WITNESSES TO HISTORY: AMERICAN | POSITIONS HELD DURING EISENHOWER’S PRESIDENTIAL YEARS |
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John G. Adams | Attorney for U.S. Army during McCarthy hearings |
Ralph E. Becker | Eisenhower Appointee to Board of the National Center for the Performing Arts (Kennedy Center), long-time Center Legal Counsel |
Stephen Benedict | Campaign Staff, White House Aide |
Robert Bowie | State Dept. Official, Key Policy Advisor to Secretary of State Dulles |
Herbert Brownell | 1952 Campaign Manager, Attorney-General |
Warren E Burger | Attorney-General’s Office |
George H.W. Bush | GOP Congressman from Texas |
Dr. Joseph V. Charyk | Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Missile Development |
Bob Clark | White House Reporter for International News Service (INS) |
Ray Cline | CIA Analyst |
William Colby | CIA Operative in Post-War Europe |
John Connally | Close Texas Political Ally of Sen. Lyndon Johnson |
Charles Corddry | Pentagon Reporter, Baltimore Sun |
Walter Cronkite | CBS TV Reporter |
C. Douglas Dillon | Ambassador to France, Undersecretary of State |
Robert Donovan | White House Reporter, New York Herald Tribune |
Father Avery Dulles, S.J. | Son of Secretary of State Dulles |
Dr. Eleanor Lansing Dulles | German Desk, U.S. State Dept. |
David Eisenhower | Grandson of President Eisenhower |
Susan Eisenhower | Granddaughter of President Eisenhower |
Gen. John S.D. Eisenhower | Son of President, White House Assistant to Gen. Goodpaster |
Dr. William Ewald | White House Aide |
Rep. Gerald Ford | GOP Congressman from Michigan, early Eisenhower Supporter |
Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Staff Secretary, White House Liaison with Pentagon |
Arthur Grey | “Citizens for Eisenhower” Campaign Official |
Barbara Gunderson | “Citizens for Eisenhower” volunteer in South Dakota, GOP National Committeewoman and Civil Service Commissioner |
Najeeb Halaby | Aviation Pioneer, Defense Dept. Official |
John Hanes | Aide to Secretary of State Dulles |
George Herman | CBS TV News reporter |
Patricia Herman | White House Secretary |
Lady Bird Johnson (audio only) | Wife of Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) |
Herb Klein | Nixon Campaign Media Advisor |
Rep Melvin Laird | GOP Congressman from Wisconsin, Eisenhower Supporter |
Arthur Larson | Labor Dept. Undersecretary, Aide and Speechwriter for Eisenhower |
Edward A. McCabe | White House Aide, Legal Counsel |
John (“Tex”) McCrary | TV pioneer, Eisenhower Campaign Public Relation Advisor |
E. Frederic Morrow | White House Aide |
Richard Nixon | Vice-President |
Bradley Patterson | Assistant Secretary to Eisenhower Cabinet |
Charles Percy | Prominent Businessman, Eisenhower Supporter |
Adam Clayton Powell IV | Son of Civil Rights Leader and Democratic Congressman, Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. of Harlem, New York City |
Maxwell Raab | White House Aide |
Ronald Reagan | Democratic Union Official, Ike supporter in 1952 |
George Reedy | United Press reporter, LBJ Aide |
James Reston | New York Times Reporter and Washington Bureau Chief |
Elliot Richardson | Legislative Aide, U.S. Attorney |
Chalmers Roberts | Chief Diplomat Reporter, Washington Post |
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-NE) | Son of key Ike Supporter in 1952 Campaign |
William Rogers | Attorney-General’s Office |
Kermit (“Kim”) Roosevelt | CIA Middle East Operations, Organizer of 1953 coup in Iran that restored the Shah to Power |
Eugene Rossides | Treasury Dept. Aide |
Stanley Rumbough | “Citizens for Eisenhower” Co-Founder and White House Aide |
Dr. Raymond Saulnier | Economic Advisor to the President |
Ray Scherer | NBC TV Reporter |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr | Pulitzer Prize winning historian and influential advisor to liberal Democrats including presidential candidates Stevenson and Kennedy |
Gen. Bernard Schriever | Commander, USAF’s ICBM Development Program |
Dr. Glenn Seaborg | Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Science Advisor to the President |
Eileen Shanahan | Economics Reporter, New York Times |
Rocco C. Siciliano | Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Labor; Special Assistant to the President |
Hugh Sidey | Life Magazine’s White House Reporter |
Mansfield Sprague | Dept. of Defense Official |
Ted Sorensen | Aide to JFK |
Maurice Stans | Treasury Dept. Official |
Harold Stassen | Special Assistant to President, Disarmament Specialist |
John Steele | Time magazine reporter |
Hans (“Tom”) Tuch | U.S. Embassy Staff, Moscow |
Charls Walker | Treasury Dept. Official |
Prof. W. Allen Wallis | Economist, Advisor to President Eisenhower |
Gen. Vernon Walters | White House Aide, President’s Translator |
Abbott Washburn | Eisenhower campaign official, Deputy Director, US Information Agency |
Langhorne Washburn | “Eisenhower Bandwagon” Director, “Citizens for Eisenhower,” 1952 Campaigns vs. Sen. Taft and Gov. Stevenson |
Mr. & Mrs. John Minor Wisdom | Key Eisenhower Campaign Supporters from Louisiana |
John Minor Wisdom | Eisenhower Appointee to the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, including all states in the so-called “Deep South” |
