Series: Part I, Original Collection, 1932-1965

Subseries: Personal Correspondence, 1948-1965

Aarons, Morris

Abram, Morris (of the American Jewish Committee)

Abrons, Herbert L.

Ainey, Mrs, David C.
Scope and Content Note: Concerning Adlai Stevenson and whether or not he supported unilateral stoppage of nuclear testing in 1956.

Akers, Anthony B.

Albright, Horace Marden (conservationist)

Allins, Franz

Altschul, Arthur G.

Altschul, Frank

The American Assembly

American Civil Liberties Union

Armour, Norman, Jr.

Armstrong, Hamilton Fish (of Foreign Affairs)

Ashmore, Harry S.

Associated Press

Atkinson, Brooks

Atlantic Council
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence is with Christian Herter.

Auerbach, Mrs. George

Auschwitz-Buna Memorial Scholarship Fund

Letters of Oakes' “Africa” article

Baldwin, Roger N.

Barrett, Edward W.

Basel, Amos S.

Baumgartner, Leona

Bayliss, William

Beichman, Arnold

Benline, Arthur J.
Scope and Content Note: Concerning air pollution.

Benton, William
Scope and Content Note: Concerning Senator Joseph McCarthy; Times editorials.

Binder, Theodore

Bingham, Barry

Bingham, Jonathan

Blum, Robert
Scope and Content Note: Concerning coverage of Asia news in the American press.

Bodine, John

Boland, Frederick H.

Bolte, Charles G.

Boorstein, Daniel J.

Booth, John E.
Scope and Content Note: Concerning realistic veterans' benefits.

Borg, John S.

Bowles, Chester

Boyce, Gray C.

Brewer, Sam P. (New York Times Mideast correspondent)

Bricker, John W.

Brower, David

Brown, Swallon (Jeff)

Browne, Bitner

Brucker, Herbert

Bunche, Ralph J.

Burt, Hardy

Butcher, Devereux

Cain, Walker

Callery, Mary

Campos, Roberto de Oliveira

Cannon, John

Capron, Paul

Carhart, Arthur H.
Scope and Content Note: Concerning conservation.

Carr, Robert B.

Cary, William (chairman of the SEC)

Cherniss, Norman A.

Cheyne, Pierre

Chudson, Walter

Clark, Evans

Cleveland, Harlan

Cohen, Judy

Coleman, Alvin E.

Collingwood, Charles

Committee for Economic Development

Cone, Hutchinson I., Jr.

Congressional Quarterly Service

Conklin, Paul

Cosmopolitan Club

Cousins, Norman

Cowan, Louis G.

Crawford, Ruth

Cromwell, Jarvis

Cruikshank, William

Cullman, Joseph F., III

Concerning cigarettes and cancer.

Curtis, Michael

Congressional correspondence
Scope and Content Note: This file contains much material concerning criticisms of the workings of Congress, and concerning conservation. The entire file was not microfilmed.

Case, Clifford

Church, Frank

Clark, Joseph

Cleveland, James

Dodd, Thomas

Douglas, Paul

Flood, Daniel J.

Fulbright, J. William

Gore, Albert

Harvey, Ralph

Hayden, Carl

Javits, Jacob K.

Keating, Kenneth

Kefauver, Estes

Lindsay, John

McGovern, George

Monroney, A. S. (Mike)

Morse, F. Bradford

Neuberger, Marine

Neuberger, Richard (extensive file)

Pike, Otis

Resnick, Joseph Y.

Reuss, Henry S.

Symington, Stuart

Teague, Olin E.

Zelenko, Herbert

D'Addario, Joe

Daffin, Mrs. Sidney

de Chevigne, E.

de Voto, Bernard

Dickey,. John
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the “credibility gap.”

Dilliard, Irving

Dillon, Douglas

Dilworth, circa G.

Dodge, Cleveland E.

Donovan, Hedley

Dorian, Max

Douglas, William O.

Dudzienska, Sister Anna

Durand, Dana B.

Dustin, Thomas E. (of “Save the Dunes”)

Ears Inc.

Editor and Publisher

Egan, W.J. Convery

Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Inc.

Ekstrom, Arne

Eldredge, H. Wentworth
Scope and Content Note: Including a long letter on D-Day.

Elston, Wilbur

Elton, Lord Godfrey

Encyclopaedia Britannica

English Speaking Union

English, Nicholas Conover

Epstein, William

Eren, Nuri
Scope and Content Note: Concerning Turkey.

