Preliminary Inventory of the Richard P. Nathan papers

Finding aid prepared by Samira Bozorgi

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

434 Galvez Mall

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-6003

hoover-library-archives@stanford.edu

URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives

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

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 1980.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Richard P. Nathan papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical/Historical Note

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.

Related Materials

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

box 1

Writings on "New Federalism," 1969-1972

box 1

Rockefeller campaign. Public statements 1968-1970

box 1

Brookings Institution. Reports and writings 1968-1970

box 1

Office of Management and Budget background materials 1970

box 1

United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) files 1971

box 1

Goodell-Laind bill materials 1966-1967

box 2

Brookings Institution. Transcripts of conference proceedings 1978

box 2

Writings on welfare reform 1972

box 2

Clippings 1972

box 3

Books of Nixon campaign speeches and statements 1968

box 3

Brookings Institution. Reports 1978

box 3

Photocopies of clippings 1972

box 3

Memoranda 1972

box 4

Brookings Institution files

box 4

HEW file. Reports on health policy 1970

box 4

Printed matter and clippings on welfare reform

box 4

Drafts and research materials 1965

box 5

Rockefeller campaign. "Domestic Research," 1968

box 5

Rockefeller campaign. Report for Republican Governor's Association Policy Committee 1967

box 5

Memoranda 1968

box 6

Speeches and writings 1971

box 6

Brookings Institution. Reports 1978

box 6

Partial draft of The Plot That Failed

box 7

HEW file. Speeches 1969-1970

box 7

HEW file. Task Force on Welfare reports and office files 1968-1970

box 7

Rockefeller campaign. "Domestic Research," 1968

box 7

Office of Management and Budget. Reports undated

box 8

Rockefeller campaign. Speeches and statements 1968

box 8

Rockefeller campaign. "Domestic Research," 1968

box 8

Heller-Pechmann plan

box 8

Brookings Institution files

box 9

Writings 1960

box 9

Statements by Kenneth B. Keating 1961-1964

box 9

HEW file. Family Assistance Act 1970

box 9

Public Welfare Association materials 1972

box 10

HEW file. Excerpts and statements 1972

box 10

State statistics for Colorado 1972

box 11

Drafts and working files 1968-1969

box 11

Intergovernmental Task Force materials

box 11

Miscellaneous writings and congressional acts undated

box 12

Drafts 1972

box 12

Internal Advisory Committee reports

box 12

Intergovernmental relations 1969

box 12

Memoranda 1969

box 13

Drafts of articles and reports 1970s

box 13

Public affairs file

box 13

Photographs of Nathan

box 14

HEW file. Studies and reports 1969-1972

box 15

Drafts 1972

box 15

HEW file. Health services and welfare reform reports 1971-1972

box 15

Research materials. International income security programs 1970s

box 16

Commission on Income Maintenance Program

box 16

Government reports 1970

box 16

HEW file. Memoranda and correspondence re welfare 1972

box 17

Rockefeller campaign. "Domestic Research" and summary on positions 1968

box 17

Writings and memoranda relating to H.R. 1 and welfare reform 1971-1972

box 17

Clippings, correspondence and research materials 1971-1972

box 18

Writings 1971

box 18

Drafts of "Welfare Reform Under the Nixon Administration," undated

box 18

Drafts of "Federalism and Tax Sharing," 1967

box 19

Rockefeller campaign. "Domestic Research," 1968

box 19

Sociology thesis 1957

box 19

HEW file. Reports 1971

box 19

Drafts 1973

box 20

Rockefeller campaign. "Domestic Research," 1968

box 21

Rockefeller campaign. "Domestic Research," 1968

box 22

Drafts of The Plot That Failed 1973

box 22

Rockefeller campaign. "Domestic Research," 1968

box 23

Writings on incidence analysis 1973-1974

box 24

Drafts 1973-1974

box 24

Rockefeller campaign materials 1968

box 25

Brookings Institution. Drafts of Monitoring Revenue Sharing 1974

box 26

Brookings Institution file 1972

box 26

Nixon transition team materials probably 1969

box 26

Miscellaneous papers relating to Keating, 1964, and Rockefeller 1968

box 26

Speeches 1973

box 27

Bureau of Budget (Office of Management and Budget) file. Statements and writings 1974-1975

