Correspondence, journals, speeches, writings, reports, memoranda, notes, research material, subject files, appointment books, press releases, printed material, clippings, and photographs, relating to Moynihan's pre-senatorial career as advisor to New York governor W. Averell Harriman, U.S. Dept. of Labor official, presidential adviser to Richard M. Nixon, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. representative to the United Nations and ambassador to India, professor of urban politics and education at Harvard University, and director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Topics include Moynihan's Dept. of Labor report (1965) on the African American family and the effects of poverty, illiteracy, and violence on black urban life; antiwar protests, busing, civil disobedience, civil rights, economic growth, education, race relations, student movements and campus unrest, Vietnam conflict and welfare reform; his campaigns for New York City council president (1965) and U.S. senator from New York (1976) and state and national Democratic party politics; and his involvement with the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue, President's Science Advisory Committee, Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Correspondents include Paul E. Barton, Daniel Bell, Saul Bellow, Robert C. Bingham, Margaret Bright, Ellen Broderick, Patrick J. Buchanan, Pearl S. Buck, William F. Buckley, Jr., McGeorge Bundy, George Bush, Kenneth Cole, James Samuel Coleman, Robert Coles, Kenneth Bancroft Clark, Ralph A. Duncan, John Ehrlichman, Ralph Ellison, Max Frankel, John Kenneth Galbraith, Indira Gandhi, Herbert J. Gans, Leonard Garment, Nathan Glaser, Arthur J. Goldberg, Andrew M. Greeley, H.R. Haldeman, W. Averell Harriman, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Irving Kristol, Harry McPherson, Clarence M. Mitchell, Frederick Mosteller, Bill D. Moyers, Gunnar Myrdal, Richard M. Nixon, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, J.H. Plumb, Norman Podhoretz, Lee Rainwater, David A. Reisman, Sidney Dillon Ripley, Nelson A. Rockefeller, William P. Rogers, Bayard Rustin, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Lillian Smith, Theodore C. Sorenson, Caspar W. Weinberger, Theodore Harold White, and James Q. Wilson.
