Dates:

1958-1985

Scope and content:

This series consists of documents created and accumulated by Martin Anderson as a result of working as an advisor on Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, presidential transition, and administration. He was Director of Policy Research in the presidential campaign, and a major participant in the presidential transition; during the administration, he was Special Assistant to the President (1969-1970), Special Consultant to the President for Systems Analysis (1970-1971), and advisor to Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Documents span the years 1958 to 1985, with the bulk created between 1967 and 1971, when Anderson was actively advising Nixon. Forms of material present in the series include internal correspondence (e.g., notes taken at meetings, telephone messages, memorandums, and telex transcripts), documents with Richard Nixon's markings (e.g., printed matter with underlining, checkmarks, and stars), Anderson's notes, speech drafts, statement drafts, briefing books, reports, directories and membership lists, campaign schedules, to-do lists, press clippings and other printed matter, fact sheets, external correspondence, press releases, interview transcripts, political ephemera (e.g., pamphlets, flyers, etc.), and fund raising figures.

The documents cover dozens of issues, including agriculture, the All-Volunteer Armed Forces (a.k.a., AVAF), computer technology and telecommunications, education, John Birch Society, Model Cities program, natural resources, steel and textile imports, supersonic transport, the cities and urban affairs, tobacco, welfare, and wilderness. Topics well documented in this series include the All-Volunteer Armed Force (AVAF) and welfare.

Major correspondents include other members of the White House executive office, campaign staffers, senators, members of academia, members of the press, members of the private sector, and lobbyists, including Richard V. Allen, Annelise Anderson, Alicia Boyd, Pat Buchanan, Arthur Burns (Martin Anderson's supervisor), Dwight Chapin (a.k.a., "DC"), Murray Chotiner, Ken Cole, Tom Cole, John Ehrlichman, Lawrence Fertig, Alan Greenspan, Bob Haldeman, Ed Harper, James Keogh, Robert P. Mayo, Daniel P. Moynihan, Edward Nixon, Bill Timmons, Anne Volz, Agnes Waldron, and Don Webster.

Of note, the series includes original annotations handwritten by Richard Nixon. It also includes a signed letter to Anderson from Nixon crediting him with ending the draft on 27 January 1973; the only available copy of a handwritten document by Nixon outlining the plan to end the Vietnam War; documents and research pertaining to the end of the draft (along with Walter Oi and Milton Friedman, Anderson is credited with helping to end military conscription in the United States); and first editions, draft copies and background research for "Nixon on the Issues," a limited edition publication that was distributed mainly to the press.

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