ORVILLE L. FREEMAN:
An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical
Society
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| Creator: |
Freeman, Orville
L. |
| Title: | Orville L. Freeman
papers. |
| Date: | [ca. 1903]-1919, 1941-2003
(bulk 1946-1998). |
| Abstract: | Correspondence and other papers of a
Minneapolis attorney who served as a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Governor of
Minnesota (1955-1961) and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1961-1969), worked for
a research and counseling company specializing in economic, social, and
political issues (1970-1984), and was a member of a Washington, D.C. law firm
specializing in international law (1985-1995). |
| Quantity: | 55.05 cu. ft. (50
boxes). |
| Location: | See Detailed Description section for shelf
locations. |
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Orville Lothrop Freeman was born in Minneapolis on May 9, 1918. He
received his B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1940. During World
War II he served in the South Pacific with the United States Marines, attaining
the rank of Major. Freeman earned his LL.B. degree from the University of
Minnesota Law School in 1946, was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1947, and
was a member of the Larson, Loevinger, Lindquist and Freeman law firm from 1947
to 1955.
Freeman worked as an administrative assistant to Minneapolis mayor
Hubert Humphrey (1945-1949), where he was in charge of veterans affairs. He was
secretary (1946-1948) and chairman (1948-1950) of the Minnesota
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), and was an unsuccessful candidate for
Minnesota attorney general (1950) and governor of Minnesota (1952). Freeman
went on to serve as governor of Minnesota from 1955 to 1961 and as United
States secretary of agriculture from 1961 to 1969.
Returning to private life, Freeman was president of E.D.P. Technology
International, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based computer software and systems
design company (1969-1970). He later was president and CEO (1970-1981) and
chairman (1981-1984) of Business International Corp., New York City, a
research, publishing, and advisory firm that helped companies manage their
worldwide operations for maximum profit and growth. Following that he was a
senior partner in the international law firm of Popham, Haik, Schnobrich &
Kaufman, Ltd. (Washington, D.C.) (1985-1995). Freeman was a visiting scholar at
the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs at the University of
Minnesota from 1995 to 1997.
Freeman married Jane C. Shields on May 2, 1942 in Washington, D.C.,
while he was stationed at the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia. Jane
Freeman was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on May 25, 1921. She
graduated from Marshall High School, Minneapolis, and earned a bachelor's
degree in political science from the University of Minnesota. The Freemans have
two children: Constance Jane (b.1943) and Michael Orville (b.1948). Michael
Freeman served as a Minnesota state senator and as Hennepin County Attorney; in
1998 he was a candidate for governor of Minnesota.
Orville Freeman died February 20, 2003 of complication from
Alzheimer's disease.
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The collection is organized into several chronologically-ordered
record series, paralleling Orville Freeman's career in government service and
in the private sector. It includes subject files, correspondence and memoranda,
newspaper clippings, printed materials, photographs, speeches, official
diaries, scrapbooks, campaign literature, and other papers documenting
Freeman's activities as a political candidate, governor of Minnesota, secretary
of agriculture, leader in the DFL Party, business executive, and attorney.
Earlier files relate to public policy; state, national, and world
affairs, including the Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975) and the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy (1963); politics and politicians, political
conventions and campaigns, elections, and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party;
agriculture and agricultural policy in the United States and abroad;
congressional investigations involving Billie Sol Estes and the United States
Department of Agriculture (1962); and Freeman's travels as governor and as
secretary of agriculture. Later files focus largely on international trade and
economic relations and on international business, documenting Freeman's work as
an executive of E.D.P. Technology International, Inc. and Business
International Corp., and as a member of the Popham, Haik, Schnobrich &
Kaufman law firm (Washington, D.C.). Correspondents include Orville and Jane
Freeman, presidents Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, senators and members of
congress, Freeman's staff at the USDA, Dorothy Jacobson, academic Willard W.
Cochrane, and politicians and government officials.
There are some files of Freeman's long-time assistant, Dorothy
Jacobson, and papers of his wife Jane. Personal materials include family
scrapbooks (27 volumes, 1948-1966), and postcards and Christmas cards of
members of the Josiah Lothrop family, a farm family of rural Zumbrota,
Minnesota, to whom Freeman was related on his mother's side (ca.1903-1919).
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| There is a variety of material related to Orville and Jane Freeman
in other Minnesota Historical Society collections, including transcripts and
audio tapes of speeches, oral history interviews, museum artifacts, and
official records of the Governor's office during Freeman's tenure. Consult the
catalog for the location of these materials. |
| Records of the Office of Secretary of Agriculture are located at the
National Archives in Washington, D.C. |
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| This collection is indexed under the following
headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers
desiring materials about related topics should search the catalog using these
headings. |
| Topics: |
| | Agriculture--United States. |
| | Economic policy. |
| | Elections. |
| | International business enterprises. |
| | International economic relations. |
| | International law. |
| | International trade. |
| | Political campaigns. |
| | Political conventions. |
| | Presidents--United
States--Assassination. |
| | Public policy. |
| | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975. |
| Persons: |
| | Cochrane, Willard
Wesley, 1914-. |
| | Estes, Billie Sol.
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| | Freeman,
Jane. |
| | Freeman, Michael O., 1948-. |
| | Freeman family.
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| | Humphrey, Hubert H.
(Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978. |
| | Jacobson, Dorothy
Houston. |
| | Johnson, Lyndon B.
(Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. |
| | Kennedy, John F.
(John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. |
| | Lothrop family.
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| | MacKinnon, George E.,
1906-1995. |
| | Mondale, Walter F., 1928-. |
| | Nelsen, Ancher,
1904-1933. |
| | Toynbee, Arnold
Joseph, 1889-1975. |
| | Truman, Harry S.,
1884-1972. |
| | Wallace, Henry Agard,
1888-1965. |
| Organizations: |
| | Americans for Democratic
Action. |
| | Business International Corporation. |
| | Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Party. |
| | E.D.P. Technology International, Inc. (Washington,
D.C.). |
| | Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. |
| | Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Ltd. |
| | United States. Dept. of
Agriculture. |
| Places: |
| | Minnesota--Politics and government. |
| | United States--Politics and
government. |
| Document Types: |
| | Diaries. |
| | Editorial cartoons. |
| | Motion pictures. |
| | Photographs. |
| | Postcards. |
| | Speeches. |
| Occupations: |
| | Cabinet officers. |
| | Governors--Minnesota. |
| | Lawyers--Minnesota. |
| | Politicians--Minnesota. |
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| Preferred Citation: |
| | [Indicate the cited item and/or series here].
Orville L. Freeman Papers. Minnesota Historical Society. |
| | See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional
examples. |
| Accession Information: |
| | Accession numbers: 8932; 8945; 8969; 9505; 9855; 10,919; 10,932;
11,059; 11,117; 11,266; 11,280; 11,286; 11,436; 13,661; 13,860; 15,255; 15,682;
15,793; 15,931 |
| Processing Information: |
| | Processed by: Kathryn A. Johnson, December 1987; reprocessed with
additions by David B. Peterson, December 1997 and November 2002 |
| | PALS ID number: 09-00038464 |
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Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the
location and box numbers shown below.
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Early Years (1946-1954)
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| Location | Box |
| 144.K.7.3B | 1 |
Biographical material,
[ca.1946]-1968.
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Miscellaneous papers,
1941-1966.
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1946:
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Veterans affairs,
[ca.1946].
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1947:
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Cooperatives,
1947-1951.
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Americans for Democratic Action,
1947-1948.
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Henry Wallace,
[ca.1947]-1948.
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Miscellaneous papers,
1947-1960.2 folders.
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1948:
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Humphrey correspondence,
1948-1950.
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1949:
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William C. Simms correspondence,
1949.
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Personal correspondence,
1949-1950.2 folders.
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1950:
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Campaign correspondence by district,
1950.9 folders.
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Campaign finance,
1950. 2 folders.
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Post-campaign correspondence,
1950.
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Miscellaneous equipment brochures,
[ca.1950]-1957.
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1951:
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Correspondence,
1951.
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Correspondence: Political-personal,
1950-1951.
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Freeman: Personal analysis,
1951.
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| Location | Box |
| 144.K.7.4F | 2 | |
Political appointments,
1951-1953. 2 folders.
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1952:
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Correspondence: Political-personal,
1952.
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Campaign: Radio: Correspondence and miscellaneous
papers,
1952.
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Campaign: Radio speeches,
1952.
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1953:
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Correspondence: Political-personal,
1953.
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1954:
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Campaign: Conventions,
1954.
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Campaign materials,
1954.
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Senatorial campaign: Bjornson clippings,
[ca.June 1954].
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Radio and TV speeches,
1954.4 folders.
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Hubert Humphrey: Correspondence and miscellaneous
papers,
1954-1960.2 folders.
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Gubernatorial Years (1955-1961)
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| Location | Box |
| 144.K.7.4F | 2 |
Chronological
files:
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1955:
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Legislative session,
1955.
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Correspondence: Personal,
1955.4 folders.
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"Viking Tour" to Scandinavia,
July 1955.
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Viking Tour: Norway, Sweden, Turkey,
1955. 2 folders.
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Viking Tour: Denmark, Finland, England, France,
Germany,
1955.
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| Location | Box |
| 144.K.7.5B | 3 | | |
Viking Tour: Domestic correspondence,
1955.3 folders.
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Report of the study group on state investment funds,
[1955?].
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Speeches,
1955-1956.4 folders.
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1956:
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Administrative memos,
1956.
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Governor's weekly radio reports,
1956.2 folders.
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Campaign: Plans,
1956.
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Campaign: Finance,
1956.
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Campaign: "Jane's materials on campaign issue,"
1956.
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Campaign: Radio scripts,
1956.
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Campaign: Radio scripts (miscellaneous),
1956.
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Campaign: TV scripts,
1956.2 folders.
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Campaign: Film scripts,
1956.
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Campaign: News releases,
1956.
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Campaign: DFL state office candidates,
1956.
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Campaign: Ancher Nelsen materials,
1956.2 folders.
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| Location | Box |
| 144.K.7.6F | 4 | | |
Campaign: Tours,
1956.2 folders.
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Campaign: Summary report,
1956.2 folders.
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Correspondence: Personal,
1956.
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Bismarck Schifferes: Newspaper clippings and
correspondence,
1956-1958.
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1957:
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Legislative materials,
1957.
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Miscellaneous printed material,
[ca.April-June 1957].
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Speeches,
1957. 3 folders.
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Miscellaneous subject files,
[1957?]-1960.2 folders.
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Minnesota Highway Department,
1957-1959.2 folders.
