Reminiscences of Marietta Tree: oral history, 1967.

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Reminiscences of Marietta Tree: oral history, 1967.

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Recollections of Adlai Stevenson; appointment to UN Human Rights Commission; US mission to the UN under Stevenson; Democratic Advisory Committee; Stevenson's relationship with Lyndon Johnson; 1952 campaign; press representation during the 1950's; 1956 campaign; Cuba missile crisis; NSC; Marine landing in Dominican Republic; last weeks of Stevenson's life and Stevenson funeral. Impressions of Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, George Ball, John F. Kennedy.

Transcript: 161 leaves.Tape: 3 cassettes.

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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