James R. Schlesinger papers, 1863-1980 (bulk 1969-1978).

Restrictions apply.

Classified, in part.

Correspondence, memoranda, writings, notebooks, subject files, appointment books, telephone logs, printed matter, photographs, and other papers chiefly concerning Schlesinger's service as U.S. secretary of defense and U.S. secretary of energy. Also documents his years as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget, later U.S. Office of Management and Budget; and as director of strategic studies at Rand Corporation. Subjects include national security, atomic energy, nuclear weapons, nuclear testing on Amchitka Island (Alaska), naval nuclear propulsion, nuclear proliferation and reduction, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the Soviet Union. Other subjects include energy policy and its environmental impact, oil, scientific and technical programs, the federal budget, and Watergate. Includes notes of Schlesinger's meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and files, 1973-1975, concerning Richard Hallock's work as special envoy assisting in the sale of American arms to Iran.

Correspondents include Bruce C. Clarke, H.S. Clayman, Thomas Keith Glennan, Amrom H. Katz, Elliot L. Richardson, Francis J. West, Richard J. Whalen, and Albert J. Wohlstetter.

Photographic negatives and a halftone cartoon transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Sound recordings and videotapes transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

Economist, U.S. secretary of defense, and U.S. secretary of energy. Full name: James Rodney Schlesinger. Born, 1929.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.