OVERVIEW
Minnesota Historical Society
Stassen, Harold Edward,
1907-2001.
Harold Stassen papers.
1910s-1999 (bulk 1938-1980).
Materials in English, French, Japanese, Russian,
and Spanish.
Papers documenting the life and career of a former Minnesota
governor, presidential contender, naval officer, United Nations charter delegate,
and Eisenhower cabinet member.
212.8 cubic feet (214 boxes and 2 oversize
folders.).
See [Detailed Description](a9) section for
shelf locations.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
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-June 1945).
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.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
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.
ARRANGEMENT
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.
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.
CATALOG HEADINGS
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.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Restrictions:
Access: Until 2020, access to certain files is restricted. Restricted materials
are noted in the Detailed Description section of this inventory.
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; 16,522
Processing Information:
Processed by: Frank Hennessy, February 1995; Frank Hennessy and Monica Manny
Ralston, January 2000.
Additions by: Meagan Kellom and David B. Peterson, December 2010.
Processing and cataloging of this collection was funded in part by the generous
support of a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications
and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Catalog ID number: 001731446
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
PERSONAL PAPERS
Biographical and Ephemeral Material
143.E.9.5B
1
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.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Appointments, awards, and certificates, undated and
1932-1982.
2 folders.
Diplomas and honorary degrees, 1919-1967.
2 folders. and 1 rolled document.
142.E.7.4
215
Diplomas and honorary degrees: Temple University,
1949.
Interviews and Articles
143.E.9.5B
1
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
142.G.8.4F-1
2
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.
143.E.9.6F
3
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.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Canoeing-Fishing Trip, Basswood Lake region, Minnesota,
undated.
CAMPAIGNS AND POLITICS
Political and Gubernatorial Activities, 1933-1942
143.E.9.5B
1
"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.
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.
143.E.9.7B
4
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.
+257
212
1938 gubernatorial vote by counties.
143.E.9.7B
4
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
143.E.9.8F
5
Releases, 1939.
Weekly articles, 1939-1940.
Speech material.
5 folders.
142.E.7.4
215
"Victory in '38": newspaper clippings complied by Web
Coffee, May-November 1938.
3 scrapbooks.
143.E.9.8F
5
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.
143.E.9.6F
3
Photographs, 1938-1943.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Portraits (photographs): Harold E. Stassen, 1938-1943.
3 folders.
Political cartoon,
1940.
143.E.9.8F
5
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Hughes, Fred (Stassen for Governor Volunteers): Radio
address, September 9, 1940.
LeVander, Bernhard W., undated and [ca. 1938]-1942.
2 folders.
143.E.9.9B
6
Lists, undated and 1939-1940.
Lommen, George H., 1941.
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.
143.E.9.10F
7
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.
"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.
142.F.15.5B
8
Scrapbooks:
1934-1938. 2 volumes.
142.F.15.6F
9
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.
143.E.10.1B
10
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
News clippings, 1943-1944.
4 folders.
143.E.9.6F
3
Stassen Appreciation Day, South St. Paul,
Minnesota:
Photographs, March 31, 1944.
151.A.3.1
11
WMIN (St. Paul) radio broadcast, March 30, 1944.
1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm ; 16 inches.
142.G.8.4F-2
12
Motion picture, March 30, 1944.
1 film reel : color ; 16 mm.
143.E.10.1B
10
Thye, Edward, 1943-1944.
Political Activity, 1945-1946
143.E.10.2F
13
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
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.
142.A.6.1B
14
" '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.
142.A.6.2F
15
June 1948-August 1948.
142.A.6.3B
16
August-October 1948.
Key men and women, 1945-1948:
A-Ha.
142.A.6.4F
17
He-Y.
142.A.6.5B
18
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).
142.A.6.6F
19
California (W-Z)-Florida (A-R).
142.A.6.7B
29
Florida (S-Z)-Illinois(A-S).
142.A.6.8F
21
Illinois (S-Z)-Iowa (A-Z).
142.A.7.1B
22
Iowa (special)-Massachusetts (A-S).
142.A.7.2F
23
Massachusetts (T-Z)-Minnesota (A-D).
142.A.7.3B
24
Minnesota (E-N).
142.A.7.4F
25
Minnesota (O-Z and special)
142.A.7.5B
26
Minnesota (special)-Nebraska.
142.A.7.6F
27
Nevada-New York (A-B).
142.A.7.7B
28
New York (C-L).
142.A.7.8F
29
New York (Mc-Z and special).
142.A.8.1B
30
New York (special)-Ohio (A-G).
142.A.8.2F
31
Ohio (H-Z)-Oregon.
142.A.8.3B
32
Pennsylvania-Tennessee.
142.A.8.4F
33
Texas-Wisconsin (A-E).
142.A.8.5B
34
Wisconsin (F-Z)-District of Columbia
(A-J).
142.A.8.6F
35
District of Columbia (K-Z)
Alabama-District of Columbia:
Unfiled.
Canadian and foreign, 1945-1948.
142.A.8.7B
36
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.
[See also: Box
44 : Eastern States Headquarters : Travel.
](crossref1B)
Letters of appreciation, 1946-1948.
Programs, undated and 1939-1946.
4 folders.
142.A.8.8F
37
Programs, 1947-1948.
Western trip photograph album, February 15-28,
1948.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Bumper stickers.
142.A.8.8F
37
Burger, Warren: Memos, 1948.
Campaign literature.
2 folders.
Digital version, What should we expect of the next
President?
Digital version, America versus Communism in One
World
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,
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.
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.
142.G.8.5B-1
38
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.
142.A.8.8F
37
Larson, Ed: Attention, undated and
1947-1948.
Liaison representatives:
Meeting: Questionnaire, July 19,
1946.
Meeting: Stassen home, June 25, 1947.
142.A.9.1B
39
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Reference file.
Stassen, Harold: for attention and disposition,
1948.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
142.A.9.2F
40
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.
142.G.8.5B-1
38
Contact cards: Alabama-Wyoming.
3 x 5 index cards containing names, addresses, remarks, and
quotations pertaining to Stassen supporters.
142.A.9.2F
40
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Stassen and Dewey photographs.
Stassen's statements.
Digital version
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.
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.
142.A.9.3B
41
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.
Motion picture group: House Un-American Activities
Committee investigation, 1947.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
Movies project: "Round Trip," 1947.
142.A.9.4F
42
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.
Digital version, New York Herald Tribune Forum
Digital version, Orlando, Florida speech
Digital version, Military Training
Digital version, To the People of Minnesota
Digital version, Lincoln Day Address
142.F.15.5B
8
News clippings, out of state, February-April 1947. 1
volume.
142.A.9.4F
42
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. (Massachusetts), 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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
Stassen, Harold E.: Naval service
memorandum.
Digital version
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.
Taft, Robert A.:
Correspondence, March-May 1948.
News clippings, 1946-1948.
Taxation, undated and 1946-1948.
3 folders.
Television, 1948.
142.A.9.5B
43
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.
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.
142.A.9.6F
44
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.
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:
[See also: Box 36 : Stassen for President
National Headquarters : Administration : Appointments :
Engagements and trips.](crossref1A)
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.
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.
142.A.9.7B
45
Illinois-Wisconsin.
30 folders.
The Minnesota Letter, May 4,
1946-June 9, 1948.
The Minnesota Front,
1947.
148.F.3.3B
216
Mark Forgette files (Executive Director):
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers,
1940, 1946-1952.
5 folders.
Principally incoming and outgoing correspondence of Forgette
as Executive Director of Neighbors for Stassen; major
correspondents include Daniel C. Gainey and Elmer J.
Ryan.
Correspondence with Daniel C. Gainey,
1947-1954.
Membership cards in Stassen and Republican
organizations,
1947-1950.
Neighbors for Stassen,
1946-1947.
2 folders.
Includes issuances and mimeographed materials.
Stassen's campaign trips,
1946-1948.
3 folders.
Nebraska direct mail,
1948.
Ohio direct mail,
1948.
Oregon direct mail,
1948.
Wisconsin campaign kickoff,
1947.
Wisconsin campaign,
March-April 1948.
Wisconsin county reports,
1948.
Stassen campaign facts,
1947-1948.
Stassen issue statements,
1947-1948.
Stassen printed materials,
1947-1952.
142.G.8.5B-2
46
Contact card files, 1948:
Business leaders: A-Z.
