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Hatcher, Harlan, 1898-1998. Harlan Henthorne Hatcher papers, 1837-1998 (bulk 1891-1986).

Title: Harlan Henthorne Hatcher papers, 1837-1998 (bulk 1891-1986).

Correspondence, reports, memos, photographs, and other materials relating to his administration at University of Michigan, including papers concerning University administrative departments, alumni affairs, student activities during the 1950's and 1960's, nuclear test ban treaty of 1963, student protests over the war in Vietnam, 1965-1967, charge of Communist influence at the University campus during the McCarthy Era, development of the Salk polio vaccine, investigation of University students by the. House Committee on Un-American Activities, and celebration of the sesquicentennial of the founding of the University; also materials relating to his family, his writings, his career at Ohio State University, and his lifelong interest in, and study of, the Great Lakes. Correspondents include: American Council on Education, Vera B. Baits, Alvin M. Bentley, Roscoe O. Bonisteel, Ralph J. Bunche, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Wilbur J. Cohen, Alfred B. Connable, Council of Ten, Richard L. Cutler, Detroit Economic Club, Thomas E. Dewey, Leland I. Doan, William O. Douglas, James B. Edmonson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Milton Eisenhower, Henry Ford. Ford Foundation, John A. Hannah, Philip A. Hart, J. Joseph Herbert, Clarence B. Hilberry, Institute of International Education, Lyndon B. Johnson, Charles S. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, James F. Lawton, Frederick C. Matthaei, George Meader, Marvin L. Niehuss, North Central Association of Colleges, EugeneOrmandy, Stella B. Osborn, Marina Oswald, Wilbur K. Pierpont, Eugene B. Power, Eleanor Roosevelt, Alexander G. Ruthven, Ralph A. Sawyer, Harrison Salisbury. Sargent Shriver, Allan Frederick Smith, John Burley Swainson, U Thant, Earl Warren, and G. Mennen Williams.

ArchivalResource: 72 linear ft. and 1 oversize folder.

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Cohen, Eloise Bittel, 1913-2003. Papers of Eloise Bittel Cohen, 1913-2004 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Eloise Bittel Cohen, 1913-2004 (inclusive).

Collection includes genealogical information; correspondence; diaries, 1934-1987; calendars, guestbooks, and address books; household and financial records; files on organizations with which she was affiliated; etc.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft. (4 cartons, 1 1/2 file boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/567549689 View

Elliot L. Richardson papers, 1780-1999

Title: Elliot L. Richardson papers, 1780-1999

Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, subject files, reports, briefing data, financial records, printed materials, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Richardson's political career in Massachusetts and later as a cabinet official during the administrations of presidents Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, and Jimmy Carter. Includes papers documenting Richardson's service as U.S. under secretary of state (1969-1970), U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare (1970-1973), U.S. attorney general (1973), fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1974-1975), U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1975-1976), and President Carter's representative at the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (1977-1980). Subjects include Richardson's book The Creative Balance: Government, Politics, and the Individual in America's Third Century (1976), federal funding, Henry Kissinger's role in national security affairs, international maritime law, the oil crisis, National Defense Education Act of 1958, Republican Party, domestic social issues, state and national politics and government, Vice-President Spiro Agnew's resignation, and Watergate chief prosecutor Archibald Cox. Also includes papers relating to Richardson's work at the law firms of Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass., and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Washington, D.C. Includes an item (1780) pertaining to Massachusetts' first attorney general, Robert Treat Paine. Correspondents include Morton I. Abramowitz, Spiro T. Agnew, Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe, Edward W. Brooke, George Bush, Wilbur E. Cohen, William S. Cohen, William T. Coleman, Jr., Charles W. Colson, Archibald Cox, Richard G. Darman, John D. Ehrlichman, Paul Bamela Engo, Gerald R. Ford, Felix Frankfurter, Learned Hand, Wilmot R. Hastings, Christian A. Herter, Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, Richard G. Kleindienst, Tommy T.B. Koh, Richard E. Mastrangelo, Jonathan Moore, Richard M. Nixon, J. Stanley Pottinger, William P. Rogers, William Ruckelshaus, Leverett Saltonstall, Francis W. Sargent, Jonathan T. Smith, Russell E. Train, John A. Volpe, and Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 165,000 items.471 containers plus 8 oversize plus 11 classified.238 linear feet.

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Wickenden, Elizabeth, 1909-2001. Elizabeth Wickenden papers, 1885-2001.

Title: Elizabeth Wickenden papers, 1885-2001.

