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Collection
WWPP
Papers 1944-1991. Painter, author, Kennedy and Hemingway family friend. Chairman, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (1963-1971); trustee, John F. Kennedy Library Inc. Correspondence with the Kennedys and Hemingways; records from the Commission of Fine Arts, in particular relating to Washington D.C. and to Pennsylvania Avenue; items from political campaigns; correspondence, transcripts, news clippings, and photographs relating to the selection of an architect to design the John F. Kennedy Library; photographs of Elaine De Kooning's portraits of President Kennedy; a letter from Mary Hemingway; copy of A Civil War Courtship: the Letters of Edwin Weller from Antietem to Atlanta (1980) and correspondence with the Kennedys, Martha Gellhorn and Beatrice Kaufman.
Collection
MBPP
Author, professor, government official. Research Assistant to Henry L. Stimson (1946-1948), Lecturer and Professor of Government, Harvard (1949-1953), Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard (1953-1960), Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs (1960-1966), President, Ford Foundation (1966-1980), Professor, New York University (1980-1990), Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Corporation (1990-1996). Personal and professional papers consisting of letters, memos, research notes and drafts, writings, publications, photographs, and ephemera. Includes information regarding social and professional organizations and 20th-century personalities, academic figures and government officials. Topics include World War II, Harvard University, the John F. Kennedy Library, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, civil rights, United States foreign policy, and atomic weapons development and control.