Oral history interview with Edward N. Costikyan, 1966-1970
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- Name
- Costikyan, Edward N., 1924- (Interviewee)
- Blank, Jonathan (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Edward N. Costikyan, 1966-1970
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Edward N. Costikyan, 1966-1970
- Abstract
- Part I: Childhood and education, New York, N.Y.: Horace Mann, Columbia, 1949; Army Infantry: Okinawa and Korea, 1943-1945; New York, N.Y. politics: New Democratic Club, 1951-1966; New York County Democratic leader, 1964; Robert Wagner as Mayor; Wagner-Carmine De Sapio feud; relationships with Reform leaders and other political figures, including anecdotes of Adlai Stevenson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Herb ert Lehman, James Farley, Averell Harriman, Robert F. Kennedy. Detailed analysis and description of New York City mayoralty campaign and election, 1965. Part II: New York State Democratic Party politics, 1966-1970; breakdown of district leader-captain relationships; Constitutional Convention; national Democratic politics: 1968 preconvention, convention, and campaign; Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and others. There is only audio for the last two sessions of Part I and all of Part II
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Politicians--United States; World War, 1939-1945; New York (N.Y.) Politics and government 1951-; Costikyan, Edward N., 1924-; Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1910-1991; DeSapio, Carmine G. (Carmine Gerard), 1908-2004; Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1966-1970
- Note (Biographical)
- Politician
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Biographical interview
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Sound quality is poor at times
- Interviewed by Jonathan Blank
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7312309
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/nw93-zh88
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.