Reminiscences of Robert Houghwout Jackson : oral history, 1952.

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Reminiscences of Robert Houghwout Jackson : oral history, 1952.

Lawyer, upper New York State; General Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue; Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division and Anti-Trust Division of the United States Department of Justice; Solicitor General; Attorney General; Justice of the United States Supreme Court; United States Prosecutor at Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.

Transcript: 1,672 leaves.

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