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Washington Post Historical Collection, 1877-2015
45,000 items. 130 containers plus 8 oversize. 55 linear feet. 6,209 digital files (49.24 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. A collection of clippings, photographs, editorials, research files, memoranda, correspondence, speeches, articles, reports, newsletters, scrapbooks, directories, video files, audio files, and newspapers documenting the broad history of the newspaper through the records and papers of multiple departments and staff members.
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L. Patrick Gray III papers, 1931-2008
36,000 items. 102 containers plus 2 classified and 3 oversize. 42 linear feet. 20,325 digital files (16.85 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, assistant attorney general for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division, and acting director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Correspondence, memoranda, notes, writings, speeches, testimony, legal records, military records, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Gray's time as acting director of the FBI during the Richard M. Nixon presidential administration and the impact of this period on his life in the following years. Topics include the investigation of the Watergate Affair, other FBI actions in 1972 and 1973, and changes in that institution following the death of J. Edgar Hoover.
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Leonard Downie Jr. papers, 1961-2020
7,500 items. 20 containers plus 2 oversize. 8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Journalist and editor. Correspondence, interoffice memoranda, interviews, speeches, writings, reports, notes, political ephemera, photographs, and other papers documenting Downie's career as a journalist and editor at the Washington Post. Subjects include national politics, domestic terrorism, international affairs, foreign policy, and the internal operations and culture of the Washington Post.
Harry Payne Whitney collection of letters of William Collins Whitney, 1757-1942
20,000 items. 148 containers plus 10 oversize. 41.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Secretary of the navy, financier, and sportsman. Correspondence, legal and financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, genealogies, and printed matter relating chiefly to William C. Whitney's business and political career in New York, and as secretary of the navy in the first Grover Cleveland presidential administration.