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RFKAG
Attorney General Papers, 1961-1964. Correspondence, desk diaries, books, John F. Kennedy Library file, classified file, confidential file, speeches, telephone logs and messages, trip file.
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BMPP
Papers 1944-2003. Lawyer, government official, professor. Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice (1961-1964); Partner, Covington and Burling (1965); General Counsel (1965-1969) and Vice President (1969), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM); Professor of Law, Yale University (1970-2003). Personal and professional correspondence, writings, subject files, organizational materials, and legal documents relating to civil rights legislation, events, and organizations; Robert F. Kennedy and the Kennedy family; the John. F. Kennedy Presidential Library; and Yale University.
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WHTPP
Papers, 1958-1994 (Bulk 1961-1967). Lawyer, government official. Commissioner, Interstate Commerce Commission (1961-67); author, Parachute Soldier (1994). Correspondence, reports, speeches, and files of cases pending before the ICC; notes, photographs, manuscripts, and book draft.
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RAWPP
Papers 1952-1982 (bulk 1960-1963). Government official. Economic consultant to Senator John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign (1959-1960); Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury (1961), Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury (1961-1963), Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1963-1969); member, U.S. delegation to the Cotton Textiles Committee conference (GATT), Geneva, Switzerland (1962). Chronological correspondence files, subject files, campaign files, economic projections and reports, statistics, memoranda, notes, photographs, speeches, press releases, and travel schedules.
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JFKWHCSF
The primary file kept by the staff of the White House central file room containing papers sent from various offices in the White House. The file is organized according to an alphanumeric system divided into 62 subject categories, with numerous cross-references.
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JFKWHSFHW
Lawyer, government official. Assistant to Senator John F. Kennedy (1960); Special Assistant to the President for Civil Rights (1961-62). Contains correspondence, progress reports, speeches, and occasional background material on civil rights cases.
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JFKWHSFLCW
White House Staff Files 1961-1963. Lawyer, government official. Assistant Special Counsel to the President (1961-1963). General subject file and civil rights file containing correspondence, memorandums, reports, news clippings, drafts, printed material.
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BIBPP
Papers 1958-1972. Lawyer, government official. General Attorney, Staff Director, Executive Staff Director, Commission on Civil Rights (1958-1963); campaign aide to Senator Edmund S. Muskie (1971-1972). Memorandums, correspondence, and speech files relating to his government and political work, to the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to the District of Columbia Board of Higher Education, and to the John F. Kennedy Library oral history program.
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BLBPP
Papers 1955-1966. Businessman, New Hampshire political figure, government official. Mayor of Laconia, N.H. (1955-1959); Kennedy campaign worker (1960); Deputy Administrator and Administrator, General Services Administration (1961-1964); Deputy Director, Office of Economic Opportunity (1965-1968). Correspondence, memorandums, appointment books, schedules, and speech files relating to New Hampshire politics, the 1960 presidential campaign, the General Services Administration, and the Office of Economic Opportunity.
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NKPP
Papers 1961-1968. Lawyer, government official. Deputy Attorney General (1962-65); Attorney General of the United States (1965-66). Correspondence, speeches, appointment calendars, telephone logs, executive office file, civil rights file, subject file, personal file, and news clippings.
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WLPP
Papers 1927-1968 (bulk 1962-1965). Historian, educator. Author, "The Past That Would Not Die" (1965). Research material concerning civil rights, Mississippi, and the South.
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JJPMPP
Papers 1957-1971. Government official. Investigator for the Kefauver Committee (1957-1959) and for the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly Legislation of the Judiciary Committee, (1959-1960), U.S. Senate; chief of security, John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign (1960); U.S. Marshal, District of Columbia (1961-1962); Chief U.S. Marshal (1962-1968). Personal and official papers including material relating to the integration of the University of Mississippi, Joseph Valachi, and organized crime investigations.
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VSNPP
Papers 1954-1976. Journalist. Author, Kennedy Justice (1971). Research materials, drafts, interviews, notes, and correspondence.
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LFOPP
Personal and professional papers relating to his work in the legal field, including with such organizations as the District of Columbia Bar and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; speeches, scrapbook, select case files, and recommendations on several Supreme Court appointments; microfilm copy of his diary relating to the Cuban prisoner exchange in 1962.
