| 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 4 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_4.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1983 (Year of interview)
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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: |
12-Oct-1983
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| Interviewer: |
Ritchie, Donald A.
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| People discussed: |
Fulbright, J. William; Fulbright, James William, 1905-1995; Green, Theodore Francis, 1867-1966; James William Fulbright; JFK; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963; Theodore Francis Green
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Congress. Senate; U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations; White House, Washington, DC
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| Locations discussed: |
District of Columbia; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
District of Columbia; Federal government; Fulbright, J. William; Fulbright, James William, 1905-1995; Green, Theodore Francis, 1867-1966; International relations; James William Fulbright; JFK; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963; Legislative bodies--United States; Legislators--United States; North America; Oral history; Political science--United States; Politicians; Presidents--United States; Presidents--United States--Staff; Theodore Francis Green; U.S. Congress. Senate; U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations; United States; United States--Officials and employees; United States--Politics and government; White House, Washington, DC; Work; Work environment
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0022123-23139
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