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Orient tour,
[ca.November 1957].
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News reports: Minnesota orient trade tour,
Nov. 2-22, 1957.
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Orient trade tour,
1957.6 folders.
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| 144.K.7.7B | 5 | |
1958:
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Administrative memos,
1958-1959.
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Campaign "Horrors,"
1958.
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Campaign: Literature samples,
1958.3 folders.
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Campaign: News releases: Candidates,
1958.4 folders.
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Campaign: News releases: Executive,
1958.
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Campaign: Voting records,
1958.
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Campaign: Correspondence and miscellaneous papers,
1958.5 folders.
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Campaign: George MacKinnon materials,
1958.
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Campaign: Labor debate and related materials,
1958.
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Campaign: Radio addresses and miscellaneous papers,
1958.
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Campaign: Radio speeches,
1958.
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Campaign: Miscellaneous speeches,
1958. 2 folders.
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Campaign: Speech material,
1958.
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Campaign lists,
1958.
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Campaign: TV scripts,
1958.
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| Location | Box |
| 144.K.7.8F | 6 | | |
Campaign: Tours,
1958.2 folders.
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Campaign: Summary report,
1958.5 folders.
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Speeches,
1958.5 folders.
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Correspondence: Personal,
1958.2 folders.
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Truman, Harry: Miscellaneous material,
1958-1959.
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1959:
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Special session: Working papers,
1959.3 folders.
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Legislature,
1959. 2 folders.
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| Location | Box |
| 144.K.8.1B | 7 | | |
Miscellaneous,
August-November 1959.
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Report on voluntary committees,
1959.
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Budget,
1959. 2 folders.
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Speeches,
1959. 4 folders.
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1960:
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Democratic National Convention,
July 1960.
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Report of the first Governor's Conference on
Rehabilitation: Second draft,
1960.
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Campaign: Miscellaneous papers,
1960.3 folders.
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Campaign: Television,
1960. 2 folders.
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Campaign: Tours,
1960.
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Campaign: Schedules,
1960.
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Campaign: Radio,
1960.
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Campaign: News releases,
1960.2 folders.
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Campaign: Finances,
1960.
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Campaign: Debate material,
1960.
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Voting records,
1960.2 folders.
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| Location | Box |
| 144.K.8.2F | 8 | | |
Campaign: Correspondence and miscellaneous papers,
1960.3 folders.
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Speeches: By subject,
1960.4 folders.
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Campaign: Thank-yous,
1960.
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Campaign: Minnesota poll,
1960.
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Campaign: "Religion and Politics" telecast: Letter
reaction,
1960.
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Campaign: Memos,
1960.
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Campaign: News stories,
1960.
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Campaign: Finances,
1960. 2 folders.
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Campaign: Literature,
1960.
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Campaign: Students for Freeman,
1960.
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Campaign: Voting patterns,
1960.
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South American tour,
1960.3 folders.
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Speeches,
1960. 2 folders.
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| Location | Box |
| 144.K.8.3B | 9 | | |
Speeches,
1960.2 folders.
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Miscellaneous memos,
1960.
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Campaign: Miscellaneous papers,
1960.
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List of friendly contacts: By county,
1960.
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Administrative memos,
1960.
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Letters received,
Dec. 1960-Jan. 1961.
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| Location | Box |
| 147.I.17.4F | 16 |
Clippings:
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[General], 1955, 1958. 4 folders.
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Orient trip, November 1957.
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Scandinavian trip, 1955.
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General
correspondence:
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Alabama-New Mexico,
[ca.1954]-1960. 14 folders.
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| Location | Box |
| 144.K.9.1B | 17 | |
New York-Wyoming,
[ca.1954]-1960. 14 folders.
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Foreign,
[ca.1954]-1960. 2 folders.
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Canada,
1955-1960.
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Accolades received, 1955-1959.
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Letters of appreciation received by Governor Freeman,
1960.
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Post-election letters received from
Minnesotans,1960.
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Post-election letters received from non-Minnesotans,
1960.
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| Location | Box |
| 145.C.5.1B | 44 |
Press releases,1955-1959.
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| | | Most of the press releases date from January-October 1955. |
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Trade delegation tour to the Far East, 1957.2 folders.
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| | | This is a disassembled scrapbook that includes some photographs.
The group visited Japan, Formosa, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, Nov. 2-22,
1957. |
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Speeches:
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1955:
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May 23: Address to White House Conference on
Education.
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Nov. 12: Address to American Veterans' Committee
annual convention.
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Nov. 17: Minnesota Resources in a Changing World
(address to Minnesota Resources Conference).
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| | | | | This speech was apparently also given on April 24, 1958. |
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Dec. 2: Opportunities in Minnesota (address to
securities analysts).
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1956:
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Jan. 10: Address to Independent Voters of
Illinois.
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May 17: Speech on constitution revision for League
of Women Voters.
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June 14: Address to League of Minnesota
Municipalities convention.
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July 16: Citizen Participation in Government
(address to Council of State Governments regional conference).
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Sept.: Ethics in Government.
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| | | | | This speech was apparently also given June 19, 1958. |
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1957:
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Feb. 12: Address to National Conference on
International Economic and Social Development.
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| | | | | This speech was apparently also given on several other dates
in 1957, 1958, and 1959. |
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March 9: Dedication of new Group Health building.
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May 2: Democracy is Worth Paying For (address to
National Association of Compensation Claimants Attorneys).
