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  • Title: Robert Charles Mardian papers
    Date (inclusive): 1957-1995
    Collection Number: 79102
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 83 manuscript boxes, 7 videocassettes (34.9 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, memoranda, reports, proposals, minutes, testimony, legal documents, printed matter, and audiovisual material relating to education policy during the presidential administration of Richard M. Nixon, school desegregation, surveillance of radical movements, administration of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Watergate affair and subsequent trials. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. 
    Creator: Mardian, Robert Charles, 1923-2006
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    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.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1979.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Robert Charles Mardian papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Alternate Forms Available

    Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. 

    Biographical Note

    1923 October 23 Born, Pasadena, California
    1949-1969 Attorney, Pasadena, California
    1968-1969 Member, U.S. Presidential Transition Team
    1969-1970 General Counsel, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
    1970-1971 Executive Director, Cabinet Committee on Education
    1970-1972 Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Internal Security Division
    1972-1973 Political Coordinator, Committee to Re-elect the President
    1975 Found guilty on one count of conspiracy in the Watergate trial
    1976 Appeals court drops charges against Mardian for Watergate
    2006 July 17 Died, San Clemente, California

    Related Materials

    John Ehrlichman papers, Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Jeb Stuart Magruder papers, Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Frederic V. Malek papers, Hoover Institution Library and Archives

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Video tapes
    United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974
    Subversive activities -- United States
    Education -- United States
    United States -- Race relations
    Radicalism -- United States
    Justice, Administration of -- United States
    Watergate Affair, 1972-1974
    School integration -- United States
    United States. Department of Justice
    United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
    Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
    United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation