Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Oral History Collection. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Transcripts. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Interview with Florence McChesney Clifton

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Oral History Collection. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Transcripts. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Interview with Florence McChesney Clifton

1962 - 1998

This is the transcript of an oral history interview with Florence McChesney Clifton relating to the Democratic Party in California and national politics from the 1930s through the 1950s. Persons mentioned in the interview include Robert Clifton, Culbert Levy Olson, Helen Gahagan Douglas, James Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. An index is included at the end of the transcript.

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