Papers, 1925-1981 (bulk 1952-1979).

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Papers, 1925-1981 (bulk 1952-1979).

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, notebooks, invitations, printed matter, photographs, and other papers, documenting Shackford's career as a journalist with the Scripps-Howard news agency and other newspapers and his personal and family life. The bulk of the papers dates from 1952 to 1979 and covers such topics as national politics, the presidency, diplomacy, Asian affairs, and Shackford's trips to Asia with Lyndon B. Johnson and to China with Richard M. Nixon. Also included are notes from off-the-record briefings by secretaries of state James F. Byrnes and John Foster Dulles. Correspondents include Frank R. Ford, Paul H. Kreisberg, Mike Mansfield, Carl Marcy, Edward J. Meeman, Jack Steele, Walker Stone, and William H. Sullivan.

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