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  • "Papers include memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence, speeches, reports, printed materials, and other miscellaneous items pertaining to his positions as assistant to James Roosevelt and administrative assistant to President Roosevelt, 1938-1941, concerning patronage matters, the President's Committee on the Improvement of Civil Service, the Department of Justice, national defense, and the Civil Aeronautics Board; assistant to Attorney General Francis Biddle, 1941-1943, concerning interdepartmental patronage matters and World War II issues, including the internment of Japanese-Americans; technical advisor to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg, 1945; member of the Committee on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (the Hoover Commission), 1948, concerning his support of the liberal bloc opposing Hoover's desire to dismantle the Roosevelt New Deal; chairman of the Commission to Reorganize the Government of Puerto Rico, 1949; and his management of Lyndon B. Johnson's unsuccessful bid for the 1960 Presidential nomination and Hubert H. Humphrey's 1968 Presidential campaign. Other subjects in the papers include Democratic Party affairs, Harvard alumni activities, and the Herter Committee on Foreign Affairs. Papers also include his notebooks while at the Naval Training School in Quonset Point, R.I., 1943; and information collected on "subversives" in the United Nations, 1948."

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  • "Records and correspondence"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "History"

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