Minnesota: Ada-Redwing.
142.G.8.6F-1
47
Minnesota: Redwood Falls-Zumbrota.
Minneapolis: A-Z (missing Cy-G).
142.G.8.5B-1
38
St. Paul: A-Z.
142.A.9.7B
45
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.
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.
142.A.9.8F
48
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.
Reciprocal trade.
Religion.
Rent control.
Republican Party.
Republican policy.
Resume 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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
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.
142.A.10.1B
49
Telegrams.
2 folders.
Druggists, undated and 1948.
Eisenhower: William Burnham.
European trip, 1947.
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.
142.A.10.2F
50
procedures, Office.
Publicity, 1946.
Radio, 1946-1947.
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.
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.
142.A.10.3B
51
Miscellaneous papers, 1947-1952.
2 folders.
Minnesota elections, 1930-1947.
Neighbors for Stassen, 1946-1947.
2 folders.
Digital version, Transcript of 1947 Conference
Digital version, Eastern States Exposition
Digital version, Straight from the Shoulder Address
Digital version, Highland Park Men's Republican Club
Digital version, Iowa State Bankers Association Address
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.
National election results: Alabama-Wyoming, 1938-1944.
2 folders.
142.A.10.4F
52
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.
142.A.10.5B
53
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.
142.A.10.6F
54
Italy.
Norway.
Poland.
Russia.
Sweden.
Switzerland.
Turkey.
Yugoslavia.
Notes, February 23-April 22, 1947.
4 folders.
143.E.9.6F
3
Photographs, 1946-1948.
2 folders.
142.A.10.6F
54
Press conferences, 1946-1948.
2 folders.
Statements to the press, November 1947-October
1948.
+257
212
Saturday Evening Post
advertisement, September 7, 1946.
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.
142.A.10.7B
55
1948 Campaign by state: scrapbook.
3 folders.
Alabama-Wisconsin, 1946-1948.
28 folders.
General, 1946-1948.
2 folders.
142.A.10.8F
56
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
142.A.11.1B
57
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.
Alpha:
A-Y, 1949-1950.
Miscellaneous unfiled; A-He, 1951.
142.A.11.2F
58
Ho-Z, 1951.
Key men and women:
Aiken-Hall, 1948-1950.
142.A.11.3B
59
Hallanan-Youngdahl, 1948-1950.
Aiken-Gallup, 1950.
142.A.11.4F
60
Gamble-Zimmerman, 1950.
Adams-Johnson, 1951.
142.A.11.5B
61
Jones-Youngdahl, 1951.
States and international:
Alabama-Indiana, 1948-1950.
142.A.11.6F
62
Iowa-New York State, 1948-1950.
142.A.11.7B
63
New York City -Wyoming; No address,
1948-1950.
142.A.11.8F
64
Alabama-Minnesota (A-N), 1950.
142.A.12.1B
65
Minnesota (O-Z)-Ohio, 1950.
142.A.12.2F
66
Oklahoma-Wyoming, 1950.
Africa-Canada, 1951.
142.A.12.3B
67
Colorado-New Hampshire, 1951.
142.A.12.4F
68
New Jersey-Pennsylvania, 1951.
142.A.12.5B
69
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.
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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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.
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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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.
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.
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72
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.
143.E.9.6F
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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.
142.A.12.8F
72
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.
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Photographs, 1950-1951.
Original photographs of Stassen visiting Dr. Albert
Schweitzer at Lambarene have been placed in the MHS
reserve collection (Res. 62, Box 214). Photocopies of
these photographs remain in the collection.
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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."
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Cooke-Peaslee.
142.A.13.4F
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Peaslee-Warren.
142.A.13.5B
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States and international:
Pre-convention, 1950-July 1952:
Alabama-Illinois.
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Indiana-New Jersey (A-Q).
142.A.13.7B
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New Jersey (R-Z)-Pennsylvania (A-K).
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Pennsylvania (L-Z)-Wyoming.
Post-convention, July 1952-January 1953:
Africa-Illinois.
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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.
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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].
Digital version
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.
Digital version
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Delegate books:
States: Alabama-Wyoming, 1952.
Alaska, Hawaii, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,
1952.
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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.
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State reports by Amos J. Peaslee, 1950-1951.
State correspondence and documents: Alabama-Wyoming and
Territories, 1947-1952.
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84
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.
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86
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.
Stassen:
Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers,
undated and 1948-1950.
2 folders.
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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.
142.E.7.4
215
Campaign poster and bumper stickers.
143.E.9.6F
3
Photographs:
Portraits, engagements, and speaking events,
1951-1952.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Harold Stassen with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican
National Convention, July 1952.
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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.
142.G.8.4F-2
12
A "Better Deal" for the American People, December 27,
1951.
1 film reel (about 30 minutes): sound, b&w; 16 mm
+ 1 script and 1 speech text.
Digital version of speech text
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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.
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.
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88
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.
North Assembly room, Stassen
headquarters.
Officers.
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12
The Republican Dilemma, June 26, 1952.
1 film reel (30 minutes) : sound, b&w ; 16 mm + 1
script.
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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.
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89
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.
"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.
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"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.
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Stassengram, 1952.
Stassen's accomplishments, Statements of,
[1952].
Stassen's stands on issues by Robert E. Matteson,
February 1952.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
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.
Volunteer work for headquarters, [1952].
Wisconsin campaign audit, 1952-1953.
Political Activity, 1952-1957
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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.
Digital version
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.
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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.
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.
Stassen, Elmer B., 1952-1953.
Stassen, Harold: Memoranda (confidential),
1952.
Digital version
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.
142.A.15.3B
91
Senators:
Senate staffs, 83rd Congress, [1953].
Election, November 2, 1954.
Arizona-Wyoming, 1952-1957.
Representatives:
Arizona-Ohio, 1952-1957.
142.A.15.4F
92
Oklahoma-Wyoming, 1952-1957.
1954 congressional campaign strategy, October 20,
1954.
142.G.8.6F-2
93
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).
142.G.8.7B-1
94
New York (D-Z)-Wyoming.
Territories and foreign countries.
District of Columbia:
White House.
Foreign.
Press individuals.
Radio individuals.
Newspapers.
142.G.8.7B-2
95
FOA/Disarmament, 1953-1957:
United States: A-Z.
Out of United States : A-Z.
Disarmament Commission.
Task forces.
142.A.15.4F
92
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.
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.
142.A.15.5B
96
New York-Wyoming, July-December 1956.
Foreign Countries, July-August 1956.
Unknown, July-September 1956.
Affirmative:
Alabama-Colorado, July-August 1956.
142.A.15.6F
97
Connecticut-New York, July-December
1956.
142.A.15.7B
98
New York-Oregon (missing Pennsylvania-Wyoming),
July-September 1956.
Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island unfiled,
July-August 1956.
Miscellaneous unfiled, August-October
1956.
142.G.8.7B-2
95
Contact cards:
Small contributors: A-Z, 1956.
Night letter, July 28, 1956.
143.E.9.6F
3
Photograph: Harold Stassen with Vice President Nixon,
Republican National Convention, August 1952.
142.A.15.7B
98
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.
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.
142.G.8.4F-2
12
Voters study of Vice President Nixon's potential,
[1956].
1 film reel : sound, b&w ; 16 mm.
142.A.15.7B
98
Young Americans for Eisenhower First and Stassen
Second, July 1956.
142.A.15.8F
99
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.
142.A.15.4F
92
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.
142.A.16.1B
100
Correspondence:
A-Su, 1957-1958.
142.A.16.2F
101
T-Z, 1957-1958.
142.G.8.7B-2
95
Contact cards:
General: A-Z, 1958-1959.
Contributors: A-Z, 1958.
142.A.16.2F
101
County campaigns:
Adams-York, 1958.
County chairmen and treasurers.
Schedule plan (tentative) mailed to county chairmen,
April 16, 1958.
143.E.9.6F
3
Photographs, 1958.
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.
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.
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.
142.A.16.5B
104
Correspondence, A-Z, December 1958-January 1960.
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.
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
142.A.16.7B
106
Correspondence:
A-Q, 1958-1988.
142.A.16.8F
107
R-Z, 1958-1988.
142.G.8.7B-2
95
Contact cards: A-Z, 1960.
143.E.9.6F
3
Photographs, 1968-1984.
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.
142.G.8.7B-2
95
Contact cards:
Not active.
Enthusiastic.
