Office of the Historian

Sources

In addition to the paper files cited below, a growing number of documents are available on the Internet. The Office of the Historian maintains a list of these Internet resources on its website and encourages readers to consult that site on a regular basis.

Unpublished Sources

  • Department of State, Washington, D.C.
    • Central Foreign Policy File. These files have been transferred or will be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland.
      • P Reels
      • D Reels
      • N Reels
    • Lot Files. These files have been transferred or will be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland.
    • S/S Files: Lot 84D241
      • Records of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, 1977–1980
  • National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland
    • Record Group 59, General Records of the Department of State
    • Lot Files
    • D Files: Lot 81D113 (Entry P–14)
      • Records of Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, 1977–1980
    • S/P Files: Lot 82D298 (Entry P–9)
      • Records of the Director of the Policy Planning Staff Anthony Lake, 1977–1981
  • Jimmy Carter Library, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Chief of Staff Files
      • Office of the Chief of Staff
        • Jordan’s Confidential Files
    • Donated Historical Materials
    • Donated Historical Material
      • Trilateral Commission Files
      • Geographic File
    • Herzberg Donated Historical Material
      • Speech Files
    • Vice Presidential Papers
      • Mondale Papers
        • Office of the Vice President
    • Records of the Office of the National Security Adviser
      • Material
        • Agency File
        • Office File
          • Subject Chron File
        • Schecter/Friendly (Press)
        • Subject File
        • Trip File
      • Staff Material
        • Defense/Security File
          • Huntington Files
        • North–South Pastor File
          • Subject Files
        • Office File
          • Meetings File
          • Outside the System File
          • Presidential Advisory Board
          • 1976–1977 Transition File (Anthony Lake)
      • Special Projects File
        • Henry Owen File
    • National Security Council Institutional Files
      • Presidential Determinations
    • Office of the Staff Secretary
      • Handwriting File
        • Presidential File
    • Plains File
      • Cabinet Meeting Minutes
      • Subject File
    • Presidential Materials
      • President’s Daily Diary
    • Staff Office Files
      • Donovan Files
    • Vertical File
      • Cabinet Meeting Minutes
    • 1976 Presidential Campaign
      • Issues Office
        • Issues Office—David Rubenstein
        • Issues Office—Stuart Eizenstat
  • Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota
    • Walter F. Mondale Papers
      • Senatorial Papers
        • Press Relations/Media Activities Records
      • Vice Presidential Papers
        • Central Files: Trips
        • Counsel and Deputy Chief of Staff Files
          • Transition Files
        • Foreign Policy Material From the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
        • Special Assistant for Speech Writing
          • Speech Text Files

Published Sources

  • Acheson, Dean G. Present at the Creation: My Years at the State Department. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.
  • Brzezinski, Zbignew. Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977–1981. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983.
  • Carter, Jimmy. White House Diary. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2010.
  • Chicago Tribune.
  • The Christian Science Monitor.