HAROLD E. STASSEN: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society

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HAROLD E. STASSEN:

An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society

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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
	Creator:	Stassen, Harold Edward,1907- .
	Title:	Harold Stassen papers
	Date:	[1910s]-1999 (bulk 1938-1980).
	Abstract:	Papers documenting the life and career of a former Minnesota governor, presidential contender, naval officer, United Nations charter delegate, and Eisenhower cabinet member.
	Quantity:	212.0 cu. ft. (215 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description section for box locations.

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BIOGRAPHY OF HAROLD STASSEN

Harold Stassen was born on a farm in Dakota County, Minnesota on April 13, 1907, the fourth of William A. and Elsie (Mueller) Stassen's five children. He graduated from St. Paul's Humboldt High School at the age of 14, and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1929.

Stassen opened his first law office in South St. Paul (November 1929) with Elmer J. Ryan as his partner. He was elected Dakota County attorney the same year and served two terms. In 1938, at the age of 31, Harold Stassen was elected Governor of Minnesota, the youngest governor in the state's history. He was reelected governor in 1940 and, again, in 1942.

Four months into his third term Stassen resigned and enlisted in the Navy (April 27, 1943). He served as Admiral William F. Halsey's assistant chief of staff, was decorated three times, awarded six major battle stars, and was in charge of the Navy's prisoner evacuation program in Japan. He was released from active service on November 15, 1945. During his Naval service Stassen was selected by President Roosevelt as a delegate to the United Nations charter conference in San Francisco (April-June1945).

Stassen was a strong contender for the 1948 Republican nomination for President but was defeated by Thomas Dewey at the G.O.P. national convention. Following the campaign Stassen served as president of the University of Pennsylvania (1948-1953). Stassen also ran a strong campaign against Senator Robert Taft of Ohio for the 1952 Republican presidential nomination, but both Stassen and Taft were defeated by General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In 1953 President Eisenhower chose Stassen as a member of his Cabinet and the National Security Council. He served as director of the Mutual Security Agency and the Foreign Operations Administration. In 1955 Eisenhower appointed Stassen as Special Assistant to the President for Disarmament Policy and was the chief U.S. negotiator at the 1957 London Arms Control Negotiations.

In July and August of 1956 Stassen took a leave of absence from the Eisenhower cabinet and tried unsuccessfully to convince delegates to the Republican National Convention to replace Richard Nixon with Christian Herter (then Governor of Massachusetts) as Eisenhower's vice presidential running mate.

When the London Arms Control Negotiations ended in a stalemate and in disagreement with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Stassen resigned his cabinet position (February 18, 1958) and moved to Philadelphia where he practiced law and continued his involvement in politics.

He campaigned unsuccessfully for governor of Pennsylvania (1958 and 1966) and for mayor of Philadelphia (1959). In 1978 Stassen moved back to Minnesota and ran a senatorial campaign for the U.S. legislature. In 1982 he campaigned for the Minnesota governorship and in 1986 for the fourth district congressional seat. He also campaigned as a Republican for the U.S. Presidency in every election except 1956, 1960, and 1972.

Raised as a Baptist, Stassen was active with regional Baptist associations as well as many other religious organizations. He was vice president of the Northern Baptist Convention in 1942, national co-chairman of its World Mission Crusade in 1946, and a state regional chair for major gifts of the World Mission Campaign in 1967. He was president of the Convention in 1963-1964 during which time he led a tour to Moscow to meet with members of Russia's Baptist All Union Congress. As Governor of Minnesota, throughout his naval service, and into his University of Pennsylvania presidency, Stassen served as the president of the International Council on Religious Education and helped merge that organization with the National Council of the Churches of Christ in 1950. After their merger, Stassen continued by participating in the Council's Division of Christian Education. In 1946 and 1949 he participated with the National Conference of Christians and Jews on publicity for their annual observance of Brotherhood Week. In the latter 1960s and early 1970s Stassen also participated with the U.S. Inter-religious Committee on Peace which sponsored a series of conferences on religion and peace.

Harold Stassen married Esther G. Glewwe on November 14, 1929 and they had two children: a son, Glen Harold, and a daughter, Kathleen Esther.

Biographical data was taken from Robert E. Matteson, Harold Stassen: His Career, the Man, and the 1957 London Arms Control Negotiations (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.: Desk Top, Inc., 1993), and from the collection.

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SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION

The principal strengths of the collection lie in its representations of mid-twentieth century Republican Party dynamics and United States international relations.

A major portion of the papers relate to Stassen's involvement in Minnesota and national Republican politics, most notably his 1938 gubernatorial campaign and his 1948 and 1952 presidential campaigns. One notable aspect of this coverage is the documentation of strategies and organizational structures Stassen utilized in order to conduct campaigns which broke from the traditional emphasis on Republican party leadership, instead relying on grass roots campaigning. This strategy of bringing the campaign to the people necessitated an abundance of speeches, the coordination of protracted campaign tours entailing numerous stops, the administration of local campaign headquarters, and extensive correspondence between campaign officials, prospective supporters, and the public in general.

Juxtaposed to Stassen's belief in grass roots campaigning is a significant amount of material documenting his relationships with several key national and state Republican Party figures including Thomas E. Dewey, Robert A. Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, Earl Warren, Warren Burger, Amos J. Peaslee, Edward J. Thye, Joseph Ball, Elmer Ryan, George MacKinnon, Bernhard M. Shanley, Bernard W. LeVander, and Elizabeth P. Heffelfinger.

Stassen's advocacy of the United States as a leading participant in international affairs is reflected in a significant portion of the papers. His resignation as Minnesota's governor in order to enlist in the Navy during World War II was, in part, motivated by his conviction that the country was ill served by isolationist tendencies. Papers related to Stassen's involvement in the development of the United Nations charter illustrate his role in fostering international cooperation, his efforts at forwarding the position of the United States as a global leader, and his emergence as a negotiator in international relations.

After the war the United States' involvement in international relations continued to play a significant role in Stassen's political career. European recovery and the international spread of Communism were important issues during Stassen's 1948 and 1952 presidential campaigns and are well documented in the collection. Papers related to Stassen's posts within the Eisenhower administration deal almost exclusively with international issues, particularly domestic security concerns raised during the Cold War, foreign aid, and nuclear disarmament.

Although the bulk of the collection relates to Stassen's career prior to leaving the Eisenhower Administration in 1958, the remaining papers, though not as extensive, provide documentation of his continued work in politics and internationalism throughout the second half of the century. Stassen continued his activity in Republican politics, campaigning not only in presidential elections but in state and municipal elections as well. He remained outspoken in his views regarding contemporary public policy issues and events such as American involvement in the Vietnam war, the Nixon impeachment proceedings, the Iraq-Kuwait Crisis of 1990-1991, and the evolving role of the United Nations.

In addition to that portion of the collection related to his work in government and politics Stassen's interest in international relations is also reflected in a substantial amount of material concerning his participation in various professional and religious associations. The most notable of these would be the International Council on Religious Education, the Committee on Constitutional Aspects of International Agreements of the American Bar Association, the Crusade for Freedom, the American Baptist Convention, and the U.S. Inter-religious Committee on Peace.

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ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLECTION
	These records are organized into the following sections:
	Personal Papers:
		Biographical and Ephemeral Material.
		Interviews and Articles.
		Photographs and Drawings.
	Campaigns and Politics:
		Political and Gubernatorial Activities, 1933-1942.
		1944 Presidential Campaign.
		Political Activity, 1945-1946.
		1948 Presidential Campaign.
		Political Activity, 1948-1951.
		1952 Presidential Campaign.
		Political Activity, 1952-1957.
		1958 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Campaign.
		1959 Philadelphia Mayoralty Campaign.
		Political Activity, 1960-1992.
	Naval Service:
		Correspondence and Related Material.
		War Diaries.
		POW Repatriation.
	United Nations:
		Conference on International Organization, 1945-1948.
		Charter Anniversaries and Revisions, 1970-1991.
	Eisenhower Administration:
		Correspondence and Memoranda, 1952-1958.
		Mutual Security Agency/Foreign Operations Administration, 1952-1957.
		Mutual Security Agency, 1952-1954.
		Foreign Operations Administration, 1953-1957.
		Special Assistant to the President on Disarmament Policy, 1953-1958, 1963.
	Organizational Memberships:
		Civic and Professional Organizations, 1948-1973.
		Religious Organizations, 1940-1974.
	Engagements, Speeches, and Publications:
		Schedules, 1948-1986 (bulk 1948-1958).
		Engagements, 1945-1986 (bulk 1948-1968).
		Speeches, 1938-1993.
		Publications, 1939-1999.

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RELATED MATERIALS
	See also: Minnesota. Governor (1939-1943 : Stassen): various series in the Minnesota State Archives.
	A variety of print materials written by or related to Harold Stassen are available in the Minnesota Historical Society book collection.
	Additional photographs of Harold Stassen and his family are available in the Minnesota Historical Society sound and visual collection.
	An interview with Harold Stassen conducted in June 1991 is available in the Minnesota Historical Society oral history collection.

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INDEX TERMS
	This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
	Topics:
		Electioneering.
		Governors -- Minnesota.
		Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1948.
		Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1952.
		World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines.
		World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Japanese.
		Disarmament.
		Universities and colleges - - United States - - Administration.
		Labor disputes -- Minnesota.
		Church work.
	Places:
		Minnesota -- Politics and government -- 1918- .
		United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
	Persons:
		Stassen, Esther Glewwe.
		Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
		Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971.
		Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913- .
		Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959.
		Benson, Elmer Austin, 1895- .
		Thye, Edward John, 1896- .
		Ball, Joseph H. (Joseph Hurst), 1905- .
		Halsey, William Frederick, 1882-1959.
		Peaslee, Amos Jenkins, 1887- .
		Ryan, Elmer J., 1907-1958.
		Matteson, Robert Eliot, 1914-1994.
		Boyington, Gregory.
	Organizations:
		Minnesota. Governor (1939-1943 : Stassen).
		Minnesota. Division of Conciliation.
		United Nations -- Charters.
		United Nations -- Disarmament Commission.
		Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
		United States. Navy. Fleet, 3rd.
		United States. Mutual Security Agency.
		United States. Foreign Operations Administration.
		United States. Special Consultant to the President on Disarmament Policy.
		Republican National Committee (U.S.).
		University of Pennsylvania -- Presidents.
		Citizens for Stassen (Minneapolis, Minn.).
		Neighbors for Stassen (Minneapolis, Minn.).
		American Bar Association. Committee on Constitutional Aspects of International Agreements.
		Crusade for Freedom.
		American Baptist Convention.
		World Conference on World Peace Through the Rule of Law.
		International Council of Religious Education.
		National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
		Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report.
		National Fund for Medical Education (U.S.).
		United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945 : San Francisco, Calif.).
	Types of Documents:
		Campaign speeches.
		Photographs.
		Video recordings.
		Motion pictures (information artifacts).
		Sound recordings.
	Occupations:
		Politicians -- Minnesota.
		Statesmen -- United States.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
	Restrictions:
		Access: Until 2020, access to certain files requires written permission. Restricted materials are noted in the Detailed Description section of this inventory. Please consult the reference staff for more information.
		Some original items bearing autographs have been placed in the MHS reserve collection (Res. 62, Box 214). A photocopy of each item remains in the Stassen papers.
	Preferred Citation:
		[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Harold Stassen Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
		See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
	Accession Information:
		Accession numbers: 4934; 4959A; 9417; 10,937; 12,515; 12,772; 12,812; 14,359; 14,450; 15,564
	Processing Information:
		Processed by: Frank Hennessy, February 1995; Frank Hennessy and Monica Manny Ralston, January 2000.

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below.

PERSONAL PAPERS

Biographical and Ephemeral Material

Location

Box

143.E.9.5B

Biographical data.

Family and genealogical data.

Miscellaneous correspondence and related papers, 1939-1991.

Christmas lists, 1948-1958.

Passports and travel documents, 1949-1962.

School papers, undated and 1923-1938.

Appointments, awards, and certificates, 1928-1990.

Location

Box

142.G.8.4F-1

Appointments, awards, and certificates, undated and 1932-1982. 2 folders

Diplomas and honorary degrees, 1919-1967. 2 folders and 1 rolled document.

Location

Box

142.E.7.4

215

Diplomas and honorary degrees: Temple University, 1949.

Interviews and Articles

Location

Box

143.E.9.5B

Voices of Governors, May 9, 1963.

Interview on John Foster Dulles, June 3, 1966.

Interview with Harold Stassen by Ed Edwin, April 4, 1967.

"Stassen and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1958: 'Opportunities to Serve'," by Tadd Johnson, Spring 1979.

Photographs and Drawings

Location

Box

142.G.8.4F-1

Portraits:

Harold E. Stassen, [1940s-1970s]. 3 folders

Harold E. Stassen family, [1940-1948].

Additional photographs of the Stassen family are filed within the various portions of the Campaigns and Politics series.

Esther G. Stassen, [1938], 1948.

Location

Box

143.E.9.6F

Harold E. Stassen, [1920s-1980s].

Drawings: Harold E. Stassen, [1938], 1948.

Harold E. Stassen, University of Minnesota, 1925, 1927.

William A. and Harold E. Stassen families, [1910s-1953].

Martha Pate[t] Glewwe, undated.

Photograph of a painting of her mother by Esther Glewwe Stassen.

Canoeing-Fishing Trip, Basswood Lake region, Minnesota, undated.

Location

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142.G.8.4F-1

Canoeing-Fishing Trip, Basswood Lake region, Minnesota, undated.

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CAMPAIGNS AND POLITICS

Political and Gubernatorial Activities, 1933-1942

Location

Box

143.E.9.5B

"Harold Stassen and the Rebirth of the Republican Party," by H. Henry Southworth, 1963.

A report describing Stassen's involvement in the creation of the state's Young Republican League, his role in state Republican politics during the 1930s, and his 1938 campaign for the governorship.

Notes and correspondence relating to Armour Packing House strike, 1933.

Location

Box

143.E.9.5B

Correspondence, 1934-1937. 5 folders

Consists primarily of correspondence with Elmer J. Ryan, Stassen's law partner and Minnesota congressman (1935-1941). Topics include management of their South Saint Paul law office and various issues including patronage, a drought relief bill for Minnesota farmers, and state politics in general.

1936 Republican National Convention: Delegate pass, June 1936.

Location

Box

143.E.9.7B

1938 Gubernatorial Campaign:

Miscellaneous correspondence and related papers, 1938. 4 folders

Stassen for Governor Volunteers:

Campaign paraphernalia, 1938.

Lists and account book, 1938.

Employee questionnaires, [1938].

Mass Mailings:

Lists and reports, 1938. 2 folders

Received and completed, 1938.

Are They Communists or Catspaws?

A booklet published by Ray P. Chase alleging Communist Party connections within Governor Elmer Benson's administration. There are also a few pieces of campaign literature primarily related to a controversy over the validity of photographs which appeared in Chase's booklet and a statement by photographer George Miles Ryan attesting to the authenticity of the photographs.

Benson campaign literature, 1938.

Benson speeches, 1938.

Election statistics:

1st, 2nd, 7th, 8th, and 9th congressional districts. 5 folders.

Location

Box

+257

212

1938 gubernatorial vote by counties.

Location

Box

143.E.9.7B

Farmer-Labor literature, 1938. 2 folders

Press:

Editorial comments, 1938 2 folders

Releases in primary campaign, 1938.

Releases to dailies:

All party, 1938. 2 folders

Republican Central Committee, 1938

Releases to weeklies:

All parties, 1938.

All parties: Special releases to counties, 1938.

Republican Central Committee, 1938

Location

Box

143.E.9.8F

Releases, 1939.

Weekly articles, 1939-1940.

Speech material. 5 folders

Location

Box

142.e.7.4

215

"Victory in '38": newspaper clippings complied by Web Coffee, May-November 1938. 3 scrapbooks.3 scrapbooks.

Location

Box

143.E.9.8F

Political Activity, 1938-1943:

The papers in this section relate to Stassen's three terms as Minnesota 's governor including his 1940 and 1942 gubernatorial campaigns. Other records related to Stassen and his administration may be found in the Minnesota State Archives.

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, undated and 1939-1941. 7 folders

Location

Box

143.E.9.6F

Photographs, 1938-1943.

Location

Box

142.G.8.4F-1

Portraits (photographs): Harold E. Stassen, 1938-1943. 3 folders

Political cartoon, 1940.

Location

Box

143.E.9.8F

Subject Files:

All-Party Citizens Committee: State employment recommendations, 1939.

Campaign: Special, 1940.

Chase, Ray P.: "A Story of Shocking Facts and of Abortive Efforts to Suppress Them," 1940.

A highly critical campaign booklet focusing on Saint Paul business executive, Myron William Thatcher's personal life, business practices, and relationship with President Roosevelt and Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace.

Fifth Columnists, 1940.

Harold Stassen Speaks, 1942.

