Research Our Records

Second Quarter FY 2003

View Accessions and Openings for all quarters since July, 200

PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES

ACCESSIONS

Herbert Hoover Library

Accretion to the Steve Neal Research Collection, including materials related to his recent book on Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 3 feet, n.d.

Accretion to the Papers of Vaughn Bornet, including materials related to a variety of Bornet's research interests, 5 feet, n.d.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
No report this quarter.

Harry S. Truman Library
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Accretion to the Papers of Stephen Benedict, 1952 - 55, assistant to Dr. Gabriel Hauge, research director for Citizens for Eisenhower, 1951 - 53, assistant staff secretary, 1954 - 55.

Accretion to the Papers of Ezra Taft Benson, 1953 - 60, Secretary of Agriculture.

Papers of David B. Eskind, 1940 - 73, radio writer and producer, U.S. Army, 1943 - 73.

Papers of Paul P. Roudakoff, 1939 - 93, Russian immigrant translator at Potsdam Conference, 1945; liaison and protocol officer, Office of Military Government, Germany, 1945 - 49, and Office of High Commission for Germany, 1949 - 54.

Additional Papers, World War II Participants and Contemporaries, 1939 - .

John F. Kennedy Library

Accretion to the Papers of Carmine Bellino, special consultant to President Kennedy, including alphabetical correspondence files, working files and newspaper clippings, 13 feet, 1951 - 74.

Accretion to the Papers of Edward M. Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts, 8 feet, staff files.

Accretion to the White House staff files of John J. McNally (1961 - 63), including correspondence, photographs, campaign materials, reading files, and other staff records, 6 feet, 1960 - 64.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteers donated correspondence, memoirs, oral history tapes and transcripts, and other items to the RPCV Collection, 9 interview tapes, 1 DVD and .25 feet of textual material. Materials document Nicholas Bosustow, Guatemala, 1999 - 2001; Suzanne Clark, Mauritania, 1973 - 75; Charles and Florence Flett, Solomon Islands, 1987 - 1989; Richard Piazza, Nigeria, 1961 - 63; Beth and Carl Peterson, Nigeria, 1963 - 66; Ellen Shively, Eritrea, 1968 - 70; Robin Southern, Haiti, 1989 - 99.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

Oral history interview of Jacob Javits, United States Senator, 1956 - 1980, 8 pages.

Oral history interview of Willy Brandt, Mayor of Berlin from 1957 to 1966 and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1969 to 1974, 12 pages.

Gerald R. Ford Library

Accretion to the Papers of Betty Ford Papers, consisting of 31 videotapes of televised and nontelevised appearances and interviews by Betty Ford, Susan Vance Ford, President Ford, Rosalyn Carter, and Chuck Vance, 1978 - 98.

Jimmy Carter Library
No report this quarter.

Ronald Reagan Library

Oral history interview of Oliver H. Beahrs, 1 videotape, documenting an oral history interview conducted by Duke Blackwood at the Reagan Library on February 13, 2003. Dr. Beahrs is with the Mayo Clinic and received his surgical training from Dr. Loyal Davis at Northwestern University. Dr. Davis was Nancy Reagan's father. He currently serves as a personal physician to Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

George Bush Library

Accretion to the George Bush Bush Post Presidential Collection, 10 linear feet.

Accretion to the George W. Bush Personal Collection, 4 linear feet.

Clinton Presidential Materials Project
No report this quarter.

OPENINGS

Herbert Hoover Library
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
No report this quarter.

Harry S. Truman Library
No report this quarter.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Papers of George B. Bookman, 1981 - 93.

Papers of Vernon E. Megee, 1919 - 92.

John F. Kennedy Library

John F. Kennedy Medical Records, 1940 - 63, were made available for research with a proviso that a qualified medical person accompanies a researcher requesting them. The materials consist of four boxes of textual records and 13 boxes of x-rays.

Adam Clymer Papers, journalist. An additional foot of material on the 1980 campaign was added to the open collection of research and background materials for his biography of Senator Edward Kennedy.

Joseph P. Kennedy Papers. An additional 50.25 feet were processed and opened: Movie Industry, 1919 - 57; Speeches and Articles, 1934 - 40; John F. Kennedy's Health, 1938 - 55; Ambassadorial Correspondence and Diplomatic Memoir; and John F. Kennedy's and Robert F. Kennedy's Campaigns, 1952 - 68. Permission required.

John J. McNally White House staff files, 1960 - 63. The 1960 Presidential campaign and arrangements for John F. Kennedy's funeral, less than one foot.

Oral history interview of Frances Condell, Mayor, Limerick, Ireland, 1966, 18 pages.

Oral history interview of William F. Haddad, Associate Director, Inspector General, Peace Corps (1961 - 63); Special Assistant to Robert F. Kennedy, 1967 and 1968, 249 pages. 1967 interview closed. 1968 interview open.

Oral history interview of Peter V.V. Hamill, medical coordinator, Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health (1962 - 63), 1969 and 1970, 190 pages.

Oral history interview of Malcolm Kilduff, Assistant Press Secretary (1962 - 65) 1965 and 1976, 39 pages.

Oral history interview of Henry LaMar, Harvard football coach (1932 - 72), 1964, 5 pages.

Oral history interview of Theo Lefevre, Premier, Belgium (1961 - 65), 1966, 7 pages.

Oral history interview of Victor M. Longstreet, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management, 1962 - 65, 1972, 28 pages.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

Recordings and Transcripts of Presidential Telephone Conversations, January through March 1966, approximately 30 hours.

National Security File, Files of Robert Komer, NSC staff member, Special Assistant to the President, and Deputy for Pacification in Vietnam beginning in 1967, including material on Aden, Afghanistan, China, foreign aid, and Jordan.

National Security File, Subject File dealing with East-West trade, n.d.

Gerald R. Ford Library

David Hume Kennerly Collection, White House photographer, consisting of several thousand black-and-white negatives and corresponding contact sheets, plus color slides, including photographs of Vice President Ford; a post-Presidential trip by President and Mrs. Ford to the Middle East in 1978; the 1980 Republican National Convention; and portraits of various Ford family members.

Jimmy Carter Library
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Ronald Reagan Library
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George Bush Library
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Clinton Presidential Materials Project
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