Alexander Stephen Clay: political career, United States Senate, 1897- 1915; Europe, 1919; Marietta, Georgia politics, the Negro vote during early 1900s; West Point, 1914-21, 1924-28; military training, instructorship; beginning of Reserve Officers Training Corps; assignment to Panama, mapping the terrain; Rivers and Harbors Division; the Depression in Pittsburgh; effect of New Deal, Works Progress Administration policies on Rivers and Harbors; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins; Los Angeles Flood Control project; Europe during early 1930s; Tennessee Valley Authority controversy; Harold Ickes; flood control bill in early 1930s; Douglas MacArthur; duty in the Philippines; building Denison Dam, Texas; Sam Rayburn
Government executives--United States; Veterans; Military education; Military engineering; New Deal, 1933-1939; Depressions--1929--United States; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; Clay, Lucius D. (Lucius DuBignon), 1897-1978; Clay, Alexander Stephen; United States Military Academy; Tennessee Valley Authority
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1971
Physical Description
1,101 pages
Note (Biographical)
Army officer, government official, executive
Note
Interviewed by Jean E. Smith on September 23, October 5, October 12, November 9, November 16, November 23, November 30, December 6, and December 9, 1970; and on January 4, January 9, January 14, January 27, January 29, February 5, February 9, February 11, February 19, February 25, March 3, March 9, March 13, March 18, March 30, April 1, April 17, April 20, May 4, May 11, and August 2, 1971