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.