Clay Thomas Whitehead papers, 1927-2012 (bulk 1968-2008).

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Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, notes, briefing books, position papers, oral history interview transcripts, research material, subject files, conference proceedings, trip itineraries and records, corporate annual reports, university coursework, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the development of telecommunications policy in the United States and the global telecommunications industry. Documents Whitehead's service as special assistant to President Richard M. Nixon and director of the U.S. Office of Telecommunications Policy. Also documents Whitehead's career as an economist and analyst for the RAND Corporation; executive in the telecommunications industry primarily with Hughes Communications, SES Astra, and Alpha Lyracom (also Pan American Satellite); and professor at George Mason University. Also includes material pertaining to his student years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and to his research and writing as a visiting fellow at Harvard University and MIT. Also includes materials compiled by Whitehead for his unpublished history of telecommunications policy. Subjects include the Open Skies domestic communications satellite policy, digital compressed video and DigiCipher, deregulation of cable television networks, maritime policy matters, and the transition to the Gerald R. Ford presidential administration. Organizations represented include the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat), Corporation for Public Broadcasting, International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (Intelsat), U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Office of Telecommunications Boulder Policy Support Division, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, and U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Digital version available on the Web site The Papers of Clay T. Whitehead at

http://www.claytwhitehead.com

United States government official and businessman. Born 1938; died 2008.

Collection material in English, with Japanese.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013083