Meg Greenfield papers, 1890-1999 (bulk 1952-1999).
- 35,000 items. 102 4 containers plus oversize and electronic files. 46 linear feet.
- Arranged in 7 series. Series 1: Personal and Family Papers, circa 1890-1999; Series 2: General Correspondence, circa 1949-1999; Series 3: Professional Activities File, 1960-1999; Series 4: Speeches and Writings, 1952-1999; Series 5: Subject File, 1937-1999; Series 6: Oversize, 1907-1994; and Series 7: Electronic Files.
Restrictions apply.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, speeches, writings, interview transcripts, reports, research files, calendars and schedules, financial and legal records, travel files, academic records, biographical material, childhood diaries and writings, family papers, honors and awards, scrapbooks, printed matter, electronic files, cartoons, photographs, and other papers documenting Greenfield's career in journalism as Washington correspondent and editor for Reporter magazine (1961-1968), editorial writer and editor of the Washington Post editorial page (1968-1999), and columnist for Newsweek (1974-1999). Also documents her studies at Smith College and the University of Cambridge, years in Rome (1952-1955), work for Adlai E. Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign, and membership on the Pulitzer Prize Board. Subjects include New York state and national politics, foreign policy, public policy, science policy, U.S. Congress, civil rights, the Vietnam War, political culture and social life of politicians, social life in Washington, D.C., and Greenfield's Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Writings include drafts of her memoir, Washington, which was completed and posthumously published in 2001 by Michael R. Beschloss. Includes interviews with Marion Barry, Jimmy Carter, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Jeremiah A. Denton, Louis Farrakhan, Hamilton Jordan, Walter F. Mondale, George Pratt Shultz, William H. Webster, Caspar W. Weinberger, and Anne L. Wexler; and notes from Max Ascoli, Benjamin C. Bradlee, Leonard Downie, and Donald E. Graham. Family papers include correspondence, genealogical material, photographs, and testimony of Lorraine Nathan Greenfield in the murder trial of Nathan Freudenthal Leopold and Richard A. Loeb in 1924. Family correspondents include Greenfield's parents, Lewis J. Greenfield and Lorraine Nathan Greenfield; brother, Jim Greenfield; and other Greenfield and Nathan family members. Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Joseph Alsop, Nancy Kassebaum Baker, Russell Baker, George W. Ball, Leonard Beaton, Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley, Warren Buffett, George Bush, Bruce Kerry Chapman, Daniel Ellsberg, Nora Ephron, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, William H. Gates, Robert Gottlieb, Fred Charles Iklé, Lady Bird Johnson, Alfred Kazin, Slim Keith, Larry L. King, Irving Kristol, James Lehrer, Nicholas Lemann, Anthony Lewis, Anne W. Marks, Mary McGrory, Daniel P. Moynihan, Anne L. Wexler, Tom Wicker, and George F. Will.
Two cartoons Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. transferred to Sound recordings and films Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. transferred to
Editor and journalist. Full name: Mary Ellen Greenfield. Born 1930; died 1999.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011109
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Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 --Correspondence. Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989 --Correspondence. Ascoli, Max, 1898-1978. Baker, Nancy Kassebaum, 1932- --Correspondence. Baker, Russell, 1925- --Correspondence. Ball, George W.--Correspondence. Barry, Marion, 1936- --Interviews. Beaton, Leonard--Correspondence. Beschloss, Michael R. Bradlee, Benjamin C. Buckley, Christopher, 1952- --Correspondence. Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008 --Correspondence. Buffett, Warren--Correspondence. Bush, George, 1924- --Correspondence. Carter, Jimmy, 1924- --Interviews. Ceaușescu, Nicolae--Interviews. Chapman, Bruce Kerry, 1940- --Correspondence. Denton, Jeremiah A.--Interviews. Downie, Leonard. Ellsberg, Daniel--Correspondence. Ephron, Nora--Correspondence. Farrakhan, Louis--Interviews. Gates, Bill, 1955- --Correspondence. Gates, Melinda, 1964- --Correspondence. Gates, William H.--Correspondence. Gottlieb, Robert, 1931- --Correspondence. Graham, Donald E., 1945- Greenfield, Jim, 1928-1973 --Correspondence. Greenfield, Lewis J.--Correspondence. Greenfield, Lorraine Nathan, -1942. Greenfield, Lorraine Nathan, -1942 --Correspondence. Jordan, Hamilton--Interviews. Iklé, Fred Charles--Correspondence. Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 --Correspondence. Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998 --Correspondence. Keith, Slim, 1917-1990 --Correspondence. King, Larry L.--Correspondence. Kristol, Irving--Correspondence. Lehrer, James--Correspondence. Lemann, Nicholas--Correspondence. Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904-1971 --Trials, litigation, etc. Lewis, Anthony, 1927-2013 --Correspondence. Loeb, Richard A., 1905-1936 --Trials, litigation, etc. Marks, Anne W., 1922-2006 --Correspondence. McGrory, Mary, 1918- --Correspondence. Mondale, Walter F., 1928- --Interviews. Moynihan, Daniel P. 1927-2003 --Correspondence. Shultz, George Pratt, 1920- --Interviews. Stevenson, Adlai E. 1900-1965. Webster, William H.--Interviews. Weinberger, Caspar W.--Interviews. Wexler, Anne L., 1930-2009 --Correspondence. Wexler, Anne L., 1930-2009 --Interviews. Wicker, Tom--Correspondence. Will, George F.--Correspondence. Greenfield family. Greenfield family--Correspondence. Nathan family. Nathan family--Correspondence.
United States. Congress. Pulitzer Prize Board (Columbia University) Smith College. University of Cambridge.
Newsweek. Reporter (New York, 1949- ) Washington post.
American newspapers--Washington (D.C.) American periodicals. Civil rights. Editorials. Journalism--United States. Journalism--Washington (D.C.) Political culture--United States. Politicians--Social life and customs.--United States Presidents--Election--United States--1956. Political planning. Pulitzer Prizes. Science and state--United States. Trials (Murder)--Illinois--Cook County. Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
New York (State)--Politics and government--20th century. Rome (Italy)--Social life and customs. United States--Foreign relations--20th century. United States--Politics and government--20th century. Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.