Archie Henderson - Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right - A Guide to Archives

[0321] Morton C. Blackwell Files, 1981-1984

Location: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, California 93065

Description: Morton Blackwell (1939- ) worked for the Viguerie Company and served as editor of The New Right Report from 1973 to 1979, and contributing editor to Conservative Digest from 1974 to 1981. Blackwell joined the Office of Public Liaison as Special Assistant to the President, 1981-1984, where he was responsible for veterans, fraternal organizations, Native Americans, religious affairs, and limited government organizations. He is currently president of the Leadership Institute, an organization he founded in 1979 to train conservatives for positions in politics, the government and news media. Series I: Subject File, 1981-1984, contains files on conservative advocacy groups such as Ad Hoc Committee in Defense of Life, American Citizens Concerned for Life, American Conservative Union, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Life Lobby, American Security Council and Coalition for Peace through Strength, American Legal Foundation, American Way, American Council for Free Asia, Americans in Support of Democracy in Latin America, Americans for a Sound Foreign Policy, Americans for the Reagan Agenda, Americans for the Voter Initiative, Balanced Budget Amendment, CATO, CAUSA (Confederation for the Association and the Unity of the Societies of the Americas), Center for International Relations, Center for National Labor Policy, Century III Foundation, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, Citizens for America, Citizens for the Republic, Citizens for a New Beginning, Citizens for Decency through Law, Coalition for Freedom, Coalition for Peace through Security, Coalitions for America, College Republican National Committee, Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles, Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, Connecticut Mutual Life Report on American Values, Conservative Caucus, Conservative Digest, Conservative Groups, Conservative Political Action Conference, Conservative PACs (Political Action Committees), Conservatives Against Liberal Legislation, Constitutional Liberties Rally, Council for National Policy, Council for American Private Education, Council for Inter-American Security, Daughters of the American Revolution, Equal Rights Amendment, Family Defense Coalition, Family Protection Act, Federalist Society of Delaware Law School, Flat Rate Tax, Freedom Council, Newt Gingrich, Heritage Foundation, Homosexuals, Human-Life Amendment, Institute on Religion and Democracy, March for Life, Moral Majority, Moral Rearmament, Morality in Media, Inc., National Center for Pan-American Studies, National Day of Prayer, National Pro-Life Action Committee, National Right to Life Committee, National Pro-Life Action Committee: POTUS Pro-Life Coalition Cabinet Room, National Association of Neighborhood Schools, Inc., National Pro-Life Political Action Committee, National Conservative Foundation, NCPAC [National Conservative Political Action Committee], New World Dynamics, New Directions Advisory Committee, Panama Canal Treaty, Prayer in Schools, Pro-Life, Right to Life, Rockford Institute, Rutherford Institute, Tradition, Family, and Property, United States Defense Committee, Young Americans for Freedom, and Young Conservative Alliance. Series III: Religion Liaison, contains files on Campus Crusade for Christ, Catholic Traditionalist Movement, Cults [and Miscellaneous Groups], Billy James Hargis Ministries, Bob Jones University, Oral Roberts University, Dr. Francis Schaeffer, and Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.

Finding aids:

http://www.reaganlibrary.gov/white-house-staff-and-office-files-1981-1989-8-595-i-ft/9714-blackwel

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/textual/smof/blackwel.htm

[0321a] Anita McCormick Blaine Correspondence and Papers, 1828-1958, McCormick Mss 1E; McCormick Mss 2E

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706-1417

Description: Anita McCormick Blaine (1866-1954) was a Chicago philanthropist and the daughter of industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick and his wife Nettie. The correspondence and other papers consist of letters, telegrams, and summaries of telephone conversations; reports of committees, boards, and organizations; speeches, essays, and random notes; financial statements and ledgers; clippings; and photographs; concerning her interests in education, improvement in social and economic conditions, international understanding, and world peace, and her relations with members of the McCormick family and their friends. Series 1E consists of incoming letters, reports, pamphlets, and other items received by Mrs. Blaine (1828-1957). Files on Olivia Rossetti Agresti; Henry J. Allen; American Anti-War Crusade [Chicago branch of Keep America Out of War Congress]; American Association of Eugenics (George P. Roberts); American Committee on United Europe; American Birth Control League; American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression; American Council For Non-Cooperation With Aggressor Nations; American Council Institute of Pacific Relations; American Economic Association; American Eugenics Society; American Federation for Sex Hygiene; American Flag Association; American Genetic Association; American Legion; American Social Hygiene Association; American Taxpayers League; Americans United for World Organization [information on the Dumbarton Oaks Conference]; America's Future Inc.; James R. Angell; Anti-Bolshevik League of America; Harry Elmer Barnes; Morris A. Bealle; Charles A. Beard; William Benton; William Edgar Borah; A. Edwin Burrows; Nicholas Murray Butler; Smedley D. Butler; James Francis Byrnes; Homer E. Capehart; Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich; Gilbert Keith Chesterton; Madame Kai-Shek (Mayling Soong) Chiang; Church League of America; Citizen's Committee for Capehart; Grenville Clark; Upton Close; Mrs. William Ellsworth (Margaret Sarver) Clow; William Ellsworth Clow, Jr. [including pamphlet, "A Business Man's Personal Views of the Roosevelt Administration"]; Kenneth Colegrove; Committee for Constitutional Government; Committee on the Federal Constitution; Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies; E.G. Conklin; Constitutional Defense League of Women; Flora J. Cooke [criticism of Max Eastman's article on John Dewey [Max Eastman, "John Dewey," The Atlantic Monthly, December 1941, pp. 671-684; letter from Senator Bilbo and letter to Senator Bilbo concerning African-American rights]; Calvin Coolidge; Correspondence School of Gospel and Scientific Eugenics; Council on African Affairs [clipping describing and condemning the riot at Peekskill, New York]; Daughters of the Confederacy; Kenneth De Courcy; Democrats for Willkie; Thomas E. Dewey; John Foster Dulles; Fellowship of Reconciliation; Fight for Freedom; Paul Kellogg, Survey Associates; Judge Julian W. Mack; Planned Parenthood Association; Margaret Sanger; United Daughters of the Confederacy; and William Allen White. Copies of the following items: "Why Lindbergh is Wrong," by Major Alexander P. de Seversky [The American Mercury, May 1941, pp. 519-532, online at http://www.unz.org/Pub/AmMercury-1941may-00519]; transcript of a debate between Senator Smith W. Brookhart and Representative Hamilton Fish Jr.: "Will Recognition of Soviet Russia Help Restore World prosperity?"; Harold E. Stassen, "The United Nations as a Pattern for a Lasting Peace," address before the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, March 31, 1943; stenographic report of a mass meeting sponsored by the Chicago Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (1940), featuring talks by Dorothy Thompson, Admiral William Harrison Standley, and others; Dorothy Thompson, Our Pending Revolution in Government (New York, New York, Constitutional Democracy Association, 1937) [concerning Roosevelt's Supreme Court proposal]; "If Hitler Wins": address by Colonel William J. Donovan before the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Palmer House, April 11, 1941; and John Foster Dulles, "Thoughts on Soviet Foreign Policy—And What to Do About It," Reader's Digest (August 1946).