White House Staff Member and Office Files (Nixon Administration). 1/20/1969 - 8/9/1974. Bryce N. Harlow's Files

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White House Staff Member and Office Files (Nixon Administration). 1/20/1969 - 8/9/1974. Bryce N. Harlow's Files

1968-1970

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Materials in this series include correspondence from Mr. Harlow and his staff (which included William Timmons and Ken Belieu) to members of Congress introducing Mr. Harlow and his team and asking for recommendations on White House staff and cabinet positions. This correspondence include letters to Congressman George H. W. Bush, Congressman Gerald R. Ford, Congressman Donald Rumsfeld, Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Barry Goldwater, and Senator Strom Thurmond. These materials also contain the responses from the members of Congress which not only contain their staffing recommendations, but also include congratulatory messages and opinions on policy issues for the new administration. Topics of policy issues discussed include the Vietnam War, economic issues, ending of the draft and creating an all volunteer military, space and science, relations with the Soviet Union, postal matters, and the USS Pueblo. Congressional recommendations for staff and cabinet positions include future cabinet and staff members Melvin Laird and Charles Colson but also include many individuals who did not work for the Nixon Administration, including Hubert Humphrey and Charles Van Dorn. There are also materials from Mr. Harlow organizing and scheduling the December 16, 1968, meeting with President-Elect Nixon, Vice President-Elect Spiro Agnew and high-ranking Republican congressmen. The materials of Bryce Harlow also include a number of internal memoranda between Mr. Harlow and other transition office staff. Many of these memorandums are from Mr. Harlow to Peter Flanigan who worked on filling cabinet, sub-cabinet and head of agency positions as well as Harry Flemming who worked on filling lower-level positions. The contents of these memorandums consist of Mr. Harlow passing along staff recommendations from members of Congress as well as Mr. Harlow's own opinion about the potential candidate or about the Congressman who made the recommendation. Other transition office staff members included in some of these materials are Dwight Chapin, H. R. Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman. The series also contains memorandums directly between Bryce Harlow and Richard Nixon. In these memorandums, Mr. Harlow advises the President-Elect on building his relationship with Congress based on Mr. Harlow's experiences with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration. The materials also include numerous documents from the public addressed to President-Elect Nixon. Topics in these materials include congratulatory messages to the newly elected President, requests to attend the inauguration, policy suggestions, and requests supporting or proposing new White House staff members and cabinet positions. The materials also include Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years cards to the Nixon family. The materials include press briefings from November 1968 until December 1968. The press briefings involve announcements by Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler about new appointments to White House staff positions. Some of the appointments covered in these briefings include the appointments of Henry Kissinger, Herb Klein, William Safire, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Martin Anderson. Other topics in the press briefings include a phone conversation between Richard Nixon and Chief Justice Earl Warren, the creation of a Task Force on Science and a Task Force on Space, and President-Elect Nixon's plans of opening a nationwide search for staffing of the new administration. The Subject Files subseries contains originals, carbons, telegrams and electrostatic copies of letters and memorandum from Bryce Harlow and his staff. Topics cover a variety of domestic and foreign policy issues as well as direct correspondence with members of Congress. Notable participants include Representative Gerald R. Ford, Senator Bob Dole, and Governor Ronald Reagan. The Oversized Attachment subseries parallels the Subject Files, Memorandum and Public Correspondence series. Materials include documents from the administration era when Mr. Harlow served as the Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Affairs.

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