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James I. Loeb Oral History

 

Oral History Interviews with
James I. Loeb

National director, Union for Democratic Action (1945-47) and Americans for Democratic Action (1947-51); Consultant to President Harry S. Truman's special counsel (1951-52); Executive Assistant to Governor W. Averell Harriman (1952); U.S. Ambassador to Peru (1961-62); and Ambassador to Guinea (1963-65).

June 26 & June 27, 1970
By Jerry N. Hess

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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.

Numbers appearing in square brackets (ex. [45]) within the transcript indicate the pagination in the original, hardcopy version of the oral history interview.

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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

A

  • 113-114
    Adirondack Daily Enterprize, 10
    Africa, 223-22
    Agnew, Spiro T., 229
    Alabama, 62
    Alexander, Archibald, 129
    Alsop, Stewart, 50
    American Federation of Labor (AFL), 34
    American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), 32
    Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 8, 28, 45, 46, 47, 52, 54, 59, 65, 81, 89, 98, 100, 107, 111, 112, 113, 135, 184, 209, 213, 216
    • and Eisenhower, Dwight David, 15-25, 31
      paper dealing with, 14-15
      reasons for the founding of, 10-13
      Truman, Harry S., evaluated by, 17-19
    Anderson, Senator Clinton P., 81, 84
    Anderson, Eugenie Moore, 35, 36, 55
    • and political affairs of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 56-60
    Arizona, 201
    Arvey, Jacob M., 31, 127, 138
    Associated Industries, 71
    Associated Press, 148
    Atlanta, Georgia, 192
    Atlantic City, New Jersey, 19
    Atomic bomb, decision to use on Japan, 75-76
B Balch, Richard,
C California,
  • 31, 33-34, 63
    Carey, James, 135
    Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 118
    Carr, Robert Kenneth, and knowledge of New Hampshire politics, 92-94, 96
    Carroll, Senator John A., 111, 189-190
    Catton, Bruce, 85-86
    Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 8, 204
    Chapman, Oscar L., 65, 85, 108, 155
    Chapman, Senator Virgil Munday, 30
    Chicago, Illinois, 3, 4, 9, 126, 137-138, 147, 148
    Chicago Daily News, 202
    Childs, Marquis, 111
    Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), 16
    Civil Rights, 76
    • as an issue in the 1948 Democratic National Convention, 27, 30-40, 41-43
      and the Presidential Civil Rights Commission, 36, 92
    Clark, Blair, 162
    Clifford, Clark, 65, 119
    Clymer, Adam, 15
    Cohn, Benjamin V., 158
    Collingwood, Charles, 115, 116
    Colorado, 111, 190
    Columbia University, 20, 162, 201
    Commodity Credit Corporation, 67
    Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 19-20, 50
    Connecticut Manufacturers Association, 210
    Connelly, Matthew, 185
D Daily Worker,
  • 206, 212
    Dartmouth College, 3, 4, 5, 6, 92, 94, 95, 96, 148
    Davis, Elmer, 16
    Deerfield Shields Township High School, 3
    Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, 59
    Democratic National Committee, 9, 81, 83, 84, 208
    Democratic Party Platform, 1948, and the Civil Rights Section of, 27, 30-40, 41-43
    Denmark, 198
    Dennison, Robert L., 193
    De Sapio, Carmine, 182, 183
    Dewey, Thomas, 31, 151
    as a candidate in the 1948 Presidential election, 67, 68-69, 71-72
    Dixiecrats, 38-39, 44
    Donahue, Elizabeth, 107, 126-127
    Douglas, Paul, 100
    Douglas, William O., 24, 25, 112
    Dulles, Allen, 8
    Dulles, John Foster, 118, 179, 228
 
