James R. Mann papers, 1948-1998.

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Mann, James R. (James Robert), 1920-2010. James R. Mann papers, 1948-1998.

James R. Mann papers, 1948-1998.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64598641

Papers are arranged in five series: Public Papers, Personal Papers, Audio-Visual Material, Bound Volumes, and Clippings. Public Papers (19 lf.) series is divided into three sub-series: South Carolina House of Representatives (chiefly correspondence, 1949 to 1952, re education, income tax, highways, etc.); US House of Representatives (in which the topics include Labor, Energy, Textiles, Consumer Protection, Powers of the Presidency Conference files, 1975), plus correspondence from congressmen, cabinet members, and President Richard M. Nixon); and Speeches. Public Papers: Judiciary Committee files, 1973 to 1978, consist of correspondence, analyses, testimony, and research materials chiefly concerning the Nixon impeachment inquiry, Nixon's pardon, and the nominations of Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller as Vice-President, as well as an "index to the source materials accumulated by the impeachment inquiry staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary." Personal Papers series is divided into General Papers and Campaign Records. General Papers chiefly consist of correspondence and memoranda, 1948 to 1978, concerning political affairs and particularly the Democratic Party. Of particular interest are drafts of Mann's acceptance speech as chairman of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, January 1965, and financial statements for 1978. Personal Papers: Campaign Files includes a 1968 report, "Analysis of the Political Climate in the Fourth Congressional District," prepared by Oliver Quayle and Co. of New York. It examines attitudes towards President Lyndon Johnson and candidates for the Fourth Congressional seat. The Greenville County Democratic Party prepared their own report called "Consent of the Governed," located in the file: Democratic Party (State and Local). Audio-Visual Material includes ca. 40 photographs of Mann from his years in Congress, recordings of his announcement of 2 Jan. 1978 that he would not seek re-election; a discussion of President Gerald Ford's statement on crime from June 1975; a videotape of the documentary "Summer of Judgment: The Impeachment Hearings" made in March 1998. Bound Volumes, 1969 to 1978, consists of committee prints, House Documents, House Reports, and hearings chiefly concerning the proceedings of the Select Committee on Crime, Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, and the Judiciary Committee. Many of these document areas of Mann's congressional career which are not reflected elsewhere in the collection, such as the Committee on the District of Columbia, Miscellaneous Hearings on Home Rule. Clippings, 1948 to 1978, chiefly concerns the Watergate investigation and impeachment hearings. Other topics of note include the inquiry in to Mann's finances and Mann's judgeship nomination to the U.S. Military Court of Appeals in 1975.

28.75 linear ft. (23 cartons)

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