Interested.
Miscellaneous.
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.
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.
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.
Digital version
Vietnam and the United Nations, March 13-December 22,
1967.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
142.A.17.4F
111
Rockefeller, Nelson, 1968.
Romney, George, 1968.
3 folders.
Vietnam, 1968.
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.
Digital version
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.
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.
Andersen, 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.
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.
+257
212
Campaign poster.
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.
Stangeland, 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.
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.
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.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Campaign poster.
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.
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:
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.
Digital version
Correspondence, 1988-1992.
Persian Gulf Crisis: Correspondence, 1990-1991.
1992 presidential campaign, 1991-1992.
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
142.A.17.8F
115
Gubernatorial resignation, April-May 1943.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Naval orders and correspondence, 1942-1945.
6 folders.
Memoranda to the Secretary of Navy, October 1945.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Personal correspondence:
Incoming, undated and 1942-1943.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Incoming, January-July 1944.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Incoming, August-October 1944.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
Incoming, November 1944.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
Digital version, part 7
Incoming, December 1944.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Incoming, January-July 1945.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
Digital version, part 7
Digital version, part 8
Digital version, part 9
Incoming, August 1945-January 1946.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Outgoing, 1943-1944.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
Digital version, part 7
Digital version, part 8
Digital version, part 9
Family correspondence, undated and 1943-1945.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Res. 62
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.
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.
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.
142.A.18.1B
116
Halsey, Admiral William F.:
Press conference, February 19, 1945.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Book material.
Anecdotes that Stassen wrote for a book on Halsey.
Digital version
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.
142.A.18.1B
116
News clippings, undated and 1944-1945.
143.E.9.6F
3
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.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Portrait: Commander Harold Stassen, [1945].
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
142.A.18.1B
116
Stassen's war diary and notes, October-December
1944.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
Digital version, part 7
Stassen's war diary and notes, July-August 1945.
Digital version
Res. 62
214
U.S. Third Fleet: War diary, September 1944-January
1945.
POW Repatriation
142.A.18.1B
116
Correspondence and related material, 1945-1946.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Family inquiries, October-November 1945.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Prison statistics and prisoner lists, [1945].
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
+Res. 16
213
Prison statistics and prisoner lists, [1945].
2 folders.
The majority of these records are written in Japanese.
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.
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.
142.A.18.1B
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.
Answered by/Addressed to Esther Stassen, March-April
1945.
Miscellaneous (unsorted), undated and January-June 1945.
4 folders.
Telegrams with outgoing reply, March-May 1945.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Telegrams with outgoing reply, May-June 1945.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Telegrams, General, April-July 1945.
General (chronological):
Undated and February-April 1945.
4 folders.
142.A.18.2F
117
April-July 1945.
10 folders.
General:
A-R, March-June 1945.
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.
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.
Precis 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.
142.E.7.4
215
Report to the President on the
Results of the San Francisco Conference, June 26,
1945:
Galley proof.
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.
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.
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
Digital version, part 7
Digital version, part 8
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.
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.
Digital version
Memoranda (general), undated and March-June
1945.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
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.
Digital version, folder 1, part 1
Digital version, folder 1, part 2
Digital version, folder 1, part 3
Digital version, folder 1, part 4
Digital version, folder 2, part 1
Digital version, folder 2, part 2
Digital version, folder 2, part 3
Digital version, folder 2, part 4
Digital version, folder 2, part 5
Pre-conference meetings of U.S. Delegation, March
13-April 3, 1945.
Digital version
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Comments and proposed amendments concerning the Dumbarton
Oaks Proposals (by national delegations), May 7, 1945.
4 folders.
Joint proposals, May 1945.
Digital version
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
142.A.18.7B
122
Skeleton charter, May 29, 1945.
Digital version
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Texts of the proposed charter of the United Nations and
of the proposed agreement establishing the Preparatory
Commission, June 25, 1945.
Digital version
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.
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.
Digital version, folder 1, part 1
Digital version, folder 1, part 2
Digital version, folder 1, part 3
Digital version, folder 1, part 4
Digital version, folder 1, part 5
Digital version, folder 1, part 6
Digital version, folder 2, part 1
Digital version, folder 2, part 2
Digital version, folder 2, part 3
Digital version, folder 2, part 4
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.
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123
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.
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.
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.
Digital version
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.
142.A.19.1B
124
Meeting summaries, delegation memoranda,
proposals, and subcommittee reports, April 1945.
2 folders.
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.
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.
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
142.G.8.4F-1
2
House Concurrent Resolution 10 (State of Minnesota), February
23, 1945.
142.A.19.1B
124
House Concurrent Resolution 21, January 17,
1945.
Invitations, April-June 1945.
Letters of introduction, April 1945.
143.E.9.6F
3
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.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Photographs, 1945.
142.A.19.1B
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
Portrait: Commander Harold Stassen, [1945].
142.A.19.2F
125
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.
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
142.A.19.2F
125
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.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Speeches, 1970.
Digital version
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.
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.
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.
Digital version
International Bicentennial Symposium on Strengthening the
United Nations, Philadelphia, 1987.
Digital version
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.
Draft Charter for a New United Nations,
October 24, 1985.
Digital version
Draft Charter for a New United Nations,
May 2, 1985.
Digital version
El Proyecto Stassen del la Carta para una Nueva
Organizacion del las Naciones Unidas,
1986.
Digital version
The Stassen 1987 Draft Charter for a Better United
Nations Organization.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
The 1989 Draft Charter suggested for a Better United
Nations Organization.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
The 1990 Draft Charter suggested for a Better United
Nations Organization.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Restructuring Suggested for the United Nations in 1995,
1991.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Robert Matteson's party in honor of Harold Stassen and the
United Nations, May 29, 1991.
1 videocassette: sound, color ; 1/2 inch.
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.
142.A.19.3B
126
Correspondence:
Bl-E, 1952-1954.
Correspondents A-Bk are missing. Salvageable items from
correspondents Bl-Br have been photocopied and preserved in this
collection.
142.A.19.4F
127
F-H, 1952-1954.
142.A.19.5B
128
I-Mc, 1952-1954.
142.A.19.6F
129
Me-Ri, 1952-1954.
142.A.19.7B
130
Ro-Wh, 1952-1954.
142.A.19.8F
131
Wi-Z, 1952-1954.
A-Z, 1953-1955.
A, 1954-1957.
142.A.20.1B
132
B-Ce, 1954-1957.
142.A.20.2F
133
Ch-Fl, 1954-1957.
142.A.20.3B
134
Fo-Ho, 1954-1957.
142.A.20.4F
135
Hu-Lo, 1954-1957.
142.A.20.5B
136
Lu-N, 1954-1957.
142.A.20.6F
137
O-R, 1954-1957.
142.A.20.7B
138
S-To, 1954-1957.
142.A.20.8F
139
Tr-Z, 1954-1957.
A-Z, December 1957-February 1958.
142.B.9.1B
140
Carbons:
142.B.9.1B
140
A-G, 1953-June 1955.
142.B.9.2F
141
H-O, 1953-June 1955.
142.B.9.3B
142
P-Z, 1953-June 1955.
A-Am, 1955-1958.
142.B.9.4F
143
An-Mc, 1955-1958.
142.B.9.5B
144
Me-Z, 1955-1958.
142.B.9.6F
145
Memoranda:
October 1952-May 1953.
142.B.9.7B
146
June-September 1953.
142.B.9.8F
147
October 1953-March 1954.
142.B.9.9B
148
April-September 1954.
142.B.9.10F
149
October 1954-March 1955.
142.B.9.11B
150
April-October 1955.
142.B.9.12F
151
October 1955-August 1956.
142.B.9.13B
152
September 1956-December 1957.
142.B.9.14F
153
January-February 1958.
Mutual Security Agency/Foreign Operations Administration,
1952-1957
142.B.9.15B
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.
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.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Citations, 1953, [1955].
142.A.14.2F
82
Contact cards, 1953-1955.
1 file box.
Miscellaneous contacts; cabinet, military, agency, and White House
personnel; evaluation groups; and committees.
FOA personnel file, [1953].
