Item COLD WAR 27/22 - Transcript of interview with politician Herbert Brownell Jr, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Herbert Brownell Jr, advisor to Dwight D Eisenhower during his Presidential election campaign, 1952, and US Attorney General, 1953-1957, relating to the communist threat in the US during the 1950s and the development of an anti-communist atmosphere in the US, including the capture of German spies at Long Island; the declaration of the People Republic of China, 1949, under communist regime; his role in the 1952 US Presidential election campaign; Eisenhower's visit to Milwauke, Wisconsin, (McCarthy's home state) during the election campaign, 1952; Eisenhower's view of the communist threat, and the tactics of Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1950-1954 in his campaign against alleged communists and communist sympathisers in US society; his role as US Attorney General; the removal of McCarthy from his chair of a Senate Committee, 1954; the influence of J Edgar Hoover, Head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the anti-communist campaign; and Brownell's general views on the Cold War. 27pp