ARCHIVES BRANCH, SAN FRANCISCO FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER

The branch has accessioned records of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, 403 cubic feet, from the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California. Included are correspondence files, 1939-57, records of wind tunnel tests, 1948-52, and experimental aircraft tests, 1938-55. Congress had authorized in 1939 a laboratory at Moffett Field to assist in coordinating aviation research throughout the country.

PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES

HERBERT HOOVER LIBRARY

Allan Hoover has added several files to his father's papers. The files concern Hoover's activities in the Belgian-American Educational Foundation and his role as U. S. representative at the opening of the Brussels World's Fair. They include more than seventy photographs.

Accretions to the papers of Gen. Robert E. Wood, Gerald P. Nye, and Dr. Charles C. Tansill were received. About 4 cubic feet of correspondence were added to the Wood papers and 5 cubic feet to the Nye papers- the last including a speech file, 1938-41, a clipping file, 1926-42, and correspondence. Mrs. Helen Tansill donated her husband's unpublished manuscript, 848 pages, on Cordell Hull and about 2,400 copies of correspondence and other material used by Tansill in Backdoor to War and The United States and Santo Domingo. The literary property rights to the manuscript were kept by the donor.

The Roy Tasco Davis papers (less than 1 cubic foot) have been opened for research. Davis was U. S. minister to Costa Rica, 1921-29, and Panama, 1929-33, and ambassador to Haiti, 1953-57.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LIBRARY

The National Broadcasting Company presented NARS with forty tapes of radio broadcasts made by Eleanor Roosevelt between 1935 and 1959. In 1972 NBC gave the library twenty tapes of President Roosevelt's broadcasts.

Formerly classified documents, chiefly from

the Office of Strategic Services, have been opened in the following files of the president's secretary's file: safe file, OSS; confidential file, OSS and Office of War Information; diplomatic correspondence for Ethiopia, France, Poland, and Rumania; departmental file, Navy (Admiral Brown) and State Department; and subject file, coordinator of information (William J. Donovan).

Formerly classified documents have been opened in the following files of the Map Room Papers: World War II chronology; miscellaneous reports; air routes (Admiral Byrd's report); and Office of Naval Intelligence weekly summaries (14 vols.).

Material has been opened in the following files of the Harry Hopkins papers: confidential political file, 1933-38, Sm-Sy; general correspondence, 1933-40, the president, Ra-Re, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Pierce Williams; special assistant to the president, 1941-45, air bases, Australia, Briggs forged-letter case, British joint staff mission, Burma campaign, Combined Production and Resources Board, John R. Deane, George Earle, and FBI reports (Argentina); Military Intelligence Division reports (Far Eastern documents); and Sherwood collection (crisis in Greece).

Material opened in other collections includes: American War Production Mission in Chinapost-war industrialization, planning and development, and public procurement; Louis Bean papers-"Production of Ingot Steel and Pig Iron in the USSR"; Louis Howe papersmiscellaneous financial papers; Isador Lubin papers-miscellaneous OSS reports, reparations, official policy, and S-general; Morgenthau diaries-volume 252, Indiana tax cases, and various pages in volumes 319, 506, 568, 585, 587, 816, 836, and 837; National Committee of Independent Voters for Roosevelt and Wallacegeneral correspondence, M-Z, David K. Niles, personnel, women's division, miscellaneous correspondence (New York), and miscellaneous campaign data (A and V-W); President's Soviet Protocol Committee - Persian Gulf, 1942; Eleanor Roosevelt papers-personal letters, 1933-45, and family correspondence; contributions-P-R, 1939; Myron Taylor papersAmerican relief to Italy, April-December 1944, January-March 1945, and January 1947-May 1948; and Elbert Thomas papers-secretary of state, foreign relations, and the president.

HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY

The library has accessioned 534 cubic feet of papers donated to the federal government under the terms of President Truman's will. Of special interest is the president's secretary's file, 152 cubic feet. The materials include correspondence, memorandums, notes, speech drafts, reports, minutes of conferences, appointment books, maps, news clippings, and publications. The accession includes material, 2 cubic feet, from the period of Truman's service as presiding judge of the Jackson County court, and 372 cubic feet of post-presidential files, 1953-71. A number of series in the president's secretary's file, including the trip file and several speech files, are ready for use.

Also accessioned were the diaries that A. L.M. Wiggins kept as under secretary of the treasury, 1947-48, and 14 cubic feet of Joseph M. Mehl's papers relating to his career in the Department of Agriculture, 1917-54, and as administrator of the Commodity Exchange Authority, 1947-54.

