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Title: Robert L. Bartley papers
Date (inclusive): 1928-2003
Collection Number: 2005C56
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
143 manuscript boxes
(48.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, and printed matter relating to political and economic conditions in the United States, international
relations, international economic conditions, and the publication of the
Wall Street Journal.
Creator:
Bartley, Robert L.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2005.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Robert L. Bartley papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
1937, October 12 |
Born, Marshall, Minnesota |
1959 |
B.S., Iowa State University |
1962 |
M.S., University of Wisconsin |
1972-1978 |
Editorial page editor,
Wall Street Journal
|
1979-2002 |
Editor,
Wall Street Journal
|
1980 |
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing |
1992 |
Author,
The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again
|
2003, December 10 |
Died, New York City |
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers of Robert L. Bartley document his thirty years successively as editorial page editor, and as overall editor, of
the
Wall Street Journal from 1972 to 2002. They include correspondence and other material detailing operations of the newspaper, and reportage and
editorial commentary on financial, economic, political and military events, nationally and internationally. There is a large
volume of material on financial and political scandals, especially relating to the Bank of Credit and Commerce International,
the Watergate affair during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, and the Whitewater and other affairs of the presidential administration
of Bill Clinton. Other large bodies of material deal with supply-side economic policies, the Vietnamese War, the Iraq War,
and biological and chemical warfare. The papers were acquired by the Hoover Institution from Edith Bartley in 2005.
This description reflects the present retention of the papers in folder arrangements made by Bartley. The folders have been
grouped into series to accord as well as possible with the nature of the folder titles. Two caveats with respect to these
series arrangements should be noted. The first is that the
Speeches and Writings series does not contain all writings by Bartley, but merely those in folders with titles referring to a specific speech,
conference participation, or article, or an aspect of the preparation of Bartley's book
The Seven Fat Years. The
Wall Street Journal File contains folders of aggregations of printed copies of articles and editorials from particular years of that publication,
mostly unsigned, but many certainly written by Bartley. The
Subject File consists of folders of diverse materials with titles indicating a specific topic. Frequently they include both articles or
other writings by Bartley on that topic and materials by others on the same topic. The second caveat regarding retention of
Bartley's own folder arrangement is that there is a certain incidence of filing, or misfiling, of extraneous material, related
dubiously or not at all to the ostensible theme suggested by the folder title.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Journalists
Economics
United States -- Politics and government
United States -- Foreign relations
Journalism -- United States
World politics
United States -- Economic conditions
Wall Street journal.