Smith, Hedrick. creator mixed material monographic eng 57,200 184 1 2 72.4 Correspondence, memoranda, interview transcripts, drafts of speeches, articles, and books, notes, radio broadcasts, legal material, research material, family papers, press releases, printed material, posters, maps, and other papers relating primarily to Smith's research for his books and television productions about the Soviet Union and about U.S. politics. Documents his career with the New York Times while stationed in Washington, D.C., Moscow, Russia, and elsewhere, as well as his coverage for United Press International of the civil rights movement in the South and space exploration, 1959-1962. Correspondents include Julian Bach, William F. Buckley, Emanuel R. Freedman, W. Averell Harriman, Lillian Hellman, Anthony Lewis, Robert Manning, James Reston, Neil Sheehan, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, and Tom Wicker. Subjects include life in the Soviet Union under the Communist system and changes with glasnost and perestroika in such areas as consumer and economic issues, culture, dissent, media and intellectual expression, nationalities and minorities, politics, religion, Soviet-U.S. relations, and the exodus of Jews. Includes material pertaining to Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev and to dissidents Aleksandr Galich, Roy Aleksandrovitch Medvedev, Zhores A. Medvedev, Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, and Vladimir Vysotsky. Papers also pertain to the presidential administrations of John F. Kennedy through Ronald Reagan. Topics include lobbying, arms control, defense policies, congressional staff, the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the Vietnamese conflict and the peace talks in Paris, peace in the Middle East, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, and Central America. Includes interviews with Les Aspin, Howard H. Baker, James Addison Baker, Richard Gordon Darman, Michael K. Deaver, Robert J. Dole, Newt Gingrich, Robert C. McFarlane, Tip O'Neill, John M. Poindexter, Donald T. Regan, and other leading officials in Washington, D.C., and abroad. Restrictions apply. Classified, in part. Books transferred to Library of Congress General Collection. Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Video recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Journalist, author, and lecturer. Also known as Hedrick L. Smith; full name Hedrick Laurence Smith. Born 1933. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003028 Aspin, Les Interviews Bach, Julian Correspondence Baker, Howard H. (Howard Henry) 1925- Interviews Baker, James Addison 1930- Interviews Jr Buckley, William F 1925-2008 Correspondence Carter, Jimmy 1924- Darman, Richard Gordon 1943-2008 Interviews Deaver, Michael K Interviews Dole, Robert J 1923- Interviews Ford, Gerald R 1913-2006 Freedman, Emanuel R Correspondence Galich, Aleksandr 1918-1977 Gingrich, Newt Interviews Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich 1931- Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell) 1891-1986 Correspondence Hellman, Lillian 1905-1984 Correspondence Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Lewis, Anthony 1927-2013 Correspondence Manning, Robert 1919-2012 Correspondence McFarlane, Robert C Interviews Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich 1925- Medvedev, Zhores A 1925- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 O'Neill, Tip Interviews Poindexter, John M Interviews Reagan, Ronald Regan, Donald T Interviews Reston, James 1909-1995 Correspondence Sakharov, Andreĭ 1921-1989 Sheehan, Neil Correspondence Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich 1918-2008 Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs 1926-2012 Correspondence Vysotsky, Vladimir 1938-1980 Wicker, Tom Correspondence United States. Congress Officials and employees United Press International. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Arms control Civil rights Southern States Communism Soviet Union Dissenters Soviet Union Glasnost Jews Soviet Union Journalism Journalism Russia (Federation) Moscow Journalism Washington (D.C.) Lobbying Mass media Soviet Union Minorities Soviet Union Nationalities, Principle of Perestroĭka Politicians Politics, Practical Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Peace Central America History Middle East History 20th century Outer space Exploration Soviet Union Economic policy 1986-1991 Soviet Union Foreign relations United States Soviet Union Intellectual life 1970-1991 Soviet Union Politics and government 1985-1991 Soviet Union Religion United States Foreign relations Soviet Union United States Politics and government 1945-1989 Authors Journalists Lecturers mm 87062065 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003028 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003028.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003028 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003028.3 Restrictions apply. Classified, in part. DLC 870804 20260227111722.0 mm 87062065