Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Oral History Collection. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Transcripts. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Interviews with Wiley T. Buchanan

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Oral History Collection. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Transcripts. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Interviews with Wiley T. Buchanan

1962-1998

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This is a transcript of two oral history interviews with Wiley T. Buchanan. Buchanan began the first interview with an overview of his personal and family background. He talked about the beginning of his career in Washington and his first meeting with Vice President John Nance Garner, his desire to enter foreign service, his conservative political tendencies, life in Washington during the New Deal era, and his World War II work in technical intelligence. The remainder of the interview focused on his work with the 1952 Presidential campaign, his appointment as ambassador to Luxembourg, the beginnings of the European Common Market, his job as Chief of Protocol for the Department of State, official state functions, the effect of Dwight D. Eisenhower's military training on his style of leadership as President; the funeral of the King of Denmark, Queen Elizabeth II's visit to the United States, Eisenhower's reaction to overpopulation in India, and Eisenhower's advice to John F. Kennedy regarding Vietnam. Additional individuals mentioned in this interview include Joseph Bech, Christian Herter, Richard M. Nixon, Konrad Adenauer, and Nikita Khrushchev. In the second interview Buchanan discusses visits of state, the political appointments of ambassadors versus appointment of career diplomats, the importance of the ambassador's wife, the importance of Buchanan's business background to his position in Luxembourg, and the qualifications necessary for the position of Chief of Protocol. Many of the individuals mentioned in the first interview are also discussed in the second, with the addition of Harold Macmillan, John Foster Dulles, Mamie Eisenhower, and President and Mrs. Lopez Mateos of Mexico. He ended the interview with his impressions of and anecdotes about President Eisenhower. An index to personal names is included at the end of the second interview.

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