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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Frank Stanton papers, 1908-2006 (bulk 1926-1979)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Stanton, Frank</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1908-2006</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, speeches, writings, reports, transcripts, interviews, testimony, studies, subject files, press clippings, press releases, printed matter, awards, citations, and other papers relating primarily to Stanton's career as president and vice chairman of the board of directors of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.  Documents his activities as chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Information and American National Red Cross as well as with organizations including the Business Committee for the Arts, Business Council (U.S.), Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Harvard University.  Includes material pertaining to Stanton's research projects including his work with Paul Lazarsfeld on the program analyzer.  Subjects include radio and television advertising; broadcast of information about the U.S. to foreign countries; First Amendment and freedom of press; design of the Columbia Broadcasting System logo; design and construction of company headquarters, the CBS Building, in New York, N.Y.; government and the media; politics; presidential debates; travels to Europe; press coverage of the Vietnam War; and William F. Buckley.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Harold E. Burtt, Hadley Cantril, Thomas E. Dewey, Arthur Godfrey, William S. Paley, and Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Classified, in part.</note>
  <note>Audiotapes, videotapes, phonograph records, film reels, and compact disks transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Some photographs and drawings transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Broadcast executive.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Buckley, William F</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1925-2008</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Burtt, Harold E. (Harold Ernest)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cantril, Hadley</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1969</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1971</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1969</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ford, Gerald R</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1913-2006</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Godfrey, Arthur</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-1983</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1908-1973</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1917-1963</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1913-1994</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Paley, William S. (William Samuel)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-1990</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Truman, Harry S</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1972</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Advisory Commission on Information.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>1st Amendment.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American National Red Cross.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Business Committee for the Arts.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Business Council (U.S.)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Carnegie Institution of Washington.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>CBS Building (New York, N.Y.)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Columbia Broadcasting System, inc.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Harvard University.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Advertising</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Broadcast journalism</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Broadcasting policy</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Campaign debates</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Freedom of the press</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Logos (Symbols)</topic>
    <topic>Design</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mass media</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Political science</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Propaganda, American</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Radio advertising</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Radio broadcasting</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Radio journalism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Television advertising</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Television broadcasting</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Vietnam War, 1961-1975</topic>
    <topic>Press coverage</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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    <occupation>Broadcast executives</occupation>
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