Excerpts from speeches given by Stassen (1938-1942) exemplifying his social, economic, and political philosophy regarding agriculture, business, government, and the personal rights of the individual. Includes index.

Hughes, Fred (Stassen for Governor Volunteers): Radio address, September 9, 1940.

LeVander, Bernhard W., undated and [ca. 1938]-1942. 2 folders.

Location

Box

143.E.9.9B

Lists, undated and 1939-1940.

Lommen, George H., 1941.

Location

Box

143.E.9.9B

Manitoba-Minnesota Project: The Midcontinent and the Peace, April 1,1943.

Manuscript of a report issued jointly by the universities of Manitoba and Minnesota presenting research into possible problems that the prairie provinces of Canada and the central northwest states of the U.S. would face at the end of World War II.

Minnesota Republican State Chairmen's meeting, June 19-21, 1941.

Morning Hiawatha publicity (Milwaukee Road), 1939. 2 folders

Newspaper clippings related to Governor Stassen's participation in the inauguration of the Milwaukee Railroad's new streamliner, the Morning Hiawatha. Stassen worked for the railroad while he attended law school.

Peterson, Hjalmar: Addresses, 1940.

Political, State:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1939-1941. 6 folders

Congressional districts: 1st-5th, 1939-1941. 5 folders

Political, National, 1940. 2 folders

Politics:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1942. 5 folders

County voting maps, [194-?].

Publicity budget, 1938-1943.

Republican, 1940-1942.

Location

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143.E.9.10F

Republican, 1940-1942. 2 folders

Republican National Convention: Stassen's keynote speech, 1940. 2 folders

Shipstead, Henrik.

Speech material. 2 folders

Stassen, Mrs.: Correspondence, undated and 1938-1948.

Location

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143.E.9.10F

"Storm Over the Union." 3 folders

Transcript of an unpublished work by Alfred P. "Pat" Blair, the State Labor Conciliator during Stassen's second term as governor (1940-1941). The work recounts events in 1941 surrounding the arrests of some thirty people connected with the Socialist Workers Party in Minneapolis on charges of sedition and a labor hearing dealing with a related struggle for control of Teamsters Local Union 544 between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Blair presided over the hearing and a decision was handed down certifying the American Federation of Labor as the union's representative.

Wilkie presidential campaign, 1940.

News clippings:

Politics, 1939-1941. 2 folders

Junior Chamber of Commerce Award, January 1940. 2 folders

Nationwide newspaper coverage of Stassen's reception of an award from the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce as the country's outstanding young man in 1939.

General, 1939-1942. 3 folders

Scrapbooks:

Location

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142.F.15.5B

1934-1938. 2 volumes

Location

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142.F.15.6F

1938-1942. 3 volumes and 3 unbound volumes.

1944 Presidential Campaign, 1939-1944

While serving in the Pacific during World War II Stassen was promoted by a group of supporters at home as a Republican presidential candidate for the 1944 election. A resolution passed by the Minnesota Republican State Central Committee (November 22, 1943) pledged its support for an effort to obtain the Republican presidential nomination for Stassen. The Minnesota Republican Volunteer Stassen for President Association was organized within the Republican State Central Committee and a second group called the Stassen-for-President Committee, chaired by the Republican State Central Committee chairman R.C. Radabaugh, worked to garner local and national support for Stassen. Stassen was to be nominated at the 1944 Republican National Convention by Minnesota Senator Joseph H. Ball but due to overwhelming support for Thomas Dewey the Minnesota delegation decided not to place Stassen's name as a nominee.

The bulk of these files were kept by Earl Christmas and relate to his management of the campaign's publicity. Additional material related to Stassen and the 1944 Presidential campaign may be found in the Main subject files and Campaign files of the Minnesota Republican State Central Committee papers in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections.

Location

Box

143.E.10.1B

Correspondence, October 1943-1944. 2 folders

Earl Christmas Campaign Files:

Church activities, 1941-1943.

Letters:

General distribution, March-April 1944.

Nebraska, 1943-1944.

Oregon, 1944.

South Dakota, 1943-1944.

Washington, 1944.

Military service, 1942-1945.

National radio, 1943.

News clippings, 1944. 2 folders

Peace volunteers, 1943.

Picture data, 1939-1943.

Radabaugh, Dr. R.C.: Republican State Committee Chairman, 1943.

Stassen in Nebraska, 1943-1944. 2 folders

Stassen in South Dakota, 1943-1944.

Stassen in Wisconsin, 1943

Stassen newspaper stories:

Minnesota, 1943-1945.

Nebraska, 1943-1944.

South Dakota, 1943-1944.

Wisconsin, 1943-1944.

Unfavorable comment, 1944.

Criticism, 1939-1944.

Statistics on Congressional votes, 1939-1941.

Youthful leaders, undated and 1939.

Ball, Senator Joseph H.:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1942-1944.

News clippings, 1944. 3 folders

Speeches, articles, etc., 1942.

Fraser, Everett, "Why I am Supporting President Roosevelt," August 25, 1944.

Minnesota Republican State Convention, 1944.

News clippings, 1943-1944. 4 folders

Location

Box

143.E.9.6F

Stassen Appreciation Day, South St. Paul, Minnesota:

Photographs, March 31, 1944.

Location

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151.A.3.1

WMIN (St. Paul) radio broadcast, March 30, 1944. 1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm ; 16 inches.

Location

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142.G.8.4F-2

Motion picture, March 30, 1944. 1 film reel : color ; 16 mm.

Location

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143.E.10.1B

Thye, Edward, 1943-1944.

Political Activity, 1945-1946

Location

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143.E.10.2F

Minnesota state politics, 1946. 2 folders

News clippings:

Miscellaneous, 1945.

Minnesota, March-April, 1946.

Cleveland, Ohio, March-April, 1946.

Newspaper excerpts and editorials:

Government, 1939-1940.

Labor, 1938-1946.

Minnesota campaigns, 1937-1943.

Republican Party, 1942-1946.

Tolerance/Goodwill, 1937-1946.

Wendell Willkie, 1940, 1946.

Polls, 1943-1946. 2 folders

Schedules, undated and 1945-1946.

Speech requests: Mailed, 1945-1946. 2 folders

Stassen, Articles on, 1940-1946.

Stassen: Editorial comment (outside Minnesota), undated and 1940-1946. 2 folders

Steelman Report, October 1946.

Travel expenses, 1945-1947.

1946 congressional elections:

Canvassing reports: Correspondence, May-August 1946.

Alfred Lindley: Reports on Republican congressional filings, April-May 1946.

California: Murray Chotiner's reports, April-August 1946.

Illinois: Matteson's report, May 20, 1946.

Indiana, May-August 1946.

Kansas, August 1946.

Kentucky, May-September 1946.

Missouri, August-October 1946.

New Mexico, May-November 1946.

Ohio, undated and September 1946.

Oklahoma, July-August 1946.

Virginia, April-September 1946.

West Virginia, August-September 1946.

Battleground districts: California-Wyoming, 1946. 2 folders

Primary candidates and results. 2 folders

Congratulatory letters, August 1946.

Miscellaneous papers, March-October 1946.

1948 Presidential Campaign, 1939, 1945-1948

This section documents the central issues and major events of the campaign, as well as its organizational structure and administration. The campaign employed what was considered at the time a new strategy consisting of heavy campaigning and a stress on winning primaries rather than reliance on the support of party leaders. The first item in this section is a photocopied article published in Minnesota History, entitled " 'A Major Contender': Harold Stassen and the Politics of American Presidential Nominations," by Alec Kirby. Researchers are referred to this article for a thorough overview of the campaign.

Location

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142.A.6.1B

" 'A Major Contender': Harold Stassen and the Politics of American Presidential Nominations." Minnesota History, Winter 1996-97.

Stassen for President National Headquarters:

Correspondence:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers:

Undated and 1945-June 1948.

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142.A.6.2F

June 1948-August 1948.

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142.A.6.3B

August-October 1948.

Key men and women, 1945-1948:

A-Ha.

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142.A.6.4F

He-Y.

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142.A.6.5B

States, 1945-1948:

Correspondents include politicians, businessmen, campaign workers, and ordinary citizens reflecting the grassroots nature of Stassen's campaign. A sampling of prominent issues discussed would include labor, the United Nations, Israel and Palestine, European relief and the Marshall Plan, Russia, communism, housing, grain futures, the St. Lawrence Seaway, state primaries, and Catholicism. Speech and article requests, engagement clarifications, honorary memberships, autograph solicitations, non-monetary gifts, fund raising requests, and greeting cards are also included.

Alabama-California (A-V).

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142.A.6.6F

California (W-Z)-Florida (A-R).

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142.A.6.7B

Florida (S-Z)-Illinois(A-S).

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142.A.6.8F

Illinois (S-Z)-Iowa (A-Z).

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142.A.7.1B

Iowa (special)-Massachusetts (A-S).

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142.A.7.2F

Massachusetts (T-Z)-Minnesota (A-D).

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142.A.7.3B

Minnesota (E-N).

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142.A.7.4F

Minnesota (O-Z and special)

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142.A.7.5B

Minnesota (special)-Nebraska.

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142.A.7.6F

Nevada-New York (A-B).

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142.A.7.7B

New York (C-L).

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142.A.7.8F

New York (Mc-Z and special).

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142.A.8.1B

New York (special)-Ohio (A-G).

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142.A.8.2F

Ohio (H-Z)-Oregon.

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142.A.8.3B

Pennsylvania-Tennessee.

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142.A.8.4F

Texas-Wisconsin (A-E).

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142.A.8.5B

Wisconsin (F-Z)-District of Columbia (A-J).

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142.A.8.6F

District of Columbia (K-Z)

Alabama-District of Columbia: Unfiled.

Canadian and foreign, 1945-1948.

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142.A.8.7B

Administration:

Appointments:

Schedules, 1946-June 1948. 5 folders

Meetings and luncheons: Attendance lists, 1946-1948.

Engagements and trips: Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1946-1948.

Letters of appreciation, 1946-1948.

Programs, undated and 1939-1946. 4 folders

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142.A.8.8F

Programs, 1947-1948.

Western trip photograph album, February 15-28, 1948.

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142.G.8.4F-1

Bumper stickers.

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142.A.8.8F

Burger, Warren: Memos, 1948.

Campaign literature. 2 folders

Campaign meetings and conferences:

New York meeting, December 11, 1946.

New York luncheon: Off the record conference, September 8, 1947.

New York meeting: Agenda, September 8, 1947.

Men's meeting (St. Paul, Minnesota): Agenda, December 29, 1947.

Women's meeting: Women's City Club (St. Paul, Minnesota), December 30, 1947.

Meeting agenda, January 3-5, 1948.

Illinois conference, January 3, 1948.

New York conference, January 6, 1948.

Minneapolis conference: Agenda, March 14, 1948.

Conferences: Staff and state headquarters,

Location

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142.A.8.8F

Confidential:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, undated and 1944-1948.

Memo on campaign management, January 14, 1948.

Contacts:

Contact men, 1948.

Special contacts: U.S.

Directive of organization:

Wisconsin supplement.

New Hampshire supplement.

Location

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F.B.I.

Access to this file is restricted until 2020.

Finances:

General, 1946-1948.

Income and expenses, 1946.

Minnesota Fund, 1944-1947.

Inter-office memos, reservations, etc., 1945-June 1948. 8 folders

Location

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142.G.8.5B-1

Fund contributions compiled by Alfred Lindley: Alabama-Wyoming, 1948.

3 x 5 cards containing contributor names and addresses and the date and amount of contribution.

Location

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142.A.8.8F

Larson, Ed: Attention, undated and 1947-1948.

Liaison representatives:

Meeting: Questionnaire, July 19, 1946.

Meeting: Stassen home, June 25, 1947.

Location

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142.A.9.1B

Miscellaneous, 1946-1948. 3 folders

Lists, undated and 1944-1948.

Miscellaneous individuals connected with the campaign.

Memoranda:

Preliminary inter-office, 1947.

Suggestions by Harold Stassen, undated and 1946-1947.

To state headquarters, undated and 1948.

Personnel:

Questionnaires.

Applications, 1945-1948. 3 folders

Plan of Action, 1947.

Reference file.

Stassen, Harold: for attention and disposition, 1948.

Location

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142.A.9.2F

State Headquarters:

Memos, 1948.

California, southern headquarters: Correspondence, October 1947-May 1948. 3 folders

Eastern States Headquarters: Correspondence, September 1947-June 1948. 5 folders

Illinois for Stassen, October 1947-May 1948.

Missouri, 1946-1948.

Nebraska: Stassen for President, 1948.

New Hampshire: Stassen for President, 1947-1948.

North Dakota, 1946-1948.

Ohio for Stassen, 1948.

Oregon for Stassen, undated and 1948.

Pennsylvania: Stassen for President, 1947-1948.

Southern States headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia, 1948.

Washington State headquarters, 1948.

Washington, D.C., 1948.

Wisconsin: Stassen for President, 1947-1948.

Earl Christmas files (Director of Publicity):

Acme Newspictures, 1947.

Arnolt, Fred W., 1947.

Location

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142.G.8.5B-1

Contact cards: Alabama-Wyoming.

3 x 5 index cards containing names, addresses, remarks, and quotations pertaining to Stassen supporters.

Location

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142.A.9.2F

Kaltenborn, H.V., 1948.

Kersten, Charles J., February 1948.

Labor relations.

Liaison, 1946.

Republican State Chairman, 1947.

San Francisco Conference comment, 1945.

Stassen-Dewey debate (Oregon), May 17, 1948.

Stassen and Dewey photographs.

Stassen's statements.

Survey, 1946.

State Campaigns:

State headquarters Staff, 1948.

Illinois, 1948.

Missouri, 1948.

Nebraska, 1948.

New Hampshire, 1948.: Statement, etc., 1948.

Oregon: Statement for campaign booklet, 1948.

Pennsylvania, 1948.

Location

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142.A.9.2F

Washington, 1948.

Wisconsin, 1948.

Voting trends survey: Truman and GOP, 1945.

Republican Open Forums, 1946-1948. 6 folders

Stassen-Dewey debate:

Correspondence, 1948. 3 folders

Location

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142.A.9.3B

Opening statements and rebuttal, May 17, 1948.

Background material. 2 folders

Subject files:

Administrative organization: National government., 1946.

American Veterans Committee (AVC), 1946-1947.

Agriculture, 1945-1948.

Arnall, Ellis: debate, 1946.

Atomic energy, undated and 1946-1947.

Ball, Senator Joseph H., 1946-1948.

Biographical sketch, 1946-1947.

Buttonholers for Stassen, 1948.

Campaign issues: Suggestions, 1947. 2 folders

Coal strike, 1946.

College Republican Club, 1946.

Commodities investigation, 1947-1948. 2 folders

Communism:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1947-1948. 4 folders

Mundt Bill, 1948.

Congress, 80th.

Criticism, undated and 1938-1947.

Dewey, Thomas E., undated and 1944-1945.

Dewey-Warren Dollar Certificate Fund, 1948.

Editors: Letters to, 1948.

European Recovery Program and shipments to Russia: Research data, 1948.

Hoof and mouth disease, 1946-1948.

Labor, 1946-1948.

Life articles, 1948.

MacArthur, General Douglas, 1948.

Medical care / health, 1948.

Midwest Republican State Chairmen's Association Conference: Resolutions, May 10, 1947.

Military training, 1945.

Minnesota:

Comments on government of, 1946-1947.

State politics, undated and 1946-1948.

Missouri Valley Development Association, 1948.

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142.A.9.3B

Motion picture group: House Un-American Activities Committee investigation, 1947.

Movies project: "Round Trip," 1947.

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142.A.9.4F

NAM Committee: Walter M. Ringer correspondence, 1947-1948.

National Committee to Aid Strikers, 1946.

Negro material, 1946-1948.

Neighbors/Citizens for Stassen, 1947-1948. 4 folders

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142.F.15.5B

News clippings, out of state, February-April 1947. 1 volume.

Location

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142.A.9.4F

Office of Price Administration, 1946.

Palestine, Poll tax, 1948.

Plattes, Cy: "The People vs. Money Politics," June 1946.

Radio.

Republican Party:

Finance information from George Jones, 1946.

General, 1945-1947.

Minnesota Republican State Convention: Stassen for President resolution, 1946.

Officer lists, 1947-1948.

Republican Coordinating Committee, 1947.

Republican National Committee: Speakers Bureau, 1945-1948.

Republican State Central Committee ( St. Paul, Minn.), 1946-1948.

Republican Work Shop, 1945-1947.

Young Republicans, 1946-1948.

Russia, Shipment to, 1948.

Saltonstall, Senator R. (Massachussetts), Voting record of, 1947-1948.

Senate Committee on Labor and Education, February 7, 1947.

Slander / Cranks, 1946-1948. 3 folders

Small business and labor (Matteson).

SOPAC reunion, 1946.

