| Title: |
Dennis A. Fitzgerald
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Harry S Truman Museum and Library
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| Collection: |
Truman Library Oral History Program
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| Description: |
During the years of the Truman administration, was Director, Office of Requirements and Allocations and Special Economic Advisor to the War Food Administrator, 1945; Director, Office of Requirements and Allocations of the Production Marketing Administration, and special economic advisor to War Food Administrator, 1945; United States deputy member on the Combined Food Board, 1945; Director, Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, 1948-49; Secretary-General, International Emergency Food Council, 1946-48; appointed chief food consultant to Herbert Hoover on President's World Food Mission, 1946, and to President's Economic Mission to Germany and Austria, 1947; special consultant to Secretary of War, visiting U.S. and English zones of Germany, 1947; Director, Food and Agriculture Division, Economic Cooperation Administration, 1948-51; Assistant Administrator, ECA, 1951-52; Associate Deputy Director, Mutual Security Agency, 1952; and, Deputy Director, Foreign Operations Administration, 1953.
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| Extent: |
41 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/fitz.htm
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Speaker: |
Fitzgerald, Dennis A.
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Government executive; Government official
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| Document location: |
Washington, DC
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
McKinzie, Richard D.; Wilson, Theodore A.
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| People discussed: |
Harry S. Truman; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
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| Historical events discussed: |
Cold War, 1945-1989; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
District of Columbia; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Cold War, 1945-1989; District of Columbia; Harry S. Truman; North America; Oral history; Political campaigns--United States; Political parties; Presidents--Term of office--United States; Presidents--United States; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972; United States; United States--Politics and government; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
European Recovery Program; Marshall Plan; Truman administration
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0032013-35252
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