Reminiscences of Prescott Sheldon Bush : oral history, 1966.

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Reminiscences of Prescott Sheldon Bush : oral history, 1966.

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Yale; World War I; early business experience, investment banking; W.A. Harriman & Co., 1926-31, Brown Brothers Harriman, from 1931, role of private banking; early political activities, Republican Party in Connecticut; Senator, 1952-62; committees, legislation, Randall Commission on tariff and trade; campaign of 1956, development of Republican platform; impressions of President Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Senators Robert A. Taft and Joseph McCarthy, Averell Harriman, Robert Roosa.

Transcript: 454 leaves.Tape: 6 reels.

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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