Stalin-Stassen conference, 1947.

Stassen, Harold E.: Naval service memorandum.

Stassen, Mrs., undated and 1947.

Articles and notes regarding Mrs. Stassen's life and character including a typescript copy of Brenda Ueland's column "What Goes On Here," published in the Minneapolis Times, October 20, 1947.

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142.A.9.4F

Taft, Robert A.:

Correspondence, March-May 1948.

News clippings, 1946-1948.

Taxation, undated and 1946-1948. 3 folders

Television, 1948.

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142.A.9.5B

Voter-specific groups:

Educators for Stassen, 1946-1948.

Insurance Men for Stassen, 1947.

Lawyers for Stassen, 1946-1948.

Salesmen for Stassen, 1947-1948.

Students for Stassen, 1948.

Veterans for Stassen, 1948.

Voter survey, June 1947.

Warren, Governor Earl, 1948.

West Virginia, 1948.

Wheat: Agriculture reciprocity, 1946.

Wisconsin primary, 1948.

Wofford, Harris, Jr.: "The Challenge of One World," 1947.

Women's Public Relations Committee, 1947.

Yugoslavia invitation, 1947.

Eastern states headquarters (Amos J. Peaslee's files):

Advertising, 1948.

Conference-Waldorf, February 5, 1948.

Convention, 23rd Republican National, June 26-28, 1948:

Correspondence, 1948.

Correspondence-New Jersey, 1948.

Documents, 1948.

Chairman's Letter, 1948.

Workers, 1948.

Delegates.

Correspondence:

New Jersey:

General, 1948.

Republican State Committee, 1948.

New York:

Headquarters, May-June 1948.

Republican State Committee, 1948.

Out of Area, 1948. 2 folders

Miscellaneous: A-B, 1948. 2 folders

Finance:

Correspondence, 1948.

Documents, 1948.

Lawyers for Stassen, 1948.

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142.A.9.5B

Life Magazine: Stassen story, February 1948.

MacArthur, Douglas:

Correspondence, 1948.

Documents, 1948.

Office memoranda, 1948.

Out of area: Correspondence, 1948. 2 folders

Peaslee, Amos J. (Officer In Charge), 1945-1947. 3 folders

Political data: 12 states, 1940 and 1944.

Polls:

Miscellaneous, 1948.

Roper, 1948.

Press, undated and 1948.

Press pictures, 1948.

Primaries:

New York, 1948.

Wisconsin, 1948.

Report, March 26, 1948.

Speakers Bureau: "Where Stassen Stands," April 19, 1948.

Statements by Harold Stassen on a variety of campaign issues.

Stassen, Harold E.:

Correspondence with, 1948.

Speaking invitations, 1948.

Tentative schedule, March-April 1948.

Stassen supporters:

Correspondence, 1948.

Correspondence (New Jersey), 1948.

State offices:

Connecticut: Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign documents, January-June 1948. 3 folders

Delaware: Correspondence, January-June 1948.

Maine: Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign records, January-June 1948. 2 folders

Maryland: Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign documents, February-June 1948. 2 folders

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142.A.9.6F

Massachusetts:

Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign documents, January-June 1948. 3 folders

Republican National Convention delegates, 1948.

New Hampshire:

Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign documents, January-June 1948. 2 folders

Republican National Convention delegates, 1948.

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142.A.9.6F

New Jersey: Republican National Convention delegates, 1948.

New York:

Political situation: Documents, 1948.

Correspondence, January-June 1948. 2 folders

New York Committee:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, January-June 1948.

Men's list, 1948.

Miscellaneous campaign documents, 1948.

Delegates: Correspondence, January-June 1948.

Pennsylvania: Correspondence and miscellaneous campaign documents, January-June 1948. 2 folders

Rhode Island: Correspondence, January-June 1948.

Vermont: Correspondence, January-June 1948.

Students for Stassen:

Documents, 1948

Correspondence:

New Jersey, 1948.

New York, 1948.

Television, 1948.

Thomas, Norman, 1948.

Travel:

Mid-November trip, 1947:

Miscellaneous, November 1947.

Midwest trip: General memos, November 1947.

Press releases, November 1947.

Western/Southern trip:

Miscellaneous, 1947-1948.

Detroit, November 1947.

Little Rock, Arkansas, November 1947.

New Orleans, November 1947.

Western trip, January 9-21, 1948.

New England trip, January 25-31, 1948:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, January 1948. 2 folders

Schedule, January 1948.

Personnel, finances, and miscellaneous related papers, 1948.

Western trip, February 16-29, 1948.

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142.A.9.6F

Oregon trip, April 24, 1948.

Trip, May 1948.

Vandenburg.

Wallace, Henry: Documents, 1948

Neighbors/Citizens for Stassen:

General correspondence and miscellaneous related papers: Arizona-Georgia. 9 folders

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142.A.9.7B

Illinois-Wisconsin. 30 folders

The Minnesota Letter, May 4, 1946-June 9, 1948.

The Minnesota Front, 1947.

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142.G.8.5B-2

Contact card files, 1948:

Business leaders: A-Z.

Minnesota: Ada-Redwing.

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142.G.8.6F-1

Minnesota: Redwood Falls-Zumbrota.

Minneapolis: A-Z (missing Cy-G).

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142.G.8.5B-1

St. Paul: A-Z.

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142.A.9.7B

Subject files (A):

Agriculture.

Atomic bomb, etc.

Ball, Joseph H.

Baptist.

Bibliography.

Budget.

Candidacy (statement and comment).

Cartoon.

C.I.O.

Citizens for Stassen:

Organization: Miscellaneous correspondence and related papers.

Speeches.

Articles.

Commodity speculation (Pauley).

Communism.

Conservation.

Controls.

Convention, 23rd National Republican, 1948.

Dewey-Stassen debate, May 17, 1948.

D.F.L.

Dictator.

Displaced persons.

Drummond, Roscoe: articles.

Economics.

Education.

Election (primary): Minnesota, 1946.

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142.A.9.7B

Election (primary): Miscellaneous, 1946.

Election (general): Minnesota, 1946.

Election (general): Miscellaneous, 1946.

Esther Stassen.

Fair employment practices.

Food.

Foreign aid and foreign policy.

Forums.

General comments.

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142.A.9.8F

Health.

Headquarters bulletin, 1948.

Hennepin County committee.

Housing.

Inflation.

Labor.

Letters.

Liberalism.

Liberalism: Reactionary.

Mackinac Conference, July 1945.

Magazines: Miscellaneous.

Middle West.

Military.

Minnesota: Convention: State issues.

Miscellaneous. 2 folders

National Committee.

National delegates.

Navy.

Neighbors for Stassen.

New blood for G.O.P.

New York Times.

Other candidates.

P.A.C.

Party politics.

Party system.

Personal.

Polls: (Gallup, Roper, Minnesota, etc.).

Presidential nomination.

Press comments.

Press (freedom of).

Price control and rationing.

Public lands.

Racial.

"Reaping the Red Whirlwind," August 15, 1950.

Recent material, 1949-1951.

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142.A.9.8F

Reciprocal trade.

Religion.

Rent control.

Republican Party.

Republican policy.

Résumé of correspondence with H.E.S., July 16, 1948.

Role of the voter.

Russia.

St. Cloud.

San Francisco Conference and H.E.S.

Small business.

Speaking.

Stalin-Stassen.

Stassen's new method of campaigning.

Stassen's stands.

Stassen's Washington office.

State Central Committee.

Taft.

Taxes and budget.

Trip abroad, 1947.

United Nations.

Vandenberg, Arthur.

Veterans.

Warren, Earl.

Wisconsin.

Women.

World federation.

World peace-unity.

World trade.

Writing.

Youth.

Subject files (B):

Bankers for Stassen, 1947.

Baptist situation, 1947.

Carleton letters, 1947-1948.

Clergy, 1948.

Clubs.

Convention, 1948 National Republican:

Housing.

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142.A.10.1B

Telegrams. 2 folders

Druggists, undated and 1948.

Eisenhower: William Burnham.

European trip, 1947.

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142.A.10.1B

Fund drive: Lists completed: Certificates, cards, acknowledgments, 1948. 5 folders

Gale, Mrs. Richard P., undated and 1947.

General, 1947.

Group directors: Form letters, 1946-1948.

Group leaders, 1947.

Gyro Club, 1947.

Hart, Earl E., 1947-1948.

Heffelfinger, Mrs. F. Peavey, 1947.

Hegman, Mrs. Ralph, 1946.

Hughes, Fred, 1948.

Investment group, 1947.

Insurance group, 1947.

Lawyers for Stassen, undated and 1947.

LeVander, Bernard, 1947.

Liaison Committee, 1947.

Lien law, 1946-1947.

Lindley, Alfred, 1946-1948.

McCarthy, Joseph:

Wisconsin Letter, March 31, 1948.

Speech on behalf of delegates for Stassen: Milwaukee Journal Radio Forum, April 3, 1948.

Miscellaneous, 1947-1948.

Milwaukee kick off, 1947.

Minnesota groups, 1947-1948. 2 folders

Mitchell, Mrs. Ruth, 1947-1948.

Neighbors reports

"On Wisconsin," 1948.

Old form 1.

Paul Revere Riders of '48:

S.I. Olson: Correspondence and lists, 1948.

Wisconsin, 1948. 2 folders

Polls file.

Press announcements, 1947.

Printed matter:

Citizens for Stassen mailings (form letters, etc.), undated and 1948. 2 folders

Mimeographed material.

Samples:

Mimeographed notices and forms. 2 folders

Stassen letters, undated and 1948.

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142.A.10.2F

Procedures, Office.

Publicity, 1946.

Radio, 1946-1947.

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142.A.10.2F

Republican Open Forums, 1947.

Republican workshop, 1947-1948.

Salesmen group, 1947-1948. 2 folders

Service men's file.

Stassen, Harold E.:

General, 1947.

Correspondence, schedules, flash memos, etc., undated and 1948.

Letter to Jay Cooke regarding taxes, April 30, 1948.

Letters to Stassen: Name directory.

Arranged by state with qualifying quotes and descriptions.

Quotations from letters about H.E.S.

State Central Committee, 1947.

Students for Stassen, 1948.

Washington office, 1947.

Wells, Miss Marguerite, 1947.

Wells, S.W., 1947.

Wisconsin forms: Membership and volunteer, 1948.

Wisconsin R..E.A. letter, April 1, 1948.

Young Republicans, 1947.

Republican Open Forums:

Administration:

Correspondence, 1946-1948.

Legal memoranda, 1946.

Organization charts and flow charts.

"What Do Republican Open Forums Do?"

As of November 6, 1946: Critical analysis.

Post office business.

Promotion and publicity:

Press releases (master file), 1946-1947.

Promotion and form letters, 1946-1948.

Organization and promotion suggestions, 1946.

Promotion ideas, undated and 1946.

Publicity correspondence: Radio, 1946-1947.

Finances:

Budget and cost estimates, 1946-1947.

Petty cash reports, 1946-1948.

Costs: Cross section, 1946-1947.

Inventories: Personal property taxes, 1947.

Contribution, 1946-1948.

"Fat Cats," 1946.

Forum topics:

Subject polls, 1947-1948.

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142.A.10.2F

Discussion kits, 1946-1948.

Newsletter:

Cross Section, 1946-1948.

Artists: Ralph Ballentine and others.

Article material: Rebuffed manuscripts, undated and 1946.

Columns and their editors.

Copyrights, 1946-1947.

Editorial material (dormant).

Elmer Ryan files:

Mitch Choban: Home Town Neighbors, 1948.

Forms and literature, 1948.

Memos:

By E.J.R. (Elmer J. Ryan).

E.J.R. and Harold Stassen (H.E.S), 1946-1948.

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1947-1949.

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142.A.10.3B

Miscellaneous papers, 1947-1952. 2 folders

Minnesota elections, 1930-1947.

Neighbors for Stassen, 1946-1947. 2 folders

Polls:

Ohio poll by Kelly, 1948.

Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin Polls, January 1948.

Miscellaneous.

Stassen: Consultation, etc., August-September, 1948.

Stassen finance county drive,

Stassen schedule, 1947-1948.

Arkansas trip, 1948.

Georgia, 1947-1948.

Louisiana, 1947-1948.

Mississippi, 1946-1948. 2 folders

Oregon, 1948.

Wisconsin, 1946-1948.

Republican National Committee (RNC):

Correspondence, September 1946-1948.

The Chairman's Letter, February 1, 1946-November 15, 1947.

Labor Press Digest, January-August 1946.

Miscellaneous printed matter and related papers, undated and 1945-1948.

Minnesota Republican State Central Committee, 1946-1948.

Convention, 23rd National Republican, 1948.

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1948. 2 folders

Nomination speech for Stassen: Walter H. Judd, June 23, 1948.

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142.A.10.3B

National election results: Alabama-Wyoming, 1938-1944. 2 folders

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142.A.10.4F

Delegates:

Delegate lists, June 4 (incomplete) and June 14, 1948.

Delegates to Republican National Convention: Lists, 1948.

Alabama-Wyoming: Notebooks, 1948.

Information on individual delegate's choice of candidates, personal and political background, connections, and factors influencing their decisions.

Minnesota delegates, 1947-1948.

Regional reports sent to Warwick Hotel Headquarters, 1948.

State congressional district maps: Voting records, 1948.

Includes color coded maps representing each district's voting record, a list of senators and representatives, and the results of presidential balloting in 1940.

Statistics.

News clippings.

Supporters: Mailing lists, July-August 1948.

Post-Convention thank you letters, July-August, 1948:

A-B.

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142.A.10.5B

C-Z

European tour:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, undated and 1945-1947. 2 folders

Austria.

Belgium.

Czechoslovakia.

Denmark.

England.

Finland.

France.

Germany.

Greece.

Hungary.

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142.A.10.6F

Italy.

Norway.

Poland.

Russia.

Sweden.

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142.A.10.6F

Switzerland.

Turkey.

Yugoslavia.

Notes, February 23-April 22, 1947. 4 folders

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143.E.9.6F

Photographs, 1946-1948. 2 folders

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142.A.10.6F

Press conferences, 1946-1948. 2 folders

Statements to the press, November 1947-October 1948.

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212

Saturday Evening Post advertisement, September 7, 1946.

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142.A.10.6F

Speech background material:

General, 1946-1948. 5 folders

U.S. economy, 1947. 2 folders

Urban redevelopment, 1947.

Research, 1947-1948. 2 folders

News clippings:

Stassen, Articles on, 1942-1948. 2 folders

Scrapbook, 1946-1948. 2 folders

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142.A.10.7B

1948 Campaign by state: scrapbook. 3 folders

Alabama-Wisconsin, 1946-1948. 28 folders

General, 1946-1948. 2 folders

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142.A.10.8F

General, 1947-1948, 12 folders

Grain: Inside trading, 1947-1948.

Wisconsin, 1947.

Tour: Taft-Stassen / Dewey-Stassen, January 14-29, 1948

Western tour and New Hampshire primary, February-March 1948.

Pennsylvania primary and Oregon, 1948.

Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries, 1948

Miscellaneous notes taken by Stassen. 2 folders

Political Activity, 1948-1951

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142.A.11.1B

Correspondence:

The Alpha, Key Men and Women, and States and International series are each filed alphabetically by correspondent in approximate chronological order, comprised of sets for 1948-1950, 1950, and 1951.

Recurring topics include various requests made of Stassen as president of the University of Pennsylvania including speaking and writing assignments, book reviews and sales solicitations, and support of various religious and peace organizations. Prominent political issues include the Marshall Plan, Korea, and Communism in general; NATO and American military troops abroad; Truman and MacArthur; American isolationist versus internationalist ideologies; private versus socialized medicine; post-war economic security; and Republican politics including Stassen's potential presidential campaign in 1952.

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142.A.11.1B

Alpha:

A-Y, 1949-1950.

Miscellaneous unfiled; A-He, 1951.

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142.A.11.2F

Ho-Z, 1951.

Key men and women:

Aiken-Hall, 1948-1950.

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142.A.11.3B

Hallanan-Youngdahl, 1948-1950.

Aiken-Gallup, 1950.

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142.A.11.4F

Gamble-Zimmerman, 1950.

Adams-Johnson, 1951.

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142.A.11.5B

Jones-Youngdahl, 1951.

States and international:

Alabama-Indiana, 1948-1950.

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142.A.11.6F

Iowa-New York State, 1948-1950.

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142.A.11.7B

New York City -Wyoming; No address, 1948-1950.

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142.A.11.8F

Alabama-Minnesota (A-N), 1950.

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142.A.12.1B

Minnesota (O-Z)-Ohio, 1950.

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142.A.12.2F

Oklahoma-Wyoming, 1950.

Africa-Canada, 1951.

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142.A.12.3B

Colorado-New Hampshire, 1951.

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142.A.12.4F

New Jersey-Pennsylvania, 1951.