Professional papers, mainly 1932 to 1989, of Elizabeth Wickenden, a social welfare and Social Security policy consultant, analyst, and writer, and professor of public policy and urban studies. The papers document her professional positions as well as her activities as a consultant to national social welfare organizations, and her leading role in the Study Group on Social Security and the Save Our Security coalition. Also reflected are her activities as Professor of Urban Studies at the City University of New York (1966-1974) and at Fordham University (1979-1983). Issues with which she was concerned include transiency, poverty, welfare reform, welfare rights, welfare law, child protection and child welfare, Social Security and Medicare legislation, national health insurance, and unemployment compensation. There is also a small quantity of personal records and photographs, including school papers and four diaries from the 1920s and 1930s. The processed portion of this collection is summarize above, dates 1923-1991, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1885-2001 and are described below.

ArchivalResource: photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173700437 View

Christian Archibald Herter papers, 1929-1967 (inclusive), 1943-1966 (bulk).

Title: Christian Archibald Herter papers, 1929-1967 (inclusive), 1943-1966 (bulk).

Business and personal correspondence as well as political papers of American statesman and politician Christian Archibald Herter.

ArchivalResource: 44 boxes (22 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00943/catalog View

Harlan Henthorne Hatcher Papers, 1837-1998, 1891-1986

Title: Harlan Henthorne Hatcher Papers 1837-1998 1891-1986

Harlan Henthorne Hatcher (1898-1998) was president of the University of Michigan from 1951 to 1967. The papers span the years 1837-1998 and document Dr. Hatcher's University of Michigan presidency, Ohio State University career, literary career, organizational involvement, personal life, and family history. Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, speeches, yearly datebooks, oral history interview transcripts, magnetic audio tape recordings, an audiocassette recording, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 72 linear feet and 1 outsize folder

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851647?rgn=main;view=text View

Somers, Herman Miles, 1911-. Herman Miles Somers papers, 1936-1979 (inclusive).

Title: Herman Miles Somers papers, 1936-1979 (inclusive).

Correspondence, teaching papers, organization and subject files and writings reflecting various aspects of Somers' career as a teacher of political science at Harvard, Haverford and Princeton (1947-1979), as a member of task forces developing the Medicare program, and as a prolific writer in the field of American health policy. His five books on health care were all written in collaboration with his wife, Anne Ramsay Somers.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear ft. (41 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702206396 View

John Butlin Martin papers, 1948-1965

Title: John Butlin Martin papers 1948-1965

Republican state senator, 1948-1950, from Kent County, Michigan, state auditor general, 1950-1954, unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate nomination in 1952, and member of the Republican National Committee. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches and printed material relating to his political career, particularly his activities on the Michigan Commission on Aging, the Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1961-1962, and the Michigan Senate campaign of 1952.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851843?rgn=main;view=text View

Alumni Association (University of Michigan), Individual Photographs, ca. 1880-ca. 1960s

Title: Alumni Association (University of Michigan),Individual Photographs ca. 1880-ca. 1960s

Photos of University of Michigan alumni, faculty and staff collected by the University Alumni Association.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-8730p?rgn=main;view=text View

Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987. Reminiscences of Wilbur Joseph Cohen : oral history, 1974.

Title: Reminiscences of Wilbur Joseph Cohen : oral history, 1974.

Work with Edwin Witte and President's Committee on Economic Security, 1934; drafting Truman health message, 1945; Hill-Burton Act, 1946; studies undertaken as Research Director, Universal Military Training Commission; roles with Commission on Social Security; Professor, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1956-61; passage of 1965 Medicare bill; Assistant Secretary, Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961-68; Secretary, Health, Education, and Welfare, 1968-69; observations of United States politics, 1930s-70s; impressions of Samuel Rosenman, Theodore Sorenson, Arthur Altmeyer, Lyndon B. Johnson.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 245 leaves.Tape: 2 reels, 1 cassette.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309730147 View

Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987. Wilbur Joseph papers, 1967-1987.

Title: Wilbur Joseph papers, 1967-1987.

Dean's files; working files, 1978, relating to his work with the Governor's Task Force on Prevention and Investigation of Abuse in State Institutions; papers relating to the Summit Conference on Inflation, 1974; and files concerning involvement with school desegregation cases in Detroit and Kalamazoo, Michigan; also photographs.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34423535 View

Hospital administration oral history collection, 1982-1986.

Title: Hospital administration oral history collection, 1982-1986.