142.B.9.15B
154
Office of Personnel Security and Integrity (P.S. &
I.):
On March 5, 1953 Stassen issued an announcement (Office Announcement
60) that a new position, the Assistant Director of Personnel
Security and Integrity, within the Mutual Security Agency had been
established for the purpose of managing the agency's employment
functions. Appointed to the position was Thomas E. Naughten. Stassen
created this position with the expectation that President Eisenhower
would issue an order replacing the federal loyalty program with a
federal employee security program and, indeed, Executive Order 10450
was issued April 27, 1953 which vested each department head internal
responsibility for "establishing and maintaining within his
department or agency an effective program to insure that the
employment and retention in employment of any civilian officer or
employee within the department or agency is clearly consistent with
the interests of national security" (Sec. 2, Executive Order 10450).
Due to the security risks involved in the nation's foreign aid
operations, Naughten's office conducted personnel investigations
using F.B.I. and other sources to determine the loyalty and
integrity of not only current employees, but also of prospective
employees, as well as private companies and organizations involved
with the agency's missions. When the Mutual Security Agency was
transformed into the Foreign Operations Administration, the Office
of Personnel Security and Integrity was also transferred under the
new administration. Stassen continued to use the services of this
office when he was named Special Assistant to the President on
Disarmament.
General, undated and January-August 1953.
2 folders.
Employee Security Program, 1953-1955.
Fraud matters handled, April 1955.
General political, 1954.
General security information, 1953-1954.
142.B.9.14F
153
Individual cases handled involving fraud and related
matters, January 27, 1953-April 15, 1955.
1 partial file box.
142.B.9.15B
154
Loyalty and non-membership certification, 1953-1954.
2 folders.
142.B.9.16F
155
Investigations:
Access to these files is restricted until
2020.
Checks for Tom E. Naughten, 1953-1957.
A-P, 1953-1955.
142.B.10.1B
156
Q-Z, 1953-1955.
Investigations and security checks:
Access to these files is restricted until
2020.
A-Z, 1955-1957.
143.E.9.6F
3
Photographs:
Portraits:
Harold E. Stassen in his White House office and the
Stassen family, [1953-1957].
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie
Doud Eisenhower, undated and 1955.
+Res. 16
213
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie
Doud Eisenhower (autographed), undated.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Group Portrait: Eisenhower cabinet and staff,
[1953-1955].
Mutual Security Agency, 1952-1954
142.B.9.15B
154
Appointment and nominations as Director of Mutual Security,
January 1953.
Bill to amend Mutual Security Act, June-July
1954.
Evaluation report, March 24, 1953.
"Frigorest": A plan for an inter-railway refrigerated
transport cooperative for the shipment of perishables from Eastern
Europe to the markets of Central and Western Europe,
1953.
Mutual Security Evaluators Program, 1953.
National Security Council, 1953.
News clippings:
General, 1952-1953.
MSA appointment, 1952.
Stassen-McCarthy, March-June 1953.
142.B.10.2F
157
Petty cash: Office, 1953.
143.E.9.6F
3
Photographs:
Some original photographs have been placed in the Minnesota
Historical Society reserve collection (Res. 62, Box 214).
Photocopies of these photographs remain in the collection.
Engagements and speaking events, 1953.
Western European capitals tour, January-February
1953.
Middle East and South Asia trip, May 1953.
2 folders.
142.B.10.2F
157
Psychological Strategy Council, 1953.
Report to Congress, June 30, 1953.
Senate Judiciary Committee statement, April 9,
1953.
University of Pennsylvania, 1953.
Washington Office Evaluation Team (Fink, Moore, Gravlin),
1953.
Personnel:
Domestic, 1953-1954.
Foreign, 1953.
Vacancy report, July 24, 1953.
Foreign Operations Administration, 1953-1957
142.B.10.2F
157
Study of Selected African Countries: Preparatory to the FOA
Submission to the Bureau of the Budget for Fiscal Year 1956,
September 16, 1954.
Biographical sketch, 1955.
Chart Room data, 1953-1954.
+257
212
Citation from the Pakistan USOM, 1955.
142.B.10.2F
157
Crank and anonymous letters, 1954-1955.
142.G.8.4F-2
12
Facts Forum #26: "Harold Stassen Interviewed by Cabell
Phillips," November 18, 1953.
1 film reel (about 45 minutes): sound, b&w; 16 mm + 1
text.
142.B.10.2F
157
FBI: Current intelligence summary, March 1954-1955.
4 folders.
1955 FOA Bill: Congressional and senatorial hearings, 1954.
2 folders.
Foundation for American Research, 1955.
French/Italian Women's Project, March-December 1954.
4 folders.
In September 1954 Stassen appointed Alice K. Leopold, Director of the
Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, as chair of a special
survey group to review the FOA programs and their relationship to
the economic interests and problems of women as they affected family
life in cooperating European countries.
Leopold and seven United States women leaders visited Italy and
France from October 4th to November 1st, 1954 and interviewed nearly
200 women community leaders in the two countries with the objective
of selecting 40 from each country to make a two month visit to the
United States. The papers related to the creation of the survey
group and the European trip include correspondence, memoranda,
reports, itineraries, and news clippings. The final report was
submitted to Stassen by Leopold on November 22, 1954.
The remainder of the papers (December 1954-December 1955) primarily
document the process employed in selecting the women to visit the
United States and the personal background of each woman selected, as
well as the programs they participated in. A report of this phase of
the project, entitled Women Community Leaders
from France and Italy (December 1955), is also
included.
French/Italian Women's Project, 1955.
4 folders.
Labor, 1954-1955.
2 folders.
142.B.10.3B
158
Labor, 1954-1955.
1 folder.
Latin America Regional Conference of the FOA, January 14-19,
1954.
Miscellaneous unfiled, 1952-1957.
2 folders.
News clippings, 1953-1955.
4 folders.
Notes, 1953-1956.
4 folders.
Operation Reindeer, November 1953-March 1954.
2 folders.
Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, and news clippings related to a
special food program administered by the FOA in Western Europe which
involved the delivery of four million packages of appropriate
assorted United States surplus foods direct to families in need
before the Christmas holidays.
Pamphlets and fact sheets:
Background information and public reports,
1953-1954.
Country series, [1952]-1955.
Miscellaneous, [1953-1955].
Includes five pamphlets describing the FOA's technical
cooperation and escapee programs, as well as reports of mission
operations in Formosa and Iran.
143.E.9.6F
3
Photographs:
Engagements and speaking events, 1954-1955.
3 folders.
Original photographs of Stassen meeting with Yugoslavian
officials, including Marshall Tito, in October of 1954 have been
placed in the Minnesota Historical Society reserve collection.
Photocopies of these photographs remain in the collection.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 15-17, 1954.
Far East trip, February 12-18, 1954.
Taiwan, February 1954.
2 folders.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Political cartoon, 1955.
142.B.10.3B
158
Presidential message regarding Mutual Security Program,
1955.
2 folders.
142.B.10.4F
159
Press releases, 1953-1955.
5 folders.
Missing FOA numbers 3, 9, 118, and 208.
Public relations: Riley, etc., 1953-1954.
Reports:
Semi-annual report to Congress on the Mutual Security
Program, December 31, 1953.
Randall Report (President's Commission on Federal
Economic Policy), January-March 1954.
East-West Trade Trends: Mutual Defense Assistance Control
Act of 1951 (The Battle Act): Fourth Report to Congress, Second Half of 1953, May 17, 1954.
Semi-annual report to Congress on the Mutual Security
Program, December 31, 1954.
The Mutual Security Program Fiscal
Year 1956: A Summary Statement, May 1955.
Report to the President on the
Foreign Operations Administration, January 1953 to June
1955, June 30, 1955.
Soviet Bloc Economic Activities in the Free World: Mutual
Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951: Sixth Report to
Congress, Second Half of 1954, June 30, 1955.
Secretarial help (Saturdays), 1953-1954.
The Shield: FOA social organization, December
1953.
Stassen, Harold E.:
Addresses, messages, etc., 1953-1954.
Memberships: Clubs, organizations, etc.,
1953-1954.
Personal, 1953-1954.
Travel memoranda, 1953.
Steuben Glass project, 1955.
+257
212
Wash list (staff meeting), 1955.
142.B.10.4F
159
White House:
Achievements of the Eisenhower
administration:
Administrative and legislative,
1953-1954.
Miscellaneous, 1953.
Personnel:
Correspondence, 1953-1956.
Applicants sponsored by senators/members of
Congress.
Applicants sponsored by key persons.
Applications: A-W, 1953-1955.
3 folders.
Retention and termination:
Lists, 1953-1954.
3 folders.
Appraisal summaries, 1953.
Termination appeals, 1953.
Special security committee (Donegan Committee on
Personnel Security), 1955.
Telephone directory and supplements, 1953.
Vacancy report, October 26, 1953.
Firm vacancies in Recruitment Branch, February 3,
1954.
White House liaison, 1953-1954.
Special Assistant to the President on Disarmament Policy,
1953-1958, 1963
142.B.10.5B
160
Correspondence and memoranda:
Adams, Sherman, 1955-1957.
Cabinet members and key persons, 1955-1958.
3 folders.
Dulles, John Foster, 1955-1956.
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1953-1958.
Digital version
Humphrey, Hubert H., undated and 1956.
London Arms Control Negotiations:
General public, March-September 1957.
7 folders.
Stassen, Harold and staff, March-September 1957.
4 folders.
Stassen, Esther G., February-September
1957.
U.S. Informal memorandum and U.S.S.R. aide memoire,
May 31 and June 7, 1957.
Personal, 1956-1957.
Appointment as Deputy U.S. Representative on the Disarmament
Commission of the United Nations, August 5, 1955.
Appointment books, 1956-1957. 2 volumes.
Background conferences, 1955-1956.
Background material:
Basic Documents of U.S. Position on Disarmament, December
1955.
Chronology of events bearing on disarmament: January
1955-September 1957, December 16, 1957.
Digest history of major disarmament efforts, April
1955.
Eisenhower-Bulganin letters, 1956.
Geneva conference of heads of government, July 8-23,
1955.
Geneva meeting of foreign ministers, October 27-November
16, 1955.
Printed materials, 1955-1958.
Significant documents of past disarmament
negotiations.
142.B.10.6F
161
Soviet disarmament proposals: 1945-1955,
[1955].
142.E.7.4
215
Citation, 1956.
142.B.10.6F
161
Committee membership and White House lists,
1955-1957.
Delegation passes, 1955-1956.
142.G.8.4F-2
12
"Face the Nation," July 29, 1956.
1 film reel: sound, b&w; 16 mm + 1 transcript.
142.B.10.6F
161
News clippings, 1955-1957.
4 folders.
Personnel:
White House clearances, Pending, 1955-1956.
P.S. & I file check data and R.S. & R data
regarding engineer shortage, 1956-1957.
Old P.S. & I. filing from Foreign Operations
Administration days, 1953-1955.
143.E.9.6F
3
Photographs, 1955-1957.
Two original photographs of Stassen with Pope Pius XII have been
placed in the Minnesota Historical Society reserve collection.
Photocopies of these photographs remain in the collection.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
Political cartoons, 1955-1957.
142.B.10.6F
161
Press conference (London), April 5, 1957.
Siboney Iron & Steel Co. (Glen P. Bevan),
1957-1958.
Statements by Eisenhower, 1955.
Statements by Stassen, 1955-1957.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
UN Disarmament Subcommittee:
2nd-5th reports, 1955-1957.
2 folders.
White House Disarmament Staff Secretariat Notes: No. 159
and addenda, April 11-October.11, 1957.
Index to verbatim daily meeting records.
Verbatim daily meeting records, March 18-June 17, 1957.
4 folders.
142.B.10.7B
162
Verbatim daily meeting records, June 20-September 6,
1957.
4 folders.
White House Disarmament Staff:
Secretariat Notes:
No. 67, Index, April 26, 1956-October 16,
1957.
No. 7-155, August 1, 1955-March 25, 1957.
6 folders.
No. 157-202(A), April 1-December 30, 1957.
3 folders.
President's Special Committee on Disarmament Problems
(DPC) Notes:
No. 61, Index, April 26, 1956-October 9,
1957.
No. 19, 73, 80-81, March 6-August 20,
1956.
No. 116-129, January 30-March 19, 1957.
No. 140-146, May 1-June 12, 1957.
No. 158-171, July 23-September 10, 1957.
No. 183-200 and 14R-5, October 4-December 20,
1957.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Testimony, August 22,
1963.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Documentation is minimal for the periods covering Stassen's World War II
military service and his Eisenhower administration posts.
Civic and Professional Organizations, 1948-1973
142.B.10.8F
163
Academy of Political Science, 1949-1951.
Alfalfa Club (Washington, D.C.), 1950-1951.
American Academy of Political and Social Sciences,
1949-1950.
American Bar Association: Section of International and
Comparative Law:
While president of the University of Pennsylvania Stassen served as
the delegate of the American Bar Association's Section of
International and Comparative Law to its House of Delegates,
1948-1952, and as the chair of the Committee on Constitutional
Aspects of International Agreements, 1949-1952. The committee
investigated recommendations that could be made to the Bar regarding
the effect U.S. participation in international compacts such as the
Human Rights Covenant and the Genocide Convention would have upon
state jurisdiction, domestic law, and the separation of legislative
and executive powers. "The key point of the controversy centered
around Article VI, Clause 2 of the Constitution of the United
States..." (Preliminary "Working Paper" Memorandum, June 7, 1950, in
Correspondence and Related Papers, Committee on Constitutional
Aspects of International Agreements) and concerned interpretation of
the Senate's authority in ratifying agreements made by the executive
branch. At the 1950 annual meeting of the Bar the committee
recommended a report to the Bar's House of Delegates be made by a
joint subcommittee of itself and the Section's Committee on Peace
and Law Through the United Nations.
This series contains materials from the Section on International and
Comparative Law, the Committee on Constitutional Aspects, and the
ensuing Conjoint Subcommittee. Included are correspondence and
related papers, meeting materials, proceedings, reports, and
statements made by Stassen to the ABA as well as the U.S. Senate
Judiciary Committee. Background research material is also included,
much of it within the correspondence and related papers.
Additional materials regarding the work of the Committee may be found
in the Minnesota Historical Society's collection of the papers of
William D. Mitchell and Family as Mitchell was also a member of this
committee.
Correspondence and related papers, February 1948-October
1952.
4 folders.
Annual meeting, 1949.
Annual meeting, 1950:
Proceedings.
Program and committee reports.
3 folders.
Annual meeting, 1951:
Correspondence and related papers, May-September
1951.
Proceedings.
Annual meeting, 1953:
Proceedings.
Directories, 1951-1952.
Committee on Constitutional Aspects of International
Agreements:
Correspondence and related papers, 1949-1951.
4 folders.
Address of Harold E. Stassen, September 18,
1951.
Proceedings, June 22, 1950.
Ratification of International Labor Organization
convention, 1949-1951.
Report and recommendations, September 19,
1950.
Conjoint Subcommittee:
Correspondence and related papers:
1950-January 1952.
3 folders.
142.B.10.9B
164
February 1952-1953.
Background materials:
Articles by Zechariah Chafee,
1949-1951.
Articles by George A. Finch, 1948 and
1952.
Miscellaneous, 1950-1952.
Senate testimony, 1952-1953.
Meeting, January 18, 1951.
Joint reports, 1951.
2 folders.
Reply memorandum of the Committee on Peace and Law
Through the United Nations, November 14, 1952.
Reports of the Committee on Peace and Law Through the
United Nations, 1949-1952.
Reports and recommendations of the Committee on the
United Nations, 1949-1951.
Report and Recommendations on the Human Rights Covenant
and the Genocide Convention, September 8, 1949.
American Committee on United Europe, 1949-1951.
American Heritage Foundation, 1948-1950.
American Legion: Abner Rude Post No. 481 (South St. Paul,
Minn.), 1949-1951.
Boy Scouts of America (Philadelphia Council),
1949-1950.
Citizens Conference (New York City), September 28,
1950:
Stassen, together with six other university presidents, called this
conference of 40 prominent citizens, including Dwight D. Eisenhower
and Bernard Baruch, in order to consider major aspects of future
U.S. foreign policy and to discuss future national security and
related economic mobilization policies.
Correspondence, July 13-October 18, 1950.
2 folders.
Staff and Discussion Aid Memorandum: Draft and
final.
Discussion Aid Memorandum.
3 folders.
Notes.
Names suggested for national advisory
council.
Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. (Philadelphia Committee),
1948-1951.
142.B.10.10F
165
Crusade for Freedom:
The Crusade was sponsored by the National Committee for a Free
Europe, Inc., an organization which operated Radio Free Europe as an
independent counterpart of the government operated Voice of America.
