The Audio Visual Series contains VHS video cassette tapes, Beta video cassette tapes, 1" and 2" video tape, 16 mm film, 2-inch videotape, microfilm, audio cassettes, 33 1/3 rpm and 45 rpm records, photographs, and reel-to-reel audio tapes. All of the audio-visual material is arranged by format, then chronologically, except for the photographs which are arranged alphabetically by subject or individual.

This subseries (11.25 linear feet) documents internal meetings and celebrations of the ACLU in addition to various other meetings that ACLU employees attended because of a concern for civil liberties issues. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year, it contains correspondence, minutes, notices, mailings, speeches, reports, and printed materials.

The Correspondence series contains items sent and received by Coale over the course of his career at Princeton. The series has two divisions: Chronological (1954-1998) and Topical (1954-1998). Chronological is often outgoing correspondence, though both contain a variety of letters to and from other demographers in Princeton, the United States, and abroad. Many provide details regarding the scope and progress of Coale's research projects. Others relate to travel and his participation in professional organizations, particularly the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). A large amount of correspondence is between Coale and Edgar M. Hoover, with whom he authored the Coale-Hoover report.

(Compiled by Rita Kirkpatrick)

The Biographical and Personal series consists of approximately 0.5 linear feet of material and includes biographical information, as well as material related to Kirkpatrick's time at Princeton University and other non-professional activities. Of special note is a 185-page biography compiled by Kirkpatrick's wife Rita, which makes use of documents found elsewhere in the collection. The majority of correspondence found in the series is a group of photocopies of letters compiled by Kirkpatrick's wife Rita into a "significant signatures file." The file includes correspondence from U.S. presidents and vice presidents, senators and representatives, and military officers including Omar Bradley. The vast majority of the correspondence in the Significant Signatures File is brief and insubstantial; many of the letters are holiday greetings, invitations, or congratulations on Kirkpatrick's retirement from the CIA or Brown University. There is some correspondence related to Kirkpatrick's intelligence career, including a brief letter in which newly appointed Director of Central Intelligence George H.W. Bush comments on the struggles ahead of him. The series also includes a small folder of photographs, primarily of Kirkpatrick during his military service and years with the CIA.

This collection contains reports on the U.S.S.R., 1956, 1988, 1998, 1999, 2004; investment proposals, 1969-2003; government reports, 1962, 1964; and annual reports of Adela Investment Company, 1972-1993; Latin American Agribusiness Development Corporation, 1973-2008; and Société Internationale Financière pour les Investissements et le Développement en Afrique, 1972-1996.

Contains reports, speeches, and clippings concerning Coles's involvement in USAID programs in Africa.

(Includes an interview with George Schultz on July 6, 1994.)

The General Manuscripts Collection is largely composed of materials related to United States politics and government, including personal and business correspondence, manuscripts, memorabilia, pamphlets, and reports. The collection includes the papers of many individuals, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and other United States presidents, government officials, authors and journalists, bankers and businessmen, and Princeton University alumni.

Includes papers, reports, and remarks.

Includes conference records, breifing notes, Internal Rand Notes, newspaper cutouts/photocpies re Rand, etc.

(Includes photographs.)

The Princeton Years series documents Crespi's career prior to joining the USIA . It includes correspondence, research notes, clippings, reports, and published articles relating to Crespi's graduate research at Princeton on gambling addiction, his research on German public opinion of the United States, and other research projects on topics such as such tipping in America and the Kinsey Reports. Also included is correspondence relating to his professorship at Princeton in the psychology department, and his time at UCLA as an undergraduate.

The collection consists of Massie's research files concerning anti-apartheid activism in South Africa. Materials include printed committee reports and surveys of South African race relations, files relating to the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), profiles of companies and pension funds invested in South Africa, church policies on apartheid, and name files containing meeting notes, clippings, and essays relating to U.S. and South African public figures' positions on apartheid.

Series 6 Finding Aid: American Civil Liberties Union Records: Audiovisual Materials Series, circa 1920-1995.

The American Civil Liberties Union Records document the activities of the Union in protecting individual rights from 1920 through 1995. The files contain materials on freedom of speech, expression, and association; due process of law; equality before the law; legal case files; and organizational records. Within these categories files reflect subject areas such as academic freedom, censorship, racial discrimination, aliens' rights, privacy concerns, labor concerns, amnesty, and government loyalty and security. The files reflect work on litigation, advocacy and public policy, and subject files on various areas of interest connected with civil liberties. Materials include correspondence, court documents, memoranda, printed matter, minutes, reports, briefs, and legal files. Also included are materials from ACLU affiliate organizations, and the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee. Subgroup 2, Series 2, 3, and 4 have been digitized and are available for members of the Princeton community to view here. To view the database from outside Princeton University, please see the Guide to the American Civil Liberties Union Records.

Series 4: 1961-1999 and Miscellaneous includes press releases, correspondence, Wirtz's personal files on Stevenson, memorabilia, photographs and miscellaneous materials.

