TY  - GEN
AU  - Whitehead,Clay Thomas
TI  - Clay Thomas Whitehead papers,
KW  - Ford, Gerald R.,
KW  - Nixon, Richard M.
KW  - United States
KW  - Department of Commerce
KW  - Office of Telecommunications
KW  - Boulder Policy Support Division
KW  - Federal Communications Commission
KW  - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
KW  - Office of Telecommunications Policy
KW  - Communications Satellite Corporation
KW  - Corporation for Public Broadcasting
KW  - Harvard University
KW  - George Mason University
KW  - Hughes Communications
KW  - International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium
KW  - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
KW  - Pan American Satellite
KW  - Rand Corporation
KW  - SES Astra
KW  - U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
KW  - Alpha Lyracom
KW  - Artificial satellites in telecommunication
KW  - Cable television
KW  - Deregulation
KW  - Digital communications
KW  - Merchant marine
KW  - Space industrialization
KW  - Telecommunication
KW  - Telecommunication policy
KW  - Businessmen
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Public officials
N1  - 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
N2  - 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  Also includes materials compiled by Whitehead for his unpublished history of telecommunications policy.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
UR  - http://www.claytwhitehead.com
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UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013083.3
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