The Campaign was launched by General Eisenhower on Labor Day 1950
with General Lucius D. Clay, former military governor of Germany, as
its national chairman. Stassen served on the Campaign's National
Council (1950) and as national chairman of its 1951 drive. The
purpose of the Campaign was to offer all Americans an opportunity to
play a personal part in a demonstration of the "free world's
determination to resist Communist aggression."
Activities sponsored by the Campaign and documented in the records
include a drive to secure signatures on a Freedom Scroll, which was
enshrined in the Crusade's Freedom Bell in Berlin; fund raising for
Radio Free Europe; and "Winds of Freedom," an operation which
launched thousands of balloons carrying millions of leaflets into
Czechoslovakia and Poland.
National Council, 1950.
2 folders.
Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers,
1951-1952.
4 folders.
Activities and news, 1951.
3 folders.
News clippings, 1951.
Foreign Policy Association, 1949.
Franklin Institute, 1948-1950.
Freedoms Foundation:
The Foundation's purpose was "To build and create an understanding of
the spirit and philosophy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights and
our bundle of indivisible political and economic freedoms inherent
in the American way of life." This purpose was achieved through
financial awards to citizens and organizations based on their
"record of achievement in defending and extending the freedom
philosophy of Americanism."
Charter and miscellaneous related papers,
1949.
Awards committee, 1949-1951.
2 folders.
Scrapbook, 1949.
Germantown Historical Society: Morris House Committee,
1949-1950.
Hall of Fame (New York University), 1949-1951, 1962-1965.
3 folders.
Hoover Report: Citizens Committee, 1949-1952.
5 folders.
In 1947 Congress created the bipartisan Commission on Organization of
the Executive Branch of the Government and named former President
Herbert Hoover as its chairman. The Commission's assignment was to
find ways of eliminating duplication and waste from the operations
of the federal government. After a year of investigation by 24 task
forces the Commission issued a report to Congress containing
approximately 300 specific recommendations.
The Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report was organized in April
1949 in order to ensure continued public education and support of
the Hoover Commission's proposals after its formal disbanding on
June 12, 1949. The Committee was headed by Dr. Robert L. Johnson,
president of Temple University. Stassen served as a member of the
Committee's board of directors from its formation until March 1951
and as a member of its national Advisory Board until the Committee
closed in June 1952. He was also a member of the Independent
Veterans Committee for the Hoover Report (August 1951-May 1952), an
affiliate of the Citizens Committee, which aimed to make the Hoover
Report better known and understood by veterans and to act as an
advocate for those veterans who favored the Hoover Commission
recommendations regarding the Veterans Administration.
International House of Philadelphia, 1949-1950.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.),
1949-1950.
142.B.10.11B
166
James Picker Foundation, 1950-1953, 1956.
2 folders.
Kiwanis Club, 1951-1952.
Marine Corps League, 1951-1952.
Masonic organizations, 1949-1953.
Midday Club, 1948-1952.
Middle East Technical University:
Hired as a consultant for UNESCO, Stassen helped draft the charter
and articles of incorporation for the Middle East Technical
University in Turkey.
Correspondence:
Board of Trustees, 1957-1960.
Dr. Edwin S. Burdell, 1959-1960.
Ambassador S. Esin, 1958-1959.
Prime Minister Menderes, 1958-1959.
Miscellaneous, 1958-1960, 1963, 1973.
UNESCO:
New York, 1958-1959.
Paris, 1958-1959.
Dr. W. R. Woolrich, 1958-1960.
Charter and initial policies:
Preliminary draft, 1959.
Forms and charters of other universities,
1959.
Various lists, drafts, and information,
1958-1959.
Contract and memo regarding 1960, 1958-1959.
Reports, [1957]-1958.
Souvenir album, 1959.
Special fund request, 1959.
University catalog, 1958-1959.
Memberships, registrations, miscellaneous organizations,
1978-1985.
National Citizens Commission on International
Cooperation:
Correspondence, 1964-1966.
2 folders.
Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament, 1965-1966.
3 folders.
142.B.10.12F
167
National Fund for Medical Education, 1948-1954, 1961-1964.
13 folders.
National Mental Health Foundation, 1948-1950.
National Student Association, 1953-1956.
4 folders.
Penn Mutual, 1948-1951.
4 folders.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1950.
Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, 1952.
Pennsylvania State Bar Association, 1951-1953.
Philadelphia Charter Commission, 1951.
Philadelphia Community Chest, 1949.
Philadelphia Country Club, 1949-1952.
Philadelphia Voiture Forty and Eight (American Legion Honor
Society), 1949.
143.E.9.6F
3
Photographs, 1950-1954, 1963, 1978.
142.B.10.12F
167
Red Cross Bill, H.R. 7345, 1952.
Red Cross Fund Campaign Committee, 1948-1952.
Republican Citizens Committee (Philadelphia),
1951.
Save the Children Federation, 1949-1950.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1949-1950.
South Saint Paul Civic and Commerce Association,
1949-1950.
Sunday Breakfast Club, 1948-1950.
Survey of Medical Education Advisory Council,
1949-1951.
142.B.10.13B
168
Union League of Philadelphia, 1952.
United Cerebral Palsy Association National Citizens
Committee, 1950-1951.
United Fund, 1950-1951.
United Negro College Fund National Council, 1951.
United States Junior Chamber of Commerce,
1949-1950.
United States Lawn Tennis Association Auxiliary Committee,
1951.
World Conference on World Peace through Law:
Second Conference, Washington, September 12-18,
1965:
Addresses, August 1965-January 1966.
Includes the text of Stassen's conference address, addresses
made by other conference participants, the charter and
bylaws of the World Peace Through Law Center, and a copy of
an address made by the Center's president, Charles S. Rhyne,
before the Pennsylvania Bar Association on January 21,
1966.
Correspondence, November 1964-February
1966.
Foundation letters, August-October 1965.
Printed material and invitations, 1965.
Third Conference, Geneva, July 9-14, 1967:
Addresses, reports, and working papers, July
1967.
Correspondence:
General, 1966-1968.
Henderson and Rhyne, 1966-1967.
Committees, 1966-1967.
Resolutions.
Printed matter.
2 folders.
Newsletters, August 1966-January 1968.
Fifth Conference, Belgrade, July 21-25, 1971: Printed
materials, 1971.
Sixth Conference, Abidjan, August 26-31,
1973:
Initial report, August 30, 1972.
World Law Day program, 1973.
World Peace Through Law Center: Correspondence,
1971-1972.
Religious Organizations, 1940-1974
142.B.10.13B
168
Baptist organizations:
An active member of the Northern Baptist Convention, which changed
its name to the American Baptist Convention in 1950 and to the
American Baptist Church of the USA in 1973, Stassen served as its
vice president in 1942, as national co-chairman of its World Mission
Crusade in 1946, as convention officer for its General Council in
1946-1947, as delegate from the Second Baptist Church of Germantown
in 1962 and 1966, as president of the Convention in 1963-1964, and
as 1967 chairman of the Convention's World Mission Campaign Major
Gift Committee for the Southeast Pennsylvania Campaign Committee.
The papers are arranged according to the Convention's name change
with materials pertaining to the Northern Baptist Convention
appearing first.
Northern Baptist Convention:
Correspondence and related papers,1941-January 1943,
April 1945-1949.
3 folders.
142.B.10.14F
169
American Baptist Publication Society,
1948-1950.
World Mission Crusade, 1946.
142.G.8.4F-1
2
World Mission Crusade citation, 1947.
142.B.10.14F
169
American Baptist Convention:
Annual Meeting, 1963:
Printed materials, 1963.
Annual Meeting, 1964:
Commendations and thank yous, May-June
1964.
Program Committee, 1963-1964.
2 folders.
Christian Higher Education Challenge:
Dinner and campaign correspondence,
1958-1959.
Campaign prospects, 1958-1959.
Printed material, 1958-1959.
Engagements, 1963-1964,
4 folders.
General Council, 1963-1964.
3 folders.
Peace Conference, 1985.
Digital version
Russia visit to Baptist churches,
1963-1964.
143.E.9.6F
3
Russia visit to Baptist churches: Photographs, 1964.
1 folder and 2 albums.
142.B.10.14F
169
World Mission Campaign:
Correspondence and related papers,
1966-1968.
Printed materials, 1966-1968.
Reports, 1967-1968.
Correspondence, 1973-1974.
Baptist Foundation/Baptists Mutual Fund,
1969.