Added to the oral history collection was an interview with David L. Cole, labor relations expert and director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 1952-53.

Formerly classified materials have been opened in the president's secretary's file and in the papers of Samuel I. Rosenman.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY

The library has recently received papers of George E. Allen, a close personal friend of President Eisenhower. The collection, dating from 1942 to 1969, consists of about 350 photocopies of correspondence and twenty photographs.

The following accessions supplement collections already in the library: papers of Milton S. Eisenhower, including 186 pages of family correspondence between 1927 and 1956, and the edited manuscript and proofs of The President Is Calling; papers of Leroy Lutes, consisting of photocopies of the draft and final letter written to Lutes by General Eisenhower when Lutes left the army general staff; papers of Elizabeth M. Phillips, consisting of a German map with the annotation "April 22, 1919-Found in Dugout-German Officers Quarters - Battlefield Verdun"; and papers of Gen. Robert L. Schulz, consisting of several hundred pages of

correspondence, memorandums, and printed material from the sixties.

The following collections have recently been reviewed and opened for research: records of the President's Science Advisory Committee, 1957-61, consisting of 2 cubic feet of minutes and agenda of meetings and correspondence and memorandums; papers of Arthur E. Summerfield, about 250 pages of correspondence with Eisenhower between 1951 and 1966; papers of Donald A. Quarles, 10 cubic feet, reflecting Quarles's duties as assistant secretary of defense for research and development, secretary of the air force, and deputy secretary of defense, but including personal letters and papers; and papers of Gen. Ray W. Barker, 194345, on his activities in planning the Allied invasion of Europe, 1944, and including maps of the Normandy coastline produced during the Napoleonic period (1 cubic foot). Securityclassified documents in the papers of Ray W. Barker, 1943-45, have been declassified.

The following collections have had one or more documents declassified: manuscripts and materials related to the Johns Hopkins University publications project, The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower: The War Years, 1939-47 and 1963-70; selected records of SHAEF for 1943-45; papers of Charles W. Ryder, 1918-48; papers of C. D. Jackson, 1931-67; papers of Walter Bedell Smith, 1942-61; papers of Joseph M. Dodge, 1952-64; records of the U. S. Council on Foreign Economic Policy, 1955-61; and records of Clarence Francis, 1954-60.

The processing of oral history transcripts of the following individuals has been completed: James H. Douglas, Sigurd S. Larmon, David M. Shoup, Bromley Smith, James V. Burke, Jr., William Lacy, Ellis Slater, Robert Thayer, Howard Cook, Peter Grimm, Henry J. Kellerman, and John S. Patterson.

JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY

The library has accessioned the personal papers of Dewey Daane and John Horne, 14 cubic feet for each. Daane was assistant to the secretary of the treasury, 1960-61, deputy under secretary of the treasury for monetary affairs, 1961-63, and a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1963-74.

Home was executive director of the National Citizens Committee for Kennedy-Johnson, 1960, administrator of the Small Business Administration, 1961-63, and a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, 1963-68.

The library has also received the second portion of Philip Stern's files.

Through the generosity of David Nunnerley of the University of Kent, Canterbury, England, the library has received and opened for research oral history interviews with the following persons: Lord Thorneycroft, British minister of defense, 1962-64; Lucius Clay, President Kennedy's representative in Berlin, 1961-62; William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Louis Heren, American editor of the Times (London); Roger Hilsman, director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, 1961-63; Lord Redmayne, government chief whip, 1959-64; Sir Patrick Reilly, deputy under secretary, Foreign Office, 1960-64, and ambassador to France, 1964-68; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., special assistant to President Kennedy, 196163; Thomas E. Stakem, chairman, U. S. Maritime Commission, 1961-63; McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the president for national security, 1961-66 (portions closed); Hugh Fraser, secretary of state for air in the Macmillan years (permission required); Joseph Godber, minister of state, Foreign Office, 1961-63 (permission required); and Robert S. McNamara, secretary of defense, 1961-68 (permission required).

In addition, two interviews conducted by the library are now available with permission: Janet Travell, White House physician, and Bernard Boyle, Democratic national committeeman from Nebraska.

On January 30, 1975, more than 15,000 pages of manuscripts and over 3,000 photographs from the Ernest Hemingway papers were opened to researchers. Besides holographs and typed drafts, galleys, and page proofs of many of his novels, the collection includes the original opening for The Sun Also Rises, one unpublished section and an early draft for the Bimini section of Islands in the Stream, unpublished chapters from A Moveable Feast, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's comments on A Farewell to Arms. The photographs span the period from the late 1890s through 1961.