Ernst, Morris (extensive file)

Estabrook, Robert

Evison, S. Herbert

Eytan, Walter

Farinholt, L. H. (of the Sloan Foundation)

Farley, James A.

Feld, Bernard T.

Ferguson, John H.

Finkelstein, Louis

Finley, David E.

Fisher, Adrian S.

Fischer, John

Flather, A. Chester

Fleeson, Doris

Flynn, John T.

Forsyth, John

Fortenzer, Claude

Fosdick, Raymond

Fowler, Henry H.

Frankfurter, Felix
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the review of cases; Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Freeman, Orville
Scope and Content Note: Concerning farm controls.

Freudenthal, David N.

Friele, Berent

Friendly, Alfred

Friendly, Edwin S.

Fritchey, Clayton

Fulbright Award

Gainza Paz, Alberto

Gans, Herbert J.

Gardner, John

Gardner, Richard N.

Garrity, Devin A.
Scope and Content Note: Concerning Oakes' review of a right-wing book.

Gaskill, William

Gebelt, Stephen Gurney

Gelber, Lionel

Ghofur, Abdul

Gilhooley, John J.

Ginzberg, Ralph
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the obscenity-censorship fight.

Gjesdal, Tor

Gordon, Dorothy

Gordon, Mrs. John D.

Gordon, Lincoln

Graff, Robert D.

Graham, Douglas

Graham, Philip

Greenbaum, Edward S.

Gregorieff, Igor A.

Grimm, Peter

Gross, Ernest

Hadas, Moses

Hansen, Robert H.

Harmer, Christopher

Harper's Magazine

Harriman, W. Averell
Scope and Content Note: Concerning Robert F. Kennedy's candidacy for the New York Senate seat.

Harris, Mrs. Leon

Harris, Sam
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the Army-McCarthy conflict.

Harris, General William A.

Hartford Courant

Harvard College

Hayes, Alfred

Hecksher, August

Heffner, Richard

Hemmendinger, Noel

Hermanos, Maxime L.

Hersey, John

Herter, Christian

Herzog, Mr, and Mrs. Paul M.

Hinman, George

Hoben, Lindsay

Hochschild, Harold K.
Scope and Content Note: Concerning “Negro Zionism.”

Hoffman, Paul G.

Hofman, Paul

Holland, Kenneth

Hook, Sidney

Hoover, Lawrence G.

Horton, Philip

Hovey, Allan, Jr.

Howell, Alfred C.

Huang, Steve

Hunter, Edward

Hunter, J. Ross, Jr.

Hunter College High School

Huxtable, Ada

H, Special

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Istel, Andre

Jackson, Lady Barbara

Jacobs, Murray L.

James, Weldon

Johnson, Alvin

Johnson, Joseph E.

Jolles, Paul

Joseph, Franz M.

J, Special

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Katzenbach, Nicholas

Kefauver, Estes

Keller, Mrs. Alexander

Keller, Peter R.

Kempton, Murray

Kemsley, Bill

Kheel, Theodore W.
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the Transit Authority's right to automate.

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kintner, William R.

Kirk, Grayson

Klabin, Israel
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the newsprint monopoly.

Kleiman, Robert

Klein, Julius
Scope and Content Note: Concerning Klein's German lobbying.

Knight, Hans

Knopf, Alfred

Kridel, William J.

Kupferman, Theodore R.

Kurth, Otto

K, Special

Kennedy, John F.

LaBour, Robert

Ladejinsky, Wolf

La Follette, Mrs. Robert M., Jr.

Lane, A. Alan

Lang, Daniel

Lasch, Robert

Laslett, J. H. M.

Lathrop, Harold

Leach, Peter

League of Women Voters

Lee, Ronald F.

Lehman, Herbert

Lennon, H. K.

Leva, Marx

Levy, Joseph

Levy, Robert J.

Lewis, Anthony

Lilienthal, David
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the nuclear test ban treaty.

Lippmann, Walter

Little, Frank

Lodge, Henry Cabot

Lodge, John

Loeb, Louis

Loescher, Frank S.

Lord, Russell

Louchheim, Katie

Low, Robert A.

Lowenfish, Joshua

Luce, Clare Booth

Lyons, Gene M.

L, Special

Lindsay, John

MacIntyre, Malcolm A.
Scope and Content Note: Concerning wiretapping.

MacKenzie, Nancy

MacLeish, Archibald

Maffry, August
Scope and Content Note: Concerning capital outflow.

Galerie Maeght

Mansfield, Mike

Marjolin, Robert
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the European Common Market.

