Robert S. McNamara papers, (Record no. 44382)
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| LC control number | mm 96083793 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Description conventions | dacs |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | R |
| Source | lcmd |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McNamara, Robert S., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1916-2009. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Robert S. McNamara papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1934-2009 |
| Bulk dates | (bulk 1968-2005). |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 93,500 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 268 |
| Type of unit | containers plus |
| Extent | 5 |
| Type of unit | classified and |
| Extent | 2 |
| Type of unit | oversize. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 107.2 |
| Type of unit | linear feet. |
| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Part I arranged in 8 series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1964-1996; Series 2: World Bank, 1958-1997; Series 3: Organizations, 1968-2002; Series 4: Subject File, 1960-2003; Series 5: Speeches and Writings, 1961-2000; Series 6: Miscellany, 1965-1998; Series 7: Classified, 1968-1992; and Series 8: Oversize, 1973-1974. |
| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Part II arranged in 9 series. Series 1: World Bank, 1967-2005; Series 2: Organizations, 1969-2006; Series 3: Subject File, 1946-2006; Series 4: Speeches and Writings, 1934-2006; Series 5: Miscellany, 1960-2009; Series 6: Classified, 1962-2002; Series 7: Top Secret, 1963-1967, 2000; Series 8: Sensitive Compartmented Information, 1962; and Series 9: Oversize, 1994. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 506 1# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Classified, in part. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, oral history transcripts, organization records, subject files, conferences and meetings files, background and research material, and other papers relating primarily to McNamara's private and public life following his service as U.S. secretary of defense, including his leadership of the World Bank, his role as counselor and adviser to various private corporations and nonprofit organizations and foundations, and his commentary on and advocacy for solutions to the critical domestic and foreign policy issues of the times. Includes drafts of his books, In Retrospect : The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (1995) and Argument Without End : In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (1999) as well as drafts of Wilson's Ghost : Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century co-written by McNamara and James G. Blight (2001). |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Subjects include arms control and nuclear policy; defense; domestic and international politics; East-West relations; economic policy; education, food, and health programs; environment; geopolitical issues; international development; onchocerciasis (river blindness); population; poverty; Third World countries in Africa and elsewhere; war and peace; and world hunger. Other subjects include McNamara's legacy as a leading strategist of the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, and Westmoreland v. CBS et al., 1984-1985. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Documents McNamara's association with organizations and conferences including the African Development Bank, Aspen Institute, Atlantic Council of the United States, Battelle Memorial Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Corning Incorporated, Council on Foreign Relations, Drug Strategies, East African Development Bank, Eminent Persons Group on Curbing Illicit Trafficking in Small Arms and Light Weapons, Enterprise Foundation, Global Coalition for Africa, Henry L. Stimson Center, Honorary Presidential Advisory Council on Investment in Nigeria, Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust, InterAction Council, International Irrigation Management Institute, National Committee on United States-China Relations, Overseas Development Council, Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Rockefeller Foundation, Trilateral Commission, Urban Institute, World Food Prize Foundation, and World Resources Institute. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondents include Graham T. Allison, James G. Blight, McGeorge Bundy, William P. Bundy, Lloyd N. Cutler, Alain C. Enthoven, Orville L. Freeman, Kurt Gottfried, Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, W. Averell Harriman, Paul Hendrickson, Henry Kissinger, Frans M. Lurvink, Helmut Schmidt, Sargent Shriver, Gerard C. Smith, Carl E. Taylor, Stewart L. Udall, Cyrus R. Vance, and Barbara Ward. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Audio and video recordings |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Some photographs |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | U.S. secretary of defense, president of World Bank, and corporate executive. Full name: Robert Strange McNamara. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011085">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011085</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Allison, Graham T. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Blight, James G. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bundy, McGeorge |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bundy, William P., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1917- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cutler, Lloyd N. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Enthoven, Alain C., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1930- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Freeman, Orville L. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gottfried, Kurt |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Harriman, Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1920-1997 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Harriman, W. Averell |
| Fuller form of name | (William Averell), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1891-1986 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hendrickson, Paul, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1944- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kissinger, Henry, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1923- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lurvink, Frans M. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Schmidt, Helmut, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1918 December 23- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Shriver, Sargent, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1915-2011 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Smith, Gerard C. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Taylor, Carl E. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Udall, Stewart L. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vance, Cyrus R. |
| Fuller form of name | (Cyrus Roberts), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1917-2002 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ward, Barbara, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1914-1981 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Westmoreland, William C. |
| Fuller form of name | (William Childs), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1914-2005 |
| General subdivision | Trials, litigation, etc. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | African Development Bank. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Aspen Institute. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Atlantic Council of the United States. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Battelle Memorial Institute. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Brookings Institution. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | CBS Inc. |
| General subdivision | Trials, litigation, etc. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Charles F. Kettering Foundation. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Corning Incorporated. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Council on Foreign Relations. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Drug Strategies (Organization) |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | East African Development Bank. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Eminent Persons Group on Curbing Illicit Trafficking in Small Arms and Light Weapons. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Enterprise Foundation. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Global Coalition for Africa. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Henry L. Stimson Center. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Honorary Presidential Advisory Council on Investment in Nigeria. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | InterAction Council. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | International Irrigation Management Institute. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | National Committee on United States-China Relations. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Overseas Development Council. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Rockefeller Foundation. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Trilateral Commission. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Urban Institute. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | World Bank. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | World Food Prize Foundation. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | World Resources Institute. |
| 611 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--MEETING NAME | |
| Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Arms control. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Economic development |
| Geographic subdivision | Developing countries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Education. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geopolitics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Hunger |
| Geographic subdivision | Developing countries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | International relations. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nuclear weapons. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Onchocerciasis. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Peace. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Population. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Poverty. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Security, International. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Trials (Libel) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Vietnam War, 1961-1975. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | War. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World health. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World politics |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World politics |
| Chronological subdivision | 21st century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Developing countries. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Cuba |
| General subdivision | Foreign relations |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Soviet Union |
| General subdivision | Foreign relations. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Economic policy |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Economic policy |
| Chronological subdivision | 21st century |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Defenses. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Foreign relations |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Foreign relations |
| Chronological subdivision | 21st century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Foreign relations |
| Geographic subdivision | Cuba. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Military policy. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision | 21st century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Vietnam |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 1945-1975. |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Cabinet officers. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Executives. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 700 12 - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Blight, James G. |
| Title of a work | Wilson's ghost : reducing the risk of conflict, killing, and catastrophe in the 21st century. |
| Date of a work | 2001. |
| 700 12 - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McNamara, Robert S., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1916-2009. |
| Title of a work | Argument without end : in search of answers to the Vietnam tragedy. |
| Date of a work | 1999. |
| 700 12 - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McNamara, Robert S., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1916-2009. |
| Title of a work | In retrospect : the tragedy and lessons of Vietnam. |
| Date of a work | 1995. |
| 700 12 - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McNamara, Robert S., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1916-2009. |
| Title of a work | Wilson's ghost : reducing the risk of conflict, killing, and catastrophe in the 21st century. |
| Date of a work | 2001. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011085">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011085</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011085.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011085.3</a> |
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