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Documentary History of the Presidency
The Documentary History of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency
The Documentary History of the Truman Presidency
The Documentary History of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidency
The Documentary History of the John F. Kennedy Presidency
The Documentary History of the Presidency
series provides scholars with an insider’s look
at the policies, programs, and inner workings
of four presidential administrations, spanning
from Franklin D. Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy.
For each volume, LexisNexis UPA editors, working in close consultation with the series general
editors, select the most valuable and illuminating documents from the records at the Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy Presidential
Libraries. The volumes draw from a wide variety
of records, including the President’s Secretary’s
Files, Office Files, National Security Files, FBI
files, CIA records, office files of individual members of the White House staff and the White
House Central Files, as well as manuscript collections of administration officials and others
associated with the presidency. Within these files,
document types include official and personal
correspondence, diary excerpts, telegrams, memoranda, reports, and press releases; documents
from presidential appointment files, speech files,
political files, and legislative files; segments of
press conference transcripts, and government
publications. The volumes reproduce the exact
images of documents, allowing researchers to see
handwritten comments on documents and edits
made to draft memos or reports. Each volume is
also accompanied by a table of contents, including an abstract for each document, as well as a
detailed subject index.
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The Documentary History of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency
From the depths of the Great Depression to the Second World War,
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unique four-term presidency saw the nation
through tumultuous times. Determined that lessons learned would
not be forgotten, Roosevelt donated his voluminous papers to the
American people, making them available to all at his presidential
library.
Now, with the Documentary History of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Administration, UPA makes this wealth of knowledge more accessible. Expertly edited by Dr. George McJimsey, this projected 50
volume print publication selects the most revealing documents
from over 17 million pages concerning the Roosevelt administrations. Individual volumes focus on topics such as New Deal
programs, the presidential campaigns of 1940 and 1944, “Good
Neighbor” relations with Latin America and Canada, foreign policy
initiatives in response to Nazism in Europe and Japanese expansion
in Asia, and finally World War II.
Vol. 1: “Packing” the Supreme Court and the Judicial
Reorganization Bill, January–July 1937
1 vol. PIN 0000002166
Vol. 2: The Lend Lease Act, December 1940–April 1941
1 vol. PIN 0000002168
Vol. 3: The Bank Holiday and the Emergency Banking Act, March
1933
1 vol. PIN 0000002169
Vol. 4: Neutrality Legislation, September–November 1939
1 vol. PIN 0000002170
Vol. 5: The Social Security Act, June 1934–August 1935
1 vol. PIN 0000002171
Vol. 6: Agricultural Adjustment Act and Farm Relief, March–May
1933
1 vol. PIN 0000002172
Letter from Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to President
Roosevelt regarding the 1944 presidential campaign, included as
Document 32 in Volume 34. Courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library, Hyde Park, New York.
Vol. 7: U.S.-Japan Relations: Trade
Relations and the Sino-Japanese War,
1938–1940
1 vol. PIN 0000002173
Vol. 11: FDR and Protection from
Lynching, 1934–1945
1 vol. PIN 0000009191
Vol. 15: Coal Strikes, Labor, and the
Smith-Connally Act, 1943
1 vol. PIN 0000009195
Vol. 8: The National Labor Relations
Board and the Wagner Act
1 vol. PIN 0000002174
Vol. 12: FDR’s Protest of the Treatment of
Jews in Germany, 1938
1 vol. PIN 0000009192
Vol. 9: U.S.-Japanese Relations, January–
December 1941
1 vol. PIN 0000002175
Vol. 13: The Presidential Campaign of
1940
1 vol. PIN 0000009193
Vol. 16: Promulgation of the National
Industrial Recovery Act and the
Establishment of the National Recovery
Administration
1 vol. PIN 0000016303
Vol. 10: The Gold Standard, Monetary
Reform, and the Gold Reserve Act, April
1933–January 1934
1 vol. PIN 0000002167
Vol. 14: The Yalta Conference, October
1944–March 1945
1 vol. PIN 0000009194
Vol. 17: FDR and the London Economic
Conference, May–July 1933