Martins, Mme. Maria

Masland, F. E.
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the United States and Cuba.

Mathis, Jim
Scope and Content Note: Concerning Texas politicians.

McClellan, Bruce

McCrea, Mollie

McGhee, Ambassador George C.

McKeever, Porter

McKitterick, Nat

Meacham, William S.

Melman, Seymour
Scope and Content Note: Concerning NATO missiles.

Merritt, Joseph

Mestres, Richardo A.

Meyer, Mrs. Eugene

Meyner, Robert B.

Minow, Newton

Monroney, Mike

Morgan, Edward P.

Morgenthau, Robert

Morris, DuBois

Morris, Newbold

Morse, David A.

Moses, Robert

Mumford, Lewis

Munoz Marin, Luis

Musarureva, Willie A. D.

Neal, Fred Warner

Nieman Fellowships
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence with Nathan Pusey.

Nolting, Frederick E.

O'Connor, Frank D.

Ogilvy, Stew

Oman, William

Oppenheimer, J. Robert

Oppenheimer, Robert L.

Omerod, Sir Berkeley

Oslow, Fairfield

Ottinger, Richard L.
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the Peace Corps.

Owsley, Chuck

Pace, Frank, Jr.

Parkhill, Wilson

Paulitsch, Rosa

Perlman, Philip B.

Perkins, James A.

Peters, Richard D.

Pomona College

Popham, Johnny

Pulitzer

Public correspondence, a representative selection
Scope and Content Note: This is two folders of letters from readers, many of them quite aroused. It contains much material on Herbert Mathews and Cuba.

Rabb, Maxwell

Rado, Emil
Scope and Content Note: Concerning Oakes' articles on Africa.

Radosta, John S.

Ramsbotham, Peter

Rea, William H.

Readers' Digest

Reid, Helen

Reid, Ogden

Reinthaler, Elmer S.

Republic Steel

Rockefeller, David

Rockefeller, John
Scope and Content Note: Including a long memo on President Diem of Viet Nam.

Rockefeller, Lawrence

Rockefeller, Nelson

Rockefeller, Winthrop

Rodgers, Richard

Rogers, Francis E.

Roosevelt, Nicholas
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the redwoods.

Root, Oren

Galerie Roque

Rose, E. J. B.

Rosenbluth, M. B.

Rotberg, Robert

Rothschild, Lord

Royster, Vermont

Ruebhausen, Oscar M.

Rusk, Dean

Rusk, Howard A.

Russell, John M.

Russell, Peter

Sargeant, Howland

Sarnoff, Robert W.

Schlesinger, Arthur M.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
Scope and Content Note: Concerning politics and medical care.

Seymour, Whitney N.

Shriver, Sargent

Sorenson, Theodore

Spivak, Lawrence E.

Stevenson, Adlai

Straus, Donald B.

Straus, Nathan

Straus, Roger W., Jr.

Swing, Raymond
Scope and Content Note: Concerning the admission of Carl Rowan to the Cosmos Club.

Symington, Stuart

Thomas, Evan

Time Magazine
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence with Richard Clurman, including a long letter concerning Harrison Salisbury's reporting from Moscow.

Tuchman, Barbara

Udall, Stewart

Ulmer, Alexander

Van Dusen, Henry P.

Vanden Heuvel, William Jr.

Wainwright, Stuyvesant

Wallach, Clara

Warren, Earl

Webster, Bethuel M.

Wechsler, James

Wedge, Bryant

Weismiller, Edward

Wheeler, John N.

Whitney, John H.

Wilderness Society

Williams, G. Mennen

Wilkin, Robert N,

Wilson, John D.

Winner, Percy

Wirth, Conrad L.

Wolff, Alice

Wolf, Elinor

Wyckoff, Cecilia

Wyeth, Andrew

Yugoslav Information Center

Subseries: Subject File, 1932-1965

American Society of Newspaper Editors

Book, The Edge of Freedom, 1961

Correspondence with Harper's Inc., including contract matters

Miscellaneous correspondence

Reviews

Book, Masters of Deceit, by J. Edgar Hoover, reviewed by Oakes, 1958
Scope and Content Note: File contains much adverse reaction to Oakes' review by right-wing people and organizations.

Book Reviews by John B. Oakes, 1950-1957
Scope and Content Note: File includes printed reviews, and in most cases, the manuscript copies of these reviews; also includes a number of letters from right-wing people and organizations denouncing Oakes' reviews of right-wing books.

