Jan - July 2004
PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES
ACCESSIONS
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Two audio recordings of Eleanor Roosevelt: an April 1953 interview by Richard Heffner, host of the educational television program "The Open Mind," for an FDR memorial program, and a November 21, 1957, talk at Sturbridge, MA.
Materials of Joseph P. and Trude Lash. These included documents relating to their relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt, books on the Roosevelt era and a small number of artifacts. Approximately 10 linear feet.
Harry S. Truman Library
Papers of Albert Moseman, an official in the Department of Agriculture during the Truman administration. The papers consist of correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials relating to Moseman's career in government and his involvement in agricultural development programs around the world. Approximate date span: 1936–2004. Approximately 17 linear feet. Closed pending processing.
Accretion to the papers of Oscar Ewing, Administrator of the Federal Security Agency from 1947 to 1953. The papers consist of correspondence, photographs, printed materials, speeches, certificates, and memorabilia relating to Ewing's life, his career in government, and his political activities as a leader of the Democratic Party. Approximate date span: 1910–94. Approximately 8 linear feet. Closed pending processing.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
Papers of Robert A. Bauer, 1938–98, broadcaster, Free Austria Radio, France, 1939–40; broadcaster and division chief, Voice of America, 1942–58; and public and cultural affairs officer, Department of State, 1958–72.
Additional papers from Stephen Benedict, 1952, assistant to Dr. Gabriel Hauge and research director of Citizens for Eisenhower.
Additional papers of Paul William Jeffcoat, 1920, Abilene local historian and photographer.
U.S. District Court, District of Kansas: Records re: Brown v. Board of Education, 1951–86 (electrostatic copies).
U.S. National Security Council Presidential Records, Intelligence Files, 1953–61 (electrostatic copies).
John F. Kennedy Library
274 photograph items, 49 audio recordings, 21 videotapes, and 25 feet of 8mm color film were accessioned. The accessions include a group of oral histories from Returned Peace Corps Volunteers.
Accretion to the President's Office Files. Guest book signed by foreign heads of state visiting the White House, 1962–63. One item.
Papers of Eleanor Charwat, Information Assistant, President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency (1962–65). Contains reports, minutes, press releases and memos documenting the committee's work. One foot.
Accretion to the personal papers of J. Edward Day, Postmaster General. Less than one cubic foot. Open.
Accretion to the personal papers of John T. Dunlop, government official. Member, Presidential Railroad Commission (1960–62); member, President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity (1964–65); Secretary of Labor (1975–76). Personal and professional papers. 10 cubic feet. Closed pending processing.
Accretion to the personal papers of William Josephson, Peace Corps General Counsel. Two videocassettes about Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver. Two audiotapes. Closed pending processing.
Accretion to the personal papers of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Staff files of Mimi Brody, Paul Donovan, Nick Littlefield, Jim Manely, Trina Vargo, and Steve Wolfe, 1993–96. 79 feet. Closed pending deed.
Accretion to the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. Contains winning entries from the 2004 awards for work in 2003. Also includes RFK Book Award winners. 1.5 cu. ft. Open.
Accretion to the personal papers of Jacqueline B. Kennedy Onassis. Notebook: "Papers and Other Possessions Belonging to Jacqueline B. Onassis, compiled, December 1972." With inserts up through 1994. 0.25 cu. ft. Closed pending deed.
Accretion to the personal papers of Burke Marshall, lawyer, government official, academic. Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice (1961–64), and Yale Law School professor. Contains business, personal and academic files. 25 cu. ft. Closed pending deed.
Accretions to the Ernest Hemingway Collection, a brown-colored prescription bottle containing six multivitamins, 1961. One item. A book, Gattorno, by Ernest Hemingway (Havana : Ucar Garcia y Cia, 1935). Copy 354 of a limited edition of 460. Less than one cubic foot. Open.
Accretion to the personal papers of John Robert Bittner, Hemingway scholar. One photograph.
Accretions to the Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection: Papers of Richard Green, Philippines, 1967–69. Personal memoir. 29 pages. Papers of Miluska Laso, Cameroon, 2002. Letters, 2002. 17 pages.
