HUBERT H. HUMPHREY:

An Inventory of His Additional Files: Staff Members: Neal D. Peterson at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

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	Creator:	Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978, creator.
	Title:	Additional Files: Staff Members: Neal D. Peterson.
	Dates:	1955-1977.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Files of an attorney who served as counsel to Humphrey during his first tenure in the Senate, as Assistant to the Vice President for Domestic Economics, and who acted as the vice president's liaison with local governments and small businesses.
	Quantity:	6.6 cubic feet (7 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Neal Douglas Peterson was born December 26, 1925, in Minneapolis. He earned a B.S. in education from the University of Minnesota in 1950 and a JD from William Mitchell College of Law in 1954. Peterson was counsel to Senator Humphrey and to the Senate Small Business Committee, of which Humphrey was a member (1961-1964); and Assistant to the Vice President for Domestic Economics and Humphrey's liaison with local governments and small businesses (1965-1968). Peterson died January 25, 2005 in Fairfax, Virginia.

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SCOPE AND CONTENTS

His files reflect his work in these various positions, and his role in the Humphrey office in helping to formulate policy, prepare or approve speeches and statements, and maintain relations with other members of Congress, government officials, and members of the business community. A number of files include originals (ribbon copies) of letters and memos to and from Humphrey.

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ARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:



		First Senatorial period
		Vice Presidency
		Final Senate terms
		Campaign files
		Articles

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Hubert H. Humphrey Papers. Additional Files: Staff Members: Neal D. Peterson. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 17,563

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 990069516070104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

FIRST SENATORIAL PERIOD

Letters, memoranda, Senate bills and drafts, remarks and position statements by Humphrey and others, and background materials on legislation, policy proposals, business-government partnerships, and the Minnesota iron ore and steel industry.

Location

Box

141.I.13.1B

Legislation files:

S.1799 Graduated Income Tax, 1961-1963.

S.1800-S.1804 Humphrey small business bills, 1961.

H.R.9530 Lease guarantee bill, 1962.

Amendment to anti-trust acts.

S.2849 Solar energy, 1962.

Amendments to Defense Appropriations bill, 1963.

S.Res.30, Small Business Committee jurisdiction, 1963.

S.1320 Amend FTC Act , 1963-1964.

In re cooperative advertising by small businesses.

Responses to Robinson-Patman amendment, S.1815 and S.1935, 1963-1964.

Continuation of the 1962 anti-trust amendment efforts.

S.2411, Great Lakes fishing industry, 1963-1964.

S.Res.138, White House Conference regarding Effects of Antitrust on Small Business, 1963-1964.

S. 2427, Establish Commission on Automation, Technology, and Employment, 1964.

With supportive correspondence.

S.2853, Solar energy, 1964.

S.2977, Food additives bill, 1964.

S.J.Res.195, White House Conference on Small Business, 1964.

Subject/project files:

Bread industry analyses, approximately 1963.

Carbon copies of two reports submitted to the Senate Small Business Committee.

Defense economic utilization, 1963.

Defense Department procurement issues.

Far East trade, 1961-1963.

Particularly Japanese trade fairs and the development of the Far Eastern poultry industry.

Federal Trade Commission: Deceptive pricing correspondence, 1963.

Milk hearings, Iron Range committee, 1959-1962.

Regarding trade and pricing practices.

Minnesota dairy industry, approximately 1961-1962.

Information on individual dairies and on product distribution routes.

Minnesota dairy industry and pricing: Newspaper clippings, 1960-1961.

National Advisory Council on the Arts, 1962-1964. 2 folders.

Northeast Minnesota, 1961-1962.

A memo outlining economic problems and programs, and three letters regarding power needs and costs.

Resource revolution/business government partnerships, 1962-1965. 2 folders.

Regarding legislation intended to assist small business and public-private partnerships to pursue the goals of the "Great Society," the application of science and technology to business and public planning, and related topics. Includes texts of several Humphrey speeches that are not included in the digitized Speech Text Files.

Steel industry:

Correspondence and miscellany regarding iron ore, 1955-1958. 2 folders.

Hearings on problems of iron ore industry, 1961-1962.

