Register of the Robert L. Bartley papers

Box: 1-2.

Personal File, 1974-2002.

Scope and Content Note

So designated by Robert L. Bartley. Includes biographical data and photographs

Box: 1.

General, including biographical data

Christmas cards

Correspondence concerning disposition of RLB papers

Financial records

Box: 2.

Mementos

Photographs

Printed articles about RLB

Box: 3-5.

Appointment Books,1976-2003

Box: 3.

1976

1979-1988

Box: 4.

1989-1996

Box: 5.

1997-1999

2001-2003

Box: 5.

Notebook, undated

Box: 5-12.

Speeches and Writings, 1971-2003.

Scope and Content Note

Notes, drafts, typescripts, printed copies, correspondence, and research material. Some folders include extraneous material

Box: 5.

"The Limits of the Press Corps in a Political/Technical Debate" (with Jude Wanniski), Conference on Expert Advice and Democratic Choice, Racine, Wisconsin, 1974 April 4-6

Speech, Council on Foreign Relations meeting on South Africa, New York City, 1986 December 4

Speech, Forum Club, Houston, Texas, 1986 December 11

"Business Ethics and the Ethics Business," commencement address, Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts, 1987 May 16

The Great Crash of '29 and the Great Correction of '87 Compared panel discussion, Allied Social Science Association annual meeting, New York City, 1988 December 28

Box: 6.

"Progress and Pessimism: Why Is Gloom Chic amid Peace and Prosperity?" speech, Town Hall luncheon, Los Angeles, California, 1989 August 16

"Time to Shake our Hypochondria," Wall Street Journal, 1990 January 2

The Wealth of Nations: 1990 Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1990 June 26-30

"The Great International Growth Slowdown," Wall Street Journal, 1990 July 10

Speech, Hudson Valley Forum, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1990 October 4

Speech, Pumpkin Papers Irregulars dinner, Washington, D.C., 1990 October 31

Bilderberg meetings, Baden-Baden, Germany, 1991 June 3-6

The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again, 1992

Working materials, including drafts, outlines, correspondence and research material

Box: 7.

Working materials (contd.)

Box: 8.

Working materials (contd.)

Publicity materials

Box: 9.

Reviews

Box: 10.

Paperback edition.

Scope and Content Note

Drafts of introduction, epilogue and index, and other working materials

Box: 11.

Senate Republican Conference weekend, Wilmington, Delaware, 1993 April 24-25

"Reviving the U.S. Economy: A Blueprint," speech, Venture Investing 1993 Conference, San Francisco, California, 1993 June 22

"The Case for Optimism: The West Should Believe in Itself," Foreign Affairs, 1993 September-October

Speech on 1994 election results, unknown occasion, 1994

"A Time for Moralism," commencement address, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota, 1995 May 20

"The Press and Elections, Issues and Scandals," Minow lecture, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1996 November 11

"Capitalism's Uncertain Trumpet," speech, Mont Pèlerin Society meeting, Washington, D.C., 1998 September 1

"The Future of Economic Freedom," lecture, Heritage Foundation regional meeting, Dearborn, Michigan, 2000 October 16

Box: 12.

"Thirty Years of Progress, Mostly," speech, Forum Club, Houston, Texas, 2002 September 25

Speech, occasion and exact date unknown, San Jose, California, 2002

"Backward on Understanding Profit," Charles Wolf lecture, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 2003 April 15

Speech on Iraq War, Rotary Club, place and exact date unknown, 2003

"The Beginning of the Journey" (re Clarence Barron), undated

Assorted articles in Wall Street Journal, various dates (1971-2002)

Assorted speeches, various dates (1981-1996)

Box: 13-17.

Wall Street Journal File, 1928-2003

Scope and Content Note

Internal correspondence and memoranda, and printed articles from and about the Wall Street Journal

Box: 13-14.

Internal memoranda and correspondence

Box: 15.

Printed editorials and articles from the Wall Street Journal, mostly unsigned, including some by RLB

1928-1989

Box: 16.

1990-1994

Box: 17.

1995-2003

Indexes to Wall Street Journal articles

Printed articles about the Wall Street Journal from other publications

Box: 18-24.

Correspondence, Chronological, 1970-2003

Box: 18.

1970s, miscellaneous

1978.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters of congratulation upon promotion to editor of the Wall Street Journal

Box: 19.

1978 (contd.)

1979

1980.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters of congratulation on Pulitzer Prize

Box: 20.

1980 (contd.)

1982

Box: 21.

1983

1985

1987-1988

Box: 22.

1989

1992

Box: 23.

1993-1995

Box: 24.

1997-1998

2000s, miscellaneous

Box: 25-61.

Correspondence, Alphabetical, circa 1970-2003

Box: 25.

A-B

Box: 26.

B (contd.)

Box: 27.

B (contd.)

C

Box: 28.

C (contd.)

Box: 29.

C (contd.)

D

Box: 30.

D (contd.)

Box: 31.

D (contd.)

E

Box: 32.

E (contd.)

F

Box: 33.

F (contd.)

Box: 34.

G

Box: 35.

G (contd.)

H

Box: 36.

H (contd.)

I

Box: 37.

J-K

Box: 38.

K (contd.)

Box: 39.

L

Box: 40-43.

M

Box: 44.

N-O

Box: 45.

O (contd.)

P

Box: 46.

P (contd.)

Box: 47.

P (contd.)

Q

Box: 48-50.

R

Box: 51-55.

S

Box: 56.

T

Box: 57.

T (contd.)

U-V

Box: 58-60.

W

Box: 61.

Y-Z

Box: 62-143.

Subject File, 1950-2003.

Scope and Content Note

Printed articles and other writings by RLB arranged topically; correspondence; printed matter and other research material by others. In a few cases entry is under name of author or correspondent rather than topic. Some folders include extraneous material

Box: 62.

Accounting

Affirmative action

Ahlstrom, T. Robinson

American Bar Association

American Heritage Magazine

American Spectator

Amiel, Barbara

Andersen (Arthur) Company

Box: 63.

Annie Get Your Gun (Musical)

Arabs

Armenians

Arms control.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on missiles, lasers, nuclear strategy, and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Box: 64.

Arms control (contd.)

Box: 65.

Arms control (contd.)

Ashcroft, Michael

Asia

Asiaweek

Balance of payments

Balkans and Caucasus

Box: 66.

Banca Nazionale del Lavoro

Bancroft family

Banfield, Edward C.

Bank of Credit and Commerce International.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Robert Altman, Clark Clifford and Ghaith Pharaon

Box: 67-68.

Bank of Credit and Commerce International (contd.)

Box: 69.

Bank of Credit and Commerce International (contd.)

Banking and bank regulation.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material by Robert Clarke

Barone, Michael

Barr Laboratories

Barron's Magazine

Bartley Institute (Proposed)

Bickel, Alexander M.

Box: 70.

Biological and chemical warfare

General.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak

Box: 71-74.

Yellow Rain controversy (Southeast Asia)

Box: 75.

Anthrax attack, 2001.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material re Steven Hatfill

Black Mischief controversy

Blumenthal, Sidney

Box: 76.

Bork, Robert H.

Bosnia.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material by Albert Wohlstetter

Brady, Nicholas F.

Breast implants

Bretton Woods Agreement

Brock, Horace W.

Brown, Ron

Bruce-Briggs, B.

Bubbles (Finance)

Box: 77.

Buckley, William F., Jr., and National Review.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on antisemitism

Budget.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on poverty programs

Burchett, Wilfred

Bush, George W.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on religion, drunk driving, 2000 election campaign, and Bush Doctrine

Box: 78.

Business cycles

Businessmen in the dock

Busing

CNBC (Television station)

Cambodia.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Ben Kiernan

Campaign finance

Capcom Financial Services

Box: 79.

Capital formation

Capital gains

Capitalism

Casey, Paula J.

Center for Individual Rights

Central America

Chamberlain, John

Character assassination

Box: 80.

Charts and statistics (Economics)

Child abuse allegations.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Wenatchee case

China.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on intellectual property rights theft

Churchill School

Box: 81.

Civil rights

Clark, Steve

Clash of civilizations thesis

Clinger, William

Clinton, Bill, and Clinton administration.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on 1992 and 1996 election campaigns, and Clinton administration personnel and economic policy

Clinton, Hillary

Box: 82.

Clinton administration scandals

General.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on drugs, foreign influence, pardons, violence, White House staff, and impeachment

Box: 83-84.

Foster, Vincent-Suicide

Box: 85.

Sex scandals.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Dick Morris, and Sally Perdue

Whitewater and other financial scandals.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on the Whitewater Development Company, Beverly Enterprises, blind trusts, commodities trading, Dan Lasater, James McDougal, Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association, Dennis Patrick, Rose Law Firm, tax returns, Tyson Foods, and David Watkins

Box: 86-89.

Whitewater and other financial scandals (contd.)

Box: 90.

Cloning

Communications Workers of America vs. Beck

Conservatives

Conspiracies

Coolidge, Calvin

Corporate control and governance

Box: 91.

Corporate scandals

Corporate taxes

Counterculture

Creative destruction

Credit demands

Crime

Crovitz, L. Gordon

Cultural crisis

Curran, Paul J.

Box: 92.

Currency exchange rates

Daiwa Bank

Dalton, John H.

D'Amato, Alfonse

Dartmouth College

Daugherty, Harry M.

Deadline Club

Deficits and debt

Deflation

Box: 93.

Democratic Party

Depressions

Derian, Patricia M.

Diana, Princess

Dinkins, David N.

Disgorgement (Finance)

Disinformation.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Libya

Ditchley Foundation

Dole, Bob, and Hollywood

Dow Jones Averages

Drew Investment Research and Management

Drexel Burnham Lambert Group

Box: 94.

Drug pricing

Economy-General.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on energy

Box: 95.

Economy-General (contd.)

Box: 96.

Economy-General (contd.)

Elections.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on 1968, 1992 and 1996 elections

Box: 97.

Elections (contd.)

Elitism

Energy.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Carter administration policy

Enron Corporation

Box: 98.

Entrepreneurs

Environment

Epstein, Jason

Espionage

Establishment

Euro

Europe

Evans, Joseph E.

Exercise

Faludi, Susan

Falvey, Jack

Family values

Box: 99.

Far Eastern Economic Review

Federal Reserve System

Feldstein, Martin

Ferraro, Geraldine

Box: 100.

Filibuster

Financial Times

Flag burning

Flaps (Controversies)

Forbearance (Finance)

Foreign policy

Frank, Barney

Franklin Savings Association

Freeh, Louis

Gergen, David

Germany

Gingrich, Newt

Giuliani, Rudolph

Box: 101.

Gold

Goodwin, Frank

Gore, Albert, and Viktor Chernomyrdin

Box: 102.

Gould, Jay

Gross, Daniel

Growth and democracy

Guatemala

Haiti

Harriman family

Haynsworth, Clement

Box: 103.

Health care

Helprin, Mark

Heymann, Philip B.

Hill, Anita, and Clarence Thomas

Holocaust and Holocaust Museum

Box: 104.

Homosexuality

Hong Kong

Hubbell, Webster

Hunt, Al

Hustler Magazine

Hutchison, Kay Bailey, and Ronnie Earle

Ickes, Harold

Immigration

Income distribution

Box: 105.

Income distribution (contd.)

Independent counsels

Index of Economic Freedom

Insider trading

Inslaw, Inc.

Box: 106.

Internal Revenue Service

International Criminal Court

International Herald-Tribune

Intriago, Charles A.

Investment

Iowa State University

Iran-contra affair

Iraq and Iraq War

Box: 107.

Iraq and Iraq War (contd.)

Box: 108.

Iraq and Iraq War (contd.)

Israel.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on right of return

Japan.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Shintaro Ishihara

Box: 109.

Jeffrey, Christina

Jereski, Laura

Journalism.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on journalists' politics

Junk bonds

Justice Department

Kaiser Permanente-Mental health coverage

Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler (Law firm)

Kennedy, Edward M.-Chappaquiddick incident

Box: 110.

Kennedy, John F.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Judith Exner and Vietnam policy

Kilgore, Bernard

Kinsley, Michael

Kissinger, Henry

Korea, North

Kosovo

Kuttner, Robert

Lake, Anthony

Lawson, Nigel

League of Nations

Lee, Wen Ho

Left rhetoric

Leveraged takeovers

Levy, Paul

Box: 111.

Lipsky, Seth

Long-term capital

Loral Space Systems

McCarthyism

McDonough, William J.

McGovern, George

Maddison, Angus

Malaysia

Maltby, Barbara

Media

Medicare.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan

Box: 112.

Medicine and medical issues

Mexico

Box: 113.

Mexico (contd.)

Box: 114.

Mexico (contd.)

Mikva, Abner

Milken, Michael

Box: 115.

Millennium (2000)

Money and monetary policy

Moynihan, Daniel P.

Mundell, Robert A.

Box: 116.

Mundell, Robert A. (contd.)