Oral history interviews with:
Celia Bosworth, 1992–94
Ruth Calligan, 1996–97
Kathy Carson, Sierra Leone, 1990–91
Emilie Roy Corey, 1964–66
Sharon Dirlam, 1996–98
Richard Green, Philippines, 1967–69
Laurie Cook Heffron, Niger, 1996–98
Mindy Hochgesang, 1996–98
Heidi Irvin, 1990–99
Ernest Kendall, Ghana, 1962–64
Kate Kuykendall, 1999–2001
Robert Levich, Ghana, 1963–65
Lisa Maggiore, 1989–91
Reid Meltion, 1965–67
Sue Murray, 1999–2000
Dian Odell, 1966–68
Therona Ramos, Korea, 1967–70
Chris Roduit, 1964–66
Mike Sulzycki, Philippines, 1967–69
Brynne Sisson, Albania, 1996–97
Rick Weller, Senegal, 1995–97. All open.
Thirteen additions to the John F. Kennedy Tributes Collection and 15 additions to the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection were accessioned, processed, and opened.
Oral history interviews:
Senator John C Culver
Economist Kermit Gordon
Joint interview with economists Kermit Gordon and Walter W. Heller
Harold W. Graham
Richard J. Murphy
Richard E. Neustadt
Sander Vanocur
Restaurant owner Raymond Zeibert
Deeds of gift were completed for the papers of Samuel Beer and oral history interviews with Samuel Beer, John Culver, Sid Davis, Earl Graves, Walter Pozen, Dan Rather, Walter Sheridan, Al Spivak, and George Stevens; Walter Sheridan's interviews on Robert Kennedy; and 24 Peace Corps volunteers' interviews.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
The library accessioned the following oral history transcripts:
Berl Bernhard, Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights under President Kennedy, Special Counsel and Director of the White House Conference "To Fulfill These Rights" in 1966, and special adviser to Dean Rusk and W. Averell Harriman. 15 pages.
Donnelly P. Bolton, brigadier general during the Vietnam War. 64 pages. William Narva, attending physician to Congress for 4 years and consultant to the White House Physician for 20 years. 26 pages.
Governor John B. Connally of Texas, by Robert Dallek. 33 pages.
Oveta Culp Hobby, head of the Federal Security Agency, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1953 to 1955, and wife of former Texas Governor William P. Hobby. 27 pages.
Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Congressman and Senator and unsuccessful Democratic Presidential candidate. 37 pages.
Spurgeon Neel, senior medical adviser to General Westmoreland in Vietnam and first Commanding General of Health Services Command. 43 pages.
Darrell K. Royal, the football coach for the University of Texas at Austin from 1956 through 1976. 29 pages.
Wallace Terry, author and reporter for the Washington Post, Time, USA Today, and Parade. 18 pages.
A group interview conducted on November 17, 1977, with Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, D. B. Hardeman, Ralph Huitt, Lindy Boggs, J. J. Pickle, Lynda Robb, Luci Nugent, Dean Reid, Patsy Steves, Carl Albert, Beryl Pickle, Richard Neustadt, Elspeth Rostow, and Sid Davis, titled "One More Story." (54 pages)
All of these oral history transcripts are available for research.
Gerald R. Ford Library
Accretion to the papers of David W. Belin, who served on the staffs of the Warren and Rockefeller Commissions. 22 cubic feet.
Material from the U.S. Marine Corps Historical Center, consisting of digital copies of 35 oral history interviews with marines who were involved in the recovery effort following the seizure of the SS Mayaguez, and digital copies of other declassified documents related to the Mayaguez incident.
U.S. National Security Council Institutional/Historical Records for the Ford administration. 45 cubic feet. In legal status, these are Clinton Presidential records subject to the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
Papers of Frederica Pantlind, containing materials related to Pantlind's Grand Rapids social life in the 1930s, including handwritten letters from friend Gerald R. Ford; Gerald Ford football clippings; and clippings, programs and datebooks related to a high school sorority of which Betty Bloomer was a member. 0.1 cubic feet.