Carnegie Corporation - Travel Grant for , 1959

Carnegie Grant, Letters of Congratulations
Scope and Content Note: File includes one letter from Lyndon B. Johnson, December 12, 1958.

Carnegie Endowment and Corporation, 1960

Carrie Chapman Catt Memorial Fund, 1955-1958 (A Research and Educational Fund created by The League of Women Voters of the United States)
Scope and Content Note: File includes materials relating to the Freedom Agenda committee, proposals for research grants, correspondence, reports, minutes, brochures, and newsletters.

Chattanooga University, 1955 (70th Anniversary Convocation)
Scope and Content Note: File contains material on a New York Times panel, of which Oakes was the moderator.

Collegiate School, 1954-1958

Columbia-Catherwood Award, 1960-1962
Scope and Content Note: File contains speeches, schedules, correspondence, and brochures.

Columbia University School of Journalism, 1957-1964

Congregation Emanuel, 1952-1964
Scope and Content Note: File includes much material on Oakes' ideas regarding religious education of children.

Conservation Column, 1951-1960

Council on Foreign Relations, 1948-1963
Scope and Content Note: File contains correspondence on members, a transcript of the Ad Hoc Meeting for Representatives of the President's Commission on United States Information Activities Abroad, and much material relating to the press and foreign relations.

Educational Alliance, 1951-1964
Scope and Content Note: File includes material, 1955, relating to charges by Boy Scout officials that the Educational Alliance was infiltrated by Communists; papers relating to camping projects and other plans of the Alliance.

Foreign Policy Association, 1963-1964

Fulbright Act, National Selection Committee, 1952-1955
Scope and Content Note: File contains evaluation sheets for individual candidates; gives a clear picture of how Fellows are selected.

Hartford (Connecticut) University, 1960
Scope and Content Note: File contains correspondence, programs, and speeches relating to the awarding of a honorary degree to Oakes and to Oakes' participation in the university's convocation on France.

Lafayette Scholarships, 1954

Magazine articles by John B. Oakes, 1957-1958
Scope and Content Note: File includes notes of a long interview with Nelson Rockefeller, in which Rockefeller gives his reasons for entering politics; a copy of the manuscript of an article on isolationism; a carbon copy of an article on Adlai Stevenson; and a manuscript concerning the new president of Princeton University.

Magazine articles by John B. Oakes, 1938; 1953; 1957
Scope and Content Note: File contains photostats of 1938 “Letters from Russia,” written by Oakes for the Washington Post.

McCarthy File (Grace Roosevelt and Pegler)

Metropolitan Club, 1952-1954

National Conference of Editorial Writers, 1954-1956

Nieman Foundation, 1955-1962

New York Times Bureaus, Correspondence with Times newsmen, 1961-1965
Scope and Content Note: Includes:
Belair, Felix: Subjects covered include: foreign aid; Lyndon Johnson's attitudes toward stories anticipating his actions; and Eisenhower's support of Henry Cabot Lodge.
Bigart, Homer: Gives information on Nigeria.
Braestrup, Peter (Algeria): Gives information on Ben Bella and the turbulent Algerian scene.
Dale, Edwin L.
de Onis, Juan: Subjects covered include: Gainza Paz in Bolivia and Peruvian politics.
Frankel, Max: Gives information on North Vietnamese help to the Viet Cong.
Gruson, Sidney: Gives information on the Profumo scandal.
Kenworthy, E. W.: Gives information on foreign aid.
Krock, Arthur
Lewis, Anthony: Gives information on Britain's race question.
Olson, Arthur
O'Toole, Edward T.: Discusses Russia and the European Common Market.
Reston, James
Salisbury, Harrison
Shabad, Theodore
Shanahan, Eileen: Gives information on tax loopholes.
Sullivan, Walter
Underwood, Paul
Walz, Jay
Welles, Benjamin: Gives information on Patrice Lumumba and the Congo.

New York Times Magazine articles by John B. Oakes
Scope and Content Note: File contains two articles: “The Security Issue,” and “This Is the Real, the Lasting Damage,” along with much reader response.

Princeton University, 1932; 1934; 1953-1964
Scope and Content Note: File includes correspondence, speeches, and printed matter, some of which goes back to 1932 when Oakes was elected to the Tower Club.

Princeton University - Sheldon Fund, 1946-1950
Scope and Content Note: File contains materials relating to the Princeton University Department which coordinates all fund-raising projects on behalf of the University.

Princeton University Alumni Weekly, 1952
Scope and Content Note: File includes background materials on a series on academic freedom.

