Oral history interview with Leo Cherne, 1961
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- Name
- Cherne, Leo, 1912-1999 (Interviewee)
- Auerbach, Jerold S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Leo Cherne, 1961
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Leo Cherne, 1961
- Abstract
- Childhood and education, New York City; New York Law School; the Depression and rise of leftist movements; Research Institute of America; figures and policies of Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration; 1960 presidential campaign; International Rescue Committee in Germany, Hungary, Vietnam; United States policy toward Vietnam; Cuba under Fidel Castro. Impressions of Senator Joseph McCarthy, President Ngo Dinh Diem, General Douglas MacArthur, Dr. Tom Dooley
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Economists--United States; Presidents--Election--1960.--United States; Political refugees; Depressions--1929--United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Cuba History 1959-1990; United States Politics and government 1953-1961; Cherne, Leo, 1912-1999; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; New York Law School; Research Institute of America, inc; International Rescue Committee
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1961
- Physical Description
- sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Economist, political analyst
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Jerold S. Auerbach
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7144692
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/fs84-jp56
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.