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May 10: Volunteer Services Recognition Banquet.
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| | | | | This speech was apparently also given on July 10, 1957 and
April 23, 1958. |
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Sept. 27: Government Employees are Important
(address to State of Minnesota employees).
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Oct. 23: P.T.A./Education speech.
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Oct. 30: Citizens Plan State Health and Welfare
Services (address to annual conference of Missouri Association of Social
Welfare).
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Dec. 14: Human Relations in the United States
(address to B'nai B'rith dinner).
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1958:
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The Conquest of New Frontiers.
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Growing Pains of Government (address to League of
Minnesota Municipalities).
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New Horizons with Freedom (commencement address).
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Feb. 10: The Midwest Looks at World Problems
(foreign policy address to the Overseas Press Club).
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April 27: Israel's Tenth Anniversary Celebration
(speech given at the University of Minnesota).
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April 30: Forestry in Minnesota's Future (address to
Keep Minnesota Green dinner).
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| | | | | This speech was apparently also given on May 1, 1959. |
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May [?]: Human Relations and the Law.
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May 22: Greetings to the National Assembly of the
United World Federalists.
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May 26: Greetings to the Tenth Anniversary
Celebration of the World Health Organization.
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Aug. 30: Inter-Racial Justice: An Urgent Goal
(address to the National Catholic Conference for Inter-Racial Justice).
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Sept. 9: The Cooperative Movement and Problems of
Government (address to the Cooperative League of the U.S.A.).
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Oct. 2: Freeman radio speech on agriculture
(Rochester, Minn.).
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Oct. 7: United Nations Day.
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| | | | | This speech was apparently also given on Oct. 19, 1958. |
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Oct. 28: Financing the Services of State Government
(radio address to all Minnesotans).
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Nov. 24: Responsibilities of Democracy (address to
Midland annual meeting).
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| | | | | This speech was apparently also given on Dec. 3, 1958. |
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Dec. 2: Address to American Medical Association.
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1959:
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May 9: New Jersey Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner
address.
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Aug. 4: Federal income tax credit address to
Governors Conference in Puerto Rico.
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Aug. 15: The Challenge of Plenty (address to
National Association of Compensation Claimants Attorneys).
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Aug. 17: Address to the national convention of the
American Federation of Teachers.
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Nov. 18: Managed Abundance in Food and Agriculture.
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Nov. 23: The Real Meaning of Parity (address to the
annual convention of the Minnesota Farmers Union).
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Nov. 30: Economic Growth: A Common Bond (address to
the Paul Bunyan Dinner, New Orleans).
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1960:
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Address to Americans for Democratic
Action.
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April 7: Consumer Representation in Government
(address to the Council on Consumer Information).
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May 9: A Summary of Governor Freeman's Keynote
Address to the 1960 Conference on Children and Youth.
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May 12: Science and Politics (address to the
American Institute of Chemists).
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June 4: The Liberal Arts Tradition and Our Goals for
the Future (address to Gustavus Adolphus College alumni banquet).
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June 21: Welcoming address to the annual convention
of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (meeting in
St. Paul).
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[Miscellaneous speeches], 1950-1959.
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Aging,1956-1960.
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Gubernatorial addresses and messages,1955-1959.
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| Location | Box |
| 145.C.5.2F | 45 | |
Labor,1954-1958.
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Mental health, 1957-1960.
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Rehabilitation, 1956-1959.
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Statements and articles
(chronologically-ordered):
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1954: Taxes.
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1955: Appointment of Governor's Advisory Committee on
the Employment of the Physically Handicapped.
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1955: Minnesota White House Conference Defines
Problems in Education (article by Freeman).
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1956-1960: Statements for the Minnesota Journal of Education.
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1956: Freeman testimony before the United States
Senate Committee on Agriculture.
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1958: The Plague(Guideposts article by Freeman).
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1959: Civil rights.
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1959: Strengthening the state tax base.
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1959: Freedom and Opportunity (article by Freeman in
Faith and Workmagazine).
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1959: Depressed areas in Northeastern Minnesota
hearing (testimony by Freeman before the McCarthy Special Committee on
Unemployment Problems, meeting in Hibbing, Minn.).
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1959, Nov. 20: Freeman testimony before McCarthy
Special Committee on Unemployment Problems.
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1960: Milk congressional testimony.
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Miscellaneous papers,
1955-1960.
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Secretary of Agriculture Years (1961-1969)
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| Location | Box |
| 144.K.8.3B | 9 |
Chronological Files:
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1961:
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Transition,
1960-1961.
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USDA notebook,
1961.6 folders.
