Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, statements, notes, printed materials, and other papers, relating chiefly to Harris's cabinet positions as secretary, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (1977-1979) and secretary (1979-1981) of Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare (later Health and Human Services); together with material relating to her service as ambassador to Luxembourg (1965-1967), as a member of National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (1968-1969), and as an unsuccessful mayoral candidate in Washington, D.C. (1982). Topics include civil rights, community development in urban areas, consumer protection, disease prevention strategy, drug and alcohol abuse, energy policy, environment, equal employment opportunity, fair housing and housing costs, hospital cost containment, HUD reorganization, immigration and refugees, inflation, Iranian hostage crisis, mental health, a national health plan, nuclear radiation and radioactive pollution, public welfare, social security, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II, urban policy, voluntarism, and Jimmy Carter's 1980 presidential campaign. Correspondents include Geno C. Baroni, Robert C. Byrd, Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Carolyn S. Chin, Stephen F. Coyle, Stuart Eizenstat, Robert Campbell Embry, Jr., Henry A. Hubschman, Jay Janis, Vernon E. Jordan, Randolph S. Kinder, Albert J. Kliman, Ed Koch, William Antonio Medina, Walter F. Mondale, Pauli Murray, Tip O'Neill, William Proxmire, Donna E. Shalala, Nathan J. Stark, Cyrus R. Vance, William B. Welsh, Bill M. Wise, and Jim Wright.