Murray, Charles

National Conference of Editorial Writers

National Rifle Association.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on George W. Bush

National security.

Scope and Content Note

Directive by Harry S. Truman

New era (Post 9-11)

Box: 117.

New York (State)

New York City

New York Times

New York University.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on its science program

Nineteen sixties

Box: 118.

Nixon, Richard M.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on civil rights policy, San Clemente residence, and presidential finances

Box: 119.

Nobel Prizes

Non-lethal weapons

Oil.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on the 1973 embargo and the Hubbert curve

Oklahoma City bombing

Olayan, Suliman S.

Olympic games

Box: 120.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on tax havens

Ossuary (Purported biblical archeological artifact)

Outward Bound program

Palestine Liberation Organization

Paramount Communications

Pataki, George

Pearl Harbor attack

Pearson, Hugh

People for the American Way

Pepper and Salt (Cartoon)

Box: 121.

Perjury

Perot, Ross.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on economic program

Points of Light Initiative

Politics-General

Pollard, Jonathan

Postal Service

Powell, Colin

Poynter, Nelson

Pre-Reagan era

Presidents, great and small

Box: 122.

Press.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on objectivity

Prisons

Pritchett, Kevin

Box: 123.

Productivity

The Progressive

Prudential Insurance Company-Robert Fiske lawsuit

Puerto Rico

Pulitzer Prizes

Purchasing power parity.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material by Ronald I. McKinnon

Box: 124.

Quayle, Dan

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

Reagan, Ronald

Recall elections

Regulation Q (Federal Reserve System)

Religion

Reno, Janet

Rent control

Box: 125.

Republican Contract with America

Rescorla, Rick, and 9/11

Rich, Marc

Ridge, Tom

Right to petition

Roach, Stephen S.

Roberts, Paul Craig

Robertson, Pat

Rostenkowski, Daniel

Rule of law

Rumsfeld, Donald

Russia and Soviet Union.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Marxism, Russian empire, and Russian Mafia

Box: 126.

Russia and Soviet Union (contd.)

Rwanda

Ryan, Jack

Santorum, Rick

Saudi Arabia

Savings and loan association crisis

Scandals, Miscellaneous

Scientology.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Keith Henson

Box: 127.

Scientology (contd.)

Secular humanism

Securities fraud prosecutions.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Robert M. Morgenthau

Shaw, David

Shesol, Jeff

Simpson, O. J.

Singapore.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Lee Kuan Yew

Box: 128.

Singapore (contd.)

Box: 129.

Singapore (contd.)

Smith, Adam

Social Security.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Daniel P. Moynihan

Somalia

Southeast Banking Corporation

Space shuttle

State Department

State of the union

Box: 130.

Stephens Inc.

Stimulus packages

Stock option accounting

Stockman, David

Strauss, Leo

Student unrest

Box: 131.

Supply-side economics

Switzerland

Syria

Systematics, Inc.

Taste

Box: 132.

Taxes.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on credits, deficits, enforcement, international aspects, and spending

Teamsters-Philadelphia

Box: 133.

Term limits

Terrorism

Thanksgiving

Thomas, Michael M.

Timerman, Jacobo

Tobacco fee

Tribunals

Turkey

Box: 134.

Turkey (contd.)

Tuttle, Alexandra

Unabomber

Uncaused causes

United Nations.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Vanity Fair

Box: 135.

Vassar College

Veto

Vietnam.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Hmong refugees and Barry Wain

Vietnamese War.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on air war, amnesty, Cambodian aspects, Henry Kissinger, Ngo Dinh Diem, Richard M. Nixon, Paris peace agreement, prisoners of war, and Thich Tri Quang

Box: 136-138.

Vietnamese War (contd.)

Box: 139.

Vietnamese War (contd.)

Wage-price controls

Wagner, Bernard M.

Wanniski, Jude

War and war powers.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on the American Civil War, World War II, and Iraq War

Box: 140.

War and war powers (contd.)

Ward Industries

Washington Post

Watergate affair.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on impeachment

Box: 141.

Watergate affair (contd.)

Box: 142.

Weather

Whip Inflation Now policy (Nixon and Ford administrations)

Wilson, James Q.

Wohlstetter, Albert.

Scope and Content Note

Includes material on Persian Gulf War

Wolfowitz, Paul

World War II

Worthen Banking Corporation

Box: 143.

Yale University

Miscellany.

Scope and Content Note

Includes folders with material on diverse topics

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