Caspar W. Weinberger Papers 1910-2005 (bulk 1951-2005)

Weinberger, Caspar W.

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U.S. secretary of defense; U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare; California state legislator; lawyer; journalist; and business executive. Full name: Caspar Willard Weinberger. Born 1917; died 2006. From the description of Caspar W. Weinberger papers, 1910-2005 (bulk 1951-2005). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009624 ...

National Military Establishment (U.S.)

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Spadolini, Giovanni 1925-

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Thatcher, Margaret

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British politician; prime minister, 1979-1990. From the description of Margaret Thatcher speech, 1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123379847 ...

Fahd ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, King of Saudi Arabia, 1923-2005

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Powell, Colin L. (Colin Luther), 1937-2021

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Colin Luther Powell (April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021) was an American politician, diplomat and four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African-American Secretary of State. Prior to the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, he and his successor, Condoleezza Rice, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch (by virtue of the Secretary of State standing fourth in the preside...

Gandhi, Indira, 1917-1984

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British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x000339 One of the most famous and powerful women of the 20th century, Indira Gandhi was the daughter and political heir of Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India. After a disruptive childhood in India and abroad, she returned to India and became politically active, and was elected Prime Minister in 1966. Her long tenure as India's leader was tumultuous, but s...

United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

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In March 1972 President Richard Nixon called for an "intensive study" and requested a plan for developing a "safe, fast, and efficient nationwide blood collection and distribution system." Nixon's request was the result of several independent events and initiatives throughout the late 1960s that focused on the U.S. lack of an efficient system for maintaining a sufficiently ample, risk-free national blood supply. The primary aim of the policy was to eliminate the nation's dependence on an oft-con...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...

Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-2021

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Donald Henry Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021) was an American politician, government official and businessman who served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under George W. Bush. He was both the youngest and the second-oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a three-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1963–1969), director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969–1970), counsellor to the presi...

Cheney, Richard B. (Richard Bruce), 1941-

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Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He has been cited as the most powerful vice president in American history. He is also one of the most unpopular politicians in the history of the US, holding an approval rating of just 13% at the time of leaving office. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Cheney grew up there and later in Casper, Wyoming. He attended Yale and then the Univ...

Bush, George, 1924-2018

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George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) was Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1992. He was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush (who was a Republican Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1962). He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts on his 18th birthday, June 12, 1942. That same day, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a Seaman 2nd Class. Receiving ...

McFarlane, Robert C.

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Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

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Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated two weeks after his birth, and his mother took him to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to live with her parents. On February 1, 1916, approximately two years after her divorce was final, Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald ...

United States. Department of Defense

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Proposals to coordinate the activities of the military services were initially considered by U.S. Congress in 1944. Specific plans were put forth in 1945 by the Army, the Navy, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff . In a special message to U.S. Congress on December 19, 1945, President Harry Truman proposed creation of a unified Department of National Defense. A proposal reached Congress in April 1946, but was held up by the Naval Affairs Committee held hearings in July 1946 due to objections to the con...

National Security Council (U.S.)

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The National Security Council (NSC) is the President's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials. Since its inception under President Truman, the Council's function has been to advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies. The Council also serves as the President's principal arm for coordinating these policies among various government agencies. The NSC is chaired by th...

Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998

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Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the...

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979

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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and previously as the 49th governor of New York from 1959 to 1973. He also served as assistant secretary of State for American Republic Affairs for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (1944–1945) as well as under secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1954....

Agnew, Spiro T. (Spiro Theodore), 1918-1996

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Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second and most recent vice president to resign the position, the other being John C. Calhoun in 1832. Unlike Calhoun, Agnew resigned as a result of a scandal. Agnew was born in Baltimore to an American-born mother and a Greek immigrant father. He attended Johns Hopkins University, and graduated from the University of Baltimore School...

Knight, Goodwin, 1896-1970

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Government official, governor; interviewees are married. From the description of Reminiscences of Goodwin J. Knight and Virginia Knight : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574582 Paul Mason was a leading expert on parliamentary procedure and the author of Mason's Manual. He was Governor Goodwin Knight's legislative secretary and served as Director of Motor Vehicles in his administration. He was, more importantly, Knight...

Murphy, George, 1902-1992

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Kurihara, Yūkō, 1920-

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Brown, Harold, 1927-....

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U.S. secretary of defense, physicist, and educator. From the description of Papers of Harold Brown. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132876 Harold Brown was born on September 10, 1927 in New York, New York. He received an A.B. (1945), an A.M. (1946) and a Ph.D. (1949) from Columbia University. He was a research scientist at Columbia University from 1945 to 1950 and lecturer in physics at Columbia from 1947 to 1948. From 1949 to 1950 he was a lecturer in physics at Stevens In...

Haig, Alexander Meigs, 1924-2010

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Alexander Meigs Haig (b. 1924) was an army officer, politician, diplomat, and Secretary of State. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and entered the U.S. Army, advancing through grades to the rank of general. He served as military assistant to the Secretary of the Army in 1964, and was deputy special assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1964 to 1965. From 1969 to 1970, Haig was chief military assistant to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, and from 1970 to 1973 he w...

