TY - GEN AU - Taft,William Howard TI - William Howard Taft papers, KW - Addabbo, Joseph Patrick, KW - Aspin, Les KW - Barnes, Chaplin B. KW - Bell, Terrel H. KW - Brennan, Peter J., KW - Brooks, Jack, KW - Brown, Jonathan C. KW - Carlucci, Frank Charles, KW - Cavanaugh, James H. KW - Cohn, Samuel M. KW - Cutler, Lloyd N. KW - Everett, Robinson O. KW - Ford, Gerald R., KW - Helm, Lewis M., KW - Horowitz, Michael KW - Laffer, Arthur B. KW - Long, Russell B. KW - Manning, Helen Taft, KW - Mathews, Forrest David, KW - Morrill, William A. KW - Nader, Ralph. KW - Nixon, Richard M. KW - O'Neill, Tip KW - Perle, Richard Norman, KW - Powell, Colin L. KW - Price, Melvin, KW - Reagan, Ronald. KW - Richardson, Elliot L., KW - Roth, William V., KW - Schoonmaker, John Derek KW - Schroeder, Pat KW - Smith, Carl R. KW - Smith, Edward Byron, KW - Stillman, Peter G. KW - Stockman, David Alan, KW - Super, Charles M. KW - Taft, Barbara Hoult Bradfield, KW - Taft, John Thomas, KW - Taft, Julia Vadala KW - Taft, Robert, KW - Taft, William Howard, KW - Thayer, W. Paul, KW - Thurmond, Strom, KW - Tower, John G. KW - Weinberger, Caspar W. KW - Wright, Joseph Robert, KW - Taft family. KW - United States KW - Department of Defense KW - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare KW - Federal Trade Commission KW - Office of Management and Budget KW - Council of Economic Advisers (U.S.) KW - Domestic Council (U.S.) KW - Leva, Hawes, Symington, Martin and Oppenheimer KW - Entitlement spending KW - Executive impoundment of appropriated funds KW - Influenza vaccines KW - National health insurance KW - Negative income tax KW - Older people KW - Practice of law KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - Public welfare KW - Revenue sharing KW - School integration KW - Swine influenza KW - Tax and expenditure limitations KW - Taxation KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Appropriations and expenditures KW - Armed Forces KW - Politics and government KW - 1969-1974 KW - 1974-1977 KW - 1981-1989 KW - Lawyers KW - itoamc KW - Public officials N1 - Restrictions apply N2 - Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, daily records, and other papers documenting Taft's government service in the Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, and Ronald Reagan presidential administrations. Documents his work at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, and Dept. of Defense, particularly as legal adviser and assistant to Caspar W. Weinberger in many of the latter's cabinet positions. Also includes material relating to Taft's law practice with the firm Leva, Hawes, Symington, Martin and Oppenheimer in Washington, D.C. Subjects include an investigation of the effectiveness of the FTC by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, meetings of the Domestic Council (U.S.) and the Council of Economic Advisers (U.S.), federal-state revenue sharing, effect of an aging population on entitlement programs, presidential impoundment of appropriated funds, tax expenditure analysis, the defense budget, economic effects of the withdrawal of troops from Vietnam, welfare reform, negative income tax, school desegregation, swine flu vaccine liability, and national health insurance; Family correspondents include Helen Taft Manning, Barbara Hoult Bradfield Taft, John Thomas Taft, Julia Vadala Taft, Robert Taft (1917- ), and William Howard Taft (1915 Aug. 7- ). Other correspondents include Joseph Patrick Addabbo, Les Aspin, Chaplin B. Barnes, Terrel Howard Bell, Peter J. Brennan, Jack Brooks, Jonathan C. Brown, Frank Charles Carlucci, James H. Cavanaugh, Samuel M. Cohn, Lloyd N. Cutler, Robinson O. Everett, Lewis M. Helm, Michael Horowitz, Arthur B. Laffer, Russell B. Long, Forrest David Mathews, William A. Morrill, Tip O'Neill, Richard Norman Perle, Colin L. Powell, Melvin Price, Elliot L. Richardson, William V. Roth, John Derek Schoonmaker, Pat Schroeder, Carl R. Smith, Edward Byron Smith, Peter G. Stillman, David Alan Stockman, Charles M. Super, W. Paul Thayer, Strom Thurmond, John G. Tower, Caspar W. Weinberger, and Joseph Robert Wright UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011046 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011046.3 ER -