Reminiscences of Chester Bowles, 1963
- Name
- Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 (Interviewee)
- Gold, Neil (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Chester Bowles, 1963
- Abstract
- Education at Choate and Yale; advertising, 1925; Benton and Bowles; radio advertising, product research and pricing; Defense Council; America First movement; Connecticut rationing administrator; Price Administrator; relations with Congress, Cabinet, and government officials; Office of Price Administration; stabilization, postwar period; campaign for Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Connecticut, 1946; Americans for Democratic Action; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, United Nations Relief and Rehablitation Administration, 1946-1947; Governor, Connecticut, 1948-1950; appointment of William Benton as Senator from Connecticut; 1950 campaign; Ambassador to India, 1951-1953; Senate campaign, 1958; posts and relationships, Kennedy administration; Ambassador to India, 1963; Observations on national and international political figures, especially Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, James Byrnes, Donald Nelson, Jawaharlal Nehru, Adlai E. Stevenson
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Government executives--United States; Diplomats--United States; Advertising; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; United States Foreign relations 1945-1989; India History 1947-; Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986; Benton, William, 1900-1973; United Nations; Connecticut. Governor(1948-1950 : Bowles)
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1963
- Physical Description
- 866 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Diplomat, government official
- Note
- Interviewed by Neil Gold
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 15166221
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-sw9f-k438
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.