Radio and Television Programs
Scope and Content Note: File contains materials relating to the Open Mind program of November 16, 1958 and a number of quotes relating to integration.

Rhodes Scholars, 1954-1956 (Selection Committee)

Rhodes Scholars, 1934; 1957-1961 (Association of American Rhodes Scholars)

Rhodes Scholarship Trust, 1957-1964

Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1954

Sigma Delta Chi, 1953-1954

Speeches

“Is Freedom of the Press in Danger?” - panel, October 13, 1953

“Communism and Its Impact on Our Liberties,” March 18, 1953

“Futurama of Communications: The Printed Word,” February 16, 1954

“Women: Power for Freedom,” June 1955

“Issues and Politics,” October 1954

“Reinforcing American Freedoms,” April 20, 1955

“Should the State Department Allow Reporters to Go to Red China?” , April 1957

“The Right of the People to Know,” Spring 1958

“The New Role of Neutralism,” November 16, 1960

“The Jet-Propelled Bulldozer,” July 25/26, 1960

“The Challenge of the '60s,” June 6, 1960

Speeches (continued)

Bryn Mawr, February 25, 1963, “Responsibility of the Press”

Collegiate School

Alumni Award Dinner, April 25, 1963

“Man's Right to Knowledge and The Free Use Thereof,” May 7, 1954

Presentation of Head Boy Medal, June 4, 1953

Dartmouth (Orvil E. Dryfoos Conference on Public Affairs), March 7, 1964, “The Public Image of Congress”

Hartford University, June 6, 1960, “The Challenge of the '60s”

Marquette University, March 7, 1962, “The Editorial: What It Is and What It Aims For”

Montana State University, May 5, 1963, “New York's Newspaper Strike”

Oxford School (Hartford) June 12, 1963, Commencement

Pomona College, June 9, 1963, “Smashing the Cliche”

Princeton, February 14, 1963, The Princetonian annual banquet

Speech, “The Critical Responsibility,” 1967 May 8

Speeches - Columbia University Lectures

“The Editorial Page,” March 13, 1953

Untitled, on the editorial page, March, 1952; another version given at the sectional meeting on the Editorial Page at the 28th annual convention of Columbia's Scholastic Press Association in New York on , March 14, 1952

Letter concerning the Columbia University lecture program

Article relating to “The Editorial Page” in the School Press Review, February 1954

Speech data
Scope and Content Note: File includes material relating to the function of the editorial page.

Speeches - Notes
Scope and Content Note: File contains material on Africa.

State Charities Aid Association, 1951-1958

Travel, Middle East, 1957
Scope and Content Note: File includes notes on a trip to Greece, Istanbul, Beirut, Cairo, Cyprus, and Israel.

USSR Conference, 1962-1963

Woodrow Wilson Foundation and Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1957-1966
Scope and Content Note: File contains materials relating to the Foundation's project to get Wilson's papers published.

World Scope Encyclopaedia

Series: Part II, 1970 Additions, 1956, 1963-1967, 1969

A, 1963-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Michael Arnon; Morris B. Abram; Joseph Alsop; American Tobacco Company; Brooks Atkinson; and others.

B, 1963-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Roger Baldwin; William Benton; Chester Bowles; Herbert Brucker; William P. Bundy; and others.

C, 1964-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Marquis Childs; Henry Steele Commager, Norman Cousins; Louis G. Cowan; and others.

Congressional Correspondence, 1964-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Jonathan B. Bingham; Clifford P. Case; Joseph S. Clark; Jeffery Cohelan, Dominick V. Daniels; Everett McKinley Dirksen; Paul H. Douglas; J.W. Fulbright; Sam M. Gibbons; Albert Gore; Edward M. Kennedy; Hervey G. Machen; Richard L. Ottinger; Claude Pepper; Leverett Saltonstall; Morris K. Udall; and others.

F, 1963-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Foreign Policy Association; G. Keith Funston; and others.

G, 1956; 1965-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include John Kenneth Galbraith; Richard N. Gardner; Arthur J. Goldberg; 1956 Governors' Conference (regarding 1956 elections); Sir Hugh Greene; and others.

H, 1965-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include August Heckscher; Roger Hilsman; Richard J. Hughes; Hubert H. Humphrey; and others.

K, 1966-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Alfred A. Knopf and others.

Kilboy, Susan, 1967

L, 1965-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Robert Lasch; Louis J. Lefkowita; David Lilienthal; John V. Lindsay; Louis M. Loeb; Louis M. Lyons; and others.

