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Spong, William B. (William Belser), 1920-1997. Papers of William B. Spong [manuscript], 1957-1988.

Title: Papers of William B. Spong [manuscript], 1957-1988.

The collection contains correspondence, campaign material, topical files, speeches and articles, audio and computer tapes and microfilm. Spong's career in the Virginia General Assembly is represented by constituent mail and files from the Virginia Commission on Public Education, 1958-1962. There are campaign files from his Senatorial races in 1966 and 1972. His term in the Senate is represented by files pertaining to legislative issues, particularly campaign financing and Supreme Court nominations. Also public education in Virginia, environmental issues particularly the Four Mile Run Flood Control Project and the Salem Church Dam, toxic substance control, no-fault automobile insurance, hunger in Virginia, the Middle East, illegal drug traffic, school desegregation, Portsmouth, Va., voting rights, the University of Virginia student strike of 1970, the Vietnamese conflict, presidential war powers, and the District of Columbia. There are also 9 volumes of Senate roll calls and microfilm of retained copies of letters sent to constituents. In addition there are files from his deanship at the William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law; activities in the Virginia Bar Association; and service on the Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy; the Governor's Commission on Virginia's Future; the Institute for Congress; and the United States Circuit Judge Nominating Commission. There are miscellaneous post Senatorial topical files, chiefly on Virginia issues and civic activities, and general and topical correspondence files containing letters from leading Virginia and national political figures.

ArchivalResource: 19000 items : (35 shelf feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647826998 View

News Service Biographical Files, ., circa 1930s - 2004

Title: News Service Biographical Files, . circa 1930s - 2004

The Duke News Service informs the public and the university community about research, programs, and events at Duke. The collection consists of biographical files of Duke University faculty, staff, alumni, and others compiled by the News Service. The files contain primarily clippings and also curricula vitae, photographs, and other printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 183 Linear Feet,; 122,000 Items; (122 boxes)

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uansbio/ View

Edward William Brooke Papers, 1956-1988, (bulk 1963-1978)

Title: Edward William Brooke Papers 1956-1988 (bulk 1963-1978)

Lawyer, attorney general of Massachusetts, and United States senator. Correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches, transcripts of interviews, reports, notes, subject files, draft and printed legislative bills, briefing books, press releases, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Brooke's career as attorney general of Massachusetts and as U.S. senator.

ArchivalResource: 240,000 items; 656 containers plus 2 classified and 31 oversize; 273.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009033 View

Morris, Robert P., 1955-. Robert P. Morris papers, 1986-1987.

Title: Robert P. Morris papers, 1986-1987.

Correspondence and taped interviews, 1986-1987, of historian Robert P. Morris concerning President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and the Nixon administration's nominations of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. and Judge G. Harrold Carswell for the United States Supreme Court.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.3 cassette tapes (24 min., 27 min., 30 min.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122607828 View

Brown, Stuart E. (Stuart Ellett), 1916-. Stuart E. Brown papers [manuscript] 1946 (1959-1972) 1978.

Title: Stuart E. Brown papers [manuscript] 1946 (1959-1972) 1978.

The papers contain correspondence, press releases, campaign memorabilia and photographs from Brown's campaign work for Charles R. Fenwick, 1953, John F. Kennedy, 1960, William Spong, 1966 and 1972, and William Battle, 1969, as well as his own unsuccessful campaign for a House of Delegates nomination in 1961. Of interest are letters, 1961-70, to Battle on the Virginia political scene particularly in the 7th district; correspondence, 1966-70, with Spong regarding his campaign against A. Willis Robertson and on the Carswell nomination; correspondence, 1959-1960, with Stephen Smith on the Kennedy campaign in Virginia; and correspondence 1959-1960, regarding procurement of speakers for 1960 Democratic rallies. There is also material on the Democratic organization in Clarke County in the 1950s including voting lists, candidate declarations, and abstracts of votes. In addition the collection contains files on water pollution, particularly regarding the Shenandoah River, and the 1959 public school crisis. Virginia politicians with whom Brown corresponded include James Lindsay Almond, William Cullen Battle, Armistead Lloyd Boothe, Harry Flood Byrd, Guy O. Farley, Mills Edwin Godwin, Burr Powell Harrison, Albertis Sydney Harrison, William Pat Jennings, Flournoy L. Largent, Charles McCurdy Mathias, Harrison Mann, jr., Andrew Pickens Miller, Francis Pickens Miller, John O. Marsh, Fred G. Pollard, and William Belser Spong. There is also correspondence from Lawrence Francis O'Brien; and Claudia Alta (Taylor) Johnson, Ethel (Shakel) Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy, William H. Maudlin and Vermont Royster are represented by routine letters or thank-you notes.

