Scope and Content Note A substantial portion of the Archives, including 36 folders, 65 audiotapes, and 29 videotapes, pertains to the career of Bill Clinton. These materials date primarily from 1974 to 1986, and include items from his campaigns to be elected representative to Congress, state attorney general, and governor of Arkansas. These items include campaign flyers, posters, bumper stickers, and pins, as well as the texts of speeches and letters. Of interest are several exploratory polls that aided Clinton in...

Scope and Content Note The collection includes materials related to Bales and his family; his career as a teacher, writer, and polemicist; and research files. Series I-IV pertain to his personal life, writings, correspondence, and career at Harding College. Also included are materials related to Harding College president George S. Benson and the National Education Program. Series V-XIII consist of topical research files created by Bales, the contents of which were used to write books, articles, and class lectures....

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Audiovisual materials, scripts, and transcripts of a television feature story called “Fulbright: 30 Years”, a 1975 retrospective on the political career of J. William Fulbright produced by James Craig Barnes.

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The Barton papers detail his Democratic senate primary race in 1944, which he lost to J.W. Fulbright. This collection contains correspondence, materials, newspaper clippings, and lists.

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Audio cassette tape and transcript of an interview by Bob Coxe of J. William Fulbright. The interview was conducted as part of Coxe's preparation for a documentary on Senator Joseph McCarthy. Topics discussed include McCarthy and his anti-communist efforts; Fulbright's political involvement, particularly on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Fulbright's involvement with the formation of the Fulbright Program; and the nuclear arms race.

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Company ledgers, minutes, correspondence, property records, financial records, and other documents related to various Fulbright family businesses, particularly that of the J.H. Phipps Lumber Company of Fayetteville, AR.

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Transcripts of interviews conducted by Bernard M. Gwertzman and Haynes Johnson with J. William Fulbright in his Washington, D.C. congressional office in 1966 as research for their 1968 book, Fulbright, the Dissenter. Topics include Fulbright's family; President Lyndon B. Johnson; Fulbright's time at Oxford and at the University of Arkansas; Fulbright's service in Congress, and his thoughts on several of his colleagues; and the Vietnam War.

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A collection of items related to Senator J. William Fulbright including awards, photograph, and other memorabilia.

Scope and Content Note The collection consists of correspondence with Arkansas constituents on matters concerning state and national affairs; business and personal correspondence relating to variety of topics such as reactions to speeches by Fulbright, press releases or television programs relating to Fulbright, political observations, and exchange program among others; general correspondence consisting of out-of-state letters addressing national and international issues; correspondence concerning legislation...

Scope and Content Note The second increment of the J. William Fulbright papers (primarily 1960-1975) comprises approximately nine hundred linear feet of materials and documents the tenure of the Arkansas Democrat in the U.S. House and Senate. The collection consists of constituent, official, and personal correspondence, memoranda, legislative bills, speeches, photographs, and other records related to the political, governmental, and diplomatic interests and activities of the senator. An important component of the...

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Papers associated with Fulbright's activities and interests from 1975-1994.

Scope and Content Note Constituent, official, and personal correspondence, memoranda, legislative bills and other records pertaining primarily to the governmental, political, and diplomatic activities and interests, and incidentally to other aspects of the life, of the U.S, Senator from Arkansas, 1945-1975, who was Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1959 to 1975. Persons, programs, activities, organizations, and issues to which most of the material relates include: Joseph Raymond McCarthy; the...

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A prospectus, VHS tape, and DVD access copy of the documentary film, "Fulbright: The Defining Hour."

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Audio cassette tape containing a speech given by John Kenneth Galbraith at the University of Arkansas' Fulbright College Dedication in July 1982.

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The collection consists of an audiocassette tape containing 1980 interview of J. William Fulbright by George Herbert Gunn, primarily focused on Fulbright's opposition to the Vietnam War; also included is related correspondence.

Scope and Content Note Xerox copies of correspondence, and related documents attached or enclosed, exchanged with Charles Hillman Brough, 1923 and 1930, with James William Fulbright, 1946-1963, and with Harmon Liveright Remmel, 1921, 1924-27. Correspondence pertains to the life and career of Harmon L. Remmel, 1876-1927; Herbert C. Hoover's work on the Ar­kansas state geological survey, 1892; the establishment of a Warren G. Harding Memorial Hospital Fund, 1923; the opening of Arkansas Light and Power...

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Letter from J. William Fulbright to Ray Adams regarding Fulbright's visit with the Rotary Club of Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Correspondence, memoranda, clippings, campaign materials, congressional records, notebooks and other records created or received by Norvill Jones, particularly as part of his work with J. W. Fulbright and the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

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Seven U-matic video tapes featuring interviews of and programming regarding Senator J. William Fulbright that were aired on or used in programming aired on Little Rock's KTHV television station.

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Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other published and unpublished writings, mostly regarding the formation and operation of the United States Educational Commission in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Content Description Papers of Anne E. McClaran, including correspondence with Arkansas politicians like Dale Bumpers, Ray Thornton, David Pryor, and J. William Fulbright, as well as materials pertaining to her work with prison reform and with the Arkansas Democratic Party. Also included is a biographical sketch of McClaran written by her son, Edward McClaran, and materials related to her career as a teacher.Her correspondence with political figures is primarily in the form of constituent...

Content Description Typed transcript of "On the Record Interview with Senator J. William Fulbright" interview conducted by journalists J. F. Ter Horst (Detroit News), Richard Dudman (St. Louis Post Dispatch), Bernard Gwertzman (Washington Star), and William May (Newark News). The interview primarily relates to Fulbright's work on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; topics and persons discussed include the Vietnam War; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; and the U.S.-Soviet Consular...

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Typescripts of Lee Riley Powell's J. William Fulbright and America's Lost Crusade: Fulbright's Opposition to the Vietnam War and "The China Hearings: The Foreign Relations Committee as a Forum for Dissent."

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The collection consists of materials related to Arkansas politician and statesman J. William Fulbright that were acquired by Bill Reifenberger as part of research for a 2006 documentary about Fulbright, Fulbright: The Man, The Mission, & The Message, for which Reifenberger served as a co-screenwriter and co-producer. Materials are primarily photographs; also included are newspaper clippings and political cartoons.

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Xerox copy, on 135 leaves, of typewritten transcript of interviews conducted in Washington, D.C. in 1956 and 1957 by Columbia University's Oral History Research Office. Content pertains to Fulbright's childhood and education, to his studies at Oxford University, to his years at the University of Arkansas, to the Fulbright Act, and to his congressional career.