Oral history interviews conducted by Lewis E. Weeks. Those interviewed include Faye G. Adbellah, Odin W. Anderson, Lowell E. Bellin, George Bugbee, Montague Cobb, Wilbur J. Cohen, Edward J. Connors, George Crile, Jr., Nelson H. Cruikshank, Robert M. Cunningham, Jr., Leon Davis, Avedis Donabedian, I.S. Falk, Gary L. Filerman, James Hague, James A. Hamilton, Gerhard Hartman, Karl S. Klicka, John Robert Mannix, Walter J. McNerney, Wilbur D. Mills, Maurice J. Norby, Andrew Pattullo, Earl Perloff, Daniel Pettengill, Haynes Rice, C. Rufus Rorem, William A. Rothman, Robert M. Sigmond, Vergil Slee, Anne Ramsey Somers, Richard J. Stull, Kerr White, and Kenneth Williamson.

ArchivalResource: 34 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155473248 View

Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987. Wilbur J. Cohen papers, 1967-1987.

Title: Wilbur J. Cohen papers, 1967-1987.

Dean's files; working files, 1978, relating to his work with the Governor's Task Force on Prevention and Investigation of Abuse in State Institutions; papers relating to the Summit Conference on Inflation, 1974; and files concerning involvement with school desegregation cases in Detroit and Kalamazoo, Michigan; also photographs.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear ft. and 1 oversized folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78730540 View

Altman, Ralph,. Unemployment insurance oral history project, 1981.

Title: Unemployment insurance oral history project, 1981.

Transcripts of interviews with twenty-eight individuals involved with unemployment insurance programs at the state and federal levels from the 1930s to the 1980s. All interviews were conducted by Evangeline W. Cooper or Shirley Riordan for the United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration under the auspices of an Arthur J. Altmeyer Fellowship. Interviewees discuss their roles with respect to the unemployment insurance program, historical objectives for the program, significant features, major changes since the program's inception, past and present problems, areas of greatest personal satisfaction and frustration, recommendations for changes in the program, and future outlook. Also included in the collection are photographs of some of the participants.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and.17 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692837 View

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Oral History Collection. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Transcripts. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Interview with Wilbur J. Cohen

Title: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Oral History Collection. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Transcripts. 1962 - 1998. Oral History Interview with Wilbur J. Cohen

This is a transcript of an oral history interview with Wilbur J. Cohen. During the interview Cohen spoke about the Universal Military Training Commission and about social programs during the Eisenhower administration, especially Social Security Administration programs. Persons mentioned in the interview include Oveta Culp Hobby, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Marion B. Folsom and Sherman Adams.

ArchivalResource: 45 pages

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1126934 View

Falk, I. S. (Isidore Sydney), 1899-1984. Isidore Sydney Falk papers, 1918-1984 (inclusive).

Title: Isidore Sydney Falk papers, 1918-1984 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, professional files, research materials, writings, personal papers, and printed matter documenting Isidore Falk's career as an advocate of national health insurance and other programs related to public health. Of particular significance are the materials from his years with the Social Security Board (1936-1954), which document the campaign for government supported health insurance in the United States. Falk conducted public health and medical care surveys for the World Bank in Malaya, Singapore, Panama and the Canal Zone, and also prepared a survey of Union health programs (1958-1960) for the United Steelworkers of America. He founded the Community Health Care Center Plan in New Haven and the files record his activities as director (1970-1979). His active participation in professional organizations is reflected in correspondence and other papers. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 100.75 linear ft. (229 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154352 View

Dana, Samuel Trask, 1883-1978. Samuel Trask Dana papers, 1893-1970.

Title: Samuel Trask Dana papers, 1893-1970.

Correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials relating to his activities in forestry and conservation. Correspondents include: Percival P. Baxter, David R. Brower, Herman H. Chapman, Earle H. Clapp, Henry E. Clepper, Wilbur J. Cohen, the Conservation Foundation, Edward C. Crafts, James B. Craig, Emanuel Fritz, Henry S. Graves, William B. Greeley, Ralph S. Hosmer, Don P. Johnston, Myron Krueger, Richard E. McArdle, Woodbridge Metcalf, Barrington Moore, DeWitt Nelson. Charles L. Pack, Gifford Pinchot, Kenneth B. Pomeroy, Laurance S. Rockefeller, Nicholas Roosevelt, Francis Sargent, Save-The-Redwoods League, Henry Schmitz, Sierra Club, Charles P. Taft, Russell E. Train, Stewart L. Udall, Henry J. Vaux, and Raphael Zon.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft. and 1 outsize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34423096 View

Weinerman, E. Richard (Edwin Richard), 1917-1970. Edwin Richard Weinerman papers, 1908-1970 (inclusive).

Title: Edwin Richard Weinerman papers, 1908-1970 (inclusive).

