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Manuscripts
Includes varied materials related to the 1954 national elections and Republican and Eisenhower Administration activities. There are speech texts, programs, letters (official and more personal), handwritten notes, telegrams, newspaper and magazine clips, photographs, etc. There is a 30-plus page manuscript with handwritten corrections, titled "1954: A Year in Context." It is not clear who authored it. There are several letters from the Democratic National Committee alleging unscrupulous tactics on the Republican side. Split into two folders.
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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. 85 items, letters, memos, press releases, booklets, notes, and other materials related to Richard Nixon's presidential campaign. Notable names and items include: 63-pp. booklet, The GOP Record of Progress - Speaker's Manuel for the Republican Record, 1953 - 1960 ; 7-pp. document, "Major differences between the Republican and Democratic platforms of 1960," 7/28/1960 ; 8-pp. "Address by the Vice President of the United States at the 1960 soil conservation field days, Sioux Falls, South Dakota," 9/23/1960 ; 16-pp. booklet, "It is time to speak up for America," a Nixon address while accepting the Republican nomination for the presidency - 7/28/1960 ; 54-pp. booklet, The Rights of Man (The Democratic Platform), 7/12/1960 ; multi-page yellow notepad with handwritten notes - first line reads - "Format - a rally presentation with a serious purpose" - dated "11/2[1960]" ; 3-pp. "Subject - Acceptance Speech" with suggestions for "RN" (Richard Nixon) from "TR" (?) - Jim Bassett is CCed ; more.
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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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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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Approx. 100 items. Folder includes correspondence with Richard Nixon and other members of the Eisenhower administration, newspaper clippings, press releases, TIME magazine reprint on President-elect Kennedy, an issue of Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, other memos and notes. Dick Bergholz letter dated August 26, 1952 removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.
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