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| | | | | The USDA notebooks (1961-1968) contain memos and other
communications with the president, congress, Secretary Freeman's staff, and
USDA agencies. |
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Willard W. Cochrane memoranda,
1961. 5 folders.
|
| | | |
Briefing material for Colorado trip,
[ca.1961?].
|
| | | |
Travel,
1961.
|
| | |
1962:
|
| | | |
USDA notebook,
1962.4 folders.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.K.8.4F | 10 | | |
Willard W. Cochrane memoranda,
1962.
|
| | | |
Billie Sol Estes case,
1962.4 folders.
|
| | | |
USDA bride's kit,
[ca.June 1962].
|
| | | |
Travel,
1962.
|
| | |
1963:
|
| | | |
USDA notebook,
1963. 8 folders.
|
| | | |
Willard W. Cochrane memoranda,
1963.2 folders.
|
| | | |
Jack McDonald's notes on agriculture in Soviet bloc
countries,
1963. 2 folders.
|
| | | |
Travel,
1963.
|
| | |
1964:
|
| | | |
USDA notebook,
1964. 3 folders.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.K.8.5B | 11 | | |
USDA notebook,
1964. 3 folders.
|
| | | |
Willard W. Cochrane memoranda,
1964. 2 folders.
|
| | | |
Travel,
1964.
|
| | |
1965:
|
| | | |
USDA notebook,
1965. 9 folders.
|
| | | |
Travel,
1965.
|
| | |
1966:
|
| | | |
USDA notebook,
1966. 5 folders.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.K.8.6F | 12 | | |
USDA notebook,
1966. 3 folders.
|
| | | |
Travel,
1966.
|
| | | |
Miscellaneous speeches and reports,
1966-1969.2 folders.
|
| | | |
Fairleigh Dickinson University Commencement,
June 1966.
|
| | |
1967:
|
| | | |
USDA notebook,
1967. 14 folders.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.K.8.7B | 13 | | |
USDA notebook,
1967. 3 folders.
|
| | | |
Travel,
1967.2 folders.
|
| | |
1968:
|
| | | |
USDA notebook,
1968. 14 folders.
|
| | | |
New England trip: Newspaper clippings,
February 1968.
|
| | | |
Humphrey material,
1968.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.K.8.8F | 14 | | |
Travel,
1968-January 1969. 2 folders.
|
| |
Diaries:
|
| | | Secretary Freeman's official diaries, photocopies of originals
held by the National Archives, contain information about national and world
affairs from the perspective of a cabinet official. They include information
about the Secretary's travels abroad, the assassination of President Kennedy
(1963), Freeman's attendance at Lyndon Johnson's inauguration (1965), the 1968
Democratic National Convention and rioting in the streets of Chicago, and
Freeman's candid observations on the 1968 presidential campaign of Hubert
Humphrey. |
| Location | Box |
| 144.K.8.8F | 14 | |
Volume 1.July 1960-Oct. 27, 1962.
|
| | |
Volume 2. Nov. 22, 1962-Nov. 18, 1963.
|
| | |
Volume 3.Nov. 1963-May 25, 1964.
|
| | |
Volume 4.May 29-Dec. 28, 1964.
|
| | |
Volume 5. Jan. 2-Aug. 28, 1965.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.K.9.3B | 15 | |
Volume 6.Aug. 28, 1965-May 17, 1966.
|
| | |
Volume 7.May 25, 1966-May 25, 1967.
|
| | |
Volume 8.June 6, 1967-March 29, 1968.
|
| | |
Volume 9.March 31-Oct. 19, 1968.
|
| | |
Trip through Eastern Europe and the USSR,
July 13-Aug. 13, 1963.
|
| |
Scrapbooks:
|
| | | These are twenty-seven scrapbooks containing mainly newspaper
clippings relating to Freeman's travels and other activities as secretary of
agriculture (1960-1969). |
| Location | Box |
| 148.E.2.4F | 24 | |
Volume 1. Dec. 15, 1960-Feb. 27, 1961.
|
| | |
Volume 2. Feb. 27, 1961-May 31, 1961.
|
| | |
Volume 3.June 1-Aug. 31, 1961.
|
| | |
Volume 4.Sept. 1-Nov. 30, 1961.
|
| | |
Volume 5. Nov. 30, 1961-Feb. 28, 1962.
|
| Location | Box |
| 148.E.2.5B | 25 | |
Volume 6.Feb. 28-May 31, 1962.
|
| | |
Volume 7. June 1-July 29, 1962.
|
| | |
Volume 8.Aug. 1-Sept. 30, 1962.
|
| | |
Volume 9.Oct. 1, 1962-March 31, 1963.
|
| | |
Volume 10.April 1-July 31, 1963.
|
| Location | Box |
| 148.E.2.6F | 26 | |
Volume 11. August-October 1963.
|
| | |
Volume 12. November 1963.
|
| | |
Volume 13.December 1963-June 1964.
|
| | |
Volume 14.July-October 1964.
|
| Location | Box |
| 148.E.2.7B | 27 | |
Volume 15.November 1964-April 1965.
|
| | |
Volume 16.May-Sept. 1965.
|
| | |
Volume 17. October 1965-April 1966.
|
| | |
Volume 18. May-August 1966.
|
| | |
Volume 19.September 1966-February 1967.
|
| Location | Box |
| 148.E.2.8F | 28 | |
Volume 20.March-August 1967.
|
| | |
Volume 21. September 1967-February 1968.
|
| | |
Volume 22.March-April 1968.
|
| | |
Volume 23.May-July 1968.
|
| | |
Volume 24.August-September 1968.
|
| | |
Volume 25. October 1968-January 1969.
|
| Location | Box |
| 148.E.3.1B-1 | 29 | |
Periodical articles and interviews of the Honorable
Orville L. Freeman,
1961-1969.
|
| | | | This volume consists of photocopies of news articles pasted
into a scrapbook. |
| Location | Box |
| Res. 49 | 36 | |
Secretary of Agriculture: Original political cartoon
artwork (editorial page caricatures),
undated and 1960-1967.
