doi:10.7916/d8-1k4t-6z44Oral history interview with John Lord O'Brian, 1952O'Brian, John Lord, 1874-1973oral historiesmixed materialGovernment executives--United StatesLawyersNew Deal, 1933-1939Internal security--United StatesWorld War, 1939-1945New York (State) Politics and government 1865-1950United States Politics and government 1933-1945O'Brian, John Lord, 1874-1973Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )Tennessee Valley AuthorityUnited States. Dept. of JusticeEarly childhood and education; Harvard; public activities in Buffalo; law practice, 1900; Crapsey case; New York Assemblyman, 1907; New York State politics, 1898-1915; New York Constitutional Convention, 1915; election of 1916; United States Attorney; Theodore Roosevelt-William Barnes libel suit; World War I: Von Rintelen conspiracy case, 1917; War Emergency Division, Department of Justice, 1917-19; German espionage, First Amendment cases before the Supreme Court; "Red Raids" and A. Mitchell Palmer; Zimmermann Note, 1917; election of 1920, head of Anti-Trust Division, 1929-32; Tennessee Valley Authority; law practice in Washington; Republican National Convention, 1940; Office of Production Management; Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; War Production Board; impressions of Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Henry L. Stimson, Alfred E. Smith, Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis, Oliver W. Holmes, and Benjamin Cardozo