Forty-five cubic feet of papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and ambassador

to India, are now open for research use. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts of books and articles, reports, and other personal and official papers, 1930-63.

Smaller collections that have been opened are: records of David Bell, director of the Bureau of the Budget and administrator of the Agency for International Development, 1963 (less than 1 cubic foot); Max Millikan, professor of political science at M.I.T.-correspondence with President Kennedy on the transition period and other topics, 1959-61 (less than 1 cubic foot); Dorothy O'Brien, Democratic Party chairwoman for the northern district of Illinoispapers relating to John F. Kennedy's 1959 visit to DeKalb County, Illinois, and the 1960 campaign (one roll of microfilm); Esther Peterson, assistant secretary of labor for labor standards - correspondence with the White House staff, 1963 (one roll of microfilm); Philip Stern, director of research for the Democratic National Committee and deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs-1 cubic foot of material relating to his writings, including Security on Trial, and personal files pertaining to the research division of the Democratic National Committee, 1953-69 (permission required); and Edward Toomey, physician-papers relating to the John F. Kennedy medical symposiums, 1968-72 (less than 1 cubic foot).

LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRARY

Two sets of papers have been accessioned but are not yet open for research. Records of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 70 cubic feet, were received during a ceremony at the library on January 28, 1975. The second accession consists of 5 cubic feet of papers of Luther Holcomb, former vice chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Recent openings in White House Central Files include atomic energy, 1 cubic foot; civil aviation, 7 cubic feet; countries, 33 cubic feet; holidays, 16 cubic feet; immigration, less than 1 cubic foot; natural resources, 11 cubic feet; outer space, 3 cubic feet; parksmonuments, 7 cubic feet; peace, 3 cubic feet; personnel management, 17 cubic feet; recreation-sports, 2 cubic feet; and science, 2 cubic feet.

RICHARD M. NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS

The tape recordings and other historical materials of the Nixon presidency are in the custody of the United States government, secured under court orders that enjoin officials of the government from disclosing, transferring, disposing, or otherwise making known to any person the presidential materials of the Nixon administration. The court orders also enjoin the government from effectuating the terms and conditions of the agreement worked out by the former president with General Services Administrator Arthur Sampson on September 7, 1974. Exempted from this injunction, however, is release of materials needed for certain court actions, investigations, claims, and other matters of current government business.

The court case originated as a suit by Richard Nixon to force the government to implement the agreement he entered into with Sampson on September 7, 1974. The Presidential Record

ings and Materials Preservation Act, passed by the Congress and approved by President Ford December 19, 1974, ordered GSA to take custody of the materials, preserve and protect them in the Washington, D. C., metropolitan area, make them available under the terms noted above, and propose regulations to the Congress to provide public access to the materials. After passage of this act, Mr. Nixon's lawyers moved to have the earlier court case set aside in order to try the constitutionality of the act. That issue is presently before a threejudge panel of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia.

As required by the act, GSA submitted its proposed regulations to the Congress on March 19, 1975, providing for public access to the presidential historical materials together with a complete report of its plans for preserving and processing them for research use. Until prevailing court orders are superseded or vacated no actions to transfer, process, or disclose the materials are permitted.

Every government department originating

classified information or material is now required to establish a data index system for top secret, secret, and confidential information in selected categories approved by the Interagency Classification Review Committee as having historical or other value such as to make it appropriate for preservation. Each department is required to submit to the committee on September 1 of each year a list of all indexed documents that were declassified on or before December 31 of the previous calendar year. The committee maintains these lists in the central research room of the National Archives building where they may be copied or reviewed by the public during business hours.

The Records Declassification Division systematically reviews security-classified documents accessioned by the National Archives, primarily World War II records that are at least thirty years old. Researchers should address any questions about the records to the unit holding them and should bear in mind that other restrictions may prevent the release of some records even though they have been declassified. Significant records opened since March 1975 or presently being declassified are described below.

NAVY AND OLD ARMY BRANCH

General correspondence files, 28 cubic feet, of the Army War College for 1903-19 have been declassified.

Reports of naval attachés for 1866-1945 in records, 483 cubic feet, of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations have been largely declassified.

CIVIL ARCHIVES DIVISION

INDUSTRIAL AND SOCIAL BRANCH

Records, 8 cubic feet, of the Office of the Director of the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service for 1941-46 have been largely declassified.

DIPLOMATIC BRANCH

Declassification review of non-State Department originated documents in the central decimal files of the Department of State for 1940-44 continues.