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Title: Richard P. Nathan papers
Date (inclusive): 1957-1979
Collection Number: 80025
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
67 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(27.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The collection relates to American politics and intergovernmental relations and to domestic policy, particularly welfare and
revenue sharing programs, during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. It contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies,
printed matter, and photographs.
Creator:
Nathan, Richard P.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1980.
[Identification of item], Richard P. Nathan papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1935 | Born |
| 1957 | Bachelors degree, Brown University |
| 1959 | Masters degree in Public Administration, Harvard University |
| 1959-1962 | Legislative assistant, U.S. Senator Kenneth B. Keating |
| 1962-1964 | Director, Domestic Policy Research, National Campaign Staff, Nelson A. Rockefeller |
| 1966 | Doctorate of Philosophy, Political Economy and Government, Harvard University |
| 1967 | Associate Director for Program Research, National Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) |
| 1968 | Director, Domestic Policy Research, National Campaign Staff, Nelson A. Rockefeller |
| 1969 | Chair, Nixon Transition Task Force on the Poor |
| Chair, Nixon Transition Task Force on Intergovernmental Relations | |
| 1969-1970 | Chair, Domestic Council Committee on Welfare Reform Planning |
| 1969-1972 | Assistant Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget |
| 1972 | Deputy Under Secretary for Welfare Reform, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare |
| 1972-1977 | Visiting professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government, University of Virginia |
| 1972-1979 | Senior fellow, The Brookings Institution |
| 1975 | Author, Monitoring Revenue Sharing, with Allen D. Marvel and others, The Brookings Institution |
| Author, The Plot that Failed: Nixon and the Administrative Presidency | |
| 1977 | Author, Revenue Sharing: The Second Round, with Charles F. Adams, Jr., and Associates, The Brookings Institution |
| 1979-1989 | Professor of Public and International Affairs and Policy, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University |
| 1983 | Author, The Administrative Presidency |
| 1987 | Author, Reagan and the States, with Fred C. Doolittle and others |
| 1988 | Author, Social Science in Government, Uses and Abuses |
| 1989-2004 | Director, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York |
| 1989-2009 | Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Rockefeller College, University at Albany, State University of New York |
| 1993 | Author, Turning Promises into Performance |
| 1997-2001 | Advisor, U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| 2003-2004 | President, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management |
| 2003-Present | Member, New York State Commission on Judicial Nominations |
| 2005-2009 | Co-Director, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York |
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection relates to American politics and intergovernmental relations and to domestic policy, particularly welfare and
revenue sharing programs, during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. It contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies,
printed matter, and photographs.
As director of domestic policy research for Nelson A. Rockefeller's 1968 presidential campaign, Nathan kept organized binders
of studies on domestic issues such as crime, youth, and poverty. These materials are included in the collection along with
press releases and speeches from the campaign.
Reports and correspondence from Nathan's time as assistant director of the Office of Management and Budget detail the development
of the Nixon administration's welfare reform proposals, including the Family Assistance Plan, from 1968 to 1972. Among these
materials are studies relating to government assistance programs in New York and California, as well as background information
packets compiled for Nixon's meeting with Governors Rockefeller and Reagan in 1971.
Other materials in the collection include memoranda received and studies administered by Nathan during his time in the Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare, drafts and proof copies of articles, editorials, and books written by Nathan, and research
materials and writings on revenue sharing compiled while working as a fellow with the Brookings Institution.
The collection is arranged in the order in which it was received, with no further arrangement done by archives staff.
John Ehrlichman papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Forrest David Matthews speeches, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
John G. Veneman papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974
United States -- Social policy
Public welfare -- United States
Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- United States
United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
United States. Office of Management and Budget