M, 1963-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Dwight Macdonald; Archibald MacLeish; F.E. Masland Jr.; Robert Moses; and others.

Q, 1965
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Michael J. Quill and others.

R, 1964-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include David Rockefeller; Laurance S. Rockefeller; Nelson A. Rockefeller; Alex Rose; Eugene V. Rostow; Dean Rusk; Bertrand Russell; and others.

S, 1965-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Glenn T. Seaborg; Charles B. Shuman; Howard K. Smith; and others.

T, 1963-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Barbara Tuchman and others.

U, 1965-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include U Thant; Stewart L. Udall; and others.

V, 1965-1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Henry P. Van Dusen; Henry H. Villard; and others.

W, 1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include W.C. Westmoreland and others.

Y, 1965; 1967
Scope and Content Note: Correspondents include Gladwin Young; Whitney M. Young Jr.; and others.

Series: Part III, 1979 Additions, 1950-1960

Governors' Conferences, 1954, 1956, 1958
Scope and Content Note

Materials in the governors' conferences file cover such subjects as Senator Joseph McCarthy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, the farm problem, segregation and integration, and state economics.

Of particular interest are an “opinion poll” on Senator McCarthy; and an interview with Herman Talmadge on the upcoming elections and integration.

A long memorandum on the whole 1954 conference includes statements by the following: William Stratton of Illinois; Knight of California Walter Kohler of Wisconsin; Christian Herter of Massachusetts; Edwin L. Mecham of New Mexico; G. Merman Williams of Michigan; C.J. Rogers of Wyoming; Meyner of New Jersey; Dan Thornton of Colorado; Robert F. Kennon of Louisiana; J. Cable Boggs of Delaware; John S. Fine of Pennsylvania; Lawrence F. Wetherby of Kentucky; John David Lodge of Connecticut; Dennis J. Roberts of Rhode Island; Secretary McKay (former governor of Oregon); Peterson (Civil Defense administrator and former governor of Nebraska).

A short memorandum on the 1956 conference sets forth the governors' opinion that Stevenson was definitely in as the Democratic Presidential nominee, and Eisenhower as the Republican.

A long memorandum on the 1958 conference includes statements by the following: Williams of Michigan; Ribicoff of Connecticut; Harriman of New York; Coleman of Mississippi; Collins of Florida; Faubus of Arkansas; Rossellini of Washington; Leader of Pennsylvania; Freeman of Minnesota; Muskie of Maine; Holmes of Oregon; Docking of Kansas; McNichols of Colorado; Stratton of Illinois; Thompson of Wisconsin; Durnell of New Hampshire; O'Neill of Ohio; Handley of Indiana; Smylie of Idaho; Boggs of Delaware; Johnson of Vermont; Anderson of Nebraska; Davis of North Dakota.

McCarthy-Communism Controversy
Scope and Content Note

Materials in this file include a letter from Westbrook Pegler relating to Oakes' review of a book about McCarthy; a letter concerning new evidence in the Hiss case; papers concerning Fifth Amendment cases on the Times; a debate by correspondence on a McCarthyism program on which Oakes appeared; a long letter from John Howe on Cardinal Spellman coming out for McCarthy and the “Who has Joe hurt?” theory.

There is also a long memorandum of a trip to Washington, D.C., June 28-30, 1954, in which appear statements by Lyndon E. Johnson; Charles E. Potter of Michigan; Homer Ferguson of Michigan; J.W. Fulbright of Arkansas; John F. Kennedy; Prescott Bush of Connecticut; A.S. (Mike) Monroney of Oklahoma; Stuart Symington of Missouri; William Knowland of California; Stuyvesant Wainwright of New York; and Max Rabb (Secretary of the Cabinet and member of the White House staff). These statements reflect the general feeling, at that time, that the McCarthy censure would not come to a vote.

A report, November 17, 1954, on the censure debate is in the form of a letter.

The final portion of the McCarthy file is made up of materials relating to the “Dear Grace, Dear Iphigene” letters. There is a long memorandum from Ralph de Toledano to Mrs. Roosevelt defending McCarthy against Oakes; a memorandum from Oakes to Mrs. Sulzberger; copies of some of the letters exchanged by Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Sulzberger; and a clipping of Westbrook Pegler's column relating to these letters.