Knowland, William Fife, 1908-1974

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William Knowland The Forgotten Leader In 1953, the convergence of unusual circumstances gave the Democrats the plurality of the Senate's membership while the Senate Republicans maintained their majority party status. The situation made it impossible for the new Republican leader to control the legislative agenda. Indeed, Senator William Knowland lamented his ineffectiveness on the Senate floor, "Mr. President, ... I have the responsibilities of being the majority leader in this body withou...

United States. White House Office

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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

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The Republican Party is a national political party in the United States, and was founded in 1854. In the 1864 election, the party took the name National Union Party to allow the participation of Democrats. From the description of Republican Party tickets, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 496362231 From the guide to the Republican Party tickets, 1864, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Kohl, Helmut, 1930-....

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Christopher, George

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Christopher (1907-2000) was San Francisco's 34th mayor, serving two terms beginning January 1956 and ending January 1964. Christopher was San Francisco's 34th mayor, serving two terms beginning Jan. 1956 and ending Jan. 1964. From the description of George Christopher papers, 1950-2000 (bulk 1956-1963). (San Francisco Public Library). WorldCat record id: 48891204 Biographical/Historical note Georg...

Perle, Richard Norman, 1941-

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Legislative assistant. From the description of Reminiscences of Richard Norman Perle :koral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619972 ...

Reagan, Ronald, 1911-2004

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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) was the 40th President of the United States and served two terms in office from 1981 to 1989. He was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, the second son of Nelle Wilson and John Edward ("Jack") Reagan. His father nicknamed him "Dutch" as a baby. In 1920 the family resettled in Dixon, Illinois. In 1928 Reagan graduated from Dixon High School, where he had been student body president, an actor in school plays, and a student athlete. He partici...

Weinberger, Caspar W.

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Biographical Note 1917, Aug. 18 Born, San Francisco, Calif. 1933 Graduated, San Francisco Polytechnic High School, San Francisco, Calif. 1938 Graduated, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 1941 ...

Mubārak, Muḥammad Ḥusnī, 1928-

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991

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Wörner, Manfred, 1934-

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Sharon, Ariel

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Republican Party (Calif.)

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Carlucci, Frank C. (Frank Charles), 1930-2018

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Poindexter, John M.

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Vessey, John William, 1922-

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Thatcher, Margaret, 1925-2013

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Biographical/Historical Note British politician; prime minister, 1979-1990. From the guide to the Margaret Thatcher speech, 1993, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Clark, William Patrick, 1931-2013

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Iklé, Fred Charles

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Director, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1973-1977; under secretary of defense for policy, 1981-1988. From the description of Fred Charles Iklé papers, 1972-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123458568 ...

United States. Office of Management and Budget

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The Director, assisted by the Deputy Director, the Associate Director, the Assistant Director, the Executive Assistant to the Director, the Secretariat, and other staff members of the Office of the Director, is responsible for the general direction and coordination of Office Activities, and for maintaining relations with the President, Congress, other Government agencies, and the public. The Office of the Director provides administrative services for the Office as a whole. The Director, as head ...

Rogers, Bernard William

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Finch, Robert H., 1925-

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Government official. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Finch Hutchinson : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122361979 ...

Casey, William J.

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Biographical Note 1913 March 13 Born, Elmhurst, Long Island, New York 1934 B.S., Fordham University 1937 J.D., St. John's University. Admitted to New York bar 1941 Married Sophia Kurz ...

Heseltine, Michael 1933-

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Stockman, David Alan, 1946-

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Shamir, Itzhak, 1915-2012

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Crowe, William J., 1925-2007

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William J. Crowe graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1947 and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton university. A submariner, he was senior adviser to the Vietnamese navy Riverine Force and in 1973 was promoted to rear admiral. In 1980, he was promoted to admiral and was Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces Southern Europe. In 1985, he served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a position he held until he retired in 1989. Crowe served as ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1994...

Fahd ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, King of Saudi Arabia, 1923-2005

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Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992

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Carrington, Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, Baron, 1919-

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Shultz, George Pratt, 1920-

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George Pratt Shultz was born December 13, 1920, in New York, New York, son of Birl E. and Margaret Pratt Shultz. He married Helena Marie O''Brien in 1946. He received a B.A. in economics from Princeton University in 1942. That same year he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served until 1945, attaining the rank of Captain. In 1949, he earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1948 to 1957, he taught in both the MIT Department of Economics and...

Hussein, King of Jordan, 1935-1999

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Richardson, Elliot L., 1920-1999

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U.S. cabinet officer, politician, and lawyer, of Massachusetts. From the description of Papers of Elliot L. Richardson, 1780-1991 (bulk 1947-1991). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009619 From the description of Audio materials, 1961-1984 (bulk 1962 and 1974) [sound recording]. 1961-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 36045043 Government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Elliot Lee Richardson : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University ...

United States. Federal Trade Commission.

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Hernu, Charles

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Armitage, Richard Lee, 1945-

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Abū Ghazālah, Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm.

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Bechtel Corporation

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Spadolini, Giovanni

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