Reminiscences of Henry Breckinridge : oral history, 1952.

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Reminiscences of Henry Breckinridge : oral history, 1952.

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Family background; Princeton; Harvard Law School; law clerk in Baltimore; practice in Lexington, Kentucky; election of 1912; appointment as Assistant Secretary of War; the Army (generals, red tape, Board of Review); Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom; Mexico; World War I in Europe; mission to Europe; LUSITANIA; preparedness and the administration; congressional relations; Supreme Court justices; Army justice and discipline; soldiers in alien lands; growth of aviation; the New Deal.

10 leaves of letters from Woodrow Wilson; 107 leaves of interviewee's journal and letters.

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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