Baptist Life Association, 1946-1948.
Baptist Theological Union, 1967-1974.
3 folders.
Baptist World Alliance, 1965-1969.
2 folders.
142.B.10.15B
170
Correspondence, 1961-1962, 1965-1974.
5 folders.
Philadelphia Baptist Unity Rally, 1966-1967.
Second Baptist Church of Germantown:
Centennial, 1965-1967.
Correspondence, 1950, 1973-1974.
2 folders.
Fire:
Correspondence and related papers,
1969-1972.
Subrogration, 1971-1972.
Portrait of Vernon Carney Hargroves by Esther Glewwe
Stassen, [197?].
Southern Baptist Convention: Separation of church and
state, 1947.
Digital version, part 1
Digital version, part 2
Digital version, part 3
Digital version, part 4
Digital version, part 5
Digital version, part 6
Digital version, part 7
Digital version, part 8
Digital version, part 9
Digital version, part 10
International Churchmans Exposition, 1951-1952.
International Council of Religious Education
(ICRE):
The purpose of the International Council as stated in its charter was
"To promote organized Sunday school work, to encourage study of the
Bible, and to assist in the spread of the Christian religion."
Stassen served as the Council's president from October 1942 until
the merger of the ICRE with the National Council of the Churches of
Christ (NCC) in November 1950. The ICRE's functions were carried on
within the NCC through its Division of Christian Education.
[See also: Boxes
171-173, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.
](crossref2B)
Correspondence, 1942-November 1943, September 1945-July
1950.
14 folders.
142.B.10.16F
171
Correspondence, August 1950-1951.
2 folders.
Annual meeting, 1946.
Annual meeting, 1948.
Board of Trustees meeting, October 1947.
Conference on the Community and Religious
Education:
Program and related papers, December
1947.
Discussion group minutes, March 1948.
Fund raising, 1949-1950.
International Sunday School Convention:
Correspondence, 1947.
2 folders.
Program and related papers, 1947.
Printed materials:
Miscellaneous, 1940-1942, 1945-1948.
The Christian Church and World Order Discussion
Guide, 1942.
National Conference of Christians and Jews:
Stassen served as the Conference's 1946 general chairman of the
American Brotherhood Campaign, overseeing publicity and fund raising
activities for the 13th annual national observance of Brotherhood
Week held February 17-24. In 1949, Stassen served as a member of a
committee of national leaders promoting Brotherhood Week.
Correspondence,1945-1952.
4 folders.
Printed material, 1946-1951.
National Council of the Churches of Christ in
the U.S.A. (NCC):
This series begins with correspondence (1948-1950) related to
Stassen's activities with the Federal Council of Churches in America
and the Philadelphia Council of Churches. The Federal Council of
Churches in America merged with seven other Protestant organizations
at a convention held in Cleveland (November 29-December 1, 1950) to
form the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
Stassen's participation in the Council's creation is documented in
the early correspondence including his consideration and rejection
as a possible nominee for president by the Council's planning
committee, his election as a vice president-at-large, and his
address to the General Assembly (December 1, 1950).
The bulk of the papers pertain to Stassen's service on the Council's
general board, as well as his activities on several Council
committees. These include his chairmanship of the Committee on
Headquarters Location (April-December 1951), a committee authorized
by the Constituting Convention to make recommendations regarding the
permanent headquarters of the National Council; his membership on
the business committee of the Division of Christian Education; his
position as a representative of the Division of Christian Education
to the Board of Managers of the General Department of United Church
Men; and his activity as a member of the National Lay Committee.
There is also a group of papers related to Stassen's submission of a
study paper entitled "The Power Struggle and Security in a
Nuclear-Space Age" to the Preparatory Study Commission II in advance
of the Fifth World Order Study Conference held in Cleveland, Ohio
(November 18-21, 1958) and his service as a moderator of Section IV
on the "Impact of science and technology on peace and war" during
the Sixth World Order Study Conference in St. Louis, Missouri
(October 20-23, 1965). Both conferences were planned and
administered by the NCC's International Affairs Commission.
[See also: Box
170, International Council of Religious Education
(ICRE).](crossref2A)
Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers,
1948-1955, 1964.
8 folders.
142.B.11.1B
172
Committee on Headquarters Location, 1950-1952.
7 folders.
Division of Christian Education:
Correspondence and miscellaneous related papers,
1951-1952.
6 folders.
Assembly:
Correspondence, 1960.
Business Committee meeting, December 4,
1960.
Executive Board meeting, December 4,
1960.
Assembly, December 5, 1960.
Annual meeting, February 10-16, 1961.
General Assembly, 1963.
General Board, 1951-1952.
3 folders.
National Laymen's Committee, 1951-1952.
142.B.11.2F
173
Proposed revised constitution and bylaws, December
1963.
United Churchmen, 1952.
Fifth World Order Study Conference: Preparatory Study
Commission II, 1958.
2 folders.
Sixth World Order Study Conference, undated and 1965.
3 folders.
New Hampshire Congregational-Christian Conference: National
Advisory Committee, 1951.
Religion in American Life, 1950-1951, 1955.
Religious Heritage of America, 1979-1980.
U.S. Inter-religious Committee on Peace:
Correspondence and related papers, 1965-1967, 1971-1974.
4 folders.
Washington, D.C. conference, March 15-17, 1966.
2 folders.
New Dehli symposium, 1967-1968.
World Conference on Religion and Peace (1st : Kyoto):
Printed materials, 1970.
World Conference of Religion for Peace:
Printed materials, 1971-1974.
2 folders.
Includes newsletters and a series of reports on disarmament
written by Homer A. Jack, secretary-general of the
Conference.
ENGAGEMENTS, SPEECHES, AND PUBLICATIONS
Schedules, 1948-1986 (bulk 1948-1958)
142.B.12.12F
199
September 1948-January 27, 1950.
1948-1952.
5 folders.
142.B.12.13B
200
1953-1958.
15 folders.
December 18, 1967-December 1, 1968.
December 27, 1971-January 19, 1975.
3 folders.
February 27-December 31, 1983.
January 27-May 18, 1986.
Engagements, 1945-1986 (bulk 1948-1968)
The engagements are filed chronologically by each separate event and
include correspondence, agendas and itineraries, invitations, programs,
press releases, speech texts, photographs, and news clippings. The bulk
of this material covers Stassen's 1948 and 1952 presidential campaigns,
his presidency of the University of Pennsylvania, and his tenure with
the Eisenhower Administration. The majority of the files represent
Stassen's speaking engagements and while duplication exists between the
speech and engagements series, researchers should check both series for
complete coverage. Other files provide documentation concerning
Stassen's many travels and meetings of the Mutual Security Agency and
Foreign Operations Administration.
142.B.9.14F
153
Contact cards, December 1945-1948.
1 file box.
5x8 cards arranged in chronological order listing the names of
Stassen's contacts and other information related to each engagement.
A second set of cards arranged by state and a third topical set
provide an index to the engagements.
142.B.11.3B
174
Miscellaneous, 1948-1949.
September 24, 1948-January 17, 1949.
142.B.11.4F
175
January 21-August 29, 1949.
Miscellaneous, 1949-1950.
142.B.11.5B
176
Miscellaneous, 1949-1950.
September 11-December 15, 1949.
142.B.11.6F
177
December 28, 1949-March 31, 1950.
142.B.11.7B
178
April 4-August 18, 1950.
142.B.11.8F
179
Miscellaneous, 1950-1951.
September 8-December 2, 1950.
142.B.11.9B
180
January 14-May 27, 1951.
142.B.11.10F
181
May 30-August 28, 1951.
Miscellaneous, 1951-1952.
September 5-30, 1951.
142.B.11.11B
182
October 1, 1951-February 16, 1952.
142.B.11.12F
183
February 18, 1952-May 8, 1953.
142.B.11.13B
184
May 10-November 1, 1953.
142.B.11.14F
185
November 4, 1953-February 1954.
142.B.11.15B
186
March -August 1954.
142.B.11.16F
187
September 1954-January 29, 1955.
142.B.12.1B
188
January 31-May 9, 1955.
142.B.12.2F
189
May 11-October 9, 1955.
142.B.12.3B
190
October 11, 1955-January 18, 1956.
142.B.12.4F
191
January 20-May 17, 1956.
142.B.12.5B
192
May 18-October 29, 1956, August 1957.