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142.A.12.5B

Puerto Rico-Wyoming, 1951

Subject:

These files were originally filed with the set of Key Men and Women correspondence. For ease of access, an artificial subject set was created.

American Committee on United Europe, February 1951.

Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation: Sponsoring committee, 1950.

Asia, 1949.

Atlantic Bank, 1949.

Atlantic Pact, 1949, 1952.

Austria, 1950.

The Joe Ball Washington Labor Letter, 1949.

Bills pending in Washington, 1950.

British coal industry, 1949.

British currency reform, 1950.

British medical program, 1948-1951.

British National Health Service, 1949.

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142.A.12.5B

British production, 1950.

British public schools and religious education, 1950.

Campaign material: Battleground, etc., 1949-1950. 3 folders

Correspondence and lists of nominees related to the Republican campaign strategy during the 1950 congressional and gubernatorial elections.

Capitol Hill Associates, Inc., 1950.

China, 1949-1951. 2 folders

China situation, 1949-1951. 2 folders

Civil Rights and Fair Employment Practice Commission, 1950-1952.

Churchill (books), 1950.

Columbia Broadcasting System, 1950.

Committee on the Present Danger, January-March 1951.

Communism, 1949-1952.

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142.A.12.6F

Jay Cooke campaign, 1950. 2 folders

Correspondence and speeches related to Stassen's endorsement and active support of Jay Cooke's Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign.

Crank letters, 1949-1951. 5 folders

Dictaphone copies (outgoing correspondence), February-November 1951.

Economics, 1948-1952.

Education, 1948-1951.

Eisenhower mailing:

In early February 1951 Stassen sent a mass mailing urging individuals to support the American policy and program recommended to the Congress and American people by General Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme commander of the newly organized NATO forces. Both Eisenhower and Stassen advocated American participation in the rearmament of Western Europe including the assignment of U.S. ground forces.

The bulk of the material consists of letters sent in response to the mailing stating the respondent's opposition to the Eisenhower letter.

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142.A.12.6F

Letter upholding Eisenhower's Policy, 1951.

Includes draft and final copies of Stassen's original letter (February 1951) and a second letter (May 2, 1951) sent to Republican leaders who responded to the earlier letter. Copies of speeches (1950-1951) Stassen made related to this issue are also included.

Eisenhower letter-opposed:

Arizona-Wyoming (Except Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania), 1951. 2 folders

Illinois: Alpha, 1951. 3 folders

Indiana: Alpha, 1951. 2 folders

Ohio: Alpha, 1951.

Pennsylvania: Alpha, 1951.

European Recovery Program, 1949-1950.

European Union, 1950.

Farmer-Labor, [1948-1951].

Form correspondence, 1951.

Formal opening of New York and Washington headquarters (Stassen for President), November 1951.

Germany, 1948, 1952.

Housing, undated and 1949.

Income tax laws, 1951.

India, 1949-1951.

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142.A.12.7B

Labor, 1949-1950.

Letters of recommendation, 1949-1951.

Lincoln Day, February 1950.

Mailings, 1950.

Man Was Meant to Be Free:

Correspondence regarding the publication of Amos Peaslee's selection of Stassen's speeches.

Amos Peaslee, February-October 1951. 2 folders

General correspondence, September-November 1951.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology convocation address, 1949-1950. 2 folders

Includes the text of an address made by Winston Churchill as well as correspondence regarding Stassen's speech.

National Analysts, Inc. (Cy Coggins), 1950.

National defense, 1948-1951.

Navy (United States), 1949, 1951.

New Zealand and Australia, 1949.

Nkrumah, Kwame (African Gold Coast), 1951.

Location

Box

142.A.12.7B

Office equipment and supplies. 1949-1950.

Pardon parole file, 1951.

Pennsylvania state government, 1949-1951.

Personal papers, 1948-1952.

Philadelphia Bulletin Forum, August-September 1951.

Philadelphia city elections, 1950.

La Prensa (daily newspaper Argentina), 1951.

Press (letters from and to, lists), 1950.

Primaries (1952), 1951.

Publicker, Philip: Memo, 1951.

Re-elections letter (congratulations and replies), 1948. 2 folders

Republican Party:

Foreign affairs policy, 1950.

National Republican Committee, 1948-1951. 4 folders

National Republican Congressional Committee, 1950.

Republican National Convention:

1948 delegates.

1952 convention, May 1951.

Republican Advance Movement, 1950.

Republican lists for addressing, 1949-1951. 2 folders

Young Republicans, 1949, 1951. 3 folders

Requests for autographs and photographs, October 1950-June 1952.

Roper, Elmo: "Where the People Stand," January-July 1951.

Russia, 1948-1950.

Schweitzer, Albert, 1951-1952.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1949.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Statement on Asiatic economic policy, [1950].

Senate testimony regarding conference on Asiatic policy, October 1951. 2 folders

Stassen posters, 1948-1949.

State Department:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1949-1952.

Meeting with Ambassador Philip C. Jessup, 1949.

State taxes, 1950.

United Nations, 1950-1952.

Location

Box

142.A.12.8F

University and related subjects, 1950-1952.

University of Pennsylvania:

Faculty meetings, 1951-1952.

Four Years at Pennsylvania, September 17, 1948-January 19, 1953: A Report to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 1953.

News clippings, 1948, 1952.

Location

Box

143.E.9.6F

Photographs:

Portraits: Harold E. Stassen, 1948-1952.

Engagements and speaking events, undated and 1948-1952. 2 folders

An original photograph of Stassen with Frank Lloyd Wright has been placed in the MHS reserve collection (Res. 62, Box 214). A photocopy of this photograph remains in the collection.

Location

Box

142.A.12.8F

U.S. medical program, 1948-1952. 2 folders

Water routes and conservation, 1952.

Wolverton health bills, 1950-1951.

World tour, December 3, 1950-January 9, 1951:

Responding to invitations presented to him by Asian leaders Stassen took a leave of absence from the University of Pennsylvania in order to travel through Asia and Africa and around the world. In a statement issued December 2, 1950 Stassen indicated that he was making the tour "_ in the hope that I might be enabled to make some increased future contribution to the hopes of world peace." and stated that the purpose for the trip was "_ listening and looking rather than talking, for studying rather than news."

Trip highlights included visits with several prominent international figures including General Douglas MacArthur; India's Prime Minister Jawaharial Nehru; Golda Meir and David Ben-Gurion in Israel; and Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

Correspondence, 1950-1951. 2 folders

Itinerary, December 2, 1950-January 9, 1951.

Diary, December 3, 1950-January 9, 1951.

Location

Box

143.E.9.6F

Photographs, 1950-1951.

Original photographs of Stassen visiting Dr. Albert Schweitzer at Lambaréné have been placed in the MHS reserve collection (Res. 62, Box 214). Photocopies of these photographs remain in the collection.

Location

Box

142.A.12.8F

Report, January 15, 1951.

Stassen's presented his report of the tour in an address entitled "Round the World Report: Victory without War" broadcast nationally over the American Broadcasting Network. The report outlines Stassen's observations regarding Communism and the world situation and his belief that the chief objective of American foreign policy should be "_ to win a victory, for civilization and freedom, over Communist imperialism, without a world war."

Thank you letters, 1951.

News clippings, 1950-1951.

Youngdahl, Luther: Minnesota Gubernatorial campaign, 1950.

News clippings:

Before November 2, 1948.

After November 2, 1948.

Convention (1952), 1951.

Crusade for Freedom, 1951.

Foreign policy, 1951.

International newspaper clippings, articles, etc., 1948-1949.

Military service, 1951.

Minnesota, 1948-1949. 2 folders

Miscellaneous G.O.P., 1948-1950. 2 folders

Red aggression (Stalin, Korea, etc.), 1951.

Republican policy, program, etc., 1951.

Stassen, Harold, 1949-1950. 2 folders

Location

Box

142.A.13.1B

Mrs. Harold E. Stassen:

This portion of the collection reflects the activities of Esther Glewwe Stassen while Harold Stassen served as president of the University of Pennsylvania and as a member of the Eisenhower administration. Included are correspondence and subject files documenting her club and civic organization memberships, her social engagements, and household matters.

Location

Box

142.A.13.1B

Correspondence, A-Z, 1948, 1957.

Subject files, 1946-1956

Acorn Club, 1949-1953.

Camp Fire Girls, 1948-1956.

Campaign data relative to Mrs. Stassen, 1946-1948.

Children's concerts (Academy of Music), 1949-1950.

Christmas, 1949.

Church affairs, 1953-1954.

Clubs and organizations:

Pennsylvania, 1948-1950.

Washington, 1953-1956.

Community Chest, 1949.

Contributions, 1949.

Cosmopolitan Club, 1949-1954.

Delta Zeta, 1949-1950.

Entertainment:

Miscellaneous events, 1949-1951.

University lists, 1950.

Undergraduate Council dinner, May 3, 1950

Women Senate dinner, May 8, 1950.

University Student Council, May 11, 1950.

Dinner for Trustees, June 12, 1950.

Commencement luncheon, June 14, 1950.

Dinner honoring Dr. and Mrs. G. Holmes Perkins, October 3, 1950.

Dinner honoring Dr. and Mrs. Knutson and Commencement, February 9-10, 1951.

Dinner honoring Dr. Chester Barnard and Joseph Willets, February 19, 1951.

Student dinners at Stassen home, May 19, 26, and 28, 1952.

Trustees dinner, June 2, 1952.

Dinner in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Henry M. Wriston, June 17, 1952.

Commencement, June 18, 1952.

Faculty Tea Club, 1948-1952.

Hospital Board, 1949.

League of Women Voters, 1953-1954.

Memorandum (to Mrs. Stassen from Millie J. Coleman), 1948-1956.

National Conference of Christians and Jews Women's Division, 1949-1950.

News clippings regarding arrival in Washington, 1953-1954.

Location

Box

142.A.13.1B

Philadelphia Orchestra Association, 1949-1950.

Recipes, 1953-1955.

Republican Women of Pennsylvania, 1948-1950.

Residence:

Household affairs, 1948-1950.

Home matters:

University of Pennsylvania (8212 St. Martin's Lane), 1948-1953.

3312 R Street, Washington, D.C., 1952-1953.

105 E. Blackthorn Street, Chevy Chase, Maryland, 1953.

Location

Box

142.A.9.1B

Schedules, 1950-1952.

Second Baptist Church of Germantown, 1949-1950.

Springside School, 1948-1949.

University activities and invitations, 1949-1950.

William Penn School, 1948-1950.

1952 Presidential Campaign, 1950-1952

The 1952 presidential campaign was spear-headed by a small group of Stassen's supporters who organized as an Executive Committee with the idea that the campaign would differ from 1948 by being a campaign managed by Stassen's supporters rather than by Stassen actively engaging the grassroots element. The Executive Committee was composed of Warren Burger, Daniel C. Gainey, Amos J. Peaslee, Elmer Ryan, and Bernard M. Shanley with Shanley as campaign chairman. Political headquarters were centered in Washington, D.C. and financial headquarters were located in New York city.

The main components of this series include Stassen's correspondence and subject files; files of Bernhard W. LeVander, chairman of the Minnesota Stassen for President Volunteer Committee; and files kept by Amos J. Peaslee.

Prominent issues include the formation of campaign strategy based on the likelihood of Eisenhower's entry as a candidate; the establishment of a gold standard to curb inflation, balance the budget, and provide full employment; voluntary profit sharing to improve labor and race relations; a more efficient federal government; and a foreign policy addressing Communism, internationalism, and economic aid.

Location

Box

142.A.13.2F

Correspondence:

Miscellaneous unfiled, 1951-1952. 6 folders

A-Z (outgoing), December 1951-June 1952.

General memoranda.

Anonymous and unfiled, October 1951-June 1952.

Key men and women, 1950-1952:

Ade-Coleman.

Location

Box

142.A.13.3B

Cooke-Peaslee.

Location

Box

142.A.13.4F

Peaslee-Warren.

Location

Box

142.A.13.5B

States and international:

Pre-convention, 1950-July 1952:

Alabama-Illinois.

Location

Box

142.A.13.6F

Indiana-New Jersey (A-Q).

Location

Box

142.A.13.7B

New Jersey (R-Z)-Pennsylvania (A-K).

Location

Box

142.A.13.8F

Pennsylvania (L-Z)-Wyoming.

Post-convention, July 1952-January 1953:

Africa-Illinois.

Location

Box

142.A.14.1B

India-Wyoming.

Minnesota Stassen for President Volunteer Committee (Bernhard W. LeVander, Chairman):

Memos, February 1952.

Correspondence, February-March 1952. 3 folders

Correspondence: A-T, 1952. 13 folders

Location

Box

142.A.14.2F

Barbers for Stassen, February 1952.

Congressional districts:

Committees (lists), [1952].

Correspondence, 1st-9th, 1952.

Counties: Aitkin-Wright, 1952.

Delegate list.

Delegates-at-large:

Bertelsen, S.A., [1952].

Heffelfinger, Elizabeth, January-February 1952.

Lund, Duane, February 1952.

Nelsen, Ancher, February 1952.

Peterson, P.K., February 1952.

Thye, Edward J., February 1952.

Doctors for Stassen, February 1952.

Farm program, February 1952.

Finance, February 1952.

Literature requests, February-March 1952.

Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous lists (churches, etc.), [1952].

Office, February 1952.

Philadelphia headquarters, January-February 1952.

Platform, [1952].

Press releases, 1952.

Publicity pieces, [1952].

Radio and television, March 1952.

Republican Party state organization list, 1950-1952.

Salesmen for Stassen, February 1952.

Speeches:

Miscellaneous, 1952.

Baptist Convention, May 9, 1947.

Location

Box

142.A.14.2F

San Francisco, January 18, 1952.

States:

Illinois, January-February 1952.

Nebraska, January 1952.

Ohio, February 1952.

South Dakota, January-February 1952.

Washington, February 1952.

Wisconsin, January-February 1952.

Out-of-state, December 1951-February 1952.

Students for Stassen, February 1952.

University of Pennsylvania leave, December 1951.

Volunteers, December 1951-February 1952.

Location

Box

142.A.14.3B

Amos J. Peaslee's files:

Included are memoranda to Stassen from Peaslee regarding strategic matters such as the location of campaign headquarters, the timing for Stassen's candidacy announcement, Stassen's relationship with Republican candidates Eisenhower and Taft, press relations, re-enlisting the support of 1948 Stassen delegates and contacts, and Peaslee's delegate material from the National Republican Committee. Also included are a set of reports Peaslee prepared for Stassen describing the Republican leaders and political climate of each state.

File list, 1950-1951.

Address lists, 1951.

American Legion, 1951.

Biography, Stassen, 1948, 1952.

Burger, Warren, 1950-1952.

Campaign reference manual: New Jersey Republican State Committee, 1951.

Candidacy announcement, 1951-1952.

Candidacy announcement dinner, December 27, 1951.

Chestnut Hill conference, October 28, 1951.

Churchill: University of Pennsylvania, May 8, 1951.

Dewey, Thomas, 1950-1951.

Driscoll, Alfred E., 1950-1951.

Editorial, general and press, 1950-1952.

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1951.

Executive Committee, 1951.

Farm dinner, April 9, 1948.

Financial, 1950-1952.

Gabrielson, George, 1950-1952.

Gabrielson dinner, January 12, 1951.

Gainey, Daniel C., 1949-1952.

Location

Box

142.A.14.3B

Headquarters: Washington and New York, 1951-1952.

Heffelfinger, Elizabeth and F. Peavey, 1950-1952.

Herman, Albert, 1950-1951.

Hoover, Herbert, 1950-1951.

Issues.

Jessup hearing, October 1951.

June conference:

Correspondence, June 23, 1951. 2 folders

Miscellaneous related papers, June 23, 1951.

Labor, 1951.

Letters to delegates, 1951-1952.

Lindley, Alfred D., 1950.

McCarthy, Joseph, 1951.

Man was Meant to be Free:

Acknowledgment of receipt of book, 1951-1952.

Memos and drafts, 1951.

Memoranda and papers, 1950.

Memos to Stassen from Peaslee, 1949-April 1952. 2 folders

Miscellaneous papers, 1951-1952.

National Republic Publishing: Envelopes "Republican News," 1951.

Negro vote, 1951-1953.

Location

Box

142.A.13.4F

New England, 1951.

News commentators.

News clippings, 1950-1952.

Policies, 1951.

Polls, 1950-1952.

Presidential primary and delegate laws, 1951.

Primaries, 1951-1952.

Public relations, 1952.

Radio and television, 1951-1952.

"Reaping the Red Whirlwind," August 15, 1950.

Republican National Committee:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1949-1951.

National Committee meetings, 1951-1952.

Republican National Convention:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1951-1952.

Correspondence, June-July 1952.

Location

Box

142.A.13.5B

Delegate books:

States: Alabama-Wyoming, 1952.

Alaska, Hawaii, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, 1952.

