![]() |
|||||||||
![]() |
Oral History Interviews with
|
|
|
Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve, and duty
officer, White House Map Room, 1941-46; Assistant to the Special Counsel
to the President, 1947-49; Administrative Assistant to the President,
1949-51; Assistant to the Director, Mutual Security Agency, 1951-53.
Interview Transcripts |
[Notices and Restrictions | List of Subjects Discussed]
|
NOTICE Numbers appearing in square brackets (ex. [45]) within the transcript indicate the pagination in the original, hardcopy version of the oral history interview
RESTRICTIONS See also George M. Elsey Files and George M Elsey Papers
List of Subjects Discussed
Active Service in Peace and War, 345 Adams, Sherman, 52, 455 Ak-sar-ben, 407 Alamogordo, New Mexico, 268, 343 Alexander the Great, 36 American National Red Cross, 122, 381, 382 Atlantic Charter, a discussion of George Elsey’s copy of, 382-390 Ayers, Eben, 248, 249
Barkley, Alben W., 71, 131
Bruenn, Howard, 259 Bundy, McGeorge, 182, 324 Bunker, Ellsworth, 122 Bureau of the Budget, 17, 18, 82-83, 363, 421, 454, 461 Byrnes, James F., 136, 221, 340, 342 Cantril, Hadley, 162-164 Carey, Idaho, 408 Carter, Jay Franklin, a discussion of an article written by, 107-110 Central Intelligence Group, 23, 24 Chapman, Oscar L., 409, 410 Chicago Sun Times, 443 China, 379-380 Churchill, Winston, 3, 252, 267, 290, 321
Civil Service Commission, 461, 462 Clayton, William C., 364 Cleveland, Mississippi, 365 Clifford, Clark, 6-7, 11-12, 13, 14, 16-17, 19, 25, 30, 48, 53, 57, 64, 100, 122, 123-124, 127, 132, 138, 139, Coblenz, Constance G., 356 Coffelt, Leslie, 429 Commodity Credit Corporation, 69, 70 Congress, the Truman administration’s relations with, 52-55 Connelly, Matthew J., 50, 54, 71, 132, 152, 180, 395, 410, 419
Conway, Rose, 254 Coolidge, Calvin, 82a Corneluis, Albert, 339 Council of Economic Advisors, 9, 17 Credit Union National Association, 424, 425-426 Cutler, Bobby, 182 Daniels, Jonathan, 244 Dewey, Thomas, 70, 85, 114, 115, 200, 370 Dodds, Harold W., 300 Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 420 Downey, Senator Sheridan, 420 Duffield, Eugene, 74, 314 Dulles, John Foster, 370 Duluth, Minnesota, 66
Early, Stephen, 244, 272 Ellis, Elmer, 42 Elsey, George M.,
atomic bomb, discusses, 343, 347 background of, 117-125 career of, 5-9 educational background of, 4 and the historical materials of the Truman administration, 37-38 MacArthur, Douglas, discussed by, 286-288 and the National Historical Publications Committee, 301, 302-304 and the Potsdam Conference, 340-344 Presidential election campaign of 1948, discussed by, 61-62, 192-203 the speechwriting of, 118-119, 120, 126-128, 177-180 State of the Union message, preparation of, discussed by, 133-143, 148-149 Wake Island Conference, information that was leaked to the New York Times, discussed by, 280-285 as a member of the White House staff, 13-18, 80-84, 120-121 White House Map Room, discussed by, 1-4 European Advisory Commission, 348 European Recovery Program, 366, 367 Ewing, Oscar, 414 Fair Deal, 102-103
a discussion of, 312-319 the personal papers of, 24-29 The Forrestal Diaries, 20, 28, 29, 313, 315 Forty-page memo on election strategy, 413-415 Foskett, James K., 124 Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, 209 Fritchey, Clayton, 28 Germany, post World War II planning, 347-352
Hardy, Benjamin, 100, 144-145, 146-148, 184, 373, 424, 425, 426