Tax issues, 1962.

Marketing, pricing, and demand problems for steel and iron ore, 1957-1963.

Iron ore import quotas, 1957-1963.

Iron ore, Krupp-Renn process, 1961-1964. 3 folders.

Regarding investigation of a German-developed iron ore reduction process and its potential application to Iron Range ores. Includes a lengthy study by Zontelli Brothers, Ironton, Minn., done for the Itasca County Area Redevelopment Agency (1963).

New ore processes: Taconite pelletizing projects, 1958-1963.

New ore processes: Direct reduction, 1961-1962.

New ore processes: Proposed test of Madrigal direct conversion process, 1961-1962.

New ore processes: Battelle Institute proposed research program, 1962.

W. S. Moore application for construction of briquetting pilot plant, 1962.

Taconite Amendment, 1960-1964. 2 folders.

Location

Box

141.I.13.2F

President's Advisory Staff on Scientific Information Management (PASSIM):

Established per S.J.Res.202, introduced by Humphrey September 10, 1964. Its aim was to assemble a staff within the Executive Office to evaluate and develop scientific decision-aiding systems and to provide for their application in addressing large-scale societal problems, and to have overall responsibility for the scientific management of Federal information.

S.J.Res.202, introduction and speech, September 1964.

Correspondence and miscellany, September 1964-February 1965.

Background materials, 1962-1964.

Federal agency activities, 1964.

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VICE PRESIDENCY

Location

Box

141.I.13.2F

Project and subject files:

Most of these files add to or interfile with the existing Vice Presidential business, economics, and urban affairs (BEU) files, which are also largely those of Neal Peterson. Most of the files relate to Peterson's work in support of Humphrey's role as President Johnson's liaison to local governments.

Amendment of Armed Services procurement regulations, 1968.

To help address hard-core unemployment via procurement contractor requirements.

American Motors, amendment to the tax bill, July 1967.

To modify its income tax loss carryback and carry forward requirements to help it recover from operating losses.

Business: Humphrey work with business, Kampelman memo, 1966.

With supporting materials from prior years.

Business: Favorable business replies, 1965-1968.

Friendly and congratulatory letters to Humphrey from corporate executives and other prominent business leaders, with a few of Humphrey's replies. This file was kept by Peterson apparently for use in soliciting future support for Humphrey within the business community.

Comments on Dutton letter, 1966.

Dutton's letter posited that Humphrey and his generation are politically out of touch with the upcoming generation.

Comprehensive Catalog Task Force, 1967.

To develop a single comprehensive catalog of federal programs and services. This likely became the Vice President's Handbook for Local Officials.

Cost of riot control: Mike March report, 1968.

Economics: Draft article on general economic situation for Vice President, 1967.

Federal Executive Boards/Critical urban problems, 1967-1968.

See also Federal Executive Board, BEU files Box 788.

Housing rehabilitation programs, 1964-1966.

Intergovernmental cooperation: Presidential memo November 11, 1966 and follow-up, 1966-1967.

Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, 1966-1968. 3 folders.

Intergovernmental relations, 1966-1968.

See also Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, BEU files Box 787.

Job development-security regulations, 1968.

Mainly regarding the issue of criminal records as a bar to employment in defense industries.

Joint Funding Simplification Act, 1967-1968.

Proposal for simplification of grant-in-aid administration.

Labor: Humphrey letter to labor unions on savings bonds, December 1967.

Maritime policy/merchant marine renewal, 1967-1968. 3 folders.

Marshall Plan for the Nation's Cities: Humphrey statements and articles, 1965-1967.

Minnesota Experimental City, 1966-1968.

National information systems proposals, 1965-1966. 3 folders.

A continuation of Humphrey's scientific information management initiative.

See also Information on Management in Government, BEU files Box 789.

Location

Box

141.I.13.3B

Neighborhood centers, 1966.

Uniform Relocation Act, February-March 1968.

Urban goals, proposed joint resolution, 1968.

Vice President's assignment as liaison with local government, 1966-1968. 3 folders.

Memoranda, reports, and miscellany.

See also Local Government, BEU files, box 789.

Vice President's Handbook for Local Officials, 1967. 3 folders.