Location

Box

142.A.13.4F

Printed matter, 1952. 2 folders

Republican statistics and principles, 1950-1952.

Ryan, Elmer J., 1949-1952.

Schedule: Stassen, 1951-1952.

Secretaries of states: Correspondence for directories, 1951.

Shanley, Bernard M., 1949-1952.

Southern trip, November 1951.

Speech (Grand Rapids): Advertising, February 1950.

Stalin letter:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, October 1950.

Release of letter to Joseph Stalin, October 1, 1950.

News clippings. 2 folders

Stassen, Conferences with, undated and 1952.

Stassen for President clubs, 1952.

Stassen supporters, 1951.

Location

Box

142.A.13.6F

State reports by Amos J. Peaslee, 1950-1951.

State correspondence and documents: Alabama-Wyoming and Territories, 1947-1952.

Location

Box

142.A.14.4F

Stevenson, Adlai: "The Myth of Adlai Stevenson," 1952.

Taft, Robert A., 1948-1952.

Tope, John, 1951.

Trip to San Francisco, January 1952.

Truman, Harry S., 1950-1951.

Waldorf conference, September 1950.

Warren, Earl, 1951.

Washington Newsletter (National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs), 1951.

Willkie, Mrs. Wendell, 1950-1951.

Working papers: Peaslee.

World trip, 1950-1951.

Young Republican Federation, 1950-1951.

Location

Box

142.A.14.6F

Elmer J. Ryan files:

1944 presidential campaign.

Convention arrangements (Chicago), 1952.

Correspondence, 1950-1956. 2 folders

Montana, 1951.

Nebraska, 1950-1952. 2 folders

Neighbors for Stassen, 1951.

Ohio, 1951-1952.

Peaslee, Amos: Correspondence, July 1951-April 1952.

Shanley, Bernard: Correspondence, July-November 1951. 2 folders

South Dakota, 1951-1952.

Location

Box

142.A.14.6F

Stassen:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, undated and 1948-1950. 2 folders

Location

Box

142.A.14.7B

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, undated and 1951-1952.

Man was Meant to be Free promotion, 1951.

Meeting (Peaslee Farm), June 23-24, 1951.

Meeting records, 1951.

Minnesota Polls, 1951.

News clippings, 1950-1956.

Primary file, 1952.

Speech material, undated and 1951.

Wisconsin Drive meeting, March 16, 1952.

Washington trip, October 28-November 2, 1951.

Location

Box

142.E.7.4

215

Campaign poster and bumper stickers.

Location

Box

143.E.9.6F

Photographs:

Portraits, engagements, and speaking events, 1951-1952.

Location

Box

142.G.8.4F-1

Harold Stassen with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican National Convention, July 1952.

Location

Box

142.A.14.7B

Subject files:

Appreciation letters, 1952.

Campaign form letters, 1951-1952.

Campaign literature file, 1952.

Candidacy announcement:

Friends of Stassen dinner, December 1951-January 1952. 3 folders

Location

Box

142.G.8.4F-2

A "Better Deal" for the American People, December 27, 1951. 1 film reel (ca. 30 minutes): sound, b&w; 16 mm + 1 script and 1 speech text.

Location

Box

142.A.14.7B

Committee on the Present Danger, 1951-1952.

Contribution letters, 1952.

Dentists for Stassen, 1952.

Dictaphone copies, 1951.

Lists: Press, 1952.

McGrath, J. Howard, 1952.

Mailings to key people, 1952.

Matteson, Bob:

Acheson, Dean, 1950-1951.

Agriculture:

Black, John D., 1947-1950.

Brannan Plan, 1948-1952. 3 folders

Federal crop insurance, 1948-1950.

Hoover Reorganization Commission: Department of Agriculture, 1949-1951.

Location

Box

142.A.14.7B

Lovre, Harold O. : Farm bill, 1950.

Memos to Stassen and miscellaneous related papers, 1950-1952.

Air Force, 1948, 1952.

Eisenhower, 1948, 1952.

Memos to Stassen and miscellaneous related papers, undated and 1948-1952. 5 folders

Location

Box

142.A.14.8F

Politics, 1948-1953.

Speech material, 1949-1951. 2 folders

Speech material: Abraham Lincoln, 1950.

Taft, Robert: Statements, etc., 1952.

U.S. foreign policy, 1948-1950.

Meetings, 1952.

Minnesota Republican Central Committee: Resolution urging Stassen's candidacy, [1951].

Miscellaneous notes, [1951-1952].

Miscellaneous past engagements, 1951-1952.

Miscellaneous past statements, 1952.

Missouri Valley Authority, 1951.

National Federation of Young Republicans, 1951-1952.

National Republican Committee:

Correspondence, 1952.

Miscellaneous, 1951-1952.

Republican National Convention, 1952:

Aides.

Balloting estimates, May-June 1952.

Catalogues, lists, etc.

Convention memoranda.

Correspondence:

Congratulatory.

Miscellaneous.

Pro-Eisenhower.

Pro-MacArthur.

Pro-Taft.

Delegates. 2 folders

Eisenhower (printed material).

Equipment, posters, booklets, buttons.

Hotel arrangements.

Keynote address by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, July 7, 1952.

Minnesota delegation.

Miscellaneous material.

Mrs. Stassen.

News clippings.

Location

Box

142.A.14.8F

North Assembly room, Stassen headquarters.

Officers.

Location

Box

142.G.8.4F-2

The Republican Dilemma, June 26, 1952. 1 film reel (30 minutes) : sound, b&w ; 16 mm + 1 script.

Location

Box

142.A.14.8F

Resolutions Committee.

Statements, releases, etc.

Statement to Platform Committee, July 1, 1952.

Statement to the press upon returning from the convention, July 13, 1952.

Television, radio and press.

Ticket requests.

News clippings:

General, 1949-1952.

Cartoons, 1948, 1951.

Declaration as candidate, October 1951.

Speeches, 1951.

Stassen's chances in 1952, 1950-1951.

Stassen fund, 1952.

Various state primaries, 1951.

Platform, 1952.

Predict the president contest (Philadelphia Inquirer), [1952].

Presidential news, 1952.

Press conference, Washington, D.C., January 3, 1952.

Press releases, 1951-1952.

Location

Box

142.A.15.1B

Primaries:

California: Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1952.

Illinois: Delegates, 1952.

Minnesota: Delegates, 1952.

Nebraska: Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1952.

New Hampshire: Delegates, 1952.

New Jersey: Delegates, 1952.

Ohio: Delegates, 1952.

Oregon: Delegates, 1952.

Pennsylvania: Delegates, 1952.

West Virginia: Delegates, 1952.

Wisconsin: Delegates, 1952.

Program, 1952.

Radio and television, 1952.

Speeches:

Drafts.

Announcement of candidacy speech, Warwick Hotel, December 27, 1951.

Location

Box

142.A.15.1B

"A Better Deal for the American People," Washington, D.C., January 3, 1951.

Radio Station WCCO, St. Paul, January 16, 1952.

Milwaukee Junior Chamber of Commerce, January 17, 1952.

"Stands of Four Republicans in the Running," January 18, 1952.

Republican National Committee Meeting, San Francisco, January 18, 1952.

V.F.W. Women's Auxiliary Dinner Address, January 23, 1952.

"Solid Dollar," Willimantic, Connecticut, January 26, 1952. 2 folders

Southern Illinois Republican Dinner, Decatur Illinois, January 29, 1952.

"Profit Sharing and Freedom Sharing," Baltimore, Maryland, February 7, 1952.

Lincoln Dinners of the Oklahoma and Utah Republican Parties, February 11-12, 1952.

Stassen:

Confidential, 1951-1952.

Confidential drafts (Miscellaneous), 1952.

Information sheet, [1952].

Stassen plan for military service.

Stassen for President:

Nebraska headquarters, 1952.

New York headquarters, 1951-1952.

Washington headquarters, 1952.

Stassen Interview: U.S. News and World Report, 1952.

Location

Box

151.A.3.2

211

"The Stassen March" and "The General Eisenhower March," University of Pennsylvania Summer School Band; Dr. Harvey Wilson, conductor, July 31, 1952. 1 sound disc ; 10 in.

Location

Box

142.A.15.1B

Stassengram, 1952.

Stassen's accomplishments, Statements of, [1952].

Stassen's stands on issues by Robert E. Matteson, February 1952.

State chairmen, 1951-1952.

Statements, [1952].

Students for Stassen, 1952. 3 folders

Tabloids, 1952.

Telephone and television installations, 1952.

Union League membership, 1952.

Vatican letters, 1951-1952.

Location

Box

142.A.15.1B

Volunteer work for headquarters, [1952].

Wisconsin campaign audit, 1952-1953.

Political Activity, 1952-1957

Location

Box

142.A.15.1B

1952 Post-Republican National Convention:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers primarily concerning politics following the 1952 Republican National convention including Eisenhower's campaign, the election, and Eisenhower's cabinet appointments.

Adams, Sherman, 1952.

Anderson, Sigurd (Governor), 1952.

Balfour, Robert L., 1952-1953.

Baruch, Bernard, 1952-1953.

Bills (unpaid), 1952.

Bromwich, E. W., 1952-1953.

Brownell, Herbert, 1952-1953.

Bullis, Harry A., 1952-1953. 2 folders

Burger, Warren E., 1952-1953.

Cabinet post memos, 1952.

Carlson, Frank, 1952.

Chicago Tribune (Robert McCormick), 1952.

Choosing the Right President:

Notes and memoranda, 1952.

Outline of series, September 17, 1952.

Press releases, 1952.

Location

Box

142.A.15.2B

Research, 1952.

Rewrites, 1952.

Chubb, Percy, 1952-1953.

Citizens for Eisenhower headquarters (New York), 1952.

Clay, Lucius, 1952.

Clement, Martin W., 1952-1953.

Crank and anonymous letters, 1952-1954.

Dewey, Thomas (Governor), 1952.

Dodge, Joseph M., 1952-1953.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.:

Correspondence, 1952.

American Federation of Labor convention speech, 1952. 2 folders

Campaign literature, 1952.

Campaign summary of comment by Harold Stassen, 1952.

Headquarters, 1952.

Location

Box

142.A.15.2B

Elections:

Analysis and predictions of 1952 prospects, 1952.

Results and notes, November 1952.

Erickson, Arnold, 1952-1953.

Federal Communications Commission, October 1952.

Gainey, Daniel C., 1952-1953.

Gates, Thomas S., 1952-1953.

Guider, John W., 1952.

Hoffman, Paul, 1952-1953.

Hoover, Herbert, 1952.

Hughes, Fred, 1952-1953.

Invitations, Political: Radio and television, 1952.

Jackson, C. D. (Eisenhower campaign), 1952.

Jordan, Len B. (Governor), 1952.

Judd, Walter H., 1952.

Keller, Harold (Eisenhower campaign), 1952.

Kohler, Walter J. (Governor), 1952.

Labor material: National Republican Campaign, 1952.

Langlie, Arthur B. (Governor), 1952-1955.

LeVander, Bernhard W., 1952-1953.

Lists of delegates to Republican National Convention 1952 to whom letters were sent, July-August 1952. 2 folders

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1952-1953.

Lord, Mrs. Oswald P., 1952-1953.

MacArthur, Douglas (General), 1952.

McCarran Act, 1952.

McKay, Douglas (Secretary of the Interior), 1952-1954

McKeldin, Theodore (Governor), 1952.

MacKinnon, George E., 1952-1953.

Martin, Edward (Senator), 1952.

Morse, Wayne (Senator), 1952.

National Republican Club (Washington, D.C.), 1952-1953.

National Republican Committee: Correspondence, 1952-1953.

National Republican Roundup Committee, 1952.

Olson, S. I., 1952-1953.

Peaslee, Amos J., 1952-1954.

Persons, Wilton B. (Major General, Special Assistant to the President), [1952].

Rohweder, Ralph, 1952.

Rowell, Ted, 1952.

Sample letters, undated and 1952.

Seaton, Fred A., 1952.

Shanley, Bernard M., 1952-1953.

Location

Box

142.A.15.2B

Stassen, Elmer B., 1952-1953.

Stassen, Harold: Memoranda (confidential), 1952.

Stephens, Tom, 1952.

Stevenson, Adlai (speeches), 1952.

Summerfield, Arthur E.(Postmaster General), 1952-1953.

Swan, Walter, 1952.

Taft, Robert A., 1952.

Thye, Edward J., 1952.

Toigo, Adolph J., 1952.

Vandenberg, Arthur H., 1952.

Warren, Earl (Governor), 1952.

Washburn, Abbott, 1952.

Weeks, Sinclair (Secretary of Commerce), 1952-1953.

Williams, Walter (Assistant Secretary of Commerce), 1952.

Congratulatory letters:

The bulk of these include outgoing and incoming congratulatory correspondence regarding the 1952, 1954, and 1956 congressional and state gubernatorial elections; however, there is also scattered correspondence concerning legislative matters.

Governors: California-Wisconsin, 1952-1957.

Location

Box

142.A.15.3B

Senators:

Senate staffs, 83rd Congress, [1953].

Election, November 2, 1954.

Arizona-Wyoming, 1952-1957.

Representatives:

Arizona-Ohio, 1952-1957.

Location

Box

142.A.15.4F

Oklahoma-Wyoming, 1952-1957.

1954 congressional campaign strategy, October 20, 1954.

Location

Box

142.G.8.6F-2

Contact cards:

Includes cards created during the 1952 presidential campaign to track contributors, correspondents, and social engagements. The cards were subsequently updated for use in future political endeavors. For instance, cards related to Stassen's campaigns during the 1958 Pennsylvania gubernatorial primary and the 1964 California presidential primary were pulled and were filed with their respective series. Additional cards related to agency personnel, diplomats, and individuals engaged in the development of disarmament policy were added throughout Stassen's service with the Eisenhower administration.

Filing keys.

Alabama-New York (A-C).

Location

Box

142.G.8.7B-1

New York (D-Z)-Wyoming.

Territories and foreign countries.

District of Columbia:

White House.

Foreign.

Press individuals.

Radio individuals.

Newspapers.

Location

Box

142.G.8.7B-2

FOA/Disarmament, 1953-1957:

United States: A-Z.

Out of United States : A-Z.

Disarmament Commission.

Task forces.

Location

Box

142.A.15.4F

1956 election:

Stassen did not campaign as a candidate for any office in 1956 but did initiate a campaign urging the delegates of the Republican National Convention to nominate Governor Chris Herter of Massachusetts instead of Richard Nixon for Eisenhower's vice presidential running mate. This campaign started with a press conference held July 23 whereby Stassen announced the campaign and his reasons as twofold: that, based on poll data, an Eisenhower-Herter ticket would return six percent more votes than an Eisenhower-Nixon ticket and that independent voters as well as "important portions of the population abroad" would have greater confidence in an Eisenhower-Herter ticket (statement of Harold E. Stassen for release at conclusion of the 3:00 p.m., July 23, 1956 press conference). A second press conference held July 24 was followed by two memoranda sent to the delegates of the Republican National Convention.

The 1956 Election series contains correspondence received in response to Stassen's press conferences, contact cards, subject files, and news clippings. The correspondence is divided into negative and affirmative responses and is further arranged by state. Affirmative responses from Pennsylvania-Wyoming are missing from the collection. The subject files contain copies of Stassen's press statements as well as data from polls including the results of an August 10-13 poll by Advertest Research Company. Also included within the subject set are financial records pertaining to the Eisenhower-Herter campaign, files regarding state congressional elections, and files containing correspondence, news clippings, and other material related to Minnesota politics and elections.

Location

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Correspondence, Nixon-Herter:

Congressional, July and November 1956.

Memoranda to the delegates of the Republican National Convention, [July-August 1956].

Mailing to Republican national committee members with enclosures, August 27, 1956.

Telegrams (outgoing), July-August 1956.

Negative:

Alabama-New Mexico, July-November 1956.

Location

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142.A.15.5B

New York-Wyoming, July-December 1956.

Foreign Countries, July-August 1956.

Unknown, July-September 1956.

Affirmative:

Alabama-Colorado, July-August 1956.

Location

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142.A.15.6F

Connecticut-New York, July-December 1956.

Location

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142.A.15.7B

New York-Oregon (missing Pennsylvania-Wyoming), July-September 1956.

Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island unfiled, July-August 1956.

Miscellaneous unfiled, August-October 1956.

Location

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142.G.8.7B-2

Contact cards:

Small contributors: A-Z, 1956.

Night letter, July 28, 1956.

Location

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143.E.9.6F

Photograph: Harold Stassen with Vice President Nixon, Republican National Convention, August 1952.

Location

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142.A.15.7B

Subject Files:

Candidates for congressional elections, 1956. 2 folders

Congratulatory letters, November 1956.

Eisenhower-Herter campaign:

Bank account, August 1956-March 1957.

Deposits, August-November 1956.

Fund letters (outgoing), August 1956. 3 folders

Receipted bills, July-October 1956. 2 folders

Receipted bills: Young Americans for Eisenhower, July-August 1956.