Presidential election campaign of 1952, and, 447 Hassett, William D., 150-151, 152, 389 and Harry S. Truman, 242-243 Havana, Cuba, 433 Hawaii, 275 Hechier, Kenneth, 60, 69, 303, 406, 421 Hiroshima, Japan, 343 Historical materials of the Truman administration, 37-38 Hoffman, Paul, 367 Hoover, J. Edgar, 82a, 459-461, 462 Hoover Commission, 454 Hopkins, Harry L., 2, 121, 126, 231, 257, 263, 266, 341, 385 Hopkins, John E. “Jack”, 117, 127, 128, 153, 156, 159, 178, 181, 203, 206, 208, 373 Hopkins, William J. “Bill”, 206-208, 431 Hull, Cordell, 320 Humelsine, Carlisle, 358-359 Hyde Park, N. Y., 38
Ibn—Saud, 250
Jacobson, Edward, 332-333
Kai—shek, Chiang, 3, 379 Kissinger, Henry A., 324 Korean War, 113, 215, 221, 268-270, 284, 289, 359-361, 427, 440 Krock, Arthur, 181, 261, 265 Leahy, Admiral William D., 2, 109, 121, 252, 253, 254, 257, 263, 265, 266, 320, 333, 334, 341, 342 Lend lease, 347Leva, Marx, 28,, 362 Leviere, Anthony, and the leak of White House information to, 279-285 Library of Congress, Jefferson speech given at the, 299-304 Life magazine, Jay Franklin Carter, article discusses, 107-110 Lilienthal, David, 407 Lippmann, Walter, 181 Lloyd David D., 11, 128, 151, 156, 163, 216, 291, 303, 421, 451 The Loneliest Campaign, 199, 418 Lovett, Robert A., 147 Lowenthal, Max, and his book on the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 459-461 MacArthur, General Douglas, 270, 272-273, 282, 291, 304, 306 McCarthy, Joseph, 450-451McCrea, John L., 2 McFall, Jack K., 392, 396, 397 Mclntire, Ross T., 259-260 MacPhail, Donald B., 421 Madison, Wisconsin, 424 Madison Square Garden, 265 Map Room in the White House, 120-121, 267, 459
Marshall Plan, 99, 125, 145, 326, 364, 376, 381, 441, 442, 444
Millis, Walter, 26, 27-28, 313, 314 Molotov, V. M., 111 Morgenthal, Henry, Jr., 253-254 Morris, Newbold, 462 Murphy, Charles S., 7, 11, 48, 53, 57, 81, 92, 128, 137, 138, 148, 150, 154, 155, 156, 160, 182, 202, 216, 217,
Nash, Philleo, 392, 451
National Security Resources Board, 9, 20, 23, 222, 317, 454 Navy Department, 18 Neild, Edward, 43, 44 Neustadt, Richard E., 128, 152, 156, 216 New Deal, 103 New York Times, 27, 197, 279, 282 Niles, David K., 215, 330-331 Nixon, Richard M., 179, 213, 406, 456 Norstad, General Lauris, 18 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 99, 364
O’Connor, Basil, 381
Pace, Frank, 269, 278 Potsdam Conference, 13, 110, 123, 232, 252
Pre—.press conferences of Harry S. Truman, 77 Present at the Creation, 374 Presidential election campaign of 1948, 61-62
Research Division of the Democratic National Committee, the role of, 60-62, 63 storage bins for grain as an issue in, 68-70 Truman, Harry S.: Presidential papers, a discussion of, 243, 309-312 Press conferences of Harry S. Truman, 77 Princeton University, 117 Public opinion, the importance of discussed, 87-92 Pulitzer Prize, 280 Pullman, Inc., 122 Putnam, Henry W., 339 Quebec conference, 255
Radford, Arthur, W., 275, 279, 280
Rigdon, Commander William M., 107, 333, 382, 430, 431, 434 Rogers, Bruce, 383 Romagna, Jack, 105, 106, 187, 201 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 25, 38, 40-41, 52, 56, 80, 82, 82a, 121, 127, 132, 167, 175, 214-215, 217,
a discussion of some of the documents of, 250-256 fireside chats of, 92, 93, 94 health of, 258-260 Presidential Papers of, 309-312 and Roseman, Samuel I., 6, 11, 16, 73, 126, 132, 133, 134, 150, 151, 175, 216, 217, 411-412, 417 and Harry S. Truman, 224-232, 238 Ross, Irwin, 199, 272, 299, 300-301, 418 Rostow, Walter, 182, 324, 326 Rowe, James, 415 Ruhr, 255 Rusk, Dean, 278 Russell, Francis, 144 Russian Report of 1946, 261-267
