TY - GEN AU - Valeo,Francis R. TI - Francis R. Valeo papers, KW - Mansfield, Mike, KW - Democratic Party (U.S.) KW - Japan KW - Kokkai KW - Library of Congress KW - Legislative Reference Service KW - United States KW - Commission on the Operation of the Senate KW - Congress KW - Senate KW - Officials and employees KW - United States Association of Former Members of Congress KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Asia KW - Politics and government KW - 1945- KW - China KW - Economic conditions KW - 20th century KW - Foreign relations KW - History, Military KW - 1945-1949 KW - 1949- KW - Korea KW - Philippines KW - 1946-1986 KW - 1946- KW - East Asia KW - Consultants KW - itoamc KW - Secretaries, U.S. Senate N1 - Open to research; Classified, in part N2 - Correspondence, agenda, reports and other writings, subject and travel files, bibliographies, photographs, and other papers documenting Valeo's career as an East Asian specialist with the Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service, foreign affairs advisor to Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, and secretary of the U.S. Senate; and Valeo's postretirement activities as a consultant in Chinese and Asian affairs. Includes material on political, economic, and military affairs in East Asia following World War II, especially in China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines; senate files relating to Democratic party strategy, East Asian policy, the Vietnamese conflict, and the Commission on the Operation of the Senate; three senate leadership missions to China (1972-1976) for which he served as chief negotiator; and his directorship of studies on Asia sponsored by the United States Association of Former Members of Congress and coeditorship of a comparative study of the Japanese Diet (Kokkai) and the U.S. Congress (1983) UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009064 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009064.3 ER -