Title: Douglass Cater Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1959-1964

Creator:

• Cater, Douglass, 1923-

Call Number: U.S. Mss 69AF

Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (10 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

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Abstract:

Papers of an author, editor for The Reporter, and special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The collection consists of drafts, correspondence, and research and indexing material for two books, The Fourth Branch of Government (1959), which was a study of government and the press, and Power in Washington: A Critical Look at Today's Struggle to Govern in the Nation's Capital (1964), an examination of the executive and legislative branches.

Language: English

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Douglass Cater, Special Assistant to the President, was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on August 24, 1923. He was educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and the Harvard School of Public Administration.

Mr. Cater served with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He became Washington editor for The Reporter in 1950. While with The Reporter, he took occasional leaves of absence to work in the national government--as special assistant to the Secretary of the Army, 1951, and as consultant to the director of the Mutual Security Agency, 1952. Mr. Cater left his editor's post when he became Special Assistant to President Lyndon Johnson.

In 1955 Mr. Cater was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the interaction of press and government in Washington. In 1957-1958 he spent nearly a year traveling around the world on an Eisenhower Fellowship. Mr. Cater was a Fellow at Wesleyan University's Center for Advanced Studies in 1961, and a visiting professor of public affairs at Wesleyan in 1963. He also held a visiting professorship at Princeton in 1959.

Mr. Cater is the author of Ethics in a Business Society (with Marquis Childs), 1953; The Fourth Branch of Government, 1959; and Power in Washington, 1964. He received the George Polk Memorial Award and the New York Newspaper Guild Page One Award in 1961.

Mr. Cater is married to the former Libby Anderson. They have four children.

The Douglass Cater papers consist entirely of materials relating to two of his books: The Fourth Branch of Government (1959) and Power in Washington (1964).

Practically all of the working papers for both books, from outlines to galley proofs, are included in the collection. It is possible to trace the development of the books through successive drafts and to study Cater's methods of revising and polishing until the manuscripts were ready for the press.

Acquisition Information

Presented by S. Douglass Cater, Alexandria, Va., November 8, 1965.

Processing Information

Processed by Janice O'Connell, March 29, 1966.

	Fourth Branch of Government
Box   1	Early draft
Box   1	Outline
Box   1	Statement of project
	Research materials and early drafts
Box   1	Chapters 1-4
Box   2	Chapters 5-7
Box   3	Chapters 8-10
Box   3	General research materials and early drafts
Box   3	Index
Box   3	Reporter reprint
	Power in Washington
Box   4	Outlines
Box   4	Book notes
Box   4	Early drafts of the introduction
	Research materials, notes, and early drafts
Box   4	Chapters 1-2
Box   5-7	Chapters 3-14
Box   8	General research materials and notes
Box   8	Third(?) draft
Box   9	Carbon copy of third(?) draft
Box   9	Last draft
Box   9	Citations and index
Box   9	Typesetting copy
Box   10	Carbon of typesetting copy, with citations
Box   10	Galley incorporating last minute revisions
Box   10	Correspondence with Random House