Papers of Hugh Scott [manuscript], 1923-1994.

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Papers of Hugh Scott [manuscript], 1923-1994.

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Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Senator Hugh Scott including photographs, printed materials, and news clippings formerly in the possession of his brother and sister-in-law. Correspondence contains family letters of Scott, his brother Norman C. Scott, sister Alice Mitchell Scott, and father Hugh Doggett Scott. Topics mentioned very briefly in the correspondence include a 1922 visit to the University of Virginia by evangelist Hugh Black and a 25 inch snowfall in Charlottesville; a 1923 visit to Fredericksburg by Lloyd George; a 1935 investigation of Philadelphia police magistrates; the itinerary for a European trip in 1939; activities on board the U. S. S. New Mexico, 1941; naval operations, 1945; post-war Japan; the 1956 presidential election victory for Eisenhower; and a 1961 crash landing of Scott's plane in Japan. Political papers consists almost entirely of printed material on Scott's legal and political career. Also included are reports of Scott and Senator Mike Mansfield on their 1972 China trip; and a typed draft of a statement, August 1974, concerning Watergate and the resignation of Richard Nixon. The collection also contains notes and accounts of travels including diary notes of Scott from his service on the U.S.S. New Mexico on a run to Iceland, 1941, on a Congressional trip to England, 1944, to Japan, 1945, to Australia and several Asian and African nations, 1959, and of Scott and Marion Scott at Balliol College, Oxford, 1967, and from Marion Scott in China, 1972. Miscellaneous material includes an autobiographical account up to 1940; genealogy and biographical notes; anecdotes and quotes for speeches; a speech announcing his Senate retirement; the program from his funeral service and assorted memorabilia including Pat Nixon's cucumber soup recipe. There are photographs of Scott with Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Barry Goldwater; a group portrait with Pat Nixon, Betty Ford and Marian Scott; and an autographed photograph of Dwight Eisenhower. Of interest are photographs taken during Scott's war service on the USS Mount Olympus, at the Emperor's Palace on the first day of the occupation of Tokyo, and at the surrender of Tateyama Peninsula, 1945 September 3.

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