Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 30 items, letters, news clips, campaign literature and other materials related to Richard Nixon. Notable names and items include: 10-pp. memorandum (yellow sheets), "The Republican Party, August 1961 - November 1962...an estimate," sent out from James Bassett's home address in Glendale, CA ; collection of materials related to Nixon's 1962 run for governorship of CA. ; more. George Christopher letter dated May 23, 1961 removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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Includes three letters of appreciation to Bassett for his work as a staffer of the Republican National Committee. The letters are dated late in the years 1952, 1954 and 1956. All three letters are signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower letter dated February 15, 1954 removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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Approx. 40 items, letters, press releases, speech transcripts and other material related to Richard Nixon. Notable names and items include: 18-pp. "Script No. 9...'Richard Nixon," touts a book titled "Richard Nixon - a Political and Personal Portrait ; Bassett correspondence with Republican National Committee, Nixon and others ; 17-pp. "Remarks of Honorable Richard M. Nixon, Vice President...before the American Society of Newspaper Editors...Statler Hotel, Washington, DC...(4/18/1959)" ; Bassett - Herbert Klein (Nixon Press Sec.) correspondence ; "Release from Office of the Vice President," a bio for Herbert G. Klein, 5/20/1959 ; more. Split into two folders.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items, letters, press releases, speech transcripts and other material related to Richard Nixon. Notable names and items include: 18-pp. "Script No. 9...'Richard Nixon," touts a book titled "Richard Nixon - a Political and Personal Portrait ; Bassett correspondence with Republican National Committee, Nixon and others ; 17-pp. "Remarks of Honorable Richard M. Nixon, Vice President...before the American Society of Newspaper Editors...Statler Hotel, Washington, DC...(4/18/1959)" ; Bassett - Herbert Klein (Nixon Press Sec.) correspondence ; "Release from Office of the Vice President," a bio for Herbert G. Klein, 5/20/1959 ; more. Split into two folders.
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Includes booklet The Republican Party and the Negro: Facts for Party Speakers and Workers; newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, itineraries, a 30-page survey of press coverage of Richard Nixon (1952), Nixon speeches, a packet containing an invitation to the January 1953 inauguration of Eisenhower and Nixon, correspondence from Gladwin Hill of the New York Times to Bassett, and a copy of Nixon speech of Sept. 23, 1952 ("The Checkers speech"). Split into three folders.
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Manuscripts
Includes booklet The Republican Party and the Negro: Facts for Party Speakers and Workers; newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, itineraries, a 30-page survey of press coverage of Richard Nixon (1952), Nixon speeches, a packet containing an invitation to the January 1953 inauguration of Eisenhower and Nixon, correspondence from Gladwin Hill of the New York Times to Bassett, and a copy of Nixon speech of Sept. 23, 1952 ("The Checkers speech"). Split into three folders.
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