Reminiscences of Herbert Brownell 1977
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- Name
- Brownell, Herbert, Jr., 1904-1996 (Interviewee)
- Edwin, Ed (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Herbert Brownell 1977
- Abstract
- Childhood, education; corporate law practice, Lord & Day 1929-1953, 1957- ; work with Security and Exchange Commission law, New Deal administration while in New York State Assembly, 1934-1937; counsel for 1940 World's Fair, NY; responsibilities as Dewey's presidential campaign manager, 1944-1948; corporate law in 1940s-1950s; United States Attorney General, 1953-1957; 1973 Mexican-American Water T reaty dispute; impressions of Richard Nixon and Justice Warren Burger
- Collection Name
- New York bar project
- Subjects
- Lawyers; New Deal, 1933-1939; Corporation law; Presidents--Election--1944.--United States; Presidents--Election--1948.--United States; Law--United States; United States Politics and government 1953-1961; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; Brownell, Herbert, Jr., 1904-1996; Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971; Lord & Day; New York (State). Legislature; United States. Department of Justice
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1977
- Note (Biographical)
- Lawyer, politician
- Note
- Interviewed by Ed Edwin on June 21 and July 21, 1977
- Note (Provenance)
- Herbert Brownell, Gift 1977
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13827142
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-ezxt-s883
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.