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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
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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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Misc. Material
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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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Misc. Materials (2 of 2)
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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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Misc. Materials (1 of 2)
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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