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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1961 - 1962
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Employees - Bassett, James

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: variety of tear sheets & clips of LAT articles by and about Bassett; brief from The Eight Ball, 9/1958, on Bassett's vacation, scorpion bites and state of health; from 1978, LAT obit on Bassett, Among Ourselves obit on Bassett, Jim Bishop obit / tribute column on Bassett

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Misc. Materials

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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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Correspondence - Woods, Rose Mary

Manuscripts

Includes personal greetings in the form of cards, letters and other items from Woods (Nixon's secretary) to Bassett and his wife, "Willie," and one card, written in 1961, to "Mrs. Chandler." Also in the file is a copy of the text of an article Tricia Nixon Cox provided to Ladies Home Journal titled "My Father and Watergate," in 1974. Woods letter dated January 4, 1961 removed from Autograph File and returned to Bassett files.

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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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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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