Rep. James Wright | Democratic Congressman from Texas |
Dr. Herbert York | Chief Scientist, Pentagon’s Advanced Research Project Agency, Nuclear Arms Advisor to the President Eisenhower and Author of Building Bombs, Talking Peace |
WITNESSES TO HISTORY: BRITISH | |
Field Marshall Lord Carver | Britain’s NATO Representative |
Sir David Hunt | Aide to Prime Minister Churchill, British Diplomatic Corps |
Sir Frank Roberts | British Diplomatic Corps, NATO Representative |
Edward Heath | Conservative M.P., Parliamentary Leader in Anthony Eden government |
WITNESSES TO HISTORY: FRENCH | |
Maurice Delarue | Prominent French Journalist, Foreign Affairs Expert |
Pierre Pflimlin | French Overseas Minister |
Christian Pineau | French Foreign Minister |
WITNESSES TO HISTORY: WEST GERMAN | |
Gunter Diehl | West German Foreign Ministry Official |
Professor Wilhelm Grewe | West German Foreign Ministry Official, Advisor to the Chancellor |
Dr. Erich Mende | A Founder of West Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP), Deputy Chancellor in Adenauer’s Government |
Dr. Horst Osterheld | Close Associate of West German Chancellor Adenauer |
Karl-Gunther von Hase | Foreign Ministry Official, West Germany |
Heinz Weber | Translator for West German Chancellor |
WITNESSES TO HISTORY: SOVIET UNION | |
Alexei Adzhubei | Editor of Pravda, son-in-law of Nikita Khrushchev |
Georgi Arbatov | Founder of USSR’s Institute of Canadian and American Studies, expert on Russian U.S.- Relations, advisor to Kremlin leadership |
Georgy Grechko | Soviet Cosmonaut |
Dr. Edward Ivanian | A Director of Institute of Canadian and American Studies, Member of Russian Academy of Sciences |
Sergei Khrushchev | Rocket Engineer, Son of Nikita Khrushchev |
Georgii Kornienko | USSR Foreign Ministry |
Gen. Georgy Mikhailov | USSR Air Defense Command |
COMMENTATORS ON THE EISENHOWER PRESIDENCY: | |
Prof. Craig Allen | Professor of Journalism, Arizona State University and Author of Eisenhower and the Mass Media |
Prof. Michael Birkner | Eisenhower Scholar, Professor of History, Gettysburg College |
Prof. H. W. Brands | Professor of History, University of Texas, Author of Cold Warriors: Eisenhower’s Generation and American Foreign Policy and American Dreams: The United States Since 1945 |
Prof. Jeffrey Broadwater | Professor of History, Barton College and Author of Adlai Stevenson and American Politics |
Prof. Robert Dallek | Historian of the American Presidency and Author of The Lost Peace, 1945 – 1953 |
Dr. Raymond Garthoff | Cold War Scholar and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution |
Dr. Irwin F. Gellman | Author of The Contender: Richard Nixon,The Congress Years, 1946 – 1952, Visiting Scholar, Dept. of History, Franklin & Marshall College |
Prof. Fred Greenstein | Professor of Politics Emeritus, Princeton University and Author of The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader |
R. Cargill Hall | Historian Emeritus, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) |
Prof. Richard Immerman | Professor of Diplomatic History, Director of Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, Co-Author of Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Policy |
Prof. Daniel Kevles | The Stanley Woodward Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Yale University, and Author of The Physicists |
Prof. Michael Mayer | Eisenhower Scholar, Professor of History, University of Montana |
Victor McElheny | Science and Technology Writer, MIT, and Biographer of Edwin Land, key Science Advisor to President Eisenhower |
Hendrik (“Hank”) Meijer | Biographer of U.S. Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the powerful conservative Republican who helped mold America’s internationalist – and bipartisan – foreign policy in the 1940s |
Prof. Allan Millett | Korean War Scholar, Professor of Military History, University of New Orleans, and Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies |
Dr. David Nichols | Eisenhower Scholar, Author of Eisenhower 1956: Suez and the Brink of War |
Prof. James T. Patterson | Ford Foundation Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University, Author of Grand Expectations, 1945 – 1974,winner of the Bancroft Prize |
Prof. William Pickett | Professor of History, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Author of Eisenhower Decides to Run |
Martin Plissner | Retired Political Director, CBS News, and Author of The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections |
Dr. Roald Sagdeev | Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, former Director of USSR’s Space Research Institute |
Philip Taubman | Author of Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA and the Hidden History of America’s Space Espionage, Guest Professor at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, former Intelligence Reporter, New York Times |
Prof. William Taubman | Professor of Political Science, Amherst College, Biographer of Nikita Khrushchev, Winner of Pulitzer Prize |
Dr. Daun van Ee | Editor of the Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower |