Extent: 25 boxes.
The correspondence contains letters written by readers of McDowell's column, and those who viewed his appearances on the PBS
program "Washington Week in Review" and other programs. The correspondence includes reactions, both for and against, to McDowell's
writings and viewpoints. There are also congratulatory letters relating to the many awards he received and upon his retirement
in 1998, as well as invitations to make appearances and speeches, ideas for future columns, and resumes from prospective journalists.
There is also correspondence between McDowell and literary agents and magazine editors.
The subject files contain a wide variety of materials relating to McDowell's nearly 40 years as a journalist and author. There
are manuscript drafts and free-lance articles for various publications, reviews, publicity, and correspondence relating to
books he wrote, including "One Thing After Another" (1960), "What Did You Have in Mind?" (1963), and "Campaign Fever" (1965).
There is background information for his articles, columns, and speeches, especially on the subjects of Congress, television
and political conventions, elections, inaugurations, and campaign finance reform.
McDowell did voice-overs for the Ken Burns productions, "The Civil War" (1990) and "Baseball" (1994), and the collection contains
articles and reviews, notes, correspondence, clippings, and screening and final scripts. He also was a host on the program
"For the Record," which aired on Central Virginia Public Television, which was devoted to public policy, politics, and history.
The collection includes drafts of questions McDowell posed to his guests, working files, and background biographical information.
Videotapes of some of the programs are also included in the collection. McDowell also a narrated the 1983 program on Watergate
called, "Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings," which was a production of WETA in Washington, DC. There are reviews,
viewer mail, and a transcript of the program.
The subject files also include biographical information, copies of his daily news articles and special feature stories for
the Richmond Times-Dispatch, get well cards, Gridiron Club dinner programs, speeches, scripts, clippings, and membership lists,
information on the visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in 1959, photographs, programs, speech notes and drafts,
as well as information relating to his work with Paul Duke (1926-2005), and with the Virginia congressional campaign of Andrew
McCutcheon.
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Folder 1
Academy Road House
.
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Folder 2
Atlantic - Ideas, Correspondence, etc.
.
- Box 10
Folder 3
Atlantic - New Hampshire Primary,
1967 .
- Box 10
Folder 4
Atlantic - Television and the Convention,
1968 .
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Folder 5
Atlantic - Virginia Politics,
1969 .
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Folder 6
Automobile
.
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Folder 7-9
"Baseball" by Ken Burns
.
- Box 10
Folder 10-12
"Baseball" by Ken Burns - Final Script
.
- Box 10
Folder 13-14
"Baseball" by Ken Burns - Screenings
.
- Box 11
Folder 1-2
"Baseball" by Ken Burns - Screenings
.
- Box 11
Folder 3
Biographical Information, Citations, etc.
.
- Box 11
Folder 4
Bolivia Trip,
1992 .
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Folder 5
Book Project - "One Thing After Another"
.
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Folder 6-7
Book Reviews
.
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Folder 8
Bourbon
.
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Folder 9
Mr. Bumbleton
.
- Box 11
Folder 10
"Campaign Fever" - Letters to Morrow
.
- Box 11
Folder 11-12
"Campaign Fever" - Reviews and Publicity
.
- Box 11
Folder 13
Campaign Finance Material for Speeches
.
- Box 11
Folder 14
Campaign Finance Reform
.
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Folder 15
Campaign Reform
.
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Folder 16
Capitol Building
.
- Box 12
Folder 1
Census
.
- Box 12
Folder 2
Center for the Book
.
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Certificates
.
- Box 12
Folder 3
Chestnut Blight
.
- Box 12
Folder 4
Cigarettes - Health
.
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Folder 5
Cities
.
- Box 12
Folder 6
Civil Rights
.
- Box 12
Folder 7
"The Civil War" by Ken Burns
.
- Box 12
Folder 8-9
"The Civil War" by Ken Burns - Reviews, Artifacts, etc.
.
- Box 12
Folder 10
Civil War - Speech Notes
.
- Box 12
Folder 11
Clinton and the Press,
1992 .
- Box 12
Folder 12
Clinton Impeachment
.
- Box 12
Folder 13
Clippings, Drafts, Notes,
2001 .
- Box 12
Folder 14
Columbia School of Journalism 50th Class Reunion,
1999 .
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Folder 1
Congress, 89th
.
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Folder 2
Congress, 90th
.
- Box 13
Folder 3
"The Congress" by Ken Burns,
1989 .
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Folder 4
Consular Treaty
.
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Folder 5
Conventions,
1952, 1992 .
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Folder 6
Conventions,
1960 .
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Folder 7
Conventions,
1968 .
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Folder 8
Conventions,
1984 .
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Folder 9
Conventions,
1996 .
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Folder 10
Correspondence,
1989 .
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Folder 11
Correspondence,
1990 .
- Box 13
Folder 12
Correspondence,
1991 .
- Box 13
Folder 13-16
Correspondence,
1992 .
- Box 13
Folder 17-18
Correspondence,
1993 .
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Folder 1
Correspondence,
1993 .
- Box 14
Folder 2
Correspondence,
1994 .
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Folder 3-5
Correspondence,
1998 .
- Box 14
Folder 6-7
Correspondence,
1998-1999 .
- Box 14
Folder 8-11
Correspondence,
1999 .
- Box 14
Folder 12
Correspondence,
2000 .
- Box 14
Folder 13
Correspondence,
2001-2002 .
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Folder 14
Correspondence,
2003-2004 .
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Folder 1-3
Correspondence - Agents, Magazines, etc.
.
- Box 15
Folder 4
Crab Derby,
1962 .
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Folder 5
D.A.R. Convention
.
- Box 15
Folder 6-7
Daily Stories,
1950-1951 .
- Box 15
Folder 8
Daily Stories,
1952 .
- Box 15
Folder 9
Daily Stories,
1953 .
- Box 15
Folder 10-11
Daily Stories #4,
1954-1957 .
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Folder 12
Danville (KY) Progress Report,
2001 .
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Folder 13
Debt Limit
.
- Box 15
Folder 14
Democratic Convention,
1952 .
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Folder 15
Democratic Convention,
1968 .
- Box 16
Folder 1
Democratic National Convention - Columns,
1956 .
- Box 16
Folder 2
Democratic Primary,
1969 .
- Box 16
Folder 3
Democrats - Virginia
.
- Box 16
Folder 4
Dial - Twilight of a Presidency,
1984 .
- Box 16
Folder 5
Drug Hearings,
1970 .
- Box 16
Folder 6-7
Duke, Paul
.
- Box 16
Folder 8
Eisenhower
.
- Box 16
Folder 9
Elk (Bellwood)
.
- Box 16
Folder 10
Ephraim McDowell Foundation
.
- Box 16
Folder 11
Ethics
.
- Box 16
Folder 12
Facts, Statistics, etc.
.
- Box 16
Folder 13-14
Fairfax County - History, Geography, News, etc.
.
- Box 16
Folder 15
Fat Albert (School Bus)
.
- Box 16
Folder 16
Federal Grants - Virginia
.
- Box 16
Folder 17
Fiction Project
.
- Box 16
Folder 18-20
File "X" (Notes, Family Material, Correspondence, etc.)
.
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Folder 21
File "Y"
.
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Folder 1
Filibuster,
1965 .
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Folder 2
Finnegan the Fire Chief
.
- Box 17
Folder 3
Fishback Lecture - Washington and Lee,
.
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Folder 4
Flamingo Column
.
- Box 17
Folder 5
Flamingo Folklore
.
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Folder 6
Flugelman-606
.
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Folder 7
"For the Record"
.
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Folder 8
"For the Record" - Julian Bond
.
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Folder 9
"For the Record" - Lee Hamilton
.
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Folder 10-11
"For the Record" - Linwood Holton
.
- Box 17
Folder 12
"For the Record" - Jim Jones (Bad Blood)
.
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Folder 13
"For the Record" - Gale Mattox
.
- Box 17
Folder 14
"For the Record" - Bobby Muller
.
- Box 17
Folder 15
"For the Record" - Timothy Naftali
.
- Box 17
Folder 16
"For the Record" - Kevin Phillips (The Cousins' Wars)
.
- Box 17
Folder 17
"For the Record" - John Sununu
.
- Box 17
Folder 18
"For the Record" - Kathryn Thornton
.
- Box 17
Folder 19
"For the Record" - Stansfield Turner
.
- Box 17
Folder 20
"For the Record" - Lech Walesa
.
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Folder 21
"For the Record" - John Warner
.
- Box 17
Folder 22
"For the Record" - Margaret Warner
.
- Box 18
Folder 1
"For the Record" - Lowell Weicker
.
- Box 18
Folder 2
"For the Record" - Philip Zelikow
.
- Box 18
Folder 3
"For the Record" - Running File (Business, Planning, etc.)
.
- Box 18
Folder 4
Fourth Estate Award - Speeches, Letters, Clips,
1996 .
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Folder 5
Henry Fowler
.
- Box 18
Folder 5
Fowler, Henry
.
- Box 18
Folder 6
Frazier, Emery L.
.
- Box 18
Folder 7
Funny Stories for Speeches
.
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Folder 8
General Assembly,
1952 .
- Box 18
Folder 9
General Motors and its Detective (Ralph Nader),
1966 .
- Box 18
Folder 10-13
Get Well Letters,
1999 .
- Box 18
Folder 14
Glaser, Lewis - Quill Pens
.
- Box 18
Folder 15
Glassboro Summit,
June 1967 .
- Box 18
Folder 16
G.O.P. - Chicago,
1952 .
- Box 19
Folder 1
G.O.P. Convention,
1996 .
- Box 19
Folder 2
Gridiron Club Artifacts
.
- Box 19
Folder 3-6
Gridiron Club Dinner,
1999 .
- Box 19
Folder 7
Gridiron Club Dinner,
2000 .
- Box 19
Folder 8
Gridiron Club Dinner,
2001 .
- Box 19
Folder 9-10
Gridiron Club Dinner (and Hawaii Speech),
2002 .
- Box 19
Folder 11
Gridiron Club Dinners,
2003-2004 .
- Box 19
Folder 12-14
Gridiron Club 100th Anniversary,
1985 .
- Box 20
Folder 1
Gridiron Club Photographs
.
- Box 20
Folder 2
Gridiron Speeches (Reagan, Gore, Clinton, etc.)
.
- Box 20
Folder 3
Gun Control Bill,
1968 .
- Box 20
Folder 4
Hardy, Porter, Jr. (Member of Congress)
.
- Box 20
Folder 5
Harvard Lecture,
16 December 1986 .
- Box 20
Folder 6
Hawaii,
1997 (and earlier) .
- Box 20
Folder 7-8
Hawaii,
2000 (Cancelled) .
- Box 20
Folder 9
Hawaii,
2001 .
- Box 20
Folder 10
Hawaii,
2002 .
- Box 20
Folder 11
Highways and Toll Roads
.
- Box 20
Folder 12-13
Holton, Linwood
.
- Box 20
Folder 14
Humor and Politics
.
- Box 20
Folder 15
Hunger
.
- Box 20
Folder 16
Hunting Creek Affair,
1968 .
- Box 20
Folder 17
Huntley Meadows
.
- Box 21
Folder 1
Inaugurations
.
- Box 21
Folder 2
Inaugurations - PBS Documentary,
1992 .
- Box 21
Folder 3
"The James: Revolutionary River"
.
- Box 21
Folder 4
Johnson, Lyndon B.
.
- Box 21
Folder 5
Kennedy, Robert
.
- Box 21
Folder 6-7
Khrushchev Trip to U.S.,
1959 .
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Folder 8-9
Last Wagon West
.
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Folder 10
Lawyers Title News
.
- Box 21
Folder 11
Letters To and From Congress
.
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Folder 12
Lexington
.
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Folder 13
Lexington (McCrum)
.
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Folder 14
"Littlest Bunny" - Haynie and McDowell
.
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Folder 15
Magazine By-Lines
.
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Folder 16
Magazine Stories
.
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Folder 17
Mansfield, Mike
.
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Folder 18
Manuscripts and Drafts
.
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Folder 19
Markers
.
- Box 21
Folder 20
Martinsville Seven
.
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Folder 21
Massive Resistance (Latimer History)
.
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Folder 1-2
McCutcheon Campaign,
1968 .
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Folder 3
McDowell, Catherine
.
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Folder 4
Media General - Phone Directory
.
- Box 22
Folder 5
Media General Washington Bureau (Doster Memos)
.
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Folder 6
Medicare
.
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Folder 7
Memorabilia
.
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Folder 8
Meredith, Henry
.
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Folder 9
Moon (Space Exploration)
.
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Folder 10
Morrow Correspondence - "Campaign Fever"
.
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Folder 11
Morrow Publicity
.
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Folder 12
The Names People Elect,
1975 .
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Folder 13
"New Towns" - WETA,
1986 .
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Folder 14-15
News and Features,
1965-1966 .
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Folder 16-17
News and Features,
1967 .
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Folder 18-19
News and Features,
1968 .
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Folder 1-2
News and Features,
1969 .
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Folder 3-4
News and Features,
1970 .
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Folder 5
News and Features,
January 1971-May 1972 .
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Folder 6
News and Features,
June-December 1972 .
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Folder 7
News and Features,
1973 .
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Folder 8
News and Features,
1974-1975 .
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Folder 9
News and Features,
1976 .
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Folder 10
News and Features Stories - Conventions, etc.
1970's .
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Folder 11
News-Leader Biographies
.
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Folder 12-13
Newsweek
.
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Folder 1
Newsweek Ad for "Washington Week in Review,"
25 March 1991 .
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Folder 2
Nixon, Richard M.
.
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Folder 3
"No Higher Honor: Linwood Holton"
.
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Folder 4
Northern Virginia Politics
.
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Folder 5
Notes for President
.
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Folder 6
"Nuclear War: A Guide to Armageddon,"
1982 .
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Folder 7
Numbers - Richmond and Hopewell (Gambling)
.
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Folder 8
Nuts (Publications, Mail, Organizations, etc.)
.
- Box 24
Folder 9
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) - Sargent Shriver
.
- Box 24
Folder 10
Old Speech Notes,
1961-1966 .
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Folder 11
Oliver Hill
.
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Folder 12-13
Outside Pieces - Free Lance
.
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Folder 14
"Packaging American Wars" - Roanoke TV,
1982 .
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Folder 15
Pennies and Dollar Coin
.
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Folder 1-4
Personal Artifacts,
1981-1985 .
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Folder 5
Personal Relics, etc.
.
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Folder 6
Photographs
.
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Folder 7
Plants
.
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Folder 8
Politicians (Speech Topic)
.
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Folder 9
Politics,
1960 .
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Folder 10
Politics,
1992 .
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Folder 11
Politics Poop
.
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Folder 12
Pollard, Fred G.
.
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Folder 13
Pollution - Ecology
.
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Folder 14
Post Reprints
.
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Folder 15
Poverty - Food Programs
.
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Folder 16
Powell, Lewis F.
.
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Folder 17
"Power Battle" Series,
1949 .
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Folder 18-19
Power Companies - Utilities
.
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Folder 20-21
Presidential Campaign,
1968 .
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Folder 1-2
Presidential Campaign,
1968 .
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Folder 3
Presidential Campaign,
2000 .
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Folder 4
Presidential Campaign - Clippings,
2000 .
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Folder 5
Presidential Humor
.
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Folder 6
Press Conferences
.
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Folder 7-8
Press - Dinners
1968 .
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Folder 9
Press Passes
.
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Folder 10
Project - People's "Papers"
.
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Folder 11
P.T.A.
.
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Folder 12
Public Broadcasting
.
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Folder 13
Public Housing Series,
1949 .
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Folder 14
Puns in Newspapers
.
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Folder 15
Puzzles
.
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Folder 16
Quotes and Anecdotes
.
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Folder 17
Racoons
.
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Folder 18
Rawlings, George C., Jr.
.
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Folder 19
Reagan, Ronald
.
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Folder 20
Reapportionment
.
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Folder 21
Redistricting
.
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Folder 22
Republican Convention,
1980 .
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Folder 1
Republican Convention,
1988 .
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Folder 2
Republican Right
.
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Folder 3
Republicans - Virginia
.
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Folder 4
Retirement
.
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Folder 5
Retirement - Clippings
.
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Folder 6
Retirement,
July 1998 .
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Folder 7
Richmond
.
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Folder 8
"Richmond Memories"
.
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Folder 9
Richmond Newspaper Guild
.
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Folder 10
Roads
.
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Folder 11
Robb, Chuck - Clippings
.
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Folder 12
Robertson, A. Willis
.
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Folder 13
Rockefeller, Nelson
.
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Folder 14
Rockwell, George Lincoln - Nazi
.
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Folder 15
Rogallo Kite
.
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Folder 16
Romney, George
.
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Folder 17
Rural Virginia
.
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Folder 18
Sabato Analysis - 1994 U.S. Senate Election
.
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Folder 19
Safe Deposit Box
.
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Folder 20
Satterfield, David E. III
.
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Folder 21
Section IV Light
.
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Folder 22
Section IV News Background
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Folder 23
Selected Clips
.
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Folder 24
Sigma Delta Chi
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Folder 25
Smith, Howard W.
.
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Folder 26
Smoking
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Folder 1
Social Security
.
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Folder 2
Sold and Dead Pile
.
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Folder 3
Speech - "A Good Word for Politicians" - UVA,
1985 .
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Folder 4
Speech - Arizona Senior Academy,
2000 .
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Folder 5
Speech in the Dark,
1983 .
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Folder 6
Speech Material
.
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Folder 7
Speech Notes and Drafts,
1997-1998 .
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Folder 8
Speech Notes and Drafts,
2000-2001 .
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Folder 9
Speech Prep - Recent Texts,
1997-1999 .
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Folder 10
Speech Prep - Statistics, Quotes, Jokes, etc.
.
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Folder 11
Speech Schedule and Texts,
1998-2001 .
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Folder 12
Speeches,
1995 .
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Folder 13
Speeches,
1996-1997 .
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Folder 14
Speeches,
1998 .
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Folder 1-3
Speeches,
1999-2000 .
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Folder 4
Speeches,
2000-2001 .
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Folder 5
Speeches,
2001 .
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Folder 6-9
Spong, William B.
.
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Folder 10
State of the World Global Conference,
1993 .
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Folder 11
Stationary
.
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Folder 12-13
"Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings"
.
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Folder 14
"Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings" - Reviews, Mail
.
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Folder 1-2
"Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings" - Transcript
.
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Folder 3
Sunday Magazine
.
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Folder 4
Supreme Court
.
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Folder 5-7
Sympathy Letters - Death of Catherine F. McDowell,
1986 .
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Folder 8
Tax Cut Issue - Clippings,
1999 .
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Folder 9
Tax Sharing
.
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Folder 10-12
Television and Politics
.
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Folder 13
Thanksgiving
.
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Folder 14
Three Characters from Lexington
.
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Folder 15
Times-Dispatch and Television
.
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Folder 1
Tornado of 1951
.
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Folder 2
Train Wreck - R.F. & P.,
1970 .
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Folder 3
Tuck, Gov. Bill
.
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Folder 4
Un-American Activities Committee
.
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Folder 5
Uncle Billy
.
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Folder 6
VEPCO
.
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Folder 7
Veterans Administration
.
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Folder 8
Vice-President,
1968 .
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Folder 9
Vietnam
.
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Folder 10
Virginia Museum
.
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Folder 11
Virginia Politics
.
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Folder 12
Voting Rights
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Folder 13
Wallace, George C.
.
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Folder 14
Warren Commission
.
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Folder 15
Washington, D.C. - Tourism, Monuments, etc.
.
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Folder 16
"Washington Week in Review" - Anniversaries
.
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Folder 17
"Washington Week in Review" at 1992 Political Conventions
.
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Folder 1-5
"Washington Week in Review" - Mail,
1982 .
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Folder 6-12
"Washington Week in Review" - Mail,
1987 .
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Folder 1-7
"Washington Week in Review" - Mail,
1989 .
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Folder 8-11
"Washington Week in Review" - Mail,
1990 .
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Folder 12-13
"Washington Week in Review" - Mail,
1992 .
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Folder 1-4
"Washington Week in Review" - Mail,
1992 .
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Folder 5
"Washington Week in Review" - Mail,
1995-1996 .
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Folder 6
Washingtonian - William C. Battle,
1969 .
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Folder 7
Washingtonian - Howell vs. Godwin,
1973 .
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Folder 8
Washingtonian - The Political History of Virginia,
1977 .
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Folder 9
Washingtonian - TV, Politics,
1986 .
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Folder 10
Washingtonian - Article of Charles McDowell,
2000 .
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Folder 11
Watergate Revisited - WETA,
1994 .
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Folder 12
Watergate (Sam Ervin)
.
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Folder 13
WETA Channel 26
.
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Folder 14
White House "Insiders"
.
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Folder 15
Whitehurst, G. William
.
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Folder 16
Wilson Wyatt Narration - Louisville PBS,
1994 .
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Folder 17
Wiretapping - Fairfax Chief Durrer
.
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Folder 18
Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Advisory Council
.
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Folder 19
World Bank
.
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Folder 20-21
Writing - Tips, Pointers, etc.
.
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Folder 22
Young, Stephen M.
.
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Folder 23
Zoo
.