Education; Harvard Law School and LAW REVIEW; German saboteurs case, 1942; head legal department, Fiscal Division of Army Service Forces, 1942-1943; Special Assistant to Secretary of War, 1944-1945; postwar congressional relations and investigating committees; Under Secretary of War, Secretaary of War, Secretary of Army, 1945-1949; unification of armed forces; 1948 Democratic presidential nominatio n; postwar crises: Turkey, Greece, Berlin blockade, Korea, Japan and Douglas MacArthur; integration efforts in Army; rejection of suggested appointment, Nuremberg trials. Impressions of Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, Generals. George Marshall and James Van Fleet, Secretaries James Forrestal and Stuart Symington, others
Lawyers; Government executives--United States; World War, 1939-1945; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949; Presidents--Election--1948.--United States; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; United States Armed Forces; Royall, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Claiborne), 1894-1971; United States. War Department; United States. Department of Defense
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1963
Physical Description
347 pages
Note (Biographical)
Government executive, lawyer
Note
Interviewed by William T. Ingersoll, Frank W. Rounds, Jr.