Reminiscences of Newton Norman Minow : oral history, 1967.

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Reminiscences of Newton Norman Minow : oral history, 1967.

Education; Stevenson campaign, 1948; Stevenson staff, 1952; 1952 campaign; legal practice with Stevenson, 1954; 1956 campaign; Eisenhower's heart attack; Lyndon Johnson; relations with the Kennedys; 1960 campaign; Stevenson in the United Nations; Bay of Pigs; ambitions in 1964. Impressions of William McCormick Blair, Willard Wirtz, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and other Stevenson aides.

Transcript: 122 leaves.

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