Reminiscences of Charles A. Hogan : oral history, 1977.

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Reminiscences of Charles A. Hogan : oral history, 1977.

Childhood in Oakland, California; University of California at Berkeley, Oxford University; work on San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal (SPUR); United Services Organization, head of western division; United Nations ̀non-governmental organizations, chief of section; Technical Assistance Committee, chair; United States support of United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization; impact of cold war; Helen Gahagan Douglas ̀Senate campaign, 1950; relationship with Douglas and husband, Melvyn; Douglas household; Douglas ̀membership on General Assembly of United Nations; membership on House Foreign Affairs Committee; work on Atomic Energy Act, 1946; her relationship with Lyndon B. Johnson; American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California: formative years, factions, prewar cases, financing; Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948.

Transcript: 104 leaves.

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