1 vol. PIN 0000016304
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Vol. 18: The Securities and Exchange Act
of 1934 and the Regulation of Securities
1 vol. PIN 0000016305
Vol. 25: FDR, Churchill, and Operation
TORCH
1 vol. PIN 0000100429
Vol. 32: Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, &
Domestic Surveillance, 1939–1942
1 vol. PIN 0000102633
Vol. 19: Cuba, the Good Neighbor
Policy and the Abrogation of the Platt
Amendment
1 vol. PIN 0000016306
Vol. 26: FDR’s Response to Recession,
1937–1938
1 vol. PIN 0000101193
Vol. 33: Myron Taylor & the
Establishment of Intergovernmental
Committee on Political Refugees, 1938
1 vol. PIN 0000102634
Vol. 20: Eleanor Roosevelt: The Role of
the First Lady
1 vol. PIN 0000016307
Vol. 27: The Recognition of the Soviet
Union
1 vol. PIN 0000101194
Vol. 34: The 1944 Presidential Campaign
1 vol. PIN 0000102635
Vol. 28: Promulgation of the Tennessee
Valley Authority
1 vol. PIN 0000101195
Vol. 35: Huey Long, Louisiana Politics,
and the Threat to the Presidency
1 vol. PIN 0000102636
Vol. 29: U.S. Response to the Panay
Incident, 1937
1 vol. PIN 0000101196
Vol. 36: The Spanish Civil War and
Neutrality Act of 1937
1 vol. PIN 0000102637
Vol. 23: Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
1 vol. PIN 0000100427
Vol. 30: FDR, Harry Hopkins and the Civil
Works Administration
1 vol. PIN 0000101197
Vol. 37: Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, &
Domestic Surveillance, 1943–1945
1 vol. PIN 0000103213
Vol. 24: FDR’s Response to German
Aggression: Czechoslovakia, 1938
1 vol. PIN 0000100428
Vol. 31: War Production Board &
Management of Wartime Economy
1 vol. PIN 0000102632
Vol. 38: Implementation of the Works
Progress Administration
1 vol. PIN 0000103258
Vol. 21: Executive Reorganization,
1937–1939
1 vol. PIN 0000100425
Vol. 22: Schechter Case and
Unconstitutionality of the NRA, 1935
1 vol. PIN 0000100426
Letter from Huey Long
to President Roosevelt
regarding the distribution of wealth in the
United States, included
as Document 50 in
Volume 35.
Statement by President
Roosevelt asking law
enforcement officers to
report all information
relating to espionage,
sabotage, and violations of
the neutrality regulations to
the nearest FBI field office,
included as Document 1 in
Volume 37.
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Vol. 39: FDR and Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union
1 vol. PIN 0000103260
Vol. 40: The Bretton Woods Conference, 1944
1 vol. PIN 0000103261
Vol. 41: The Morgenthau Plan of 1944
1 vol. PIN 0000103985
Vol. 42: The Party Purge, the House of Representatives Elections
of 1938
1 vol. PIN 0000103986
Vol. 43: The Atomic Bomb. Development and Diplomacy
1 vol. PIN 0000103987
Vol. 44: Creating the Civilian Conservation Corps
1 vol. PIN 0000104564
Vol. 45: The Election of 1936
1 vol. PIN 0000104565
Vol. 46: The Rural Electrification Administration
1 vol. PIN 0000104566
Vol. 47: Establishing Civil Government in Occupied Europe
1 vol. PIN 0000104567
Democratic Party literature for the 1938 elections, included as Document 41 in
Volume 42.
July 5, 1935 directive from Harry L.
Hopkins establishing maximum daily
and weekly hours for employment
on public relief projects, included as
Document 20 in Volume 38.
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The Documentary History of the Truman Presidency
The Documentary History of the Truman Presidency is based on the
work of archivists at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence,
Missouri, who have identified and copied a group of especially important documents that shed light on the pressing issues that President
Truman faced.
The Documentary History of the Truman Presidency comprises a
rich variety of materials: official and personal correspondence, diary
excerpts, telegrams, memoranda, reports, maps, drawings, and press
releases; documents from presidential appointment files, speech
files, political files, and legislative files; segments of press conference
transcripts and government publications; and much more. There are
formerly classified materials relating to foreign policy and national
security, including highly sensitive CIA and NSC reports.
The volumes of The Documentary History of the Truman Presidency
are a selection of topical documentary collections at the Truman
Library known as the Student Research File. Library archivists created the Student Research File in response to the numerous requests
for information on the same subjects. In order to preserve the original documents and to assist researchers in quickly locating the most
important information, archivists identified and copied the most
significant documents for specific topics from among the numerous
record groups of the library’s holdings.