|
| | | | This disassembled scrapbook also includes some other
miscellaneous items. See also Personal and Family Papers for similar
material. |
| Location | Box |
| 145.C.5.2F | 45 |
Subject Files:
|
| | |
Agricultural issues and 1968 presidential
campaign,1967-1968.
|
| | | | This file includes Freeman speeches to the 1968 annual
convention of the Farmers Union Central Exchange (CENEX), St. Paul, and to the
Executives Club of Chicago, and an exchange of letters between Freeman and the
Nixon for President Committee regarding a political attack apparently made on
Freeman by Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon. |
| | |
AID-USDA struggle, 1963-1967. 2 folders.
|
| | |
Billie Sol Estes case: Senate hearings, June-July 1962.
|
| | | | This is a published transcript of hearings before the
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government
Operations, United States Senate (Part 1). Freeman's testimony begins on page
140. |
| | |
Civil rights: Rights and the
Negro Farmer, etc.,undated and 1965-1969.
|
| | |
Clippings:
|
| | | |
Agriculture secretary Freeman, 1960-1968.1 volume.
|
| | | |
Miscellaneous clippings, 1961.
|
| | |
Community development programs,1967-1968.
|
| | |
Correspondence: Foreign (Book 2: Indonesia to
Yugoslavia),1961-1969. 3 folders.
|
| | |
Food and hunger: Miscellaneous papers,1968-1969.
|
| | |
Food for Freedom, 1961-1967.
|
| | |
Food issues,1966-1967.
|
| | |
Freeman reports to President Johnson, 1965-1969.
|
| | |
Freeman reports to President Kennedy on agriculture
and foreign economic problems,1961-1963.
|
| | |
Freeman's activities as secretary of agriculture,
1961-1969. 2 folders.
|
| | |
Freeman's analysis of years as USDA secretary,
etc.,1965-1969.
|
| | |
Handwritten notes,undated and 1962-1966.
|
| | |
India:
|
| | | |
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers,1965-1966. 2 folders.
|
| | | |
History, 1966-1968.
|
| Location | Box |
| 145.C.5.3B | 46 | | |
Sequence, 1965-1966, 1970. 2 folders.
|
| | |
India relations: Protein
Malnutrition in India, 1965.
|
| | |
Letter to President Kennedy regarding the Child
Nutrition Act, 1962.
|
| | |
Policy and function of USDA, 1962-1964.2 folders.
|
| | |
President's second annual Farm Policy and Rural Life
Conference,1968.
|
| | |
Program planning and budgeting,1966-1967.
|
| | |
Public Law 87-5: Special Program for Field Grains,
1961.
|
| | |
Public Law 87-128: An Act to Improve and Protect Farm
Prices and Income, 1961.
|
| | |
Public Law 87-703: An Act to Improve and Protect Farm
Income, 1962.
|
| | |
Public Law 88-26: An Act to Extend the Feed Grain
Program,1963.
|
| | |
Rural Electrification Administration,1962-1969.
|
| | |
Rural housing testimony, 1968.
|
| | |
Speeches:
|
| | | |
1963.
|
| | | |
Commencement address delivered at Farleigh Dickinson
University, 1966.
|
| | | |
New Frontiers and Wider Horizons, 1961.
|
| Location | Box |
| 145.C.5.4F | 47 | | |
Public Addresses:
|
| | | | |
1961-1965 and index volume. 6 volumes.
|
| | | |
|
| Location | Box |
| 145.C.5.5B | 48 | | | |
1966-Jan. 1969 and index volume. 7 volumes.
|
| Location | Box |
| 145.C.5.3B | 46 | | |
Sustaining the Values of the Family Farm (address to
Farmers Union Central Exchange, St. Paul), 1962.
|
| | | |
Urban-Rural balance,undated and 1967-1969.4 folders.
|
| | |
Trip to Russia and Eastern Europe, 1963.3 folders.
|
| | |
USDA Position re: Food Aid to
India,1965.
|
| | |
Visit to Spain, [ca.Nov. 1965].
|
| | |
World agriculture, 1967-1969.
|
| | |
World food situation, 1967.
|
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Private Sector Years (1969- )
|
| This material centers on Orville Freeman's business and other
interests and activities apart from and generally following his years of
service as governor of Minnesota and secretary of agriculture. Most of these
files were generated in the course of his affiliation with E.D.P. Technology
International, Business International Corp., and the Popham, Haik, Schnobrich
& Kaufman law firm. |
| Location | Box |
| 151.F.14.6F | 32 |
Administration: Techniques,
1955-1957, 1960.
|
| |
African diary, Summer 1974.
|
| |
Agency for International Development,1985-1993.
|
| |
Agriculture Council of
America:
|
| | |
1996-1998.
|
| | |
Agency for International Development
speech,1985.
|
| | |
Agriculture initiative luncheon, 1985.
|
| | |
American agricultural policy,1985-1990.
|
| | |
Annual conference, 1987.
|
| | |
Annual meeting, 1987.
|
| | |
Freeman agricultural initiative, 1985-1987.
|
| | |
General information, 1986-1989.
|
| | |
Joint statement on agricultural policy by former
secretaries of agriculture, 1985.
|
| | |
Policy seminar co-sponsored with the International
Food Policy Research Institute, 1987.
|
| |
Agriculture:
|
| | |
Agriculture crisis conferences at University of
Minnesota,1999.
|
| | |
Agriculture supply, control, and
conservation/Glickman, Espy, USDA,1993-1998.
