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  • Title: Joseph Shattan papers
    Date (inclusive): 1938-1991
    Collection Number: 85004
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 55 manuscript boxes (27.5 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Speeches of Jeane Kirkpatrick, Elliott Abrams, William Bennett, George Shultz, and Dan Quayle, letters, memoranda, testimony, bulletins, and printed matter, relating to American foreign and domestic policy during the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, to human rights violations throughout the world, and to the United Nations.
    Creator: Kirkpatrick, Jeane J.
    Creator: Shattan, Joseph
    Creator: Bennett, William J. (William John), 1943-
    Creator: Quayle, Dan, 1947-
    Creator: Abrams, Elliott, 1948-
    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 1985.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Joseph Shattan papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical/Historical Note

    Counselor to United States Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1981-1982, to Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights Elliott Abrams, 1982-1985, to Secretary of Education William Bennett, 1985-1989, and to Vice President Dan Quayle, 1989-1991. Shattan was born in 1950 and died in 2014.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    This collection contains speeches of Jeane Kirkpatrick, Elliott Abrams, William Bennett, George Shultz, and Dan Quayle, letters, memoranda, testimony, bulletins, and printed matter, relating to American foreign and domestic policy during the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, to human rights violations throughout the world, and to the United Nations.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    United States -- Foreign relations -- 1981-1989
    Education -- United States
    United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989
    Civil rights
    United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993
    United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-1993
    United States. Department of State
    United Nations
    Reagan, Ronald
    United States. Department of Education