Correspondence and memos regarding its production and distribution.

See also Vice President's Handbook for Local Officials, BEU files boxes 816-819.

Vice President's portrait, (Edward H.) Weiss, 1967.

Vice President's Task Force on Urban-Rural Balance, 1967.

See also Urban-Rural Balance Symposium, BEU files Box 814.

Neal Peterson memos to Vice President, 1965-1968. 13 folders.

Neal Peterson memos from Vice President, 1967-1968.

Memos from staff members and Peterson's copies of Vice President memos to and from staff, 1967-1968.

Neal Peterson memos to staff members, 1967-1968. 4 folders.

Staffing assignments to Vice President, 1967.

Quarterly report material, 1967-January 1968.

Apparently background for Peterson's activity reports to the Vice President.

Humphrey reading copies, 1965-1968.

Apparently Peterson's copies of letters and memos to and from Humphrey on issues of major interest to him.

Neal Peterson file lists, 1963-1968.

Location

Box

141.I.13.4F

Neal Peterson reading file:

Primarily carbon copies of Peterson's letters and memos to the Vice President, his staff, government agency officials, and members of the public; of Humphrey's letters to officials and the public, apparently written or drafted for him by Peterson; and of letters written by Peterson at the Vice President's behest. Those for 1966 include some of Peterson's weekly activity reports. There appears to be considerable overlap between these files and the memos in Box 3.

Chronological file, 1966. 13 folders.

Outgoing letters and memos, 1967. 2 folders.

Miscellaneous letters, memos, and attachments.

Chronological file, January-October 1968. 10 folders.

Location

Box

141.I.13.5B

Humphrey speech and appearance preparation files:

Speech drafts and texts, Peterson's correspondence and memos, and background materials for Humphrey's speeches and appearances, primarily to groups of local officials and business and labor organizations. Peterson apparently served as liaison with these groups (although not for scheduling and travel logistics) and approved or helped draft some of the speeches. The main set of Humphrey's speech text files is available in digital format; Peterson's files include some drafts and texts not fully present in those files. There are also notes on conversations with economists and business leaders, suggested talking points and answers to questions, newspaper clippings reporting on or reacting to a speech, and letters congratulating or commenting on a speech. Also present are a few of Peterson's speeches given to these groups as Humphrey's stand-in, and a few reports on meetings or conferences he attended.

Advertising Federation of America, February 1, 1965.

Chamber of Commerce, February 3, 1965.

American Pharmaceutical Association convention (Detroit), March 28, 1965.

Insurance Investor Executives (Brookings), April 23, 1965.

National Association of Home Builders, May 11, 1965,

National Association of Manufacturers, May 11, 1965.

International Council of Industrial Editors, May 18, 1965.

International City Managers Association, May 20-21, 1965.

New York Financial Writers annual Spring dinner, May 21, 1965.

Conference of Mayors (St. Louis), May 31, 1965.

National Secretaries Association, June 14, 1965.

Bluefield, West Virginia speech, June 16, 1965.

Corporate secretaries speech (Greenbriar, West Virginia), June 28, 1965.

National Association of Counties (San Diego, California), July 12, 1965.

National League of Cities, July 27, 1965.

SBA-SBIC check presentation ceremony, August 18, 1965.

Virginia League of Cities (Virginia Beach, Virginia), September 14, 1965.

Urban Development seminar, September 15, 1965.

McGraw-Hill editors meeting, September 30, 1965.

Business Council, October 16, 1965.

Shipbuilders, November 19, 1965.

President's Club (Denver), December 2, 1965.

Institute of Life Insurance (New York), December 7, 1965.

National League of Cities, December 8-9, 1965.

Action Council for Better Cities, December 9, 1965.

Institute of Life Insurance, December 28, 1965.

Includes two photographs.

Miscellaneous texts, 1965.

Public interest groups, January 5-6, 1966.

American Iron and Steel Institute, 1966.

Washington meeting with Illinois Chamber of Commerce, February 8, 1966.

Winter Convention on Aerospace & Electronic Systems, February 1966.

American Ballet Theatre, February 18, 1966.

Twentieth anniversary of the Employment Act of 1946, February 20, 1966.