Saar, 255
Storage bins, as an issue in the 1948 Presidential election campaign, 68-70 Sundquist, James L., 135, 421
Taft, Senator Robert A., 104, 174
and the atomic bomb, 343-346 and bipartisanship, 98-100 the Cabinet: campaigning, local arrangements for, 175-176 Carter, Jay Franklin, a discussion of an article written about, 107-110 and civil rights, 449-450 and Clifford, Clark M., 226-227, 228-229, 233-239 and Congress, relations with, 52-55, 391, 415-418 and Connelly, Matthew J., 239-242 decision not to run for a second term, 434-436 eye sight of, 170-172 foreign affairs, view of, 97-98 foreign policy, during the administration of, 324-327 forty-page memo on election strategy sent to, 413-415 fund raising discussed, 74-76 history, knowledge of, 33, 35-37, 39 inaugural address of, 374-375 Israel, recognition of, 327-333 Jefferson speech given at the Library of Congress, 299-304 Key West, vacations to, 430-434, 435 and Korea, 268-270, 359-361 and MacArthur, Douglas, 286-288 and Murphy, Charles, 235-239 personal qualities of, 31-37 personality of, 437-439 policy making of, 181-185 and the political campaign of 1950, 418-420, 427 and the Potsdam Conference, 340-344 pre-press conferences of, 77 as President, lack of preparation for the job, 5-6 Presidency, his respect for the title of, 33-35 Presidential election campaign of 1948:
June 1948 trip of, 406-412 nominated as the Dem6cratic candidate, 73-74 Whistle stops of, 70-71, 192-203 and public opinion, 87-92 public statements of, 203-205 and Reinsch, J. Leonard, 243-245 and Rosenman, Samuel, 224-232, 238 and Ross, Charles G., 77-79, 245-246 and the Russian Report of 1946, 261-267 the Special Council for, 224-230, 233-239 speeches of:
humor of, 164-165 off-the-cuff remarks, 110-113, 170, 172 outlines for, 175 personally reviewed each speech before delivery, 189-191 preparation for, 114, 151-156, 160 records of, 186 speaking ability displayed, 93-94 speaking style of, 166-168, 169-170 special considerations of Presidential speeches, 157-159 spiritual and moral qualities of, 94-96 transcripts of discussed, 105-107 types of, 129-130, 132-133 and Steelman, John R., 218-223 and Stevenson, Adlai, 448 and Vandenberg, Arthur, 372 and the Vinson mission, 86-87 and the Wake Island Conference, 275-280, 282-283, 285 and the Whistlestops, 70-71, 114, 192-203 and the White House staff, 45-48, 49 Williamsburg, his trips aboard, 436 Truman, Vivian, 44-45 Truman Doctrine, 295, 297-298, 326, 352-359, 362, 368, 373 Truman Library, creation and location of, 40-45 The Truman Presidency, 412-413 Tubby, Roger, 249, 303 Tully, Grace, 385, 388 Turkey, aid to, 88-89, 353-359, 362-364
Unification of the Armed Forces, a discussion of, 316-319 United Nations, 88, 348, 356-357
United States Foreign Policy 1945-55, 356 Universal Military Training, 14, 127
Vandenberg, Senator Arthur H., 97, 368, 372-373 Wake Island Conference, 288-289
War Department, 18 Warm Springs, Georgia, 5 Watson, Edwin M., 338 Webb, James E., 135, 269, 454 Whistle stop political campaign of 1948, 70-71, 174
origins of the term, 104 preparation for, 114 and the Research Division of the Democratic National Committee, 60-62, 63 Williamsburg, USS, 32, 33, 37, 105, 276, 436 Willkie, Philip, 422-423, 424 Willkie, Wendell L., 422 Winant, John G., 350
|
|