Papers, 1925-1959.

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Papers, 1925-1959.

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Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to personal and business affairs and to politics, primarily in the 1930s and 1940s; correspondence and reports concerning the Notre Dame Board of Lay Trustees and the Notre Dame Foundations; and correspondence with charitable and Catholic organizations such as the Catholic Youth Organization, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Correspondents include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, James Aloysius Farley, John Francis Cardinal O'Hara, Eddie Dowling, J. Arthur Haley, John B. Kanaley, and Robert Hannegan. Also minutes, proceedings, reports and press releases of the President's Executive Council, the National Emergency Council, and the Post Office; financial reports of the Democratic National Committee 1924-1938, 1943-1944; reports on the motion picture industry; a tape recording of an oral history interview with Walker's son Thomas and daughter Laura Jenkins; microfilm of Walker scrapbooks; record albums, photographs, and books from Walker's library.

31 linear feet of printed material.

University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library

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University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library

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