Assistant to the president for national security affairs and foreign service officer. Correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, campaign file, financial and legal records, testimony, and reports documenting Lake's activities in the United States foreign service and as head of the National Security Council during President Bill Clinton's first term.

Journalist and author. Writings, notes, interviews, correspondence, and research material including newspaper clippings, printed matter, reports, photographs, legal documents, financial records, and congressional hearing records and other government documents. Pertains chiefly to Lardner's career as a national news reporter for the Washington Post.

Lawyer and U.S. government official. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, briefing books, legal files, printed matter, and other papers chiefly concerning Maw's work for Henry Kissinger as legal adviser and undersecretary of state for security assistance in the State Department.