Correspondence, consultations, surveys, writings, printed material, and other papers of Edwin Richard Weinerman. Material primarily reflects Weinerman's interest in public health and deals with his activities both as a consultant and administrator with various public and private health careorganizations, including the U. S. Public Health Service, Permanente Health Plan, American Public Health Association, and the Yale-New Haven Hospital. A significant part of the collection also relates to Weinerman's social and political activities, especially his concern over dangers of air pollution, nuclear warfare and radiation poisoning, and his opposition to the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Levering Act which required loyalty oaths as a condition for medical licensure. The papers also include notebooks and course papers from his own studies at Harvard and New York University (1945-1948) as well as teaching materials from the University of California. His professional program is documented in grant applications (1963-1972), two speeches and letters written in preparation for his trip abroad in 1970, collected works (articles), and curriculum vitae. Also in the papers are letters of condolence and a transcript and audio tapes of the memorial service at Yale University following his death in 1970. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 59.5 linear ft. (100 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153749 View

Wilbur J. Cohen Papers

Title: Wilbur J. Cohen Papers

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12007096 View

Altmeyer, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1891-1972. Arthur J. Altmeyer papers, 1904-1973.

Title: Arthur J. Altmeyer papers, 1904-1973.

Papers of Arthur Joseph Altmeyer who as member and chairman of the Social Security Board and as Commissioner of Social Security guided the development of the federal social security program from 1935 to 1953. In addition he served as a member of the executive committee of the National Youth Administration (NYA), 1935; member of the Interdepartmental Committee to Coordinate Health and Welfare Activities, 1935-1940; member of the War Manpower Commission, 1942-1945; and United States delegate to several international conferences and organizations. With the exception of several early speeches and writings, the papers relate to Altmeyer's work in the federal government and his later consulting work, with the major portions pertaining to his administration of the Social Security Act. Correspondence, memoranda, and reports chiefly concern the National Recovery Administration, 1933-1934; the National Health Conference, 1938; the United States Employment Service, 1939-1949; unemployment compensation, 1940-1949; public assistance, 1938-1953; and old-age and survivors' insurance (OASI), 1937-1953. Among Altmeyer's correspondents were Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, several presidential assistants, Federal Security Administration heads Paul V. McNutt, Oscar Ewing, and Oveta Culp Hobby, and University of Wisconsin economist Edwin E. Witte, as well as Robert Ball, Wilbur J. Cohen, and Isidore S. Falk. Files of Altmeyer's speeches, press releases, and articles; personal correspondence files of Altmeyer and his wife, Ethel May Thomas; and reference files on national health insurance, pension plans, welfare, and social security are also included in the collection. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1904-1973, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1937-1968 and are described below.

ArchivalResource: 16.6 c.f. (36 archives boxes and 1 flat box); plus.additions of 0.6 c.f.153 photographs.1 negative, and.6 pieces of ephemera.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701366 View

Social security files, 1932-1957.

Title: Social security files, 1932-1957.

Includes letters, memoranda, and reports of the meetings of the United States Social Security Advisory Council during the period Cohen served as its technical advisor (1937-1938), as well as correspondence, reports, notes, pamphlets, statistical studies and other documents assembled by Cohen, relating to economic security.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122685295 View

Samuel T. Dana papers, 1893-1970, 1925-1968

Title: Samuel T. Dana papers 1893-1970 1925-1968

Professor of forestry and forest economics and first dean of the School of Forestry at the University of Michigan, prominent conservationist, chairman of the U.S. Timber Conservation Boards in the 1930s and president of the Society of American Foresters. Records including correspondence and topical files, primarily document his participation in conservation organizations and professional associations and service on government boards and commissions. There is some material on his scholarly and administrative work at the University of Michigan, but the latter is more fully documented in the records of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear feet and 1 oversize folder

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851592?rgn=main;view=text View

U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare Secretaries' Speeches, 1961-1979

Title: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare Secretaries' Speeches 1961-1979

Collection of speeches by HEW Secretaries, and Surgeon General Luther L. Terry. Copies of speeches delivered by Secretaries Anthony J. Celebrezze (1962-1965), John W. Gardner (1965-1967), Wilbur J. Cohen (1968-1969), Robert Q. Marston (1971-1972), Joseph A. Califano (1977-1979), and Surgeon General Terry (1961).