|
| | |
Egypt: Heifers, etc.,1986-1989.
|
| | |
Export conference, 1984.
|
| | |
Farm,1952-1965.
|
| | |
Farm Bill (1985), 1980-1993. 2 folders.
|
| | |
Food and agricultural policies, 1982-1984.
|
| | |
Green revolution and employment, 1970.
|
| | |
Green revolution and systems,1969-1970.
|
| | |
Husker feed grain and soybean conference: Sustaining
World Agriculture (audiocassette), 1989.
|
| | |
International: Work with co-ops, 1980-1983.
|
| | |
International Fund for Agricultural
Research,1994.
|
| | |
Japan-U.S. Economic Council, 1982-1984.
|
| | |
Joint Agricultural Consultative Committee on
Nigeria,1980-1986. 2 folders.
|
| | |
Minnesota and the world, 1993-1999.
|
| | |
Philip Morris address concerning the small farmer
(Rome, Italy),1983.
|
| | |
Robert Lewis/Farmers Union, 1988-1992.
|
| | |
Speaking file, 1981-1983.
|
| | |
Speeches,1965-1992. 3 folders.
|
| Location | Box |
| 145.C.2.1B | 38 | |
Speeches, undated and 1974-1990. 2 folders.
|
| | |
Speeches, reports, articles (miscellaneous),
undated and 1974-[1988].
|
| | |
Speeches on agriculture and multi-nationals,
1967-1976.
|
| | |
Systems approach to agriculture, green revolution,
LCDs, 1969.
|
| | |
The Family Farm: A Success Story
with Global Implications, 1983, 1989.
|
| | |
United States-Japan Foundation and Business Advisory
Council, 1979-1990.
|
| |
Albert Lea (Minn.): Packing plant strike (1959),
undated and 1959-1960, 1997.
|
| |
Alliance for Food Aid/Worldwatch Institute,1994.
|
| |
AmClyde Engineered Products, Inc.:
|
| | |
[General file], 1983, 1991-1992.
|
| | |
S. Viswanathan, undated and 1990.
|
| |
Andreas, Dwayne O. (Archer-Daniels-Midland
Co.),1984-1996.
|
| |
Appointment books, 1985-1994, 1996.11 folders.
|
| |
Beebe, Bruce E. and Business International,1991-1997.
|
| |
Biographical information, 1995-1997.
|
| |
Business International Corporation:
|
| | |
[General file], 1970.
|
| | |
Hubert H. Humphrey correspondence, etc.,1968-1975.
|
| | |
Labor and multi-national companies, 1971-1973.
|
| | |
Printeds, Orville L. Freeman speeches,
etc.,1979-1990.
|
| | |
Public policy speeches, 1970-1978. 2 folders.
|
| | |
Publications, Orville L. Freeman speeches,
etc.,1970-1975.
|
| | |
Speeches,1971-1988.
|
| | |
Working papers/Orville L. Freeman's notes,
1972-1975.
|
| Location | Box |
| 145.C.2.2F | 39 |
CARE Small Business Assistance Corporation
(CARESBAC),1990-1995.
|
| |
Carter, Jimmy, 1975-1988.
|
| |
China:
|
| | |
Trade relations,1996-2000.
|
| | |
Trip report, 1978.
|
| |
Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs,1987-1998.
|
| |
Civil defense,
1955-1958.
|
| |
Cleveland, Harlan, 1995-1997.
|
| |
Clinton record, 1989-2000.
|
| |
Clinton-Gore campaign, undated and 1992.
|
| |
CLUSA Institute for Cooperative Development,
1995.
|
| |
Commencement addresses, drafts, and related materials,
1955-1959, 1970.
|
| |
Cooperative Hall of Fame: Induction ceremony for Orville
Freeman, 1993.
|
| | | See VHS videocassette of the event in Sound and Visual
Materials, below. |
| |
Correspondence:
|
| | |
Humphrey, Hubert H.: Special letters received,
1948-1972.
|
| | |
Letters from VIPs,1958-1996.
|
| | |
Letters concerning Freeman's USDA days,1961-1988.
|
| | | | This file contains letters from people mainly connected with
government and politics during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations,
including U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Interior Secretary
Stewart Udall, Lyndon B. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture John
Baker, Mississippi Senator John Stennis, and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. |
| | |
Special letters of appreciation received,1969-1994.
|
| |
Miscellaneous, 1995.
|
| |
Drucker, Peter, 1983-1994.
|
| |
Cotton legislation,
1961-1969.
|
| |
Economic development in Minnesota,
1949-1960. 2 folders.
|
| |
Education,
1955-1960.
|
| |
Foreign trade: Minnesota,
1955-1958.
|
| |
Freeman Center for International
Economic Policy:
|
| | | The Freeman Center was apparently affiliated with the Hubert H.