For researchers interested in the political, social, and economic
development of the United States from 1945 to 1953, the international
crises of the postwar period, or President Truman and his decisionmaking process, The Documentary History of the Truman Presidency
is a valuable source.
Complete collection
(35 vols.) PIN 0000000027
Vol. 1: The Decision to Drop the Atomic
Bomb on Japan
1 vol. PIN 0000002199
Vol. 2: Planning for the Postwar World:
President Truman at the Postdam
Conference, July 17–August 2, 1945
1 vol. PIN 0000002210
Vol. 3: United States Policy in
Occupied Germany after World War
II: Denazification, Decartelization,
Demilitarization, and Democratization
1 vol. PIN 0000002223
Vol. 4: Demobilization and Reconversion:
Rebuilding a Peacetime Economy
Following World War II
1 vol. PIN 0000002230
Vol. 5: Creating a Pluralistic Democracy
in Japan: The Occupation Government,
1945–1952
1 vol. PIN 0000002231
Petition from scientists imploring the president not use the atomic
bomb unless Japan rejected the terms of surrender. From Volume
1: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan. Courtesy of
the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri.
Vol. 6: The Chinese Civil War: General
George C. Marshall’s Mission to China,
1945–1947
1 vol. PIN 0000002232
Vol. 7: The Ideological Foundations of
the Cold War: The Long Telegram, the
Clifford Report, and NSC 68
1 vol. PIN 0000002233
Vol. 8: The Truman Doctrine and the
Beginning of the Cold War, 1947–1949
1 vol. PIN 0000002234
Vol. 9: The Debate over Labor Policy:
President Truman’s Battle with Congress
over Passage of the Taft-Hartley Act,
January–June 1947
1 vol. PIN 0000002235
Vol. 10: President Truman’s Fight to Unify
the Armed Services, 1945–1949
1 vol. PIN 0000002200
Vol. 11: The Truman Administration’s
Civil Rights Program: The Report of the
Committee on Civil Rights, and President
Truman’s Message to Congress of
February 2, 1948
1 vol. PIN 0000002201
Vol. 12: The Truman Administration’s
Civil Rights Program: President Truman’s
Attempts to Put the Principles of Racial
Justice into Law, 1948–1950
1 vol. PIN 0000002202
Vol. 13: Establishing the Marshall Plan,
1947–1948
1 vol. PIN 0000002203
Vol. 14: Running from Behind: Truman’s
Strategy for the 1938 Presidental
Campaign
1 vol. PIN 0000002204
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Vol. 15: The Fair Deal: President Truman’s
Vision of the American Future
1 vol. PIN 0000002205
Vol. 16: Cold War Confrontation: Truman,
Stalin, and the Berlin Airlift
1 vol. PIN 0000002206
Vol. 28: The Truman Scandals: The
President Confronts a Political Crisis,
1951–1952
1 vol. PIN 0000002221
Vol. 29: Oil Crisis in Iran
1 vol. PIN 0000002222
Vol. 17: The Origins and Establishment of
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,
1948–1952
1 vol. PIN 0000002207
Vol. 30: The Constitutional Crisis over
President Truman’s Seizure of the Steel
Industry in 1952
1 vol. PIN 0000002224
Vol. 18: The Korean War: The United
States’ Response to North Korea’s Invasion
of South Korea, June 25,
1950–October 1951
1 vol. PIN 0000002208
Vol. 31: The Truman Administration’s Civil
Rights Program: The Desegregation of the
Armed Forces
1 vol. PIN 0000002225
Vol. 32: The Emergence of an Asian Pacific
Rim in American Foreign Policy: The
Philippines, Indochina, Thailand, Burma,
Malaya, and Indonesia
1 vol. PIN 0000002226
Vol. 33: Immigration Policy: President
Truman’s Veto of the McCarran-Walter Act
1 vol. PIN 0000002227
Vol. 34: The Truman Administration’s Policy
toward Native Americans
1 vol. PIN 0000002228
Vol. 35: The United Nations, 1945–1953:
The Development of a World Organization
1 vol. PIN 0000002229
Vol. 19: The Korean War: Response to
Communist China’s Intervention, October
1950–April 1951
1 vol. PIN 0000002209
Vol. 20: The Korean War: President
Truman’s Dismissal of General Douglas
MacArthur
1 vol. PIN 0000002211
Vol. 21: The Development of an Atomic
Weapons Program Following World War II
1 vol. PIN 0000002212
Vol. 22: The Emergence of an Asian Pacific
Rim in American Foreign Policy: Korea,
Japan, and Formosa
1 vol. PIN 0000002213
Vol. 23: The Central Intelligence Agency:
Its Founding and the Dispute over Its
Mission, 1945–1954
1 vol. PIN 0000002214
Vol. 24: The United States’ Recognition of
Israel
1 vol. PIN 0000002215
Vol. 25: President Truman’s Confrontation
with McCarthyism
1 vol. PIN 0000002216
Vol. 26: Preparing to Survive Atomic
Attack: The Truman Administration’s Civil
Defense Program
1 vol. PIN 0000002217
Vol. 27: The Point Four Program: Reaching
Out to Help the Less Developed Countries
1 vol. PIN 0000002219
Memorandum from Charles Fahy to Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray
regarding the assignment of African American personnel (included as
document 142 in Volume 31, The Truman Administration’s Civil Rights
Program: The Desegregation of the Armed Forces.) Courtesy of the
Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri.
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The Documentary History of the
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidency
A former general and World War II hero, Dwight D. Eisenhower
served as president of the United States for eight years and
enjoyed significant bipartisan support both in Congress and with
the electorate. His administration coincided with an era of substantial economic prosperity and saw the welfare state of the New
Deal era mature to a permanent place in the political landscape.
Eisenhower’s presidency provided the nation with eight years
of consensus and a consolidation of the political direction
Roosevelt and Truman had charted. Eisenhower produced no
sharp departures from the New Deal welfare state or from the
interventionist foreign policy of the early cold war years. He did
work behind the scenes to silence some of the more extreme
voices in the Republican coalition, namely Wisconsin Senator
Joseph McCarthy and Ohio Senator John Bricker. That he did little
to aid the civil rights movement proved his greatest failure. His
search for peace in the cold war began with grandiose plans and
ended with mixed results at best. Though Eisenhower’s presidency was underrated or criticized for at least twenty years after
it concluded, students and scholars of the 1950s have come to
appreciate the nuances of these eight years. The documentary evidence in this projected 35 volume series is designed to encourage
still more students to examine anew this crucial era in American
political history.
Vol. 1: The Eisenhower Administration and the Brown v. Board
of Education Decision, 1954–1955
1 vol. PIN 0000101198
Vol. 2: President Eisenhower, Collective Security, and the
Eisenhower Doctrine: The Baghdad Pact, 1953
1 vol. PIN 0000101199
Vol. 3: President Eisenhower, Operation CANDOR, and the
Atoms for Peace Speech, April 1953–May 1954
1 vol. PIN 0000101200
Vol. 4: President Eisenhower, the Constitution, and the Bricker
Amendment
1 vol. PIN 0000102638
Vol. 5: The Geneva Conference of 1954
1 vol. PIN 0000102639
Vol. 6: President Eisenhower, Subversives, and the Communist
Control Act
1 vol. PIN 0000102640
Vol. 7: The Army-McCarthy Hearings
1 vol. PIN 0000103255
Vol. 8: CIA Intervention in Guatemala
1 vol. PIN 0000103256
Vol. 9: The 1960 Election and Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
1 vol. PIN 0000103257
January 25, 1954 letter from President Eisenhower to William
F. Knowland, expressing his opposition to the Bricker
Amendment (Document 81 in Volume 4). Courtesy of the
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas.
Vol. 10: CIA Intervention in Iran and Nationalization of the
Iranian Oil Industry
1 vol. PIN 0000104571
Vol. 11: Quemoy-Matsu Crisis of 1955
1 vol. PIN 0000104572
Vol. 12: U-2 Crisis and the Paris Summit of 1960
1 vol. PIN 0000104573
Vol. 13: Quemoy-Matsu Crisis of 1958
1 vol. PIN 0000104574
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The Documentary History of the
John F. Kennedy Presidency
Though the presidency of John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy was
brief, it was an administration that was rich in events of historical
importance. When Kennedy took office on January 20, 1961, he
was the beneficiary of a swift rise to national prominence as well
as victory in one of the closest presidential elections in American
history.
Without a mandate from the voters, the new president resolved to
be cautious in his approach to domestic policy issues. In foreign
policy, however, Kennedy intended to be more of an activist. His
inaugural address on January 20, 1961, delivered in freezing cold,
proclaimed that “we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet
any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the
survival and success of liberty.” In his most famous phrase, he told
his listeners that Americans should “ask not what your country can
do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” Out of the idealism of the inaugural address came such initiatives as the Peace
Corps to send Americans overseas to help developing nations. For
the watching world, Kennedy seemed to be the embodiment of
American youth and energy. His global popularity would be an
important element in the success of his presidency.