ArchivalResource:

http://oculus.nlm.nih.gov/hew388 View

Isidore Sydney Falk papers, 1918-1984

Title: Isidore Sydney Falk papers 1918-1984

The papers consist of correspondence, professional files, research materials, writings, personal papers, and printed matter documenting Isidore Falk's career as an advocate of national health insurance and other programs related to public health. Of particular significance are the materials from his years with the Social Security Board (1936-1954), which document the campaign for government supported health insurance in the United States. Falk conducted public health and medical care surveys for the World Bank in Malaya, Singapore, Panama and the Canal Zone, and also prepared a survey of Union health programs (1958-1960) for the United Steelworkers of America. He founded the Community Health Care Center Plan in New Haven and the files record his activities as director (1970-1979). His active participation in professional organizations is reflected in correspondence and other papers. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 100.75 linear feet (229 boxes, 1 folio)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1039 View

Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987. Reminiscences of Wilbur Joseph Cohen : oral history, 1976.

Title: Reminiscences of Wilbur Joseph Cohen : oral history, 1976.

Eisenhower and the Compton Universal Military Training Commission; demotion under Eisenhower administration to Director of Division of Research and Statistics of Social Security Administration, 1953-1955; relations with Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby, Under Secretary Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Congressman Carl Curtis.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 45 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122574235 View

Louis B. Sohn Papers, 1936-1979

Title: Louis B. Sohn Papers

The materials in this collection relate to Sohn’s career as a teacher and his other activities in the field of international law.

ArchivalResource: 150 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00084/catalog View

Durr, Virginia Foster. Papers: Series I, 1919-1988 (inclusive).

Title: Papers: Series I, 1919-1988 (inclusive).

Biographical materials in this collection include a transcript of an oral history interview of the Durrs, their FBI files, clippings and photographs. There are also Clifford Durr's files on the Eastland hearings; research notes and drafts of Outside the Magic Circle and other writings; speech notes; and materials collected by Durr. Correspondence with family and friends makes up the bulk of the collection. Most of the letters are to Durr. The letters are about social life, U.S. politics, civil rights, McCarthyism, socialism, pacifism, and the South. There are a few letters from or to Clifford Durr or other family and friends. The collection includes letters from Jessica Mitford; Durr's letters to Mitford are housed with Mitford's papers at the University of Texas at Austin.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232008798 View

Herman Miles Somers papers, 1936-1979

Title: Herman Miles Somers papers 1936-1979

Correspondence, teaching papers, organization and subject files and writings reflecting various aspects of Somers' career as a teacher of political science at Harvard, Haverford and Princeton (1947-1979), as a member of task forces developing the Medicare program, and as a prolific writer in the field of American health policy. His five books on health care were all written in collaboration with his wife, Anne Ramsay Somers. Correspondence with friends and colleagues is conncentrated on the subject of medical care and health policy. Important writers are Eveline M. Burns, Wilbur J. Cohen, Phillip L. Garman, John M. Gaus, and William Haber. Other correspondents include Walter A. Heller, Jacob Javits, Hubert Humphrey, Henry A. Kissinger, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Max Lerner, Richard Titmuss, and Edwin Witte. Somers' organization and subject files, which make up nearly half the papers, contain material on health insurance, medical economics, malpractice and health care policy and health insurance legislation in New Jersey. A series of letters from Somers written from Germany immediately after World War II describe the period of reconstruction there. Also in the papers are speeches, essays, reviews and drafts for his books. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear feet (41 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1238 View

President's Daily Diary. 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. President's Daily Diary. 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. President's Daily Diary Entry, March 31, 1968

Title: President's Daily Diary. 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. President's Daily Diary. 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. President's Daily Diary Entry, March 31, 1968

On Sunday, March 31, 1968, the President spent most of the day working on the speech he would deliver that night. In the evening on live television President Johnson announced steps to limit the war in Vietnam. He closed the speech by announcing to the American people that he would not seek another term in office, saying, "With America's sons in the fields far away, with America's future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office--the Presidency of your country. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President." After speaking, the President took numerous calls from friends. Late in the evening he held a press conference.

DigitalArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/192475 View

Haber, William, 1899-1988. William Haber papers, 1918-1988.

Title: William Haber papers, 1918-1988.

Series in collection include: Biographical/Personal, Correspondence, Jewish Organizations, University of Michigan, Other Organizational Activities, Appearances, Writings, Newspaper Clippings and Press Releases, and University of Wisconsin Student Notebooks and Papers, 1924-1926. Subjects covered in collection pertain to his activities as economist and authority on matters of labor economics, social security, and unemployment insurance. Also documented is his involvement with various Jewish social and. Philanthropic organizations, including ORT, B'nai B'rith, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Hebrew University, and to his work as Advisor on Jewish Affairs to General Lucius Clay. Correspondents in the collection include public figures from government, labor, universities, Jewish organizations, and philanthropic agencies.

ArchivalResource: 49 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34422000 View