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Naval War College
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War Lords - Manuscript and Correspondence
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Approx. 20 items. Correspondence and other documents related to Bassett's chapter on Admiral Halsey in "The War Lords."
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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"Approx. 70 items. Includes list of 1971 articles by B. (same list in folder titled "1971 Articles." The folder includes a report to Bill Thomas from B. titled "Japan Really Won the War," and an article on the British justice system pulled from Catholic Digest of Jan. 1972. Among the prominent persons Bassett corresponded with are a Adm. B.A. Clarey, U.S. Navy, Gov. Edmund G. Brown, August Sebastiani and Sam J. Sebastiani [of Sebastiani Vineyards], U.S. Rep. Bob Wilson, Robert S. Elegant [journalist & author], Herbert Klein [Nixon Dir. of Comm.], Roger Howell [of Bowdoin College], etc. "
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Speeches
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Approx. 10 items. 22-pp. text of a 1964 "World Affairs" graduation speech delivered "on the campus from which my son...graduated a few years ago." (which college is not specified, although research indicates Claremont Men's College had a president named "Dr. Benson" in this time frame); correspondence related to and a program for the 41st Session of the Institute of World Affairs, which met at Huntington-Sheraton Hotel, Pasadena, 12/6-9/1964); 16-pp. text, partly typed, partly handwritten, on world affairs, with added note on page 1, "Oxy speech--pls file"; a later, 19-pp. typed draft of the above Occidental College speech; 26-pp. text on "Role of Press," delivered to Instituted of World Affairs, 12/1964; 8-pp. text of speech delivered in Texas; etc.
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Press Releases & Speeches
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Includes U.S. Pacific Fleet Press Release about Japanese attack on Wake Island, Dec. 8, 1941, a speech by Adm. Chester Nimitz, Oct. 1942, as well as radio broadcast scripts, memos, news clippings, two b/w photos of Adm. Halsey, a speech [by Halsey?], etc.
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Colby College
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Two items of correspondence between Richard N. Dyer, Assistant to the President of Colby College, and Otis Chandler.
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College of Cookery
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Approx. 65 items: photographs of Fleeta Hoke and her assistants on stage at the Times College of Cookery.
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