Oral History of Josephine (Jodie) McGowan Gardner
INDEX

Acheson, David, 34
Acheson, Dean, 9, 34
American Field Service, 46–47, 48, 56
Bacall, Lauren, , 25
Bazelon, David, 34, 38
Blair, William M., Jr., 22, 23–24, 25
Bogart, Humphrey, 25
Bork, Robert, 36
Burger, Warren E., 56
Chase, Adelaide, 20
Clement, Alice, 11
Crosby, Lettie, 8, 9
Curley, James Michael, 25–26
Davis, Fred, 47, 52, 53–54, 56
Davis, Mary McGowan, 15, 16, 19, 47–48, 52, 53–54
de Gaulle, Charles, 51
Democratic National Convention (1952), 22, 23–24
Dirksen, Everett, 37
Douglas, Louis, 8
Douglas, Paul H., 37
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 26, 28, 57
Ford, Gerald R., 36
Frankfurter, Felix, 38
Fulbright, J. William, 27
Gardner, Jodie McGowan (nee Josephine Vail Perry)
American Field Service work, 46–47
aunt, 24, 26
birth, 1
Bryn Mawr College, 7–8
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Charles River School, 2, 6
in Chicago, 15–16
childhood, 1–3
children, 15, 19, 22, 24, 30, 31, 50, 55
See also Davis, Mary McGowan; McGowan, John H.; McGowan, Rebecca
courtship with McGowan, 11–14
daughter’s wedding in Senegal, 52, 53–54
debut, 6–7, 20–21
father, 1, 3, 5–6, 13, 15, 21, 25–26, 32
friends, 8–9, 13, 17, 31, 56–57
husbands. See McGowan, Carl E.; Gardner, Warner W.
granddaughter, 2
grandparents, 3–4, 21
marriage (to McGowan), 1, 5, 14
marriage (to Gardner), 1
on McGowan as judge, 41, 42
mother, 1, 3, 6, 15, 21, 25–26
in Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 8, 10–11, 14
religion, 4
at Salzburg Seminar for American Studies, 54–56
Sibley Hospital volunteer, 45–46
siblings, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 11, 14, 26
in Springfield, IL, 16–17
on Stevenson campaign trail, 17–19, 22–29, 49
at Stevenson funeral, 39–41
and Sulgrave Club, 49
and tennis, 59
in Washington, DC, 34
Washington Home Hospice board chairman, 44–45
Westtown School, 6
White House dinner, 36–37
in Wilmette, IL, 16
in Winnetka, IL, 30–31
Winsor School, 6
World War II years, 8–12
Gardner, Warner W., 6, 33
Columbia Law School, 57
decoder at Bletchley, England, 57
and horseback riding, 58
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law clerk to Justice Harlan F. Stone, 57
and McGowan, 59
in Office of Solicitor General, 57
with Shea & Gardner, 48, 58
solicitor of Interior Department, 57, 58
Supreme Court arguments, 48, 58–59
and tennis, 59
Gignoux, Edward T., 36
Ginsburg, Douglas H., 42
Goldberg, Arthur, 40
Great Depression, 5
Harper, John, 50
Harriman, W. Averell, 27
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 18
Hutton, Agnes Vail, 21
Hutton, Finley, 21
Ickes, Harold L., 57
Ives, Elizabeth Stevenson, 30, 54
Johnson, Lyndon B., 40, 41, 53
Kane, Richmond Keith, 28–29
Kefauver, Estes, 23
Kennedy, Edward M., 51
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 49–50, 51
Kennedy, John F., 49–50
assassination of, 50–51
Kennedy, Robert F., 32, 33, 38,
assassination of, 51, 52, 54
King, Martin Luther, 51–52
Levi, Edward H., 36
McCloy, John J. (“Jack”), 8
McGowan, Carl E., 10, 50, 51–52, 56–57
background, 5
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 39
Columbia Law School, 15, 57
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counsel to Adlai Stevenson, 5, 16–19, 22–30
courtship of Jodie, 11–14
faculty at Northwestern Law School, 14, 15
faculty at Salzburg Seminar for American Studies, 55–56
faculty at Stanford University, 31
and Gardner, 59
general counsel for Chicago and North Western Railway, 31
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 32–35, 36, 37–38, 41
and law clerks, 34–35, 41–42
in Navy Intelligence, 12, 13
partner with Ross, McGowan, Hardies & O’Keefe, 30–31
private practice in Washington, DC, 14
Stevenson eulogist, 39–40
and tennis, 59
McGowan, John H., 17, 19, 52
McGowan, Rebecca, 15, 19, 20
Meese, Edwin, 42
Metropolitan Club, 34, 41, 50, 51
moon landing, 52
Nixon, Patricia, 53
Nixon, Richard M., 39, 53
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 8, 10
Peace Corps, 47, 52, 53
Perkins, Frances, 57
Perry, Arthur, 3–4, 21–22
Perry, Emma Foster, 21
Perry, Finley, 2, 7, 11
Perry, Josephine Vail, 21
Perry, Rebecca Hutton, 21
Powell, Josephine, 56
Powell, Lewis F., 56
presidential election of 1952, 28–29
Resor, Helen, 8, 9
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 25
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 5, 25
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Salzburg Seminar for American Studies, 54–56
Schaefer, Walter V., 40
Shea, Frank, 58
Stevens, John Paul, 36
Stevenson, Adlai E., 5, 13, 37
funeral, 39–40
governor of Illinois, 16, 30
presidential candidate, 17–19, 22–29
sons, 23
Stevenson, Ellen Borden, 23, 27
Stewart, Mary Ann (“Andy”), 56
Stewart, Potter, 56
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 57
Sulgrave Club, 49
Supreme Court justices, 56–57
Taft, Robert A., 18
Truman, Harry, 17, 22
Valenti, Jack, 40
Vietnam War, 52–53
Washington, DC, 8–10, 51
Wirtz, W. Willard, 37, 40, 41
World War II, 8–12
Wright, Skelly, 38
Wyatt, Wilson W., 29
Zinsser, Nancy, 8
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