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JRRPP
Papers 1955-1968. Lawyer, government official. Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice (1961-1964); Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission (1964-1967). Copies of interoffice memorandums, correspondence, etc.
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SRPP
Papers 1974-1976. Student, Princeton University. Researcher on civil rights and the Department of Justice. Research material: includes notes of interviews with Justice Department officials, correspondence with government agencies, and copies of FBI documents.
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HTPP
Papers, 1958-1963. The Personal Papers of Herbert E. Tucker, Jr., Assistant attorney general, Massachusetts (1959-1968); chairman, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Boston; Democratic National Committee member for Democratic National Convention, worker in John F. Kennedy's Senate campaigns (1952, 1958), and Assistant Director of the Civil Rights Section of John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign (1960). Correspondence, memorandums, news clippings covering John F. Kennedy's 1958 senatorial and 1960 presidential campaigns.
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JFKWHSFCH
White House Staff Files 1961-1965. Adviser to the President for National Capital affairs (1961-1967). Subject files.
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LIHPP
Papers 1944-1963. Lawyer, government official. Counsel, staff director, President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces (1962-1963). Correspondence, publications, questionnaires, reports, news clippings and other background materials relating to the racial integration of the United States Armed Forces.
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USDJ
Records 1961-1963. Microfilm copies of material generated by the Department of Justice during the Kennedy administration. Contains a wide variety of legal and administrative paperwork from various offices within the agency. Currently only select records from the Criminal Division and the Civil Rights Division are open for research.
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USGSA
Records 1959-1964 (bulk 1961-1963). Microfilm copies of records of Administrator Bernard L. Boutin, and the subdivisions of the agency including the Defense Materials Service, Federal Supply Service, National Archives and Records Service, Public Building Service, Transportation and Communications Service, and Utilization and Disposal Service. Hard copy includes correspondence, a prospectus for alterations to the White House, and the Public Building Service's report on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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USCCR
Records 1961-1963. Microfilm copies of meetings, staff reports, studies, briefings, legal opinions, Black Belt survey, speeches. RG453.
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AYPP
Papers 1864, 1922-1977 (bulk 1951-1972). Lawyer, educator, government official. Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (1961-1964); director, President's antipoverty program (1964); Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs (1965-1966); professor of law, Harvard University (1966-1972); author, The Military Establishment (1971). Personal and professional papers relating to a wide range of his activities and pursuits.
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WICPP
Papers, 1922-2011 (bulk 1948-2004). Congressional staffer; federal and local government official; educator; consultant; advocate for criminal justice reform. Legislative assistant, Congressman Brooks Hays of Arkansas (1956-1959); legislative assistant and press secretary, Senator Clair Engle of California (1959-1960); research analyst, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (1960-1961); assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Affairs, U.S. Department of State (1961-1962); White House staffer (1962-1966); staff director, Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations (1962-1963); special assistant to the staff director, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1963-1965); special assistant to the administrator for equal opportunity, Agency for International Development (1965-1967); director of legislative affairs, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1967-1969); management consultant (1969-1975); Mount Vernon Supervisor, Fairfax County (Va.) Board of Supervisors (1975-1980); senior staff member, Center for Public Policy Education, the Brookings Institution (1975-1993); vice chairman, National Committee on Community Corrections (1987-2004); author, In Search of Middle Ground: Memoirs of a Washington Insider (2005). Professional and personal papers documenting lengthy career in Washington, D.C., and community volunteer work, with an emphasis on civil rights, intergovernmental relations, equal employment regulations, health care policy, criminal justice, and prison industries. Correspondence, drafts, writings, reports, conference files, notes, research material, press releases, speeches, and news clippings.
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JRPP
Papers 1961-1999. Journalist, government official. U.S. Department of Justice, Assistant Director of Public Information (1964-1964), Director of Public Information (1964-1967); U.S. Department of State, Executive Assistant to Under Secretary Nicholas deB. Katzenbach (1966-1967); Harvard Institute of Politics, Kennedy Fellow (1967-1968); New York Times, Urban Correspondent, Washington Bureau (1969-1973), Editorial Page Editor (1986-1993), Magazine Editor (1993-2000). Personal and professional papers consisting of correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, schedules, and speeches. Topics include the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of State, the Civil Rights movement, organized crime, and wiretapping.