Accretions to the Robert Goldwin Papers, Betty Ford Papers, Gerald R. Ford Scrapbooks, Gerald R. Ford Personal Papers, Gerald R. Ford Post-Presidential Office Files, Gerald R. Ford Financial Papers, Gerald R. Ford Papers Relating to His Naval Service, John Robert Greene Papers, Yanek Mieczkowski Research Interviews, Composite Oral History Accessions, and the Composite General Accessions.
Jimmy Carter Library
Accretions of post-Presidential material from both of Jimmy Carter's offices.
Papers of John Gunther Dean, an ambassador who held a number of diplomatic posts, including Ambassador to the Khmer Republic, Denmark, Lebanon, Thailand, and India.
George Bush Library
Accretion to the Barbara Pierce Bush Collection, 13 linear feet. Closed.
Accretion to the Bush Library Foundation Collection, 0.5 linear feet. Closed.
Accretion to the Jack Fields Collection, 3 linear feet. Closed.
Accretion to the Dr. Burton Lee Collection, 2 linear feet. Closed.
Harry S. Truman Library
Papers of Mary Shaw Branton, a friend of Margaret Truman Daniel. The papers consist of correspondence, printed materials, invitations, scrapbooks, and memorabilia concerning Branton's association with the Truman family. Date span: 1907–2001 (mostly 1945–88). 2.1 linear feet.
Records of Commerce Bancshares, Inc., consisting of employment applications, letters of recommendation, and supervisor's evaluations relating to the employment of Harry S. Truman and his brother Vivian as clerks at the National Bank of Commerce in Kansas City. Date span: 1903–99. Less than one half linear foot.
Accretion to the papers of Lorain H. Cunningham, a U.S. Army officer during World War I. The accretion consists of correspondence, printed materials, and membership rosters relating mostly to the annual reunions and other activities of the Battery D Association, a group of World War I veterans who served under Capt. Harry S. Truman. The accretion comprises less than one-half of one linear foot and covers the period from 1918 to 1992.
Accretion to the papers of Harry Easley, a friend and Missouri political associate of Harry S. Truman. The accretion consists of the contents of several scrapbooks: correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other documents mostly pertaining to Easley's relationship with Truman, his work as a WPA official in Missouri, and his involvement in state politics. The accretion comprises less than one linear foot and covers the period from 1935 to 2002.
Accretion to the papers of Charles Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture from 1948 to 1953. The accretion consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and speeches concerning Brannan's association with former President Truman, the Truman Library, and prominent Democrats. The accretion comprises less than one linear foot and covers the period from 1948 to 1984.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
Papers of George Hall, 1976–99.
U.S. District Court, District of Kansas: Records re: Brown v. Board of Education, 1951–86 (electrostatic copies).
John F. Kennedy Library
Processing was completed on the final nine feet of the personal papers of Joseph P. Kennedy, father of President Kennedy, banker, financier, and diplomat, 325 cubic feet. Permission required collection.
Accretion to the President's Office Files. Guest book signed by foreign heads of state visiting the White House, 1962–63. One item.
Papers of Eleanor Charwat, Information Assistant, President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency (1962–65). Contains reports, minutes, press releases and memos documenting the committee's work. One foot.
Records of the Columbia University Bureau of Applied Social Research on Television and the Death of a President (1969), 1.5 cubic feet.
Accretion to the personal papers of J. Edward Day, Postmaster General. Less than one cubic foot.
Personal papers of economist Seymour Harris, 2 cubic feet.
Seven additions to the John F. Kennedy Tributes Collection and nine additions to the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.
Personal papers of David Koskoff, author of Joseph P. Kennedy and His Times (1974), 7.25 cubic feet.
Oral history interviews:
Samuel H. Beer, Military officer, historian, 50 pages.
Clark M. Clifford, Presidential adviser (1961–63), 61 pages.
John C. Culver, U.S. Senator, Iowa (1975–81), family friend, 31 pages.
Gerald R. Ford, President, United States, 22 pages.
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, diplomat, 57 pages.
Harold W. Graham, staff member for High Commissioner of Germany, 3 pages.