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. |
| | |
Activities, 1991-1994.
|
| | |
Contribution from Alfred Checchi,1989-1992.
|
| | |
Contribution from Carl Pohlad, 1989-1992.
|
| | |
Contribution from Yohei Sasakawa, 1989-1990.
|
| | |
Correspondence and memoranda, etc., 1989-1992.
|
| | |
Fund raising, 1990-1993.
|
| | |
Reports, 1995-1998.
|
| | |
Schuh appointment to Freeman Chair, 1997-1998.
|
| | |
Statements of purpose, etc., undated.
|
| |
Freeman papers and records at the Minnesota Historical
Society, etc., 1997.
|
| |
Freeman recollections:
|
| | |
Billie Sol Estes case (1962),undated and 1962-1968.
|
| | |
Democratic National Convention (1960), undated.
|
| | | | Freeman nominated John F. Kennedy for president at this
convention. |
| | |
John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, etc., 1969.
|
| |
Freeman's notes on his last meeting with President
Kennedy (Nov. 20, 1963),
1963.
|
| |
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1993.
|
| |
Globalization musings,1974-1979.
|
| |
Gordon, Mitchell: Research materials for book on
Freeman,1997.
|
| | | This file includes correspondence, resource listings, drafts and
handwritten notes for an Orville Freeman biography undertaken by Mitchell
Gordon. The biography was not completed. Copies of the unfinished manuscript
are said to be in the possession of Steve Sandell [of the Humphrey Forum?] and
with Jane Freeman. |
| |
Governor's record (clippings),1995-1998.
|
| |
Haynes, Elliott: Parkinson's Disease research needs,
1997.
|
| |
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of
Public Affairs:
|
| | |
Advisory board, 1992-1999.
|
| | |
Brandl, John: Interim dean, 1997.
|
| | |
Freeman as visiting scholar, 1995-1998.
|
| | |
Legacy exhibit, 1986-1990.
|
| | |
Mission and plans,1987-1998.
|
| | |
Schuh, G. Edward: Freeman Chair, 1995-1998.
|
| | |
Strategic plan, 1996-1998.
|
| | |
United States action plan on food security,
1997-1998.
|
| |
Humphrey, Skip (Hubert H. Humphrey III), 1987.
|
| |
Hunger and poverty, 1969.
|
| Location | Box |
| 145.C.4.2F | 40 |
India:
|
| | |
Abid Hussain: India: Creating a
New Economy in the World's Largest Democracy,1992. 1 audiocassette.
|
| | |
Businesses and Minnesota companies, 1986-1995.
|
| | |
Freeman's activities, 1990-1995.
|
| | |
Freeman's efforts to develop joint ventures,
1988-1994.
|
| | |
India Looks to the
Future(statement by Freeman),1994.
|
| | |
India-U.S. Business Council conference,1986.
|
| | |
People and contacts,1985-1997.
|
| | |
Speeches, 1982-1994.
|
| | |
U.S.-India Business Council,1995-1996.
|
| | |
U.S.-India joint private sector working
group,1995-1996.
|
| | |
Visit of Ambassador Abid Hussain, etc., 1990-1994.
|
| | |
Miscellany, undated and 1990-1994.
|
| |
Interview with Freeman conducted by Dan Olson of
Minnesota Public Radio, April 17, 1997.
|
| | | This file includes a transcript and two audiocassettes. |
| |
Inteview with Freeman conducted by Lyndon B. Johnson
Presidential Library staff (1988), 1971-1992.
|
| |
Interview with Freeman conducted by Russell Fridley,
January 29, 1996. 4 folders.
|
| | | Fridley, formerly director of the Minnesota Historical Society,
was in 1996 a consultant for and/or affiliated with the Minnesota Labor
Interpretive Center, Saint Paul. The interview covers the early years of the
DFL Party; Freeman's campaigns for elective office; his governorship; the
Kennedy campaign for the presidency; Freeman's years of service as secretary of
agriculture; his subsequent career in global business; the rise of the DFL
Party; and Freeman's observations on contemporary politics. |
| |
Ioanes, Raymond A.: Freeman as Secretary of
Agriculture,1997.
|
| |
Japan: Freeman correspondence with Kojiro
Yamada,1998.
|
| |
John F. Kennedy funeral,
1963.
|
| |
Joseph, Burton: Kazakistan project,1993-1995.
|
| |
Kennedy assassination and days following: Freeman
narrative,1963.
|
| | | This consists of copies of handwritten notes (and typed
transcriptions of notes) made by Freeman upon learning of the assassination
while in the air over the Pacific with other cabinet members en route to Tokyo.
Included also are copies of Freeman's account of the Kennedy funeral and of the
days following in Washington, D.C. |
| |
Khurum Sunlight Lodge No. 112 (Masonic Lodge, Edina,
Minn.), 1997.
|
| |
Labor,
1952-1959.
|
| |
Leonard, Jane, 1996.
|
| |
Leonard, Rod: Community Nutrition Institute,1997.
|
| |
Lewis, Robert G.: Farm Bill, etc., 1990-1998.
|
| |
Lowenfeld, Andreas F.:The USA, the
EEC, and the GATT: The Road Not Taken,1996.
|
| |
Lyndon B. Johnson inauguration,
1965.
|
| |
Minnesota Trade Office: Freeman's work,1987-1990.
|
| |
Mondale, Walter F., 1981-1984.
|
| |
Munger, Willard, 1996.
|
| |
Munnich, Lee: Partnership Minnesota conference,
1997.
|
| |
Nicollet Mall (Minneapolis): Visit by Lady Bird Johnson,
1967.
|
| |
Nutrition, 1969-1970. 2 folders.
|
| |
Peterson, John (president of Western Ag-Resources, Inc.,
Kenniweck, Wash.),1993-1996.
|
| |
Philippine American Foundation, 1982-1991.
|
| |
Poland: University of Minnesota Center for Nations in
Transition, 1996.
|
| |
Popham, Haik law
firm:
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