The collection includes documents related to daily activities, speech drafts, office files, and scrapbooks of photographs taken from 1994-1997.

William James Perry was the secretary of defense of the United States from 1994 to 1997 under President Bill Clinton. He was also the deputy secretary of defense from 1993 to 1994 and the under secretary of defense for research and engineering from 1977 to 1981. Perry is a professor in Stanford University's Department of Management Science and Engineering, a senior fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Hoover Institution, and the director of the Preventive Defense Project.

74 manuscript boxes, 1 card file box, 55 oversize boxes (121 Linear Feet)

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

Boxes 81-130 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of 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.