| Title: |
Carl M. Marcy
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
U.S. Congress. Senate. Historical Office
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| Collection: |
Senate Oral History Project
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| Series: |
Item 3 of Series Carl M. Marcy
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| Description: |
Senator J. William Fulbright holds the record as the longest serving chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee (fifteen years, from 1959 to 1974), but Carl Marcy served for eighteen years as the committee's chief of staff (from 1955 to 1973). For most of that time their service overlapped, and Marcy's recollections are in large part the story of Fulbright's impact on the committee, during the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. It was a period in which the bipartisan consensus in foreign policy unraveled and the gap between Congress and the White House widened steadily, most notably over the war in Vietnam. No longer completely trusting the executive branch as a source of information, the committee expanded its staff during Marcy's tenure as chief of staff and pursued more vigorous oversight of the policy makers.
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| Extent: |
22 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Marcy_interview_3.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
1950 to 1959
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| Speaker: |
Marcy, Carl M., 1913-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1913
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Falls City, OR; Oregon; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Chief of staff
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| Age at speaking: |
70
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| Document date: |
05-Oct-1983
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| Interviewer: |
Ritchie, Donald A.
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| People discussed: |
Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959; Fulbright, J. William; Fulbright, James William, 1905-1995; George, Walter Franklin, 1878-1957; James William Fulbright; John Foster Dulles; Walter Franklin George
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| Organizations discussed: |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization; U.S. Congress. Senate; U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations; U.S. Department of State; United Nations
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| Locations discussed: |
District of Columbia; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
District of Columbia; Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959; Federal government; Fulbright, J. William; Fulbright, James William, 1905-1995; George, Walter Franklin, 1878-1957; International relations; James William Fulbright; John Foster Dulles; Legislative bodies--United States; Legislators--United States; North America; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Oral history; Political science--United States; Politicians; U.S. Congress. Senate; U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations; U.S. Department of State; United Nations; United States; United States--Officials and employees; United States--Politics and government; Walter Franklin George
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0022122-23137
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