
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Appendicies
Appendix I: Unsigned memorandum, dated June 29, 1948, entitled "Should the President call Congress back?" (Truman Library Personal Papers Collection, Papers of Samuel I. Rosenman, 1944-1966: Box 9; Subject File; 1948; Campaign 1948; HST Acceptance Speech).
Appendix II: Copy of June 25, 1946 letter from Senator Robert Taft to Wilson Wyatt, Administrator of the National Housing Agency, recommending Leon Keyserling for the position of Commissioner of the Federal Public Housing Authority (Truman Library Papers of Harry S. Truman Collection, Staff Member and Office Files, Clark M. Clifford Files: Box 7; Housing Administration [Folder 2 of 2]).
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List of Subjects Discussed
A B C
D E F G
H I J K
L M N O
P Q R S T
U V W X-Y-Z
Acheson, Dean
Adams, Sherman
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Altmeyer, Arthur
American Economic Committee
Baruch, Bernard
Beaufort County (S.C.) Welfare Board
Beaufort, South Carolina
Bell, David E.
Biffle, Leslie L.
Black, Hugo L.
Blough, Roy
Brandeis, Louis
Brannan, Charles F.
Budget, U.S. Bureau of the
Burns, Arthur
Burton, Harold H.
Byrnes, James F.
Caplan, Benjamin
Cardozo, Benjamin N.
Chapman, Oscar L.
Charleston, South Carolina
Civil rights
Clark, John D.
Clifford, Clark M.
Cohen, Benjamin
Colm, Gerhard
Collett, J. Caskie
Columbia University
Corcoran, Thomas G.
Council of Economic Advisers
Council of Economic Advisers:
appointments to
budget for
Congressional liaison, and
economic policies during Korean War
economic policy of the Truman administration, impact on
function of
membership, background and qualifications
policies, general economic
political activities by members of
problems of administration/policy
Recession of 1949, and the
staffing of
staff meetings of
Davidson, C. Girard
Davis, John C.
Davis, William H.
Defense budget, U.S. (Korean War)
Defense Production Act of 1950
Democratic National Convention, 1936
Democratic National Convention, 1940
Democratic National Contention, 1944
Democratic National Convention, 1948
Dickinson, John
Douglas, Paul H.
Dykstra, Clarence
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Ellender, Allen J.
Elsey, George
Employment, legislation on
Ewing, Oscar R.
Fair Deal
Federal Reserve System
Fisher, Joseph
Frank, Jerome
Fulton, Hugh
Galbraith, Kenneth
Green, William
Gross, Bertram
Gruenther, Alfred
Harriman, Averell
Harrison, Pat
Hatch, Carl
Heller, Walter
Homans, Paul
Housing legislation
Ickes, Harold L.
Inflation
Israel
James, Frances
Johnson, Hugh
Johnson, Louis A.
Joint Economic Committee
Kennedy, John F.
Kingsley, Donald
Kirstein, Louis
Kissinger, Henry A.
Korean War, economic policies during
LaFollette, Robert M., Jr.
Lawton, Frederick J.
Lewis, Daniel J.
Lewis, John L.
Lewis, John P.
Lovett, Robert A.
McCabe, Thomas B.
McCormack, John W.
McGrath, J. Howard
Marshall, George C.
Martin, William M., Jr.
Maybank, Burnet R.
Mellett, Lowell
Minton, Sherman
Mitchell, Wesley C.
Montague, Gilbert H.
Morse, David
Moulton, Harold G.
Murphy, Charles S.
Murray, James E.
Murray, Philip
National Industrial Recovery Act
National Labor Relations Act
Nitze, Paul
Nixon, Richard M.
Norris, George W.
Nourse, Edwin G.
O'Brien, Lawrence
O'Donnell, Kenneth
Okun, Arthur M.
O'Mahoney, Joseph C.
Pabst Postwar Employment Contest (1944)
Pace, Frank
Patman, Wright
Patton, James G.
Perkins, Frances
Phillips, Cabell
Phillips, John
Podell, David
Porter, Paul
Presidential election (1952)
Pritchard, Edward
Public works
Recession of 1949
Richberg, Donald
Riefler, Winfield
Rifkind, Simon H.
Robinson, Joseph T.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rosenberg, Anna
Rosenman, Samuel I.
Ruml, Beardsley
Rusk, Dean
Russell, Richard D.
St. Helena Island
Salant, Walter
Saltonstall, Leverett
Saulnier, Raymond J.
Sawyer, Charles
Schlesinger, Arthur
Senate, U.S.
Smith, Alfred E.
Smith, Ellison D.
Smith, Harold
Snyder, John W.
Social Security Act
South Carolina Produce Association
Speeches, Presidential, drafting of
State of the Union Messages
Steelman, John R.
Stowe, David H.
Supreme Court, U.S.
Swope, Gerard
Swope Plan
Taft, Robert A.
Teagle, Walter
Thomas, Elmer
Truman Committee
Truman, Harry S.:
abilities as President
Budget, U.S., knowledge of
civil rights, and
Council of Economic Advisers, appointments to
Council of Economic Advisers, knowledge of functions
Federal Reserve system, and the
Keyserling, Leon, relationship with
mentioned
monetary policy, U.S., and
Nourse, Edwin G., relationship with
political philosophy
President, evolution of as
Senate, U.S., service in
Wardman Park group, influence on
The Truman Presidency
Tugwell, Rexford G.
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Wagner, Robert F.
Wallace, Henry A.
Wardman Park group
Waugh, Frederick
Webb, James E.
Whitney, A.F.
Wilson, Charles E.
Wilson, Woodrow
Wolman, Leo
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