Papers, 1780-1984 (bulk 1947-1984).

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Papers, 1780-1984 (bulk 1947-1984).

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Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, subject files, reports, briefing data, financial records, printed materials, photographs, and other papers, relating chiefly to Richardson's political career in Massachusetts and later as a cabinet official during the administrations of Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, and Jimmy Carter. Includes papers documenting Richardson's service as U.S. under secretary of state (1969-1970), U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare (1970-1973), U.S. attorney general (1973), fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1974-1975), U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1975-1976), and President Carter's representative at the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (1977-1980). Topics include Richardson's book The Creative Balance: Government, Politics, and the Individual in America's Third Century (1976), federal funding, Henry Kissinger's role in national security affairs, international maritime law, the oil crisis, National Defense Education Act of 1958, Republican Party, domestic social issues, state and national politics and government, Vice-President Spiro Agnew's resignation, and Watergate chief prosecutor Archibald Cox. Includes papers relating to Richardson's work at the law firms of Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass., and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Washington, D.C. Correspondents include Morton I. Abramowitz, Spiro T. Agnew, H. Shirley Amerasinghe, Edward W. Brooke, George Bush, Wilbur E. Cohen, William S. Cohen, William T. Coleman, Jr., Charles W. Colson, Archibald Cox, Richard G. Darman, John D. Ehrlichman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Paul Engo, Gerald R. Ford, Felix Frankfurter, Learned Hand, Wilmot R. Hastings, Christian A. Herter, Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, Richard G. Kleindienst, Tommy T.B. Koh, Richard E. Mastrangelo, Jonathan Moore, Richard M. Nixon, J. Stanley Pottinger, William P. Rogers, William Ruckelshaus, Leverett Saltonsall, Francis W. Sargent, Jonathan T. Smith, Russell E. Train, John A. Volpe, and Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr.

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