Don S. Hewitt, producer and director, CBS TV News, 21 pages
David E. McGiffert, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Legislative Affairs, 21 pages.
John J. McNally, Jr., White House Special Projects Staff, 53 pages.
Richard J. Murphy, Assistant Postmaster General (1961–69), 48 pages.
Michael H. Prendergast, Chairman, New York State Democratic Committee (1955–62), 35 pages.
Helen A. Thomas, White House correspondent, 32 pages.
Raymond R. Tucker, Mayor, St. Louis (1953–65), 15 pages.
Patricia M. Twohig, Kennedy Campaign worker, 22 pages.
Byron R. White, Supreme Court Justice, 35 pages.
Duke Zeibert, owner, Duke's Deli, Washington, DC, 10 pages.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
On April 30, 2004, the library opened approximately 23 hours of the Recordings and Transcripts of President Johnson's Telephone Conversations for the period covering April through July 1966, as well as two conversations in October 1966 between President Johnson and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas in which they discuss the assassination of President Kennedy.
Approximately four Hollinger boxes of the Papers of Bromley Smith were made available for research. Bromley Smith served as the Executive Secretary of the NSC from 1961 to 1969. In this capacity he kept track of the NSC daily business and was the Executive Manager. The boxes processed consist of Smith's chronological files from 1949 through 1971, as well as NSC organizational material.
Approximately four Hollinger boxes of the Johnson Senate papers, one and one-half boxes of White House Central File, Subject Files, four boxes of White House Central File, Name Files, about 600 pages of the Files of William Sparks, and 25 pages from the Files of Ben Wattenberg.
National Security File (NSF), files of Robert Komer, NSC staff member, Special Assistant to the President, and Deputy for Pacification in Vietnam beginning in 1967. These boxes contain material on Cyprus, India, Kashmir, and the USSR.
NSF, Files of Charles Johnson, a senior member of the NSC staff from October 1962 through the close of the Johnson administration. He handled scientific matters, weaponry, arms control, atomic energy, and space matters and served as the NSC liaison with the AEC and NASA. Approximately one-half of an archival container was opened containing folders pertaining to the Soviet space program.
NSF, Country File were opened for research, including folders on Turkey, Cyprus, Rumania, France, USSR, Cambodia, China, and Laos. Approximately four archival containers.
NSF, Head of State Correspondence File, and NSF Special Head of State Correspondence File, were processed, containing folders on Australia, Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Greece, the 1967 Clifford/Taylor Mission to Southeast Asia, and holiday greetings, approximately five archival containers.
NSF, International Meetings and Travel File were also processed, containing material on speeches for the President's October 1966 trip to Asia and on the D-day celebration in 1964. Approximately one and one-half archival containers.
Drew Pearson's diaries for March, April, and May 1967. In addition to an account of his trip to Latin America with Chief Justice Earl Warren, the diary entries also contain JFK Assassination-related material.
White House Social Files, Alpha File and White House Social Files, Liz Carpenter's Alpha File. One and a half archival containers.
White House Social Office on Beautification. One archival container.
Post-Presidential Name File. One folder.
Nixon Presidential Materials Staff
Transcripts of Dr. Henry Kissinger's telephone conversations (Telcons) during his tenure as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1969–74) and Secretary of State (1973–74) during the administration of President Nixon. These telephone calls, which took place at various locations, were recorded between January 21, 1969–August 8, 1974. 20,000 pages.
Additional segment of the White Central Files: Subject Files; National Defense (ND) and 3.6 cubic feet of Federal Government (FG).
1.0 cubic foot of White House Central Files: Name Files:
Gerald R. Ford Library
Asmus Family Papers re: the Bicentennial Wagon Train. 2 feet.
Ron Brandon Papers.
Phil Buchen Papers.
David Meeker Papers, re: the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 11 feet.
National Security Adviser's Presidential Transition File, 1974. 1 foot.
NSC Press and Congressional Relations Staff Files
Presidential Country Files for the Middle East and South Asia. 14 feet.
Peter Rodman NSC Staff Files
Edward Schapsmeier Papers.
Gerald Warren Papers.