Nixon Library Controversy collection, 1981-2001.

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Nixon Library Controversy collection, 1981-2001.

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Contains clippings, student papers, correspondence, minutes, reports, audiotapes, and a manual concerning the proposed Nixon presidential library at Duke University. Also contains personal correspondence of President Terry Sanford and various Academic Council and Board of Trustees members. Includes minutes and tape recordings from Academic Council meetings, reports made to the Political Science Department and the Environmental Concerns Committee, and a chronology of events from July through September 1981. General presidential library information includes a briefing book, handbook, and period publications from other presidential libraries. Also contains an inventory and processing manual for the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Materials, provided by the National Archives and Records Service.

800 items (.05 linear ft.)

eng, Latn

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7672780

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998

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Terry Sanford, born James Terry Sanford, August 20, 1917, in Laurinburg, N. C. He was the second son of Cecil L. and Elizabeth Martin Sanford. He received the A.B. degree in 1939 and the J.D. degree in 1946 from the University of North Carolina. He served as an FBI agent, 1941-1942, with the United States Army in Europe during World War II, and as assistant director of the Institute of Government, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1946-1948. Sanford practiced as an attorney in Fayetteville, N.C., from 1948 ...

Duke University. Committee Against the Nixon-Duke Library.

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The Committee Against the Nixon-Duke Library (CANDL) was formed in 1981 to oppose the proposal to locate the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on or near the Duke University campus. From the description of Committee Against the Nixon-Duke Library (CANDL) records, 1981. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 52444789 In late July 1981, Terry Sanford initiated negotiations with former president Richard Nixon (Duke Law 1937) to locate the Nixon presidentia...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Duke University. Nixon Library Committee

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Duke University. Department of Political Science

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The Department of Political Science was established in 1934 and currently includes thirty-one permanent faculty members as well as a number of distinguished adjunct and visiting faculty. The department, which in recent years has consistently ranked among the top ten graduate political science programs in the country, offers students a broad intellectual approach to the discipline, a long-standing commitment to excellence in both teaching and research, and a lively and collegial intellectual comm...

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Duke University

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Duke University. School of Law.

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This collection includes papers of the deans of the Duke University School of Law starting in 1930. This material covers a wide range of information relating to the daily operations of the law school and includes: general correspondence, financial documents, annual reports, recruitment files, clerkship files, clippings, subject files, meeting minutes, development materials, and general office files. The collection also includes information about the various law school journals and publications e...

Duke University. Board of Trustees

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Duke University. Academic Council

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The Academic Council and the Executive Committee which it elects are the chief instruments of faculty governance at Duke University. The formation of an Academic Council was recommended in a March, 1962 report of the University Faculty's Committee on Faculty Organization, and authorized in a 1962 revision of the University Bylaws. The first meeting was held on October 18, 1962. The officers of the Academic Council, all elected from the faculty, are the Chairman, Vice Chairman, and Secretary. The...