Minnesota politics:

Correspondence and related papers, December 1955-February 1957.

Paul Albrecht, March-November 1956.

News clippings, 1955-1957.

Location

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142.A.15.7B

News clippings: Labor bombings, February-May 1956.

Miscellaneous, January and October 1956.

Polls:

Advertest Research, [August 1956].

Miscellaneous, January-September 1956.

Press conferences, July-August 1956.

Republican National Committee:

Answer desk daily summaries, September 19-November 2, 1956. 2 folders

Convention printed material, 1956.

Correspondence, 1953-1956.

Officers and delegates, 1955-1956.

Location

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142.G.8.4F-2

Voters study of Vice President Nixon's potential, [1956]. 1 film reel : sound, b&w ; 16 mm.

Location

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142.A.15.7B

Young Americans for Eisenhower First and Stassen Second, July 1956.

Location

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142.A.15.8F

News clippings:

General, 1955-1956. 3 folders

Eisenhower news conferences, March and August 1956.

Minneapolis Star Tribune clippings, October 10-November 6, 1956.

Republican National Convention, August 1956. 2 folders

Special, July-August 1956. 2 folders

Stassen-Herter-Nixon:

General, July-August 1956. 5 folders

Affirmative, July-August 1956.

Negative, July-August 1956. 5 folders

Location

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142.A.15.4F

Fake telegram affair, January-March 1957.

Gallup polls, 1957-1958.

1958 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Campaign, 1957-1959

Stassen reentered politics in 1958 with an unsuccessful race for the Pennsylvania governorship. He lost the Republican primary in May. Prominent issues surrounding his campaign included charges by the Pennsylvania GOP organization that he was a "carpetbagger" and not a legitimate Pennsylvania resident, speculation that he was positioning himself for control of the 1960 Republican presidential nomination, questions regarding the source of his financial support, voter fraud, and the control of Pennsylvania elections by an old guard political machine.

Location

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142.A.16.1B

100

Correspondence:

A-Su, 1957-1958.

Location

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142.A.16.2F

101

T-Z, 1957-1958.

Location

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142.G.8.7B-2

Contact cards:

General: A-Z, 1958-1959.

Contributors: A-Z, 1958.

Location

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142.A.16.2F

101

County campaigns:

Adams-York, 1958.

County chairmen and treasurers.

Schedule plan (tentative) mailed to county chairmen, April 16, 1958.

Location

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143.E.9.6F

Photographs, 1958.

Location

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142.A.16.2F

101

Subject files:

Adelphia Associates: Public relations, 1958.

Bauer and Tripp: Advertising, 1958.

Benjamin Franklin Hotel suite, 1958.

Brochure on Harold E. Stassen, 1958.

Congressional memos (Pennsylvania)

Contribution letters:

A-Q, 1957-1958. 2 folders

Location

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142.A.16.3B

102

R-Z, 1957-1958.

Drafts: Pennsylvania campaign, 1958.

Editorial support, 1958.

Election day memos, etc., May 20, 1958.

Election recount procedures, 1958.

Farm affairs: The Lowdown, 1958.

Mailing to press regarding Malone letter, April 7, 1958.

Pennsylvania:

Garment workers, 1958.

Primary: Philadelphia division count, 1958.

Republican campaign, 1958. 2 folders

Republican county chairmen, 1958.

Statistics, 1958. 2 folders

Petition circulation, 1958.

Philadelphia: Data and photographs taken at polls, May 20, 1958. 2 folders

Philadelphia: Ward committeemen lists.

Platform letters, 1958.

Press: Pennsylvania, 1958.

Sample mailing to GOP regarding funds, March 1958.

Schedule, May 5-11, 1958.

Supplies for campaign, 1958.

Treasurers: Pennsylvanians for Stassen, 1958.

TV and radio memoranda, 1957-1958.

WCAU-TV Tuesday night broadcasts, 1958.

A.J. Wood & Company survey, 1958.

Young Pennsylvanians for Stassen, 1957.

Location

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142.A.16.4F

103

News clippings:

Stassen's leaving Eisenhower administration, December 1957-February 1958.

Editorial support, 1958.

Election, November 1958.

General, 1957-1958.

1959 Philadelphia Mayoralty Campaign, 1958-1960

In 1959 Stassen won the primary election as Republican candidate for Philadelphia's mayor but lost the general election to Democratic incumbent Richardson Dilworth. Stassen's campaign platform centered on Philadelphia's rehabilitation with specific issues focused around corruption in city hall, tax reform, high unemployment, incentives for small business and industry, and improved public utilities and services. As in the 1958 gubernatorial campaign critics attacked both Stassen's residency status and his ulterior motivation for control of the 1960 Republican national convention.

Location

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142.A.16.5B

104

Correspondence, A-Z, December 1958-January 1960.

Location

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142.A.16.6F

105

Subject files:

Articles for paper (post-election), [November 1959].

Biographical sketches of candidates, 1959.

Budget: City of Philadelphia, [1959].

Campaign folders: 1959 campaign.

Chairman: Committee for Stassen for Mayor, April 1959.

City Council data (city/county consolidation), January-June 1959.

City Fire Fighters Association, May-October 1959.

City planning, May-September 1959.

Committee of 70, October 1959.

Contributions to Campaign, September-November 1959.

Costs: Mayor's office, [1959].

Crank and anonymous letters, February 1959-January 1960.

Democrats for Stassen, September-October 1959.

Eastwick, April-July 1959.

Employment, [1959].

Expenses: Campaign, July-November 1959.

Independents for Stassen, April-December 1959.

Industry memoranda, April-October 1959.

Issues of campaign, February-October 1959.

Labor problems, April-September 1959.

Monorail transportation, October 1959.

Negroes, May-October 1959.

Organization: City (maps, etc.), [1959].

Petitions, 1959.

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142.A.16.6F

105

Philadelphia Citizens Budget Committee, March-April 1959.

Philadelphia City debts, August 1959.

Police matters, June-September 1959.

Pride (Philadelphians Rebuilding Through Information, Discussion, and Education): Outline, etc., March 1959.

Primary day records and memos, May 19, 1959.

Public assistance, June 1959.

Public health, April 1959.

Rackets, etc., October 1958-April 1959.

Republican City Committee: Lists and data, March 1959.

Republicans for Philadelphia:

Committee, 1959.

Memos to treasurer, May-July 1959.

Retail Sales: Federal Reserve, [1959].

School data, May 1959.

Small business data, March 1959.

Society Hill and Ebeline and Reuss, March-September 1959.

Stassen: Personal memoranda regarding campaign, [1959].

Street and alley data, [1959].

Students for Stassen, March-July 1959.

Tabulations: Primary, May 1959.

Tax memoranda: Philadelphia, April-November 1959.

Television, radio, newspaper (notes and memoranda), March-May 1959.

Traffic, [1959].

Transportation, 1959.

Union correspondence and memos, June-August 1959.

U.S. Department of Commerce: Monthly economic reports, March-September 1959.

Vote records, 1959.

Individual ward statistics (1947-1958), 1959.

Ward leaders (letters to), May-October 1959.

Watchers polling places, May 1959.

Water, July-November 1959.

WFIL-TV debate, March 1959.

Young Republicans, March-June 1959.

Youths for Stassen (Teen Club campaign), March-September 1959.

Zoning, 1958-1959.

News clippings, March-November 1959. 3 folders

Election result newspapers, November 4, 1959.

Political Activity, 1960-1992

Location

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142.A.16.7B

106

Correspondence:

A-Q, 1958-1988.

Location

Box

142.A.16.8F

107

R-Z, 1958-1988.

Location

Box

142.G.8.7B-2

Contact cards: A-Z, 1960.

Location

Box

143.E.9.6F

Photographs, 1968-1984.

Location

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142.A.16.8F

107

1960 presidential campaign:

Capitol correspondents, June 14, 1960.

Letters to delegates, May 24, 1960.

Pennsylvania: List of Republican State Committee, April 26, 1960.

Political mail concerning Nixon, 1960.

Practical survey sample ballot, 1960.

Republican National Convention (Chicago, Illinois):

Stassen was elected as one of seventy Pennsylvania delegates to the 1960 Republican Convention. He was the only Pennsylvania delegate opposed to the nomination of Richard Nixon and was openly committed to Nelson Rockefeller.

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, July 21-29, 1960. 2 folders

Official delegate lists, 1960.

Republican Party lists, 1957-1960.

Rockefeller's statement regarding Nixon, June 9, 1960.

News clippings, 1961-1962.

Political correspondence, 1962-1964.

Topics include Stassen's support of William Scranton's gubernatorial campaign in Pennsylvania, presentation of his views on foreign policy and the Nuclear Test Partial-Ban Treaty to leading Republican politicians (1963), and congratulations sent to various Republican winners in the 1964 elections.

Republican political material, 1963.

1964 presidential campaign:

Correspondence:

A-Z, 1963-1964. 21 folders

Acknowledged letters of support, 1963.

Location

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142.G.8.7B-2

Contact cards:

Not active.

Enthusiastic.

Interested.

Miscellaneous.

Location

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142.A.17.1B

108

Subject files:

California campaign:

Addresses and telephone numbers.

Blanchard, Alan (Robinson & Company): Advertising, 1964.

Campaign material.

Candidate forms.

Contacts.

Correspondence, 1964.

Delegate lists, 1964.

Drafts, 1964.

Election calendar, 1964.

Form letters, 1964.

Honig-Cooper & Harrington: Advertising, 1964.

Johnson, Roger A., undated and 1964.

News clippings, 1963-1964.

Papers filed, March 1964.

Press releases, 1964.

Stassen for President Citizens Committee, 1964.

Stassen vs. Jordan:

Stassen and his supporters in the California campaign brought a civil complaint against the California Secretary of State, Frank M. Jordan, and all California county clerks and/or registrars of voters claiming discrimination in Stassen's attempt to have his name included on the California Republican Presidential Primary ballot. The California Supreme court denied the relief sought by the Stassen campaign (April 17, 1964) and the United States Supreme Court denied its petition for a writ of certiorari (April 24, 1964).

Investigation, 1964. 2 folders

Transcript of Record, 1964.

Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, April 1964.

District of Columbia, 1964.

Dyke, William D.

Goldwater, Barry, 1964-1965.

Howard, Edward L.: Campaign treasurer, 1964-1965.

Illinois: Presidential preference study, June 1964.

Indianapolis, Indiana, 1964.

Johnson Administration, 1963-1964.

Miscellaneous, 1964.

New Hampshire, 1964. 2 folders

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142.A.17.1B

108

News clippings, 1964.

Olson, S.I., 1964-1966.

Orr Pope & Moulton Inc.: Advertising, 1964.

Rockefeller, Nelson, 1963-1964.

Springer, Floyd, 1964.

Wisconsin, 1964.

Political correspondence, 1965-1968.

Vietnam:

Primarily contains information related to Stassen's view regarding American involvement in the Vietnamese war and the impact of that war upon the need to revise the United Nations charter. Stassen advocated what he called the "strong peace policy" or the "Fourth Alternative" which called for the United States to "deliberately take all feasible measures to quiet down the war; to de-escalate it; to change the priority emphasis to the economic, educational, social, and political factors; and to contemplate a decade or more of competition of systems in Vietnam" (The Washington Post, July 31, 1966, p. E6.). Stassen's stand as a peace candidate stood in the forefront of his 1966 Pennsylvania gubernatorial and 1968 presidential campaigns. The bulk of the correspondence relates to Stassen's advocacy of a peace policy and to his desire for revision of the United Nations charter. Additional materials related to Stassen's views on the revision of the United Nations charter are available in the United Nations series of the Stassen Papers.

Correspondence:

General, 1965-1967.

Congressman, governors, national and state committees:

General, August 16, 1965-December 9, 1967.

Responses to January 18, 1967 letter, December 14, 1966-August 15, 1967. 2 folders

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142.A.17.2F

109

Responses to March 28, 1967 letter, February 21-June 14, 1967.

Responses to August 28, 1967 letter, August 29-September 29, 1967.

Prominent women leaders: Responses to March 14, 1967 letter, March 16-June 21, 1967.

Telegram to governors, December 22-23, 1967.

A request that governors issue a proclamation following Pope Paul VI's call for the designation of January 1, 1968 as Peace Day.

Location

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142.A.17.2F

109

Vietnam and the United Nations, March 13-December 22, 1967.

Miscellaneous printed material, 1966-1967. 2 folders

Republican Builders for 1966:

Early in 1965, Stassen chaired a committee aimed at winning a Republican congressional majority in the 1966 elections. To achieve this end, the committee conducted demographic analyses of 150 congressional districts which elected Democratic candidates by a narrow margin in the 1964 elections. These analyses were to help state Republican committees enlist those candidates with the best chance of winning each district. The analyses provide demographic data regarding race, ethnicity, age, school enrollment, education, occupation, and earnings. The analyses also provide statistics for each district's 1964 congressional election as well as the 1952-1964 presidential elections. District data is compared to state and national statistics.

General, 1965-1966.

Proposal, January-March 1965.

Replies: Republican congressional booklet sent out, September 1965-March 1966.

Republican National Committee:

Fact book, 1966.

Nominees for federal and state office, 1966.

Sample target, committee literature, and lists, August-September 1965.

Target district analyses:

Alabama-Ohio, [1965]. 10 folders

Location

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142.A.17.3B

110

Oregon-Wyoming, [1965]. 4 folders

1966 Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign:

Campaign literature, May 1966.

Financial, April -July 1966.

Letters of support, February-May 1966. 2 folders

News clippings, February-June 1966.

Press conferences and releases, February-May 1966.

1968 presidential campaign:

Stassen campaigned as a peace candidate in 1968 stating his decision to enter the race was based on "the nation's twin frustrations---the unending Vietnamese War, and the violent unrest in our cities" (Wisconsin Primary press release, November 14, 1967). He offered an alternative course for an end to the war which included a quieting down of the war but not a complete withdrawal; the modernization and strengthening of the United Nations with truly world-wide representation including two Vietnams, two Chinas, and two Germanys; the use of a United Nations police force between the two Vietnams; and the use of funds saved in a large-scale program to address the problems facing American cities and to rebuild the war damage in Vietnam.

Location

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142.A.17.3B

110

Correspondence, 1967-1968. 2 folders

Coy, Elmer, 1967-1968.

Delegate letters, September 18, 1968.

Kennedy, Robert F. 1968.

McCarthy, Eugene, 1968.

National Stassen for President Committee, 1967-1968.

News clippings, 1967-1968.

Nixon, Richard M.:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1968.

News clippings, 1968.

Primaries:

Nebraska, 1968.

New Hampshire:

Correspondence, 1968.

Press releases, 1967-1968.

Ohio, 1968.

Wisconsin:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1967-1968.

News clippings, 1967-1968. 2 folders

Press releases, 1967-1968.

Springer, Floyd Jr. 1967.

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142.A.17.4F

111

Reagan, Ronald, 1967-1968.

Republican National Committee, 1967-June 1968. 2 folders

Republican National Convention:

General, 1968.

Delegate lists: Alabama-Wyoming, 1968. 2 folders

Platform committee, 1968.

Location

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142.B.11.2F

173

Stassen nomination, Republican National Convention, 1968. 1 sound tape reel : 7 1/2 ips ; 7 inches, 1/4 inch tape.

Location

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142.A.17.4F

111

Rockefeller, Nelson, 1968.

Romney, George, 1968. 3 folders

Vietnam, 1968.

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142.A.17.4F

111

Nixon Administration:

This series contains both correspondence attesting to Stassen's relationship with Richard M. Nixon and his presidential cabinet members and statements documenting Stassen's support of Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

The correspondence files include outgoing and incoming letters between Stassen, President Nixon, the Secretary of State (both Dean Rusk and William P. Rogers), Henry A. Kissinger, Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, congressional Foreign Relations Committee and Appropriations Committee members, state governors, national and state Republican committee officers, Catholic and Baptist church leaders, prominent women, and others regarding the de-escalation of American military involvement in Vietnam, the encouragement of economic incentives, the admission of the two Vietnamese governments into the United Nations, and the Nixon administration's policies. Some of Stassen's outgoing letters appear to be missing from the files. The files also appear to contain some overlapping or misfiled items.

Congratulatory letters: Nixon cabinet members, December 12, 1968-February 10, 1969.

Congressional letters regarding Nixon Watergate, October-November 1973.

Correspondence:

Honorable Melvin R. Laird, May 8, 1969-November 3, 1969.

President Nixon and aides, March 30, 1967-August 15, 1974.

Contains outgoing and incoming correspondence between Stassen, Richard V. Allen, Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Bryce N, Harlow.

Honorable William P. Rogers, December 31, 1965.

Forgiveness for President Nixon, 1974.

News clippings and articles, 1968-1974.

1976 presidential campaign:

Address to the Minnesota Republican Convention, June 25, 1976.

