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    <title>George Lardner papers, 1923-1997 (bulk 1965-1995)</title>
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    <namePart>Lardner, George.</namePart>
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    <extent>288 1 1</extent>
    <extent>116</extent>
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  <abstract>Chiefly subject files containing correspondence, interviews, writings, notes, and research material such as newspaper clippings, printed material, reports, legal documents, financial records, congressional hearing records, other government documents, and photographs documenting Lardner's career as a reporter covering national news for the Washington Post and as a commentator in other journals and magazines.  Subjects include the Watergate Affair, Iran-Contra Affair, reform and congressional oversight of intelligence activities, the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, spy cases, terrorism, federal undercover operations including Abscam and Brilab, political assassinations, conspiracy theories, election campaigns, the Wedtech investigation, Freedom of Information Act, presidential papers administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, events involving Randy Weaver near Ruby Ridge, Idaho, the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and the Mafia.</abstract>
  <abstract>Individuals represented include Billy Carter, Frank Church, Raymond Donovan, Daniel J. Flood, Jim Garrison, Phil Gramm, Gary Hart, Hamilton Jordan, Edward Moore Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Richard Lugar, Martin Luther King, Jr., Edwin Meese, Franklyn C. Nofzinger, Oliver North, Dan Quayle, George C. Wallace, and E. Robert Wallach.</abstract>
  <note>Restrictions apply.</note>
  <note>Classified, in part.</note>
  <note>Audio and video recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Journalist.  Born 1934.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006037">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006037</note>
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      <namePart>Carter, Billy</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Church, Frank</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Donovan, Raymond James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1930-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Flood, Daniel J</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garrison, Jim</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1921-1992</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gramm, Phil</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hart, Gary</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1936-</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jordan, Hamilton</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1932-2009</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1917-1963</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lugar, Richard</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Jr</namePart>
      <namePart>King, Martin Luther</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1929-1968</namePart>
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      <namePart>Meese, Edwin</namePart>
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      <namePart>Nofzinger, Franklyn C</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Quayle, Dan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1947-</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wallace, George C. (George Corley)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1919-1998</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wallach, E. Robert</namePart>
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      <namePart>Weaver, Randy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1948-</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Central Intelligence Agency.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Federal Bureau of Investigation.</namePart>
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      <namePart>National Archives and Records Administration.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>National Security Agency.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Wedtech (Firm)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Assassination</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Bombings</topic>
    <geographic>Oklahoma</geographic>
    <geographic>Oklahoma City</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Conspiracy</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Intelligence service</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Political corruption</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Archives</topic>
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    <topic>Spies</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Terrorism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Undercover operations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Watergate Affair, 1972-1974</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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    <occupation>Journalists</occupation>
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