142.B.12.6F
193
September 1957-June 1958.
142.B.12.7B
194
July 1958-June 1959.
142.B.12.8F
195
July 1959-May 1960.
142.B.12.9B
196
June 1960-September 1965.
142.B.12.10F
197
October 1965-June 1967.
142.B.12.11B
198
July 1967-1968, 1972-1974, November 1978-June
1979.
142.B.12.12F
199
June 1979-May 1980, 1983-1986.
Speeches, 1938-1993
While duplication exists between the speech and engagements series,
researchers should check both for complete coverage. Additional speeches
may also be filed within the Campaigns and Politics series.
142.B.12.13B
200
Earl Christmas speech files:
Files kept by Stassen's director of publicity during the 1944 and
1948 presidential campaigns. They contain annual compilations of
Stassen's major speeches and in some cases a chronological listing
precedes the speech texts. The 1938 campaign speeches are arranged
by subject.
1938 campaign:
Speech Excerpts, 1938.
Labor, 1938
Miscellaneous, 1938.
State Candidates, 1938.
Veterans, 1938.
Women's Division, 1938.
1940 campaign speeches.
Stassen speeches:
1939-1941.
3 folders.
142.B.12.14F
201
1942-1943.
2 folders.
Master speech files, 1945-1948.
9 folders.
Digital version of Inaugural Address, part 1
Digital version of Inaugural Address, part 2
Chronological files:
Files contain individual speech texts. In many cases an original
draft or reading copy with notations accompanies a final printed
public release copy. Indexes to the major speeches have been placed
at the beginning of this series. These indexes were originally filed
with duplicate sets of speeches kept by Stassen's staff. The indexes
are also chronological and give the place and occasion where each
speech was delivered.
Indexes, 1939-1949, 1951-1958.
2 folders.
November 1934-June 1940.
Digital version of 1939 Budget Message
142.B.12.15B
202
July 1940-February 1946.
Digital version, Ninth National Eucharistic Congress
142.B.12.16F
203
March 1946-January 1948.
Digital version, Kansas Day Celebration
Digital version, Lincoln Day Dinner
Digital version, American Legion speech
Digital version, Economic Freedom Tomorrow address
Digital version, Statement on the Town Meeting of the
Air
Digital version of address in St. Petersburg, Florida
Digital version, Call for revision of UN Charter
142.B.13.1B
204
February 1948-1950.
Digital version, No more bad times for Farmers
Digital version of press release from Beatrice, Nebraska
Digital version, For the Good of America
142.B.13.2F
205
1951-September 1953.
Digital version, Coming Collapse of Communism
Digital version, American Freedom and Foreign Policy
142.B.13.3B
206
October 1953-August 1956.
142.B.13.4F
207
September 1956-1993.
Humorous speech openers, undated.
151.A.3.2
211
Sound Recordings:
Governor Stassen campaign: Wisconsin primary, undated.
1 sound disc ; 12 inches.
Stassen for President spot announcements, undated.
1 sound disc ; 12 inches.
151.A.3.1
11
"Straight from the Shoulder," Hastings, Minnesota,
November 18, 1937.
1 sound disc (30 minutes) : 33 1/3 rpm; 16
inches.
Speech over radio stations WCCO and KROC, Rochester,
Minnesota, January 27, 1938.
1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm; 16 inches.
"Build Minnesota," Duluth, Minnesota, April 9,
1938.
1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm; 16 inches.
Address to the Minnesota Federation of Labor (Mankato,
Minnesota), September 13, 1938.
2 sound discs : 33 1/3 rpm; 16 inches.
Keynote address, Republican National Convention
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), June 24, 1940.
4 sound discs (60 minutes) : 33 1/3 rpm ; 16
inches.
151.A.3.2
211
"American World Policy for Peace and Progress," Minnesota
United Nations Committee at the University of Minnesota, March
7, 1945.
3 sound discs : 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 inches + 1 speech
text.
"Straight from the Shoulder," Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
November 24, 1947.
1 sound tape reel (60 minutes) : magnetic ; 7 inches, 1/4
inch paper tape.
151.A.3.1
11
Address by Harold E. Stassen at MIT Convocation, April 1,
1949.
3 sound discs : 33 1/3 rpm ; 16 inches.
Address by Harold E. Stassen, National Press
Club,
November 9, 1949. 2 sound discs :
151.A.3.2
211
"Do We Want National Health Insurance in the United
States?," "The American Forum of the Air," January 29, 1950.
3 sound discs : 78 rpm ; 12 inches + 1 speech
text.
Digital version of transcript
"President Truman's Travels," New York, New York, May 2,
1950. 2 sound discs :
78 rpm ; 12 inches + 1 speech text.
Digital version of speech text
"Reaping the Red Whirlwind" (CBS broadcast), August 15,
1950.
3 sound discs ; 12 inches + 1 speech text.
Digital version of speech text
"The Counsel of Fear," Washington, D.C., May 30, 1951.
3 sound discs : 78 rpm ; 12 inches + 1 speech
text.
Digital version of speech text
Stassen reception at the Ryan Hotel (St. Paul,
Minnesota), January 31, 1952.
2 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips ; 7 inches, 1/4 inch
tape.
One minute spots before New Hampshire primaries, February
29, 1952.
1 sound disc ; 12 inches.
"Presidential Profiles: Harold E. Stassen" (CBS program),
April 24, 1952.
4 sound discs : 78 rpm ; 12 inches.
"The Leading Question," The CBS Radio Network, January 1,
1956.
1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 inches.
Stassen interviews, July 29, 1956.
1 sound tape reel : 7 1/2 ips ; 7 inches, 1/4 inch
tape.
Speech by Harold Stassen seconding nomination of Richard
Nixon for Vice President, Republican National Convention,
[August 22], 1956.
1 sound tape reel : 7 1/2 ips ; 7 inches, 1/4 inch.
tape.
142.B.11.2F
173
"Cavalcade of Freedom," American Baptist Convention, May
26, 1962.
1 sound tape reel : 3 3/4 ips ; 7 inches, 1/4 inch
tape.
Track 1: Independence Hall, Harold Stassen and Governor
Rockefeller. Track 2: American Baptist Churches Headquarters,
Valley Force, Pennsylvania, Edwin Tuller and others.
Publications, 1939-1999
142.B.13.4F
207
Miscellaneous indexed reference articles and pamphlets,
1938-1946.
Articles about Stassen, 1940-1949, 1964, 1987-1991, 1999.
60 folders.
142.B.13.5B
208
Articles written by Stassen:
Undated and 1939-1954.
93 folders.
142.B.13.6F
209
1955-1959, 1963-1964, 1967, 1976, 1979, 1987.
28 folders.
British Socialized Medicine:
Reader's Digest:
General information, 1949-1950.
Offprints and reprints, 1950.
Includes individual offprints of each of the four
articles Stassen wrote for this series ("Never! Never!
Never;" "Granny is Gone;" "The Unhappiest Man in
England;" and "A British Prescription for American
Health") as well as two reprints of the entire
series.
Wallace, DeWitt (correspondence),
1949-1950.
Research Files:
Britain National Health Service:
Miscellaneous articles and booklets,
1948-1951.
2 folders.
Miscellaneous information,
1946-1950.
Health services, 1948-1952.
Polls:
Doctors and dentists, 1949.
Gallup, 1943-1949.
Industrial workers, 1949.
Next of kin, 1949.
Recoverie, [1949].
Statutory instruments, 1948-1949.
142.B.13.7B
210
Health:
Miscellaneous, 1945-1950.
American Dental Association,
1948.
American Medical Association, Bureau of
Medical Economic Research, 1947-1951.
2 folders.
Compulsory health insurance, 1947-1951.
2 folders.
Cooperative health act, 1949.
Insurance policies, 1949-1950.
Magazine articles, 1945,
1949-1950.
Medical plans in United States,
1948-1951.
National Health Act of 1949, 1949-1950.
2 folders.
News clippings, 1950.
Books:
Where I Stand:
Correspondence, 1945-1948.
2 folders.
Book reviews, 1947.
News clippings, 1947-1948.
Harvard University Press book proposal,
1946-1950.
Copyright renewals: Doubleday, 1973, 1976.
Eisenhower book (Eisenhower--Turning the World Toward
Peace):
Correspondence, 1980-1991.
Drafts.
Eisenhower Library photocopies:
General.
John Foster Dulles papers.
Miscellaneous.