Correspondence, May-August 1976.

Campaign literature, 1976.

Financial, June-August 1976.

News Clippings, 1976.

Press Releases, May-August 1976.

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142.A.17.4F

111

Republican National Convention:

Convention, 1976. 2 folders

Fact sheet and state delegate lists, March and July 1976.

Statements of Harold E. Stassen to the Republican Platform Committee, August 9, 1976.

1978 Minnesota senatorial campaign:

Correspondence:

General, January-September 1978.

Anderson, Elmer L., February 1978.

Hughes, Fred, February-April 1978.

Nelsen, Ancher, April 1978.

Nelson, A. Herbert, May-August 1978.

Slocum, Charles A., February-September 1978.

Sumner, William G. (St. Paul Pioneer Press), July 1978.

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142.A.17.5B

112

Abortion: Pro-life, M.C.L.U., etc., April-July 1978.

Affidavit of candidacy, July 5, 1978

Boundary Waters Canoe Area, April-August 1978.

Braman and Associates (public relations), February-October 1978.

Business climate, January-August 1978.

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212

Campaign poster.

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Box

142.A.17.5B

112

Candidates:

Republican miscellaneous, June-November 1978.

Districts:

Erdahl, Arlen (1st district), May-November 1978.

Hagedorn, Thomas M. (2nd district), July-November 1978.

Berg, John (4th district), July 1978.

Till, Michael J. (5th district), July 1978.

Bjorhus, Russ (6th district), June-July 1978.

Stangland, Arlan (7th district), July 1978.

Boschwitz, Rudy, April-October 1978.

Durenberger, Dave, February-November 1978.

Quie, Al, June-December 1978.

Contributions, March-June 1978.

Counties and towns: Sheriff letter, July-August 1978.

Delegate letter, February-April, 1978.

Endorsement material, February-July 1978.

Ethics Committee (Senate): Financial disclosure report, May 1978.

Fairs: County and state, July-August 1978.

Farming (Agriculture policies, statistics), January-August 1978.

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142.A.17.5B

112

Federal Elections Commission (reports), March 1978-April 1979.

Independent-Republican Convention (reports, etc.), January-October 1978.

Keynote of Campaign: "Give the government back to people," August 1978.

Legislature:

Contributions (replies), October 1978-January 1979.

State miscellaneous campaign information, November 1978-January 1979.

Letters in response should Stassen run:

Affirmative, January 1978.

Negative, January 1978.

New senator Minnesota needs (brochure), [1978].

News clippings, January-September 1978.

Polls:

Informal:

East side, 1978.

Edina, 1978.

St. Paul, 1978.

University of Minnesota, 1978.

Probe, 1978.

Questionnaires, August-October 1978.

Scheduling, January-June 1978.

Senatorial campaign (Earl Franz: treasurer reports, etc.), July 1978-July 1979.

Sound clips, January-November 1978.

Speaking engagements, meetings, miscellaneous, January-October 1978. 21 folders

Stassen: Biographical, revised, December 5, 1978.

Stassen Program for America:

Education, [1978].

Farm family, [1978].

Inflation, [1978].

United Nations, [1978].

Statements, miscellaneous speeches, releases, etc., January-November 1978.

Stassen is right--Boschwitz is wrong (advertisements, etc.), September 1978.

Teachers Federation newsletter, May-June 1978.

Tax disclosure, July 1978.

Tuition tax credit, August-October 1978.

Urban Concerns Workshop (Secretary of State), June 1978.

Volunteer letters, etc., February-August 1978.

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142.A.17.6F

113

WCCO Radio talks:

My farm family program, March 30, 1978.

Full employment--fairness to labor, April 8, 1978.

Good profits for business, April 13, 1978.

A sound dollar--stop inflation, [April 1978.].

Families with students, April 27, 1978.

Corruption and rip-offs, May 1978.

Reverence for life--world peace, May 1978.

WCCO Radio campaign spot, September 6, 1978. 1 sound cassette.

Stassen addresses the issue of Rudy Boschwitch's refusal to publicly disclose his personal and business tax records. Stassen also outlines his tax reform program.

1980 presidential campaign:

Braman/Doremus & Company, 1978-1980.

Blacks for Stassen, 1979-1980.

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142.G.8.4F-1

Campaign poster.

Location

Box

142.A.17.6F

113

Congress: General, 1979.

Federal Election Commission:

Financial disclosure, 1979.

Stassen, Harold E., 1979-1980.

Stassen Program, 1979-1980.

Junk mail, 1979.

Media, 1979-1980.

News clippings, 1978-1980.

Presidential Campaigns Coordinating Committee, 1979.

Presidential nomination announcement, November 9, 1978.

Presidential wire service, 1979.

Public relations: Television, press contacts, etc., 1979-1980.

Puerto Rico Americans for Stassen, 1979.

Republican National Finance Committee, 1979-1980.

Rough notes, 1979.

Sound Clips, December 1978, April 1980.

Spanish speaking: Concerned for Stassen, 1979.

Stassen Program:

General, 1980.

Replies,1979-1980.

States and territories:

Alabama-Utah, 1979-1980.

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142.A.17.7B

114

Vermont-Wyoming, 1979-1980.

Statements and releases, 1979-1980.

Students for Stassen, 1979-1980.

Veterans, 1979.

1982 Minnesota gubernatorial campaign:

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142.A.17.7B

114

Correspondence, 1982.

Crawford, Rollin H., 1982.

News clippings, 1982.

Press releases, 1982.

Whitney, Wheelock, 1982.

1984 Presidential Campaign:

Iowa, 1983-1984.

Primaries:

New Hampshire, December 29, 1983.

West Virginia, March 14, 1984.

Statements and addresses, 1982-1984.

1986 Minnesota 4th congressional district campaign:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, undated and 1985-1986.

Meetings, dinners, etc., 1985-1986.

Press releases, 1986.

Stassen for Congress Committee, 1986.

1988 presidential campaign:

Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers, 1987-1988. 2 folders

Durenberger, Dave, 1988-1989.

Lists, undated and 1985, 1987.

Press releases and debated challenge, 1988.

Scottish Rite reunion (Duluth, Minnesota): Speech, March 31, 1988.

West Virginia primary, 1988.

Gorbachev, Mikhail, December 7, 1988.

Correspondence, 1988-1992.

Persian Gulf Crisis: Correspondence, 1990-1991.

1992 presidential campaign, 1991-1992.

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NAVAL SERVICE

Before he was elected to his third term as Governor of Minnesota in 1942 Harold Stassen made the unprecedented announcement of his intention of resigning in order to enter active service in the U.S. Navy. In March 1942 Stassen received his commission as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve and reported for a month of training at the U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois on April 6, 1942. In April 1943 he was ordered to active duty and resigned as governor on April 27, 1943.

After a two month indoctrination course at the Naval Training School at Fort Schuyler, New York, Stassen reported to the South Pacific force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and was assigned duties as Admiral William F. Halsey's Aide and Flag Secretary. When Admiral Halsey took command of the Third Fleet in June 1944 Stassen was reassigned as his Assistant Chief of Staff for Administrative Purposes, Aide, and Flag Secretary. The Third Fleet's prominent role in the Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 23-26, 1944) is documented in a war diary included in this section.

Stassen was promoted to Commander in December 1944. On February 28, 1945 he was invited by President Franklin Roosevelt to serve as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Conference held in San Francisco and for this reason was temporarily detached from active duty from April 13-July 11, 1945. After the conference Stassen returned to duty with the Third Fleet and was standing watch as staff duty officer on August 16, 1945 when the news flash arrived that President Truman had announced Japan's acceptance of surrender terms. A photocopy of Stassen's entry in the ship's log recording this event is included in the naval orders and correspondence.

During August and September 1945 Stassen formulated evacuation plans for Allied prisoners of war interned in Japan and took an active part in the rescue of prisoners prior to the formal Japanese surrender. For his exceptional service in the liberation of Allied prisoners he received a Bronze Star. Papers documenting these activities are included in the series on POW repatriation. Stassen was transferred to duty in the Bureau of Naval Personnel in October 1945 and was released to inactive duty on November 15, 1945. A folder of material related to Stassen's postwar (1947-1952) activities with the Naval Reserve completes this section.

Correspondence and Related Material

Location

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Gubernatorial resignation, April-May 1943.

Naval orders and correspondence, 1942-1945. 6 folders

Memoranda to the Secretary of Navy, October 1945.

Personal correspondence:

Incoming, undated and 1942-1946. 7 folders

Outgoing, 1943-1944.

Family correspondence, undated and 1943-1945.

Location

Box

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214

Service citations, [1945?].

Includes two citations presented to Stassen by Admiral William F. Halsey and one by Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal. Stassen was honored for his administration of a mail delivery service and Flag Combat Information Center for the Third Fleet, his service with the Third Fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and his participation in the evacuation of Allied prisoners interned in Japan.

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142.A.17.8F

115

Foreign relations: Printed matter:

American Interests in the War and the Peace: Technical Problems of International Banking, 1944.

International Financial Organization, 1944.

China's Military Potential and the Enforcement of Peace, September 1, 1943.

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142.A.17.8F

115

Moscow, Teheran, and International Organization, March 1, 1944.

International Politics and International Policing, March 10, 1944.

The Outlook for a Security Organization, June 15, 1944.

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142.A.18.1B

116

Halsey, Admiral William F.:

Press conference, February 19, 1945.

Book material.

Anecdotes that Stassen wrote for a book on Halsey.

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142.E.7.4

215

Drawings.

Includes two drawings. The first entitled "The Sea Wolf" includes a copyright bearing the name Gardner and is signed by William Halsey, Robert Carney, T.S. Wilkinson, and William E. Riley. The second drawing is entitled "Landing at Morotai" and is signed Michael, USMC.

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142.A.18.1B

116

News clippings, undated and 1944-1945.

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143.E.9.6F

Photographs:

Portraits and miscellaneous, 1943-1947.

Two original photographs of Stassen with Admiral Halsey aboard the flagship on the night of August 12, 1945 have been placed in the Minnesota Historical Society reserve collection (Res. 62, Box 214). Photocopies of these photographs remain in the collection.

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142.G.8.4F-1

Portrait: Commander Harold Stassen, [1945].

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142.A.18.1B

116

Naval Reserve, undated and 1947-1952.

Veterans Forum (Fort Snelling): H.E. Stassen-WW2 South Pacific Duty with Admiral Halsey , February 8, 1990. 1 videocassette (105 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 inch.

War Diaries

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142.A.18.1B

116

Stassen's war diary and notes, October-December 1944 and July-August 1945.

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Res. 62

214

U.S. Third Fleet: War diary, September 1944-January 1945.

POW Repatriation

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142.A.18.1B

116

Correspondence and related material, 1945-1946.

Family inquiries, October-November 1945.

Prison statistics and prisoner lists, [1945].

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+Res. 16

213

Prison statistics and prisoner lists, [1945]. 2 folders

The majority of these records are written in Japanese.

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142.A.18.1B

116

Gregory Boyington and Ray Halloran, 1984-1990.

Correspondence, news clippings, a eulogy, and photographs related to Stassen's participation in the liberation of the O'Mori POW camp which held Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, leader of the Black Sheep Squadron.

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UNITED NATIONS

Conference on International Organization, 1945-1948

On February 28, 1945, while serving as Admiral William F. Halsey's Assistant Chief of Staff for the U.S. Pacific Third Fleet, President Franklin Roosevelt invited Stassen to be one of eight members of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization held April 25 through June 26 in San Francisco. Stassen was assigned to the commissions drafting charter sections for a trusteeship system (Committee 4 of Commission 2, the General Assembly), the Security Council (Commission 3), and the International Court of Justice (Commission 4). As part of his work on the section pertaining to the General Assembly, Stassen chaired a consultative group of the five powers and prepared a working paper which aimed to reconcile the positions of Britain, Australia, and the United States on the trusteeship system for consideration by Commission 2.

The first item in this section is a file containing correspondence between Harold Stassen and Lloyd W. Larson in 1986 which includes a copy of a paper by Larson entitled "Drafting the United Nations Charter: Harold Stassen at the San Francisco Conference." Researchers are referred to this article for an overview of Stassen's role in the charter conference.

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116

Larson, Lloyd W., "Drafting the United Nations Charter: Harold Stassen at the San Francisco Conference," 1986.

Correspondence:

Letterhead sample.

Form letter replies.

Includes a sample of six standard replies used by Stassen's staff in response to unsolicited letter writers. The letters include a general response and more specific replies for those who wrote supporting Stassen's participation in the charter conference, those writing in favor of U.S. support of independence for colonial and mandated peoples, those writing from churches and religious groups, those writing about Palestine and the Jewish question, and those writing about the World Court.

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142.A.18.1B

116

Answered by/Addressed to Esther Stassen, March-April 1945.

Miscellaneous (unsorted), undated and January-June 1945. 4 folders

Telegrams with outgoing reply, March-June 1945. 2 folders

Telegrams, General, April-July 1945.

General (chronological):

Undated and February-April 1945. 4 folders

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142.A.18.2F

117

April-July 1945. 10 folders

General:

A-R, March-June 1945.

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142.A.18.3B

118

S-Z, March-June 1945.

Responses to form letter replies, May-June 1945.

Subject:

Argentina, April-May, 1945.

Bretton Woods (economic and monetary), April-May 1945.

California Republicans, May 14, 1945.

Churches, April-May 1945.

Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, March-May 1945.

Education, May 1945.

Immigration, May 1945.

Independence for colonial and mandated peoples, April-June 1945.

Jewish agency and Palestine, March-June 1945. 2 folders

Labor, April-May 1945.

Military conscription, April-May 1945.

National and civic organizations, April-May 1945.

Permanent opium control board, April 1945.

Polish question, undated and March-June 1945. 12 folders

Spain, May-June 1945

Treatment of smaller powers, January-May 1945.

United Nations Conference on International Organization (general), April 1945.

War veterans and recommendations for aides, March-May 1945.

Winona Senior High School students, April 1945.

World Court, May 1945.

World organization (federal union), May 1945.

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142.A.18.4F

119

Procedural:

Commission assignments, May-June 1945.

Conference arrangements and procedures, May-June 1945.

Conference personnel and directories, April 1945.

Conference structure, April-May 1945.

Consultants' meetings, May 1945.

Coordination Committee, May 1945.

Executive Committee, May-June 1945.

Executive officers of commissions and committees meetings, April-May 1945.

Journal, Nos. 1-51, April 25-June 22, 1945.

Missing numbers 16, 20, 25, and 37.

List of documents issued, May 11-June 14, 1945. 2 folders

Memoranda from Secretariat, March 30-June 15, 1945.

Memoranda of conversations, May 10-June 13, 1945.

Minutes of Plenary Sessions, 1st-8th, April 25-May 3, 1945.

Order of the day, April 25-June 24, 1945.

Précis of committee proceedings, Nos. 1-43, May 5-June 22, 1945.

Programs (opening and closing), April 25, June 26, 1945.

Includes the text of closing addresses made by delegation chairmen and the U.S. President.

Steering Committee, April 28-June 23, 1945.

Includes Credentials Committee.

Reports:

First Report to the Governments of the United Nations by the Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture, August 1, 1944.

Draft of Report on the Conference by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., May 25, 1945.

Progress report of work in commissions and committees, May 10-June 23, 1945. 2 folders

Report to the President on the Results of the San Francisco Conference, June 26, 1945:

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Galley proof.

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142.A.18.4F

119

Final report.

Report by the Executive Commission to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, November 12, 1945.

Report on the Second Part of the First Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Held in New York, October 23-December 15, 1946, 1947.

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142.A.18.4F

119

Radio and press:

Consists of numbered documents distributed by both the Conference and the U.S. Delegation during the charter conference. Scattered issues may be missing from each file. Also includes radio scripts, Stassen's speech material, and news clippings.

Daily news digests, Nos. 1-55, April 25-June 25, 1945. 2 folders

Missing numbers 6, 8, 10, 19, 39, and 52.

Daily summaries of opinion developments, Nos. 1-52, April 24-June 22, 1945.

Missing numbers 2, 7-9, 14, 29, 32, 37, 40, and 44-45.

A Pictorial Record of the Delegates to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, June 1945.

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142.A.18.5B

120

Radio and press comments, Nos. 4-45, April 30-June 16, 1945. 2 folders

Prepared by the U.S. Office of War Information. Missing numbers 1-3, 6-7, 10, 17, 40-42.

Roundup of radio reaction to the San Francisco conference, Nos. 1-43, May 7-June 25, 1945. 2 folders

Prepared by the U.S. Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service. Missing numbers 4, 7, 13, 18-19, 28, 35, 38, and 40.

Special memoranda on foreign press and radio, April-June 1945.

Press conference news stories, April 10-11, 1945.

Radio scripts, undated and April-July 1945. 2 folders

Includes U.S. Delegation press releases.

Radio scripts: America's Town Meeting, April 26, 1945.

