United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Dean Gooderham Acheson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1087
Abstract:
The papers include correspondence, writings, speeches, memoranda, and photographs, documenting Dean Acheson's life after leaving the U.S. State Department in 1953. Also documented is his work as a member of the Yale Corporation and his long friendship with Felix Frankfurter, Archibald MacLeish, and others. The correspondence and memoranda contain Acheson's views on many contemporary issues in American foreign policy such as Korea, the Middle East, NATO, Germany, the war in Vietnam, and...
Dates:
1898-1989
Alan Barth papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 867
Abstract:
Correspondence, articles, speeches, editorials, subject files, newspaper clippings, and a small amount of personal papers. Half the papers consist of editorials written for the Beaumont Journal(1937-1938), theWashington Post(1949-1977), and theGuild Reporter(1950-1951). Both the correspondence and writings reflect Barth's involvement during the McCarthy period. The issues of civil liberties...
Dates:
1937-1981
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Alan Barth papers
William F. Buckley, Jr., papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 576
Abstract:
The unrestricted papers consist of correspondence, news releases, clippings, and subject files from William F. Buckley's 1965 campaign for mayor of New York; and letters and scrapbooks concerning God and Man at Yale and his 1950 "Alumni Day Address."
Dates:
1951-2008
Fowler Vincent Harper papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1347
Abstract:
The papers consist of legal documents, correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to Harper's participation as a party or as attorney on cases involving government prosecution of alleged Communists during the McCarthy era of the late 1940s and 1950s. Included are papers on his own libel suit against the Hearst newspapers (1947-1948), his defense of Lyman R. Bradley in a suit against New York University (1951-1952) and of J.P. Peters in a loyalty investigation (1952-1954). Also in the...
Dates:
1941-1966
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Fowler Vincent Harper papers
John Vliet Lindsay papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 592
Abstract:
The papers, the bulk of which are divided into two parts, document the life and political career of John V. Lindsay from his student days at Yale University through his two terms as mayor of New York City, 1965-1973. Part I contains pre-congressional and congressional papers covering the years 1944-1965 and includes his Yale senior thesis, personal correspondence and subject files, campaign records, and congressional papers for the years 1959-1965. Part II contains Lindsay's personal mayoral...
Dates:
1944-2001
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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John Vliet Lindsay papers
Robert Louis Laing McCormick papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 338
Abstract:
Correspondence, memoranda, press releases, printed matter, and reports pertaining to the Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report (1948-1958), postwar Germany, the 1968 election, the Veterans Administration, and environmental policies. The papers also contain correspondence, reports and printed matter of Charles E. Smith (1948-1957) and correspondence, memoranda, reports etc. on the American Tariff League, Inc. (1955-1959) and the Trade Relations Council of the United States (1959-1963).
Dates:
1945-1971
Ogden Rogers Reid papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 755
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, student papers, writings, speeches, subject files, congressional papers, clippings, photographs and miscellanea documenting the personal life and professional career of Ogden Rogers Reid. Among the subjects documented in the papers are Reid's student years at Yale University, his central role with the New York Herald Tribune, and his activities as ambassador to Israel and as a United States congressman. Files relating to his newspaper career include...
Dates:
1925-2019
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Ogden Rogers Reid papers
Roland Arthur Paul papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1417
Abstract:
The papers consist of two, unpublished manuscripts by Roland Paul. Both manuscripts are based on Paul's diaries and notes of his experiences with the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on U.S. Security Agreements, then chaired by Senator Stuart Symington and strongly influenced by Senator William Fulbright. The first, entitled "The Power of Arrogance: The Assault of the Senators on America's Military Commitments, 1969-70," was completed in 1982. It offers a Washington insider's...
Dates:
1982-1983
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Roland Arthur Paul papers
Herman Miles Somers papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1238
Abstract:
Correspondence, teaching papers, organization and subject files and writings reflecting various aspects of Somers' career as a teacher of political science at Harvard, Haverford and Princeton (1947-1979), as a member of task forces developing the Medicare program, and as a prolific writer in the field of American health policy. His five books on health care were all written in collaboration with his wife, Anne Ramsay Somers. Correspondence with friends and colleagues is conncentrated on the...
Dates:
1936-1979
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Herman Miles Somers papers