Internal Revenue agents, March 3, 1966.

National Gallery of Art: Opening of Mellon Collection, March 17, 1966.

Meeting with Secretary Fowler on balance of payments, March 18, 1966.

Building and Construction Trades Department, March 21-24, 1966.

State Municipal League directors, March 31, 1966.

Executive Officers Group, March 31, 1966.

Cowles dinner, March 4, 1966.

Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University: Third Developers Conference, April 7, 1966.

American Association of State, County and Municipal Employees, April 26, 1966.

National Association of Home Builders board of directors, April 26, 1966.

Signing of Small Business Amendments of 1966, May 1966.

Regional Conference of Mayors (Cleveland), May 6, 1966.

Sparr dinner (Cleveland), May 6, 1966.

Communications Workers of America trainees, May 11, 1966.

United States Committee for Refugees, May 16, 1966.

Cabinet meeting, May 17, 1966.

American Legion Maritime Award, May 24, 1966.

Labor editors, May 24, 1966.

Taconite dedication, June 10, 1966.

Michigan State University commencement (East Lansing), June 12, 1966.

U.S. Conference of Mayors (Dallas), June 13, 1966.

National Coal Association luncheon, June 21, 1966.

U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce (Detroit), June 29, 1966.

Governors Conference (Los Angeles), July 4, 1966.

Meeting of agency liaison people, July 7, 1966.

National Association of County Officials (New Orleans), July 18, 1966.

Conference with city managers, July 28, 1966.

Entertainment of city managers' wives, July 28, 1966.

Background material for "Face the Nation," August 7, 1966.

Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union (Kansas City, Missouri), August 8, 1966.

American Mining Convention (Salt Lake City), September 12, 1966.

Urban America Inc., September 13, 1966.

National Association of Insurance Agents (New York), September 19-21, 1966.

United Steelworkers (Atlantic City), September 23, 1966.

Minnesota Savings and Loan Association, September 23, 1966.

Labor Department: Eleven-City Telephone Conference, September 26, 1966.

Federal Executive Board: Critical urban problems conference, October 1966.

International Association of Chiefs of Police (Philadelphia), October 3, 1966.

Mayor's conference: Top 50 cities (Washington, D.C.), October 17, 1966.

International City Managers Conference, October 23-27, 1966.

International Conference of the Public Personnel Association (Washington, D.C.), October 26, 1966.

Dedication of the Housing and Urban Development Building, November 11, 1966.

National Forest Products Association, November 14-16, 1966.

National Conference of State Legislative Leaders (Washington, D.C.), November 19, 1966.

American Federation of Musicians, November 19, 1966.

Town meeting for the Twin Cities, November 29, 1966.

Joint meeting of the executive officers group and local government representatives, December 16, 1966.

Location

Box

141.I.13.6F

"Face the Nation," January 21, 1967.

Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents meeting, January 25, 1967.

U.S. Conference of Mayors Executive Committee, January 26, 1967.

International Newspaper Advertising Executives, January 26, 1967.

National Association of Manufacturers dinner, January 27, 1967.

Junior Chamber of Commerce, January 30, 1967.

Meeting with tribal Indian chiefs (Washington, D.C.), February 2, 1967.

American Iron and Steel Institute, February 8, 1967.

National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (Washington, D.C.), February 14, 1967.

Smithsonian Institution: "The Quality of Man's Development," February 17, 1967.

Smithsonian Institution: Oath ceremony

Legislative Conference, N. L. C., March 1967.

St. Louis Chamber of Commerce Washington Senubar group, March 3, 1967.

The Vice President and Senator Paul Douglas: "After Vietnam: An Assault on the Homefront?," March 8, 1967.

Democratic National Committee, March 9, 1967.

National League of Cities (Washington, D.C.), March 14, 1967.

Scientific and technological capabilities, non-defense programs, March 14, 1967.

National Conference of Councils of Government (Washington, D.C.), April 3, 1967.

Meeting between the Vice President and mayors Lindsay, Cavanaugh, Allen, and Cervantes, April 19, 1967.

Vice presidents of insurance companies, April 20, 1967.

