Name
Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965 (Interviewee)
Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989 (Interviewer)
Title
Reminiscences of Henry Agard Wallace, 1951-1953
Abstract
A memoir abundantly supported by diaries and correspondence. Childhood; WALLACE'S FARMER; impressions of Henry Cantwell Wallace; the McNary-Haugen fight; election of 1932; organizing the Department of Agriculture and Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Hugh Johnson; National Recovery Administration and early New Deal personalities; Resettlement Administration; election of 1936; Supreme Court f ight; New Deal and farm problems, 1937; Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938; "Ever-Normal Granary"; recession, 1937-39; the "purge"; politics and the third term issue; Food Stamp plan; food administration; Forest Service controversy; election of 1940; Mexican trip; World War II; stockpiling; Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; Board of Economic Warfare; Vice-Presidency; "The Century of the Common Man" speech; United States-British relations; invasion of North Africa; Latin American trip, 1943; Britain and Russia in wartime; Democratic Party politics, 1943; trip to Soviet Asia; election of 1944; Department of Commerce; United Nations; Export-Import Bank; Russia after the war; Palestine; resignation; Bernard Baruch atomic entergy plan; NEW REPUBLIC; trips abroad; Progressive Party and the election of 1948; policies. Audio for the interview only covers two segments represented in the transcript. The first segment of audio corresponds to pages 1-61 and was heavily edited for the transcript. The second segment of audio corresponds to pages 1189-1239 A 323-page addendum, undertaken 1952-1953, contains random reflections in answer to questions based chiefly on Wallace's editorials in WALLACE'S FARMER
Collection Name
Individual interviews oral history collection
Subjects
Government executives--United States; New Deal, 1933-1939; Presidents--Election--1948.--United States; United States Foreign relations 1933-1945; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; United States Economic policy 1933-1945; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965; Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948); United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Vice President; United States. Department of Commerce
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1951-1953
Physical Description
5520 pages
Note (Biographical)
Government executive, cabinet member
Note
Interviewed by Dean Albertson
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Catalog Record
15321185
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-6a1p-1b98
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.