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Correspondence, writings, astrological charts, printed matter, and videocassettes relating to astrology. Includes astrological charts of Ronald and Nancy Reagan and other celebrities.
Photo: Joan Quigley papers, Box 3, Folder Ronnie Nancy Charts, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University.
Books, clippings, news summaries, other printed matter, lists, indexes, memorabilia, sound recordings, video tapes, and miscellany relating to the career of Ronald Reagan, his electoral campaigns for governor of California and president of the United States, and his gubernatorial and presidential administrations. Includes recordings of speeches by Reagan, copies of speeches and other public statements, news film of public appearances, microfilm of gubernatorial papers, and some original letters and other original documents. Indexes: Preliminary inventory..
Photo: Ronald Reagan subject collection, Box 1, Pre-1966 speeches, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University.
Correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, studies, printed matter, photographs, phonotapes, videotapes, and memorabilia, relating to American domestic policy and foreign relations, especially during the presidential administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Included are materials from his years in academia at the University of Chicago and at Stanford University, his work as an executive and a director at Bechtel Corporation, and the numerous projects and initiatives Shultz launched as Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Photo: George Pratt Shultz papers, Box 496, Folder 10, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University.
Correspondence, speeches and writings, diaries, memoranda, reports, hearing transcripts, legal and financial papers, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia relating to American domestic and foreign policy, especially during the presidential administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan; American intelligence operations from World War II on; and the 1980 presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Photo: William J. Casey papers, Box 330, Folder 4, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University.
While the official documents of Ronald Reagan's presidential administration, as well as his governorship of California, are located at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives has extensive material related to Ronald Reagan. This includes the papers of members of Ronald Reagan's cabinet, such as George Shultz, as well as records relating to his presidential campaigns.
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1900-1922
Correspondence, speeches and writings, diaries, memoranda, reports, hearing transcripts, legal and financial papers, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia relating to American domestic and foreign policy, especially during the presidential administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan; American intelligence operations from World War II on; and the 1980 presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
1975-1986
Correspondence, position papers, press releases, memoranda, public opinion polling data, financial records, sound recordings, and video tapes relating to the campaign of Ronald Reagan for the Republican Party presidential nomination in 1976. Includes a few post-1976 records of Citizens for the Republic, the successor organization to Citizens for Reagan.
Governor and the Students videotape series
1973-1974
Videotape cassettes and selected transcripts of broadcasts of a televised series of question-and-answer sessions with high school students conducted by Ronald Reagan as governor of California relating to California state political issues. Produced by JRH and Associates, Inc.
1898-2021
Collection includes correspondence, speeches and writings, dispatches, memoranda, reports, notes, printed matter, memorabilia, and photographs relating to international relations and diplomacy, United States foreign policy during the presidential administration of Ronald Reagan, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Also contains speeches and writings of Secretary of State George Shultz. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
1972-1988
Speeches and writings, correspondence, memoranda, reports, testimony, schedules, appointment books, telephone logs, and printed matter relating to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and other arms control issues, the 1980 presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan, and American defense policy during the presidential administrations of Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, and Ronald Reagan. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
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