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Catalog Number: DCLV94-A562; Input 19940729 vm09 NUCMC record.
Title: Elliot L. Richardson Papers, 1780 - 1984 (bulk 1947 - 1984).
Author: Richardson, Elliot L., 1920-
Quantity: 225 linear ft.
Access restrictions: Access restricted.
Summary: U.S. cabinet official, politician, and lawyer, of Massachusetts.
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, subject files, reports, briefing data, financial records, printed materials, photographs, and other papers, relating chiefly to Richardson's political career in Massachusetts and later as a cabinet official during the administrations of Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, and Jimmy Carter. Includes papers documenting Richardson's service as U.S. under secretary of state (1969-1970), U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare (1970-1973), U.S. attorney general (1973), fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1974-1975), U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1975-1976), and President Carter's representative at the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (1977-1980). Topics include Richardson's book The Creative Balance: Government, Politics, and the Individual in America's Third Century (1976), federal funding, Henry Kissinger's role in national security affairs, international maritime law, the oil crisis, National Defense Education Act of 1958, Republican Party, domestic social issues, state and national politics and government, Vice-President Spiro Agnew's resignation, and Watergate chief prosecutor Archibald Cox. Includes papers relating to Richardson's work at the law firms of Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass., and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Washington, D.C. Correspondents include Morton I. Abramowitz, Spiro T. Agnew, H. Shirley Amerasinghe, Edward W. Brooke, George Bush, Wilbur E. Cohen, William S. Cohen, William T. Coleman, Jr., Charles W. Colson, Archibald Cox, Richard G. Darman, John D. Ehrlichman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Paul Engo, Gerald R. Ford, Felix Frankfurter, Learned Hand, Wilmot R. Hastings, Christian A. Herter, Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, Richard G. Kleindienst, Tommy T.B. Koh, Richard E. Mastrangelo, Jonathan Moore, Richard M. Nixon, J. Stanley Pottinger, William P. Rogers, William Ruckelshaus, Leverett Saltonsall, Francis W. Sargent, Jonathan T. Smith, Russell E. Train, John A. Volpe, and Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr.
Other descriptions: Finding aid in the repository.
Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of Elliot L. Richardson, 1977-1987.
Custodical History: Video and audio recordings transferred to the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Location of originals: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. (Washington, D.C.)
Subject: Attorneys general -- United States. lcsh
Cabinet officers -- United States. lcsh
Diplomats -- United States. lcsh
Lawyers -- Massachusetts -- Boston. lcsh
Lawyers -- Washington (D.C.) lcsh
Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Great Britain.
Education and state -- United States.
Energy policy -- United States.
Finance, Public -- United States.
Maritime law.
Federal government -- United States.
Law firms -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Law firms -- Washington (D.C.)
National security -- United States.
Petroleum industry and trade.
Political corruption -- United States.
Practice of law -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Practice of law -- Washington (D.C.)
Social problems.
Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1951-
United States -- Appropriations and expenditures.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Social policy.
Abramowitz, Morton, 1933- -- Correspondence.
Agnew, Spiro T., 1918-
Amerasinghe, Hamilton Shirley, 1913- -- Correspondence.
Brooke, Edward William, 1919- -- Correspondence.
Bush, George, 1924- -- Correspondence.
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Cohen, Wilbur J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1913-1987 -- Correspondence.
Cohen, William S. -- Correspondence.
Coleman, William T. (William Thaddeus), 1920- -- Correspondence.
Colson, Charles W. -- Correspondence.
Cox, Archibald, 1912-
Darman, Richard Gordon, 1943- -- Correspondence.
Ehrlichman, John -- Correspondence.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Correspondence.
Engo, Paul Bamela -- Correspondence.
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 -- Correspondence.
Hand, Learned, 1872-1961 -- Correspondence.
Hastings, Wilmot R. (Wilmot Reed), 1935- -- Correspondence.
Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966 -- Correspondence.
Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
Kleindienst, Richard G., 1923- -- Correspondence.
Koh, Tommy T. B. (Tommy Thong Bee), 1937- -- Correspondence.
Mastrangelo, Richard E. (Richard Edward), 1938- -- Correspondence.
Moore, Jonathan -- Correspondence.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-
Pottinger, J. Stanley, 1940- -- Correspondence.
Rogers, William P. (William Pierce), 1913- -- Correspondence.
Ruckelshaus, William Doyle, 1932- -- Correspondence.
Saltonstall, Leverett, 1892- -- Correspondence.
Sargent, Francis W., 1915- -- Correspondence.
Smith, Jonathan T. -- Correspondence.
Train, Russell E., 1920- -- Correspondence.
Volpe, John A. -- Correspondence.
Wyzanski, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1906- -- Correspondence.
United States. Delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, 3rd, 1973-1982, New York, N.Y., etc.
United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare.
United States. Dept. of Justice.
United States. Dept. of State.
United States. National Defense Education Act of 1958.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Ropes & Gray. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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