In the midst of the cold war, the new administration intended
to confront the challenge of Communism wherever it appeared.
Castro’s regime in Cuba and the war in Southeast Asia proved to
be major challenges for Kennedy throughout his administration.
He also sought to establish better relations with the Soviet Union,
particularly after the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.
At home Kennedy grappled with a number of vexing domestic
issues. Because of his narrow election victory and the existing strength of the conservative bloc in Congress, composed of
southern Democrats and northern Republicans, the new president
could pursue only a limited number of initiatives. The White House
did obtain some legislative success in such areas as international
trade, aid to higher education, increasing the minimum wage, and
enhanced benefits for Social Security recipients.
The area of greatest concern to the Kennedy administration was
civil rights, where the president, as a candidate, had promised to
take vigorous steps to end discrimination. Once in office, facing
the power of southerners on key congressional committees, the
White House was more cautious and moved in a measured
manner.
Kennedy’s presidency also had a darker side. Revelations that
came after his death told of clandestine plots, some with the aid
of organized crime, to assassinate Fidel Castro in retaliation for
the Bay of Pigs disaster. The president’s chronic sexual infidelities continued throughout the White House years and involved
women with ties to the Mafia and to the murky world of interna-
Letter from President Kennedy to Alabama Governor George
Wallace regarding desegregation of the University of Alabama,
included in Volume 9.
tional espionage. Some of the tactics that the White House used
to punish their political enemies included pressure on the Internal
Revenue Service to audit the tax returns of those who opposed
Kennedy’s policies. Kennedy’s recklessness and lack of concern for
the proprieties of his office have cast a shadow over his historical
reputation. The volumes in this series about John F. Kennedy’s years
in the White House are designed to give readers and researchers
access to primary sources so that they can make their own judgments about the historical significance of this presidency. Based on
the ample documents at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, this
series offers a look at the major domestic and foreign policy issues
that Kennedy and his administration confronted. In that way, the
unending process of evaluation and reappraisal that makes history
so interesting can continue for all those interested in what made
John Kennedy such an attractive and complex politician.
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The Documentary History of the John F. Kennedy Presidency
Vol. 1: The 1960 Election and the Religion Question
1 vol. PIN 0000100466
Vol. 2: The 1960 Presidential Debates
1 vol. PIN 0000100467
Vol. 3: Creation of the Presidential Task Force on Vietnam and
the Drafting of a “Program of Action” on Vietnam, April–May
1961
1 vol. PIN 0000100468
Vol. 4: Jacqueline Kennedy: The Role of the First Lady
1 vol. PIN 0000101201
Vol. 5: JFK and the Evaluation of the American Space Program
1 vol. PIN 0000101202
Vol. 6: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Aid to Cuba,
January–August 1962
1 vol. PIN 0000101203
Vol. 7: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Showdown, September–
November 1962
1 vol. PIN 0000102641
Vol. 8: JFK and the Establishment of the Peace Corps
1 vol. PIN 0000102642
Vol. 9: JFK, George Wallace, and the Desegregation of the
University of Alabama, 1963
1 vol. PIN 0000102643
Vol. 10: Lead up to Vietnam: The Maxwell Taylor Report of 1961
1 vol. PIN 0000103262
Vol. 11: Kennedy and the Steel Crisis
1 vol. PIN 0000103263
Vol. 12: Cuban Missile Crisis, December 1962-November 1963
1 vol. PIN 0000103264
The Democratic National Committee distributed Jacqueline Kennedy’s
“Campaign Wife” column to newspapers. Five “Campaign Wife” columns
are included in Volume 4. Courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston,
Massachusetts.
Vol. 13: The Confrontation with Organized Crime
1 vol. PIN 0000103988
Vol. 14: John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Struggle
for Civil Rights
1 vol. PIN 0000103989
Vol. 15: The 1961 Vienna Meeting with Krushchev
1 vol. PIN 0000103990
Vol. 16: The Kennedy Administration, James Meredith, and the
Desegregation of the University of Mississippi
1 vol. PIN 0000104568
Vol. 17: The Negotiation and Ratification of the Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty
1 vol. PIN 0000104569
Vol. 18: Kennedy, the Diem Assassination, and the Future Role of
the US in Vietnam
1 vol. PIN 0000104570
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