    E Edwards, India,
    F Farley, James,
    • 37, 54
      Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 202, 203, 204, 206, 207, 208
      Feeney, Joseph, 190
      Feinberg, Abraham, 64
      Finnegan, James, 174
      Fitzpatrick, Paul, 150
      "Flaming Arrows to the Sky: A Memoir of Adlai Stevenson", 144-145
      Flanders, Senator Ralph E., 214
      Flynn, Ed, 37-38
      Foreign Relations Committee, 225
      Franco, John Richard, 89, 90
      Frankfurter, Felix, 77
      Freeman, Orville, 59
      Fritchey, Clayton, 171-172
    G Galbraith, John Kenneth,
    H Haas, Herbert,
    I Illinois,
    J Jackson County, Missouri,
    K Kansas,
    L LaFollette, Robert M.,
    • 226
      LaGuardia, Fiorello, 7, 46
      Lake Placid, New York, 45, 46, 70
      Lake Placid News, 10
      Landis, James, 6
      Landry, Robert, 193
      Lanigan, James L., 139, 148, 165, 166, 179, 182, 183, 196
      Laski, Harold, 77
      Lawrence, David, 38
      Lehman, Senator Herbert, 135, 152, 159, 200
      Leuchtenburg, William E., 201
      Leviero, Anthony, 187
      Liberty League, 54
      Lilienthal, David, 111
      Lincoln, Abraham, 219
      Lloyd, David, 8, 80, 82, 102, 107, 189, 212
      Loeb, James I., 145, 202
      • and the Americans for Democratic Action, 8
        background of, 3-10
        and the Democratic National Committee, 9
        France, as a student in, 6
        Guinea, as ambassador to, 10
        Harriman, W. Averell, discusses, 10, 199-201
        Johnson, Lyndon B., evaluated by Loeb, 219-223, 224-225, 227-228
        Kennedy, John F., evaluated by Loeb, 220-223, 224, 226-227, 228
        and McCarthyism, 202-209
        and Murphy, Charles, 184
        Nixon, Richard M., evaluated by Loeb, 228, 229-232
        Peru, as ambassador to, 10
        and "Playclass" for children, 4-5
        Progressive Citizens of America, addresses, 45-52
        Roosevelt, Franklin D., evaluated by Loeb, 216-218
        and Souers, Admiral Sidney W., 191-193
        and Stevenson, Adlai, 9-10
        Truman, Harry S., evaluated by Loeb, 194-197, 218-219, 220, 224
        Twenty Years of Teamwork, 81-86
        and the White House staff, 80-87, 184-193
      Lombardo, Guy, 206
      Louisiana, 62
      Loyalty Review Board, 209, 210
    M McAdoo, William Gibbs,
    N National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
    O Oberlin College,
    • 92
      O'Connell, Joseph, 16-17
      Office of Price Administration, 64
      Oklahoma, 119
      O'Mahoney, Senator Joseph C., 168, 180
      Oregon, 108
      "Out But Happy Club"", 191
    P Paley, William,
    • 5
      Paris, Kentucky, 29
      Pennsylvania, 32, 38, 174
      Perlmeter, Irving, 186
      Peru, 10, 65
      Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 34, 51
      Pinchot, Gifford, 45
      Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 20, 22
      Political Action Committee of the CIO, 20
      Porter, Paul, 29, 64
      Presidential Civil Rights Commission, 36, 92
      Presidential election campaign, 1948:
      • Dewey, Thomas, as a candidate, 67, 68-69, 71-72
        grain storage bins as an issue, 67-68
        splinter parties, 61-63
        Truman, Harry S., and predictions concerning his election, 66-70
      Presidential election campaign, 1952: Presidential election campaign, 1956, Adlai Stevenson's involvement in, 170-171, 172-176
      Presidential election campaign, 1960, Harry S. Truman campaigns during, 177-178
      Presidential primary system, a discussion of, 197-200
      Pressman, Lee, 50-51
      Prichard, Edward Kettlewell, Jr., 28, 30 Progressive Citizens of America, 52
      • Loeb, James, addresses, 45-52
      Puerto Rico, 49
      Pulitzer Prize, 187
    Q Quill, Michael,
    R Rauh, Joseph,
    S Sam Adams School,
    T Taft, Senator Robert,
    U Union for Democratic Action,
    • 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 89
      Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 12-13, 15, 175
      United Automobile Workers, 90
      United Kingdom, 175
      United Nations, 117
      University of Pennsylvania, 33
      Urban League, 23, 109
      Utah, 168
    V Vandenberg, Arthur H.,
    W Wake Island conference,
    • 186
      Wallace, George, 230-231
      Wallace, Henry, 17, 43, 44, 47, 49, 62, 78, 207, 219 Washington, D.C., 73, 109, 139
      Washington, George, 219
      Watkins, Senator Arthur V., 214-215
      Weaver, George, 207
      Wechsler, James H., 50, 69
      Welch, Joseph, 214
      Welles, Sumner, 78
      White, William Allen, 11
      William Allen White Committee, 11
      Williams, Governor G. Mennen, 89, 90, 91
      Williamsburg, USS, 168
      Wisconsin, 58


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