Presentation of the Robert F. Wagner Papers to Georgetown, 1949. Tape 1., 10/23/1949.

File — Box: 2, Folder: 5

Identifier: 60288

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Audio recordings of events or programs at or associated with Georgetown University including conferences and visits by politicians, diplomats, and clergy. Speakers include Konrad Adenauer, Eugene McCarthy, and Henry Kissinger, as well as University administrators and faculty such as Edward B. Bunn, S.J., Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Carroll Quigley, Jan Karski, and Joseph T. Durkin, S.J.

Dates

10/23/1949.

Collection-level Access Restrictions

All published documents housed in the University Archives are open for use. Unpublished documents are governed by the following use restrictions: unpublished material dating from 1971 and later may only be consulted with the permission of the office which created it; unpublished material dating from 1970 or before may be used with the permission of the Archivist or the creating office, unless otherwise restricted.

Extent

From the Collection: 15 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Container Summary

Tape 1 of 3. Held in Gaston Hall. Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, opens the event and introduces Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Senator Wagner's son, who begins the presentation speech around the 6 minute 29 minute mark by reading a letter from his father. Mr. Wagner is followed by Georgetown President Hunter Guthrie, S.J., who begins his acceptance speech at the 16 minute 34 second mark. President Guthrie references seeing the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, 1911, as a boy and notes that that fire could be said to have "launched Bob Wagner's career as it certainly did my consciousness of social justice in a world of glaring inequalities." Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL George Meany is introduced around the 23 minute mark.