ArchivalResource: 3,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647951266 View

Sound Recordings of Meetings and Telephone Conversations (Nixon Administration). 2/16/1971 - 7/18/1973. Sound Recordings of Meetings and Telephone Conversations. 2/16/1971 - 7/18/1973. Oval Office tape number 576

Title: Sound Recordings of Meetings and Telephone Conversations (Nixon Administration). 2/16/1971 - 7/18/1973. Sound Recordings of Meetings and Telephone Conversations. 2/16/1971 - 7/18/1973. Oval Office tape number 576

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6116807 View

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records, 1842-1999, (bulk 1919-1991)

Title: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records 1842-1999 (bulk 1919-1991)

Civil rights organization. Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People consisting of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, itineraries, biographical material, speeches, testimony, writings, annual convention files, legal case files, legislation, publications, resolutions, policy statements, constitutions, bylaws, charters, contracts, proposals, scripts, financial records, publicity files, manuals, handbooks, music, awards, certificates, directories, subject files, daily mail sheets, notes, lists, questionnaires and surveys, certificates, awards, flags, photographs, maps, and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 3,000,000 items; 8,602 containers plus 46 oversize and 2 classified; 3,965 linear feet; 39 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008007 View

Brooke, Edward William, 1919-. Papers, 1956-1988 (bulk 1963-1978).

Title: Papers, 1956-1988 (bulk 1963-1978).

Correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches, transcripts of interviews, reports, notes, subject files, draft and printed legislative bills, briefing books, press releases, photographs, and other papers, relating chiefly to Brooke's career as attorney general of Massachusetts (1963-1966) and as U.S. senator (1967-1978). Cases as attorney general relate to conflict of interest, consumer protection, corruption, eminent domain, and the Boston Strangler case. Papers as senator relate largely to domestic issues such as housing, the aged, and poverty. Other topics include material relating to the bicentennial of the American Revolution, civil rights, unfair competition, economic conditions in Massachusetts, energy policy, fishing rights, foreign policy, military base closures, military policy, the financial crisis of New York City, nominations of Clement H. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court, Vietnamese Conflict, and the Watergate scandal. Includes materials relating to Brooke's participation in Republican Party politics; papers (1979-1988) from his private legal practice in Washington, D.C., relating primarily to cases involving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and files of Massachusetts assistant attorney generals including Edward T. Martin, Donald Whitehead, and Roger Woodworth. Correspondents include Howard H. Baker, John S. Bottomly, Jimmy Carter, Silvio O. Conte, Clarence Elam, Gerald R. Ford, Albert A. Gammal, Jr., Mark O. Hatfield, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jacob K. Javits, Lyndon B. Johnson, Kivie Kaplan, Edward T. Martin, Richard M. Nixon, Harold and Glendora Putnam, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Francis W. Sargent, Hugh Scott, Josiah A. Spaulding, John A. Volpe, Roger Woodworth, and Charlotte Yaffee.

ArchivalResource: 273.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31605190 View

Graham, Fred P. Fred P. Graham papers, 1947-1983.

Title: Fred P. Graham papers, 1947-1983.

Correspondence, diary, speeches, writings, notebooks, interviews, research material, legal records, newspaper columns, news scripts, subject files, scrapbooks, audio recordings, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Graham's career as a New York Times Supreme Court correspondent and as legal correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. (later CBS Inc.). Includes drafts of Graham's book The Alias Program (1977) and his unpublished work concerning the U.S. Supreme Court. Subjects include Spiro T. Agnew, G. Harrold Carswell, Edmund Orgill's campaign for governor of Tennessee, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, U.S. Dept. of Justice Witness Protection Program, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and U.S. Supreme Court justices including Warren E. Burger and Abe Fortas.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items.53 containers.1 microfilm reel.21.2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71071533 View

Carswell, G. Harrold (George Harrold), 1919-. G. Harrold Carswell : commercials , 1970.

Title: G. Harrold Carswell : commercials , 1970.

Commercials used during Carswell's campaign for the 1970 U.S. senatorial election in Florida, Republican party.

ArchivalResource: 9 commercials (on 1 film reel) : sd., col. ; 16 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30376386 View

Hugo LaFayette Black Papers, 1883-1976, (bulk 1926-1971)

Title: Hugo LaFayette Black Papers 1883-1976 (bulk 1926-1971)

Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, United States senator from Alabama, and lawyer. Family and general correspondence, memoranda, reports, notebooks, research materials, case files, legal and subject files, speeches and writings, printed and near-print materials, clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating primarily to Black's service in the Senate (1927-1937) and on the Supreme Court (1937-1971).

ArchivalResource: 130,000 items; 513 containers plus 19 oversize; 216 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001046 View