Speeches, undated and March-July 1945.

Writings and publications, 1943-1945.

Magazine articles, 1945.

News clippings, April-July 1945. 2 folders

U.S. Delegation:

Delegates background:

Book 1. Dumbarton Oaks Proposals and related material. 1 folder and 1 notebook binder.

Book 2. Proposals and suggestions for consideration.

Book 3. Comments and suggestions on the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals. 2 folders

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142.A.18.6F

121

Book 4. Conference manual. 2 folders

General Reference: Dumbarton Oaks Proposals and United Nations' comment.

Reference material kept by aide John Thomson.

Instructions to Stassen's staff, April 23-May 3, 1945.

Department of State memoranda, March 23-April 16, 1945.

Memoranda (general), undated and March-June 1945.

Personal memoranda, February 13-August 23, 1945. 2 folders

Includes President Roosevelt's appointment of Stassen as a U.S. delegate, Stassen's naval orders, incoming Secretary of State memoranda, memoranda from Stassen's aides, Stassen's outgoing memoranda, and miscellaneous speech drafts, fragments, and notes.

Pre-conference meetings of U.S. Delegation, March 13-April 3, 1945.

Meeting agendas, May 19-June 18, 1945. 2 folders

Meeting minutes, April 3- May 14, 1945.

Miscellaneous information, May 1945.

Dumbarton Oaks Proposals and United Nations Charter:

Proposals and amendments, [April]-May 1945.

Comments and proposed amendments concerning the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals (by national delegations), May 7, 1945. 4 folders

Joint proposals, May 1945.

Miscellaneous amendments and consultations, April 23-May 5, 1945.

Proposed amendments by commissions, May 9-12, 1945. 2 folders

Proposed amendments by Commission III, May 13-15, 1945.

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142.A.18.7B

122

Skeleton charter, May 29, 1945.

Composite texts of charter, undated and June 16-20, 1945. 2 folders

Tentative drafts of the Coordination Committee and the Advisory Committee of Jurists, June 21-22, 1945.

Texts of the proposed charter of the United Nations and of the proposed agreement establishing the Preparatory Commission, June 25, 1945.

Commission files:

Includes numbered UN documents consisting of meeting agendas and summaries, draft charter proposals and amendments, reports of commission rapporteurs and drafting committees. Some of the documents are in French or Russian.

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142.A.18.7B

122

Working papers, undated and February-June 1945. 2 folders

Contains papers documenting Stassen's commission work on the proposed amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. In particular, this file contains information about his discussions with members of the U.S. and other delegations regarding the Security Council, particularly its veto powers and the voting arrangement agreed upon at Yalta, the World Court, trusteeship, economic and social cooperation, and Pan-American regionalism.

Commission I. General Provisions, May 4-June 23, 1945.

Committee 1. Preamble, Purposes, and Principles, May 8-June 2, 1945. 2 folders

Subcommittee A, May 24-June 21, 1945.

Committee 2. Membership, Amendment, and Secretariat, May 6-June 22, 1945. 2 folders

Subcommittees A-B, D-E, May 17-June 15, 1945.

Commission II. General Assembly, May 4-June 22, 1945.

Committee 1: Structure and Powers, May 5-22, 1945. 2 folders

Subcommittee A, May 19-26, 1945.

Committee 2: Political and Security Functions, May 4-June 21, 1945. 2 folders

Subcommittee A, May 11-21, 1945.

Subcommittee B, May 21-June 12, 1945.

Subcommittee B and Commission III: Committee 1: Subcommittee C, June 11, 1945.

Committee 3. Economic and Social Cooperation, May 9-June 9, 1945. 2 folders

Narcotic control, June 1945.

Subcommittee A, May 16-June 5, 1945.

Committee 4. Trusteeship System:

Agendas and meeting summaries, May 5-June 21, 1945. 2 folders

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142.A.18.8F

123

Dependent Territories: Basic documents, October 27, 1944-April 13, 1945. 1 notebook.

Minutes of preliminary consultations on trusteeship by representatives of the five powers, April 30-June 18, 1945.

Recommendations to the American Delegation, March 19-June 18, 1945.

Proposals, April 25-May 5, 1945.

Includes U.S. and British trusteeship proposals, U.S. commentary, and memoranda regarding concerns by the Syrian and Lebanese delegations.

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142.A.18.8F

123

Trusteeship arrangements, April-June 1945. 2 folders

Working papers and amendments, April-June 1945. 3 folders

Includes draft amendments, memoranda of conversations, other memoranda, and Stassen's notes and annotations.

Miscellaneous, March 19-June 19, 1945.

Subcommittee A, May 25-June 19, 1945.

Commission III. Security Council:

Remarks made by Commander Stassen, June 12-13, 1945.

Committee 2. Pacific Settlement of Disputes, May 3-July 30, 1945.

Consists of minutes which Clyde Eagleton (Technical Expert, Division of International Organizational Affairs, Department of State) copied for Stassen.

Commission IV. Judicial Organization:

Committee of Jurists:

This committee, composed of representatives from all 44 united nations, met in Washington April 9-20, 1945 to draft a recommended statute for the Permanent Court of International Justice prior to the San Francisco charter conference. Stassen's files of the Committee of Jurists are included within his files of Commission IV as that commission worked on those recommendations set forth by the Committee of Jurists.

Comparative text of the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, April 20, 1945.

Draft of proposed statute and report of rapporteur, April 2, 20-27, 1945.

List of documents issued, April 9-28, 1945.

Lists of representatives and advisers, April 10-14, 1945.

Meeting summaries, delegation memoranda, proposals, and subcommittee reports, April 1945. 2 folders

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123

Minutes of Drafting Committee, April 14, 1945.

For full minutes of the Committee of Jurists, see Commission IV: Committee I.

Miscellaneous documents, April 1945.

Includes drafting committee revisions and U.S. commentary.

Official comment of the various nations, April 1945.

Report on draft of statute, April 20-25, 1945.

Committee 1. International Court of Justice:

Documents from the Committee of Jurists, April 1945. 3 folders

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142.A.19.1B

124

Draft report of the rapporteur, June 9, 1945.

Draft statute, June 21, 1945.

Proposed amendments and revisions, April 12-June 17, 1945.

Proposed drafts of articles, May 1945.

Miscellaneous:

Address by John Foster Dulles ("The Beginning of World Order"), April 22, 1945.

Elmer Ryan's File, 1938, 1945.

Although a captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General department at the time of the conference, Ryan did not attend the conference in any official capacity but appears to have served as a personal aide advising Stassen on policy issues and public opinion. He also assisted in Stassen's speech preparation. The file includes very candid correspondence between Ryan and his wife Marjorie wherein Ryan relates conference activities and Stassen's thoughts regarding the progress of the commissions and discussions between the delegations. Also included are copies of memoranda Ryan addressed to Stassen, preliminary notes for Stassen's speeches and commission work, and correspondence between Ryan and key Minnesotans such as Sydney Anderson, Julian Baird, and Fred Hughes regarding public perceptions of Stassen's conference role and his position for the 1948 presidential campaign. The file also includes a few letters from Myrtle Cain and Esther Stassen to Marjorie Ryan.

Far Eastern Survey, April 11-25, 1945.

Harold H. Fisher briefings:

1945. 3 folders

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142.A.19.1B

124

Criticism of the San Francisco conference, April-June 1945. 3 folders

News clippings regarding Harold Stassen, 1943-1945.

Research briefings, May-June 1945.

Includes briefs regarding the ratification of amendments to the U.S. constitution, criticism of the 1919 Paris peace conference, Hitler's lebensraum ideology, and the constitutions of Australia and New Zealand.

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142.G.8.4F-1

House Concurrent Resolution 10 (State of Minnesota), February 23, 1945.

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142.A.19.1B

124

House Concurrent Resolution 21, January 17, 1945.

Invitations, April-June 1945.

Letters of introduction, April 1945.

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143.E.9.6F

Photographs, 1945.

An original photograph of Stassen with Anthony Eden has been placed in the Minnesota Historical Society reserve collection (Res. 62, Box 214). A photocopy of this photograph remains in the collection.

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142.G.8.4F-1

Photographs, 1945.

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124

Public letters to the U.S. Delegation, April 16-June 22, 1945.

Statements by Secretary Stettinius, April-May 1945.

Miscellaneous documents from individuals and groups, 1942-1945. 4 folders

Post Conference:

Correspondence and related papers, November 1945-March 1948.

Includes copies of addresses made by the secretary-general of the United Nations.

Conference on Problems of War and Peace in the Atomic Age: Part 2, The Political Problem, January 4-5, 1946.

Includes no material by Stassen but includes a presentation made by Clyde Eagleton regarding international law and justice.

Dublin Conference Committee: Proposals for amendment of the U.N. charter, October 1945-February 1946.

Contains a petition formulated during a conference held in Princeton, January 11-12, 1946 and sent to the U.N.'s General Assembly asking for revision of the U.N. charter in such a manner as to form a World Federal Government. Also included are materials regarding the preceding Conference on World Peace held in Dublin, New Hampshire, October 11-16, 1945.

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124

Articles and white papers, July 1945-August 1946.

International Conciliation, Nos. 413, 418, 420, 424, September 1945 and February, April, and October 1946.

Charter Anniversaries and Revisions, 1970-1991

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142.A.19.1B

124

Correspondence, 1966-1974, 1979. 3 folders

News clippings, 1967-1972.

United Nations 25th dinner, May-June 1970.

Correspondence between Stassen, Reverend Lowell R. Ditzen, original United Nations charter signatories, and foreign ambassadorial agents regarding an anniversary celebration at the National Presbyterian Center in Washington, D.C. Includes brief biographical information on some of the signatories.

Speeches, 1970.

Committee on Foreign Relations testimony, April-December 1975.

Includes Stassen's statement before the Senate Committee at a May 7, 1975 hearing regarding the U.S. role in the United Nations.

Book proposal correspondence, 1984-1985.

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142.A.19.2F

125

Mailing lists, 1984-1985.

Correspondence:

Includes correspondence with United Nations officials, Reagan presidential cabinet members, U.S. congressional Foreign Relations Committee members, foreign ambassadors, and foreign heads of state.

General, 1985-1986.

Persons to whom we sent a copy of the UN draft charter, 1985-1986.

Responses to January 8, 1985 mailing of proposed United Nations charter, 1984-1986.

Responses to December 16, 1985 mailing of draft United Nations charter,

Articles, 1985.

Includes a copy of Stassen's speech given in Geneva as chairman of World Law Day in 1967.

Hill and Knowlton, 1985-1986.

Includes correspondence, invoices, and written materials related to the firm's role as Stassen's press relations counsel for the January 24, 1985 press conference presentation of his draft charter.

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142.A.19.2F

125

News clippings, 1985.

Press conference, January 24, 1985.

The United Nations at Forty (New York University), March 1, 1985.

Campaign for United Nations Reform (Denver), May 25, 1985.

United Nations anniversary celebration (San Francisco), June 23-25, 1985.

Speech, Fairmont Avenue Methodist Church, St. Paul, February 23, 1986.

International Bicentennial Symposium on Strengthening the United Nations, Philadelphia, 1987.

Draft charters for a new United Nations, 1985-1991. 7 booklets in 3 folders.

Includes two revised editions of Stassen's 1985 draft, a 1986 Spanish edition of the 1985 draft, three further revisions drafted in 1987, 1989, and 1990, and a seventh edition entitled Restructuring Suggested for the United Nations Organization in 1995, the 50th Year, published in 1991.

Robert Matteson's party in honor of Harold Stassen and the United Nations, May 29, 1991. 1 videocassette: sound, color ; 1/2 inch.

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EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION

This portion of the papers documents Stassen's activities as a principal participant in cold war international relations. In November 1952 Stassen accepted an appointment from President-elect Eisenhower as the director of the Mutual Security Agency (MSA). The MSA was created in 1951 to provide military, economic, and technical assistance to foreign nations. The functions of the MSA, as well as those of the Technical Assistance Division, the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, and other foreign assistance and economic operations within the executive branch, were transferred to the Foreign Operations Administration (FOA) in August 1953. This consolidation was brought about in order to centralize operations, control, and direction of all foreign and technical assistance programs and to coordinate mutual security activities. Stassen assumed directorship of the new agency and served in that post until accepting an appointment as Special Assistant to the President on disarmament policy in March 1955.

Eisenhower created the position of Special Assistant to the President on disarmament policy as a cabinet level post with responsibility for formulating and negotiating policy on disarmament. While serving as special assistant, Stassen was appointed by Eisenhower in August 1955 as Deputy United States Representative on the Disarmament Commission of the United Nations to sit in the Commission's Sub-committee meetings. The most prominent of these meetings were held in London from March 18th to September 6th 1957. In his book Harold Stassen, His Career, the Man, and the 1957 London Arms Control Negotiations Robert E. Matteson, the Director of the White House Disarmament Staff during this period, described the last ten weeks of these meetings as "the most intensive and dramatic of any negotiations in the post-war period."

Stassen's views regarding disarmament and negotiations with the Russians were strongly opposed by other members of Eisenhower's cabinet, particularly Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The disarmament talks ended in a stalemate and in February 1958 Stassen left the Eisenhower administration. In a letter to Eisenhower (February 14, 1958) Stassen wrote, "It is my belief that I may now make a larger contribution to your objective of a durable peace, which I share, by reentering the active political field in the Pennsylvania governorship campaign."

Correspondence and Memoranda, 1952-1958

The correspondence consists primarily of incoming materials arranged alphabetically by correspondent and thereunder in approximate chronological order comprised of sets for 1952-1954, 1954-1957, and 1958. Parts of the first set of correspondence were either missing or damaged by water. The carbons of Stassen's outgoing correspondence are also arranged alphabetically by recipient and are filed in two sets for 1953-1955 and 1955-1958. Some overlap exists between the file sets. The memoranda are filed chronologically by month and include telephone messages, meeting reminders, schedule changes, appointments, copies of outgoing telegrams, and internal office memoranda.

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Correspondence:

Bl-E, 1952-1954.

Correspondents A-Bk are missing. Salvageable items from correspondents Bl-Br have been photocopied and preserved in this collection.

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F-H, 1952-1954.

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128

I-Mc, 1952-1954.

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129

Me-Ri, 1952-1954.

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142.A.19.7B

130

Ro-Wh, 1952-1954.

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Wi-Z, 1952-1954.

A-Z, 1953-1955.

A, 1954-1957.

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B-Ce, 1954-1957.

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Ch-Fl, 1954-1957.

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Fo-Ho, 1954-1957.

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Hu-Lo, 1954-1957.

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Lu-N, 1954-1957.

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137

O-R, 1954-1957.

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138

S-To, 1954-1957.

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139

Tr-Z, 1954-1957.

A-Z, December 1957-February 1958.

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140

Carbons:

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A-G, 1953-June 1955.

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H-O, 1953-June 1955.

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P-Z, 1953-June 1955.

A-Am, 1955-1958.

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143

An-Mc, 1955-1958.

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Me-Z, 1955-1958.

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Memoranda:

October 1952-May 1953.

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June-September 1953.

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October 1953-March 1954.

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April-September 1954.

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October 1954-March 1955.

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150

April-October 1955.

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October 1955-August 1956.

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152

September 1956-December 1957.

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January-February 1958.

Mutual Security Agency/Foreign Operations Administration, 1952-1957

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154

Correspondence:

Additional correspondence with cabinet members and key persons is also filed within the correspondence.

Benson, Ezra Taft (Secretary of Agriculture), 1953-1954.

Blachly, Fred, 1953.

Caldwell, William E.: Memorandum, speaking engagements, 1953-1954.

Dulles, Allen W., 1953-1954.

Dulles, John Foster (Secretary of State), 1953-1954.

Durkin, Martin P. (Secretary of Labor), 1953.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.:

Correspondence:

Prior to January 1953.

1953-1954.

News clippings, 1952-1954. 2 folders

Press releases, 1953.

Speeches:

"The Chance for Peace," April 16, 1953.

"Atomic Power for Peace," December 8, 1953.

1st and 2nd State of the Union messages: Drafts, 1953-1954. 2 folders

Eisenhower, Dr. Milton, 1953.

Hagerty, James C., 1953, 1955.

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Harriman, Averill, 1952-1953.

Hauge, Dr. Gabriel, 1953.

Hobby, Mrs. Oveta Culp (Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare), 1952-1954.

Hoover, J. Edgar, 1952-1953.

Houghton, Mrs. Hiram C. Houghton, 1953.

Humphrey, George (Secretary of Treasury), 1952-1954.

Matteson, Robert E., 1952-1954.

Naughten, Thomas, 1953.

Nixon, Richard M., 1952-1953.

Rand, William Mcnear, 1953.

Riley, General William E., 1953-1954.

Schweitzer, Albert, 1953.

Stephens, Thomas P., 1953.

Wallace, DeWitt, 1953.

Wilson, Charles E. (Secretary of Defense), 1952-1954.

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