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  • Title: Kenneth Rush papers
    Date (inclusive): 1937-1989
    Collection Number: 85019
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 34 manuscript boxes (13.6 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, interview transcripts, financial records, and printed matter, relating to United States foreign relations with Germany and France, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and United States foreign, economic, and defense policy during the administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford.
    Creator: Rush, Kenneth, 1910-
    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], Kenneth Rush Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

    1910, Jan. 17 Born, Walla Walla, Washington
    1930 B. A. degree, the University of Tennessee
    1932 J. D. degree, Yale University
    1936-1937 Assistant Professor, Duke University Law School
    1966-1969 President, Union Carbide Corporation
    1969 July-1972 Feb. U.S. Ambassador to the Federal German Republic
    1972 Feb.-1973 Feb. Deputy Secretary of Defense
    1973 Feb.-1974 May Deputy Secretary of State
    1974 May-Oct. Counsellor to the President for Economic Policy
    1974 Nov.-1977 Mar. U.S. Ambassador to France
    1979-1984 Chairman, The Atlantic Council of the United States

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    United States -- Economic policy
    United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974
    Diplomats -- United States
    United States -- Defenses
    France -- Foreign relations -- United States
    United States -- Foreign relations -- France
    United States -- Foreign relations -- 1974-1977
    United States -- Foreign relations -- Germany (West)
    Germany (West) -- Foreign relations -- United States
    United States. Department of State
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006
    United States. Department of Defense
    Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994