Whitehead, Clay Thomas. creator mixed material monographic eng jap 26,250 77 31 Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, notes, briefing books, position papers, oral history interview transcripts, research material, subject files, conference proceedings, trip itineraries and records, corporate annual reports, university coursework, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the development of telecommunications policy in the United States and the global telecommunications industry. Documents Whitehead's service as special assistant to President Richard M. Nixon and director of the U.S. Office of Telecommunications Policy. Also documents Whitehead's career as an economist and analyst for the RAND Corporation; executive in the telecommunications industry primarily with Hughes Communications, SES Astra, and Alpha Lyracom (also Pan American Satellite); and professor at George Mason University. Also includes material pertaining to his student years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and to his research and writing as a visiting fellow at Harvard University and MIT. Also includes materials compiled by Whitehead for his unpublished history of telecommunications policy. Subjects include the Open Skies domestic communications satellite policy, digital compressed video and DigiCipher, deregulation of cable television networks, maritime policy matters, and the transition to the Gerald R. Ford presidential administration. Organizations represented include the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat), Corporation for Public Broadcasting, International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (Intelsat), U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Office of Telecommunications Boulder Policy Support Division, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, and U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Restrictions apply. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Digital version available on the Web site The Papers of Clay T. Whitehead at http://www.claytwhitehead.com United States government official and businessman. Born 1938; died 2008. Collection material in English, with Japanese. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013083 Ford, Gerald R 1913-2006 Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Telecommunications. Boulder Policy Support Division. United States. Federal Communications Commission. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. United States. Office of Telecommunications Policy. Communications Satellite Corporation. Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Harvard University. George Mason University. Hughes Communications. International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pan American Satellite. Rand Corporation. SES Astra. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Artificial satellites in telecommunication Cable television Deregulation United States Digital communications Merchant marine United States Space industrialization Telecommunication Telecommunication United States Telecommunication policy United States Alpha Lyracom. Businessmen Public officials mm2012085763 http://www.claytwhitehead.com hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013083 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013083.3 http://www.claytwhitehead.com http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013083 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013083.3 Restrictions apply. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 121120 20260227111733.0 mm2012085763 eng