Oral history interview with William T.R. Fox, 1968
- Name
- Fox, William T. R. (William Thornton Rickert), 1912-1988 (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with William T.R. Fox, 1968
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of William T.R. Fox : oral history, 1968
- Abstract
- Becoming associate director of Yale University Institute of International Studies, 1943; formation of National War College, 1947; coming to Columbia University and becoming director of Institute of War and Peace Studies, 1950-1951; meeting of the Social Science Research Council Committee on Civil-Military Relations Research; PROBLEMS OF CIVILIAN-MILITARY RELATIONS; Carnegie Corporation grants to Co lumbia; resignation of McGeorge Bundy; creation of Russian hydrogen bomb, 1952-1954; military consultantship during Dwight D. Eisenhower administration; discussion of development of military policy since Spanish-American War; national security sponsorship; Samuel Huntington’s THE COMMON DEFENSE; SSRC seminar at University of Denver, 1955-1956; work editing Princeton journal WORLD POLITICS; meeting with General Dale O. Scott for Air Force briefing at Continental Air Defense Command; CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY, 1956-1957; ECONOMIC RESEARCH ON NATIONAL SECURITY: A REPORT, 1958; SOCIAL SCIENCES AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY conference at West Point, 1959; negative coverage of SSRC by Alice Widener in Indianapolis Star following Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961; SCIENTISTS AND NATIONAL POLICY MAKING conference jointly sponsored with Columbia Council for Atomic Age Studies; THE MILITARY AND INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY; 1961-1962; Dawson-Lucas memorandum, 1967. Impressions of James Alfred Perkins, Pendleton Herring, Harold Stein, John W. Gardner.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- Educators; Endowment of research; Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Fox, William T. R. (William Thornton Rickert), 1912-1988; Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1968
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 104 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Director, Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studies.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction of audio funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Audio digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Sound quality is poor in places.
- Interviewed by Isabel S. Grossner on November 4, 1968.
- Note (Copyright)
- Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1986.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7521403
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-wmgm-9p92
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.