box 28

Brookings Institution. Research materials 1974-1975

box 28

Correspondence undated

box 28

Subject file. Revenue sharing undated

box 29

Research materials 1975

Scope and Contents note

Includes photocopies of clippings and notes

box 30

Brookings Institution. Reports and newsletters on revenue sharing 1975

box 31

Drafts 1971

box 31

Published articles 1970s

box 31

Transition data 1968

box 32

Intergovernmental Task Force reports 1968

box 32

Department briefings and reports

box 32

Subject file. Civil rights undated

box 32

Brookings Institution files 1976

box 33

HEW file 1972

box 34

Articles and reports 1976

box 34

Government department reports and studies 1968-1971

box 34

Bureau of Budget file

box 34

HEW file undated

box 35

Research materials 1971-1973

box 35

Keating campaign materials 1964

box 35

Correspondence undated

box 36

Speeches and writings 1975-1976

box 36

"New Federalism" notes and research materials 1973-1974

box 37

Drafts and edits 1974-1975

box 37

Correspondence 1975-1976

box 37

Correspondence 1975-1976

box 38

Speeches 1975-1977

box 39

Correspondence 1968

box 39

Appendix of United States Government Budget for Fiscal Year 1972

box 40

Brookings Institution. Revenue sharing 1976

box 40

Drafts of book chapters 1974

box 41

Voting record of Kenneth B. Keating

box 41

Writings on revenue sharing 1975

box 41

Reports to U.S. congress 1975

box 41

Questionnaires 1974

box 42

Drafts of book chapters 1975

box 43

Task Force meeting materials 1975

box 43

Subject file. Civil rights 1975

box 44

Testimonies 1976

box 44

Brookings Institution. Research report on revenue sharing 1974

box 44

Materials from meetings 1975

box 45

Office of Management and Budget programs 1971

box 45

Correspondence 1975-1978

box 45

Drafts of writings 1974

box 46

Keating campaign. Press releases 1964

box 46

Research materials for book 1972

box 47

Rockefeller campaign. Press releases 1965

box 47

Drafts of writings 1964

box 47

Keating files 1964

box 48

Two audio cassette tapes labeled "Task Forces Part 1" and "B.O.B. and The Plot That Failed Part 2," undated

box 48

Keating files 1963

box 49

Materials from speaking engagements and correspondence 1973-1974

box 50

Speeches and writings 1973-1974

box 51

Speeches and writings 1974

box 52

Drafts of Monitoring Revenue Sharing 1974

box 53

Conference materials and speaking engagements 1975-1976

box 54

HEW file. Task Force on Man Power Coordination 1972

box 55

Chronological file 1970-1971

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence, memoranda, and writings

box 56

Chronological file 1969 and 1972

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence, memoranda, and writings

box 57

Excerpts from writings

box 57

Revenue sharing proposal 1969

box 58

Brookings Institution. Memoranda 1967-1968

box 58

Chronological file 1966

box 58

Research studies and clippings 1968-1974

box 59

Subject file. H.R. 1 1970-1971

box 59

HEW file. Welfare reform in California, West Virginia, and New York 1972

box 59

Photocopies of clippings 1972

box 60

Family assistance programs 1968-1970

box 60

Studies, data analysis, and reports 1969-1971

box 60

Memoranda, background materials, and notes from meeting with Rockefeller and Reagan 1971

box 61

Reports on Medicaid and welfare reform 1969-1972

box 61

Memoranda, background materials, and notes from meeting with Rockefeller and Reagan 1971

box 62

Binder. Budget and management transition data 1968

box 63

Miscellaneous 1971

box 64

Awards and framed photographs 1970-1978

box 65, folder 1-4

Committee for Economic Development, Maine 1965

box 65, folder 5-8

Committee for Economic Development, Mississippi 1965

box 66, folder 1-2

Committee for Economic Development, Georgia 1968

box 66, folder 3-7

National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders, short-term programs 1967

box 67

Correspondence 1968-1969

box 67

Materials from speaking engagements 1975

box 68

Correspondence 1967-1968

box 68

Fiscal assistance programs 1975

box 68

Conference materials, reports, and studies 1975-1976