EUGENE J. MCCARTHY:

An Inventory of His Speech Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

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Creator: McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005, creator.
Title:Speech Files, Eugene J. McCarthy papers.
Dates:1950-1989.
Language:Materials in English.
Abstract:Eugene J. McCarthy campaign supportersConsists of general and senate speeches, including speech drafts and notes, interviews, and panels.
Quantity: 16.0 cubic feet (16 boxes).
Location:See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Expand/CollapseGENERAL SPEECH FILES, 1959-1970, 1986-1989

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151.F.6.11B327Speech files, 1968-1969.
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151.F.6.12F328Speeches and releases files, 1959-1969.
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151.F.6.14F330Speech texts and excerpts, 1965.
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146.E.8.3B353Speech drafts and notes, 1950-1959. 107 envelopes and folders.
Topics include religion, Christians and politics, agriculture, morality in government, foreign policy and relations, national transportation, responsibilities of democratic leadership, politics and ethics, the national economy, women's role's, family, and others. Also included are commencement addresses, speeches commemorating various events and holidays, and speeches given at conventions and colleges.
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146.E.8.4F354Speech drafts and notes, 1960-1970.
Topics include religion, Christians and politics, morality, foreign policy and relations, the Vietnam war, congressional ethics, civil rights, B'nai B'rith, women's role's in society, family, and others. Commencements, convention speeches, and commemorative speeches are also included.
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147.A.3.3B363Speech and lecture notes, undated.
Notes, drafts, research materials:
Foreign policy.
Goldwater, Barry.
Inflation.
Liberalism.
Politics and Republicans.
Singles' Tax Reform.
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151.F.8.4F364McCarthy speeches, interviews, panels, undated, June 23, 1951-April 17, 1968. 37 envelopes and 25 folders.
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151.F.8.5B365McCarthy speeches, interviews, panels, August 18-December 18, 1968. 15 envelopes.
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151.E.2.10F370Correspondence and drafts of articles and speeches, 1986-1989. 17 folders.

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Expand/CollapseSENATE SPEECH FILES, 1955-1970

Arranged by topic, then in reverse chronological order within each topic.


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147.A.2.5B357Index to speeches.
List of individual speeches.
Domestic Affairs:
Promises and Realities, Merriweather Post Pavilion, July 23, 1968.
Older citizens, Amalgated Clothing Works, Wisconsin, March 31, 1968.
State of the Union, January 18, 1968.
Agriculture, 1959-1968.
Topics include farming, banking, U.S. world trade, foreign policy, role of cooperatives, and others. Most of the speeches were given in Minnesota (St. Paul, Minneapolis, other locations).
Civil rights and liberties, 1966, 1968.
Speeches for the Fellowship of Reconciliation Dinner, Boston University, Washington University, the Teamsters Convention (1966), and the Central States Correction Conference.
Education, 1955, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1966-1969.
Speeches for Phi Beta Kappa (Harvard College), Citizens for Educational Freedom, Minnesota Alumni Association, Minnesota State Federation of Teachers, others. Topics include desegregation, churches and federal aid, and government and the academic community.
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147.A.2.6F358Health, 1961, 1963-1967.
Topics include civil rights and mental health, social policy for health in a democratic society, voluntary associations and freedom.
Housing:
Sidore Lecture Series, University of New Hampshire, Manchester-Durham, New Hampshire. December 14, 1967.
Labor, 1959, 1961-1965.
Topics include unemployment compensation, automation, employee benefits.
Poverty, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1966.
Topics include institutionalized poverty, the anatomy of poverty, and the responsibility of government for social and economic welfare.
Urban Affairs, 1966-1968.
Economic Policy:
General, 1959-1968.
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147.A.2.7B359Foreign Affairs:
General, 1951-1970.
Israel and the Middle East, 1959-1967.
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147.A.2.8F360Government:
Congress, 1959-1967.
Philosophy of Government, 1959-1969.
Political, 1968-1970.
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147.A.3.1B361Politics:
General, 1959-1967.
The family and politics, 1959-1966.
Liberalism, 1959-1967.
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147.A.3.2F362Religion:
General, 1957-1961.
Miscellaneous:
General, 1959-1970.
Press and Communication, 1959-1968.
Special days, 1959-1969.
Commencement, 1959-1970.
St. Patrick's Day, 1959-1966.
Tributes, 1960-1968.
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147.A.3.3B363Youth, 1964-1968.

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