W. Willard (Bill) Wirtz was a lawyer, an arbitrator, a law professor, and served as undersecretary and secretary of labor under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He was a speechwriter for, and close advisor to, Adlai Stevenson from 1952 to 1960. The W. Willard Wirtz Collection on Adlai Stevenson documents Stevenson's campaigns for president in 1952 and 1956, as well as Stevenson's political activities in 1960 and in between campaigns. Because Wirtz was a speechwriter in 1952, in charge of speech content in 1956, and a close advisor and occasional speechwriter at other times, this collection most strongly documents the campaign activities of drafting speeches and fine-tuning campaign policy.

Contains transcripts and audio and video recordings of panel discussions and other events, including the ground breaking of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.

The James A. Baker III Oral History Project is a joint project run by the Seeley G. Mudd Library at Princeton University and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. The collection consists of transcripts and audio files of interviews with individuals who knew and worked closely with James A. Baker III during his career in politics and public service.

Series III: General State Department Files documents Matthews, Jr.'s day-to-day work and the award received.

H. Freeman Matthews, Jr., son of H. Freeman Matthews, was a career Foreign Service officer, serving with the State Department from 1952 to 1991. The collection consists of materials documenting Matthews, Jr.'s service with the State Department, in particular, his time as Deputy Chief of Mission in Cairo from 1976 to 1980.

Paul R. Sweet (1907-2003) was a political intelligence officer for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Research and Analysis (R and A) branch during World War II. He later worked for the U.S. State Department and was a history professor. This collection documents Sweet's professional life, especially his service in the OSS and his teaching career. The collection also contains family correspondence.

These materials relate to Purdum's senior thesis written for Princeton University's History Department on the Eisenhower-era State Department's Loyalty-Security Program. The original typescript of the thesis is included, as are some of Purdum's research materials, almost all of which are photocopies of the detailed diaries of Robert Walter Scott McLeod, who headed the Department of State's Bureau for Security and Consular Affairs from 1953 to 1957. To a lesser extent, Purdum's thesis research materials include copies of official State Department documents collected by McLeod, including correspondence and reports regarding suspected homosexual individuals in the department.

Vice President Al Gore, interviewed in his White House office, various topics for NYT profile

Series 13: Research Files contains numerous files of research on a variety of topics.

This series is composed of records that were mostly created after David Aaron's tenure in the Executive Office. The materials in this series mainly relate to Aaron's work for Senator Walter Mondale, both in his position as Mondale's legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate before joining the Carter administration, and later as Senior Consultant on Foreign Policy and Defense for Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign. The campaign materials mainly document Mondale's foreign policy stances on the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Latin America, as well as his platform on military preparedness and arms control. The series also includes records from Aaron's tenure with Oppenheimer and Company and a number of his speeches and writings that postdate his White House years, including a typescript of his first novel. Additionally, there is a very small amount of information on Aaron's early life and documentation related to his Foreign Service career.

David Laurence Aaron (1938-) served as Deputy National Security Advisor from 1977–1981. The collection mostly documents Aaron's service under Jimmy Carter's administration, though records dating from his time working for Walter F. Mondale and in the private sector are also present.

The notebooks from Oberdorfer's journalism career are especially significant for their detailed notes and commentary on his travels abroad. The notebooks chronicle his many trips with Secretary of State George P. Shultz to Asia from 1983-1988; to the Middle East in 1983 and 1987; to the Soviet Union in 1987; and to other locations. Oberdorfer's trip with Secretary of State James Baker to Asia in November 1991 is also included. Additional travels documented in the notebooks include, but are not limited to, Oberdorfer's trips to the Soviet Union in 1978, January 1984, and April 1987; to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in 1982; to Germany in 1983; and to the Middle East in 1985. He also made a number of trips to Korea, Japan, and China from 1987-1991. Oberdorfer's additional travels to Korea, Japan, and China after his retirement and his attendance at a variety of domestic and international conferences, mostly on the governments of Asia or on the Cold War, are also documented.

Research material in Box 3 includes reports, papers (draft/unpublished versions), printed material, publishers' catalogs, notes, limited correspondence, conference materials, and syllabi.

The Board of Directors Series includes information on the Committees of the Board which oversee general Council issues such as membership, programs, and procedures. Of interest is the long run of Committee on Studies records, which document proposed and selected topics for study by the Studies Department. This series also houses the Board's meeting minutes, as well as correspondence and miscellaneous materials from the Board of Directors.

George Adams Graham, faculty member in the Department of Politics at Princeton University from 1935 to 1958, specialized in the field of public administration. He was also active in public life, serving on the Citizens Federal Committee on Education; the Committee on Indian Affairs (a subcommittee of the Hoover Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government); the Committee on Public Administration of the Social Science Research Council; and the second Hoover Commission's Task Force on Personnel and Civil Service. His papers consist of reports, notes, correspondence, and subject files from his service in these capacities.