Vice President's meeting with local government officials of Southern California, May 2, 1967.

Railway and steamship clerks, May 8, 1967.

Pacific Conference on Urban Growth, May 1967.

Ship owners and builders, May 17, 1967.

New York Stock Exchange, May 17, 1967.

American Public Works Association, May 18, 1967.

Dallas, May 23, 1967.

National Governors' Conference, June 12, 1967.

Conference of Mayors (Syracuse, New York), June 13, 1967.

Huntsville: Summer youth programs, July 1967.

Merriweather Post Pavilion of Music (Columbia, Maryland), July 14, 1967.

Iceland president luncheon, July 19, 1967.

Smithsonian Institution: Joseph Henry Medal, July 19, 1967.

International Longshoremen convention, July 20, 1967.

National League of Cities (Boston), July 31, 1967.

National Association of Counties conference, August 2, 1967.

Economic briefing, August 23, 1967.

American Federation of Teachers, August 24, 1967.

White House meeting with life insurance company executives, September 13, 1967.

National postal forums, September 15, 1967.

National School Boards Association (Washington, D.C.), September 21, 1967.

National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials conference (Portland, Oregon), October 8, 1967.

National Governors' Conference, October 16-21, 1967.

New Jersey State League of Municipalities conference (Atlantic City), November 14, 1967.

National Businessmen's Council (New York), November 16, 1967.

"Meet the Press," November 26, 1967.

National Association of Home Builders (Chicago), December 6, 1967.

St. Louise Meeting: Area Mayors (Metropolitan), December 8, 1967.

"Communities of Tomorrow" conference (Washington, D.C.), December 12, 1967.

National Industrial Conference Board (New York), January 10, 1968.

Texas Congressman Poole's invitation to Dallas businessmen, January 18, 1968.

Jaycee meeting (St. Paul), January 19, 1968.

U.S. Conference of Mayors Executive Committee, January 25, 1968.

President's Council on Youth Opportunity: Meeting of city officials (Washington, D.C.), January 29, 1968.

Jaycees: Governmental affairs winners, January 31, 1968.

Sickle-feather reception, February 5, 1968.

Speech at a meeting of The Business Council (Washington, D.C.): Mayflower Hotel Dinner, February 15, 1968.

Includes recordings on two 7-inch Edison Voicewriter disks.

Steelworkers, February 14, 1968.

White House meeting with governors, February 29, 1968.

Florida businessmen's group (Sanford, Florida), March 1, 1968.

National Housing Conference at the Statler Hilton (Washington, D.C.), March 4, 1968.

AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department, March 28, 1968.

Cowles Publications Dinner (New York), April 2, 1968.

National League of Cities Executive Committee, May 16, 1968.

National Service to Regional Councils (Washington, D.C.), May 22-24, 1968.

AFL-CIO Maritime Committee, May 28, 1968.

Steel company presidents, June 18, 1968.

"Face the Nation," June 30, 1968.

Mayor Stokes and cabinet (Cleveland), July 1, 1968.

Mayor's announcement for Humphrey, July 1, 1968.

National Association of Counties Convention, July 31, 1968.

Announcement of county officials for Humphrey, August 1, 1968.

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FINAL SENATE TERMS

Location

Box

143.A.6.2F

National Domestic Development Bank, 1968-1977. 10 folders.

Statements and remarks by Humphrey and others, staff memoranda, reports and background information, copies of Congressional bills, newspaper clippings, and miscellany relating to his proposal as Vice President and Senator to create a national development bank to finance urban renewal and revitalization. Includes the transcript of a hearing on the 1977 bill in the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs. An outgrowth of Humphrey's concept of a "Marshall Plan for U.S. Cities," the bank would establish local branches funded by the sale of stock to the public, which would then provide loans to state and local governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. This approach to urban development was envisioned as more efficient and inexpensive than the sale of municipal bonds.

Trip file: Stockholm, London, and Paris, August 31-September 7, 1975.

Correspondence, memoranda, schedules, background materials. Neal Peterson was a member of Humphrey's party, and his follow-up report is included. Humphrey's speech in Stockholm, September 3, is included in the digitized Speech Text Files.

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