Reminiscences of Horace Dwight Taft : oral history, 1970.

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Reminiscences of Horace Dwight Taft : oral history, 1970.

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Childhood on Ohio farm; education, the Taft School; summers on Murray Bay from 1930s; relationship with father, Robert A. Taft; campaigning, 1940 and 1952 Republican national conventions; Taft-Hartley legislation as a campaign issue.

Transcript: 81 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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