Reports, Interviews With Government Officials, Washington
Note: In reverse chronological order except that 1960 is at the end of the list

1958 February 5-8
Scope and Content Note: Principal issue discussed is the recession. The report includes statements by the following:

• Sherman Adams - Ike is a “fragile mechanism”
• Meade Alcorn - The GOP is looking up after a bad year
• William F. Knowland
• Paul Butler
• Lyndon Johnson - Alleges he is not a Presidential candidate and that his interest in missiles is nonpolitical
• Styles Bridges
• Mike Monroney - Kennedy is trying too hard too soon
• Lister Hill
• Paul Douglas - Discusses unemployment
• Henry Jackson
• Joseph S. Clark
• Stuart Symington - Comments on the inadequate defense program
• Hubert Humphrey
• Secretary Folsom - Comments on the educational bill
• George Allen (USIA)
• John F. Kennedy- Defends his authorship of Profiles in Courage

1957 November 12-15; December 3-4
Scope and Content Note

Principal subject is foreign affairs. The report includes statements by the following:

• Christian Herter - The Arabs are accepting the reality of Israel
• C. Douglas Dillon - Russian foreign aid is starting to amount to something
• Clarence Randall - Comments on reciprocal trade
• Paule Nitze - Dulles sees himself as the “lone fighter against the forces of evil”
• Stuart Rockwell - Favorable comments on the Arabs; says that Jordan will be cut up
• William S.B. Lacy
• Francis Wilcox
• Charles Owsley
• J. William Fulbright - Eisenhower should resign
• Carl Durham
• Hertzog (Israeli Ambassador to the United States) - The whole Middle East is in danger from Russia
• Dean Acheson

Principal subject is domestic affairs. The report contains statements by the following:

• Paul Butler
• Lyndon Johnson and Speaker Rayburn - Comment on Stevenson and the bipartisanship question
• James Douglas and Malcolm Maclntyre - Comment on the missile gap
• Arthur Larson - Eisenhower is weak
• Attorney General William Rogers - Comments on the new internal security program
• Gordon Gray
• William Proxmire
• Clifford Case

1957 May 7-10
Scope and Content Note: The report includes statements by the following:

• Richard Nixon - Comments on the budget and taxes and their relation to the voters; USIA; and the school bill mess
• Meade Alcorn
• Arthur Larsen (USIA)
• Styles Bridges
• Thruston Morton
• Margaret Chase Smith
• Charles E. Potter
• Christian Herter - Comments on the Mideast mess
• Rountree (Undersecretary for the Mideast)
• Max Rabb
• Lyndon Johnson - Believes he is attacked unfairly; miffed that Rayburn does not get such treatment
• Monroney
• John F. Kennedy
• Paul Douglas - The Liberal Democrats control conventions, but the South controls Congress
• Joseph S. Clark
• Patrick V. McNamara
• Frank Church
• Henry S. Reuss

1957 January 30-February 1
Scope and Content Note: Principal subjects are the Mideast crisis and the “direction” of the Democrats. The report contains statements by the following:

• Lyndon Johnson - Defensive about leadership and sensitive to criticism; particularly contemptuous of Humphrey; does not want and is not competent to be President; jealous of Rayburn
• Fulbright - Expresses no confidence in Dulles
• Mansfield
• Lausche - Eisenhower's liberalism is a Republican flash in the pan
• Russell - Should cut foreign aid
• Clark
• Carroll
• Paul Butler
• George McGhee
• Knowland
• Cooper - Eisenhower's Mideast program is too military and too exclusively anti-Communist
• Morton
• Case

1956 April 28
Scope and Content Note: The report includes statements by the following:

• Cotton
• Allott
• Jiggs Donohue
• Solicitor General Sobeloff

1956 January 30-February?; February 29-March 1
Scope and Content Note: The report contains statements by the following:

• Goldwater - For Nixon
• Kefauver - Comments on why Stevenson cannot win
• Gore - Eisenhower will run
• Dirksen
• Clinton P. Anderson
• Neuberger
• Monroney
• Kuchel
• Case - Eisenhower should ditch Nixon; Israel could beat the Arabs, but the Communists would move in
• Symington
• Jackson
• Hennings
• Max Rabb
• Udall
• Felix Frankfurter
• John F. Kennedy - Gloomy about Democratic chances

1955 December 6
Scope and Content Note: Interview with Nixon. Nixon comments on the “electability” of candidates; says that farm prices are not important after the farmers have voted.

1955 December 6
Scope and Content Note: The report contains statements by the following:

• Douglas
• Mansfield
• Ives
• Knowland

1955 January 18-21
Scope and Content Note: Principal subject is the Democrats' search for a program. The report includes statements by the following:

• Mansfield
• Neuberger
• Morse
• Knowland
• Doughs
• Halleck - Eisenhower has to run
• Max Rabb - Eisenhower is security conscious
• Cain - We need more freedom and less “security”

1954 June 28-30
Scope and Content Note: Report reflects optimism of the Republicans. Statements by the following are included:

• Johnson - McCarthy is dangerous, but he (J.) refuses to take part in anti-McCarthy moves; it's an internal Republican matter

1954 January 11-15
Scope and Content Note: Subjects covered include McCarthy, the Bricker Amendment, and the farm program. The report contains statements by the following:

• Nixon
• McLeod - Comments on immigration
• Halleck
• Wainwright
• Rayburn
• Anderson
• Sparkman
• Monroney - McCarthy will have to turn on Eisenhower
• Johnson
• Kennedy
• Douglas
• Knowland
• Millikin
• Mrs. Smith
• Symington
• Max Rabb
• Hagerty
• Javits
• Raskin
• Streibert

1953 February 16-20
Scope and Content Note: The report includes statements by the following:

• Nixon
• Taft
• Millikin
• Aiken
• Ives
• Knowland
• Dirksen
• Hendrickson
• Secretary of the Interior McKay
• Sparkman
• Douglas
• Mansfield
• Monroney
• Johnson
• John F. Kennedy
• Jackson
• Gore

1952 May 4-8
Scope and Content Note: Democratic politicians do not like Kefauver, according to this report. There are statements by the following:

• Douglas - Comments reveal that the nomination might be forced on him
• Harriman
• Barkley
• Russell

1952 February 17-19
Scope and Content Note: The report includes statements by the following:

• Frank Pace - Truman will not run
• Anderson - Truman should not run; Eisenhower should come home; Taft is desperate
• Hennings
• Benton - Has advised Truman not to run
• Kerr
• Kilgore
• Bridges
• Nixon - no fear of the Communists as an internal menace, but as part of the world picture
• Hendrickson
• Ives

1952 January 14-16
Scope and Content Note: Things which come out in the report are: no Democrat thinks that Truman will run again; no one knows which Republican will run; no one has the stomach for a fight with McCarthy (among the Wisconsin congressmen).

, 1951 September 30-October 3 (Governors' Conference)
Scope and Content Note: The report contains statements by the following:

• Earl Warren
• Driscoll
• Dewey
• Kohler
• Peterson
• Brunsdale
• Lee
• Lodge
• Stevenson - Much to do in Illinois
• Wright
• Talmadge
• Shivers
• Wetherly
• Fuller Warren
• Williams

1951 September 26-28

Scope and Content Note

• Taft - Am not responsible for McCarthy; no support for Eisenhower
• Douglas - Eisenhower should run
• Fulbright - Eisenhower should run; RFC clean now and should not be scrapped
• Hennings - Truman's “friends”
• Kefauver
• Morse
• Monroney
• Duff

1951 May 11-16
Scope and Content Note: Opinions coming from this report include: cease fire is imminent; if the Republicans could hold the election now, they could win with a wooden Indian. The report includes statements by the following:

• Pace - Comments on MacArthur and “victory” ramifications
• McGhee - Comments on Mideast oil
• Parrett - Comments on overseas information
• Taft
• McMahon
• Douglas
• Winthrop Brown - Comments on world trade

1950 December 11-13
Scope and Content Note: The report includes comments by the following:

• Douglas - No appeasement
• Taft
• Lehman
• McCarran - Comments on people of subversive intent
• Ives
• Knowland
• McCarthy - Admits he wants to destroy the administration and Acheson in particular
• Wherry
• Pace
• Surgeon General Perlman
• State Department - Comments on the need for balance between Israel and the Arabs

1960 January 18-22
Scope and Content Note: John F. Kennedy and Johnson still do not have enough votes; Stevenson is waning; Hubert Humphrey would run as vice-president with anybody; Symington strong because he is everybody's second choice. The report contains statements by the following:

• Johnson - Hubert Humphrey is a joke
• John F. Kennedy - Am putting everything into Wisconsin
• Hubert Humphrey - Gives Johnson no chance
• Symington
• Clinton B. Anderson
• Dirksen
• Joseph S. Clark
• Thruston Morton - Comments on farm problems and Benson
• Paul Sutler - Democrats cannot win with Johnson
• Frank Church
• Henry Jackson
• Douglas
• Gore
• Rayburn
• S. Wainwright - Republicans are all reactionaries
• George McGovern
• A. G. Rogers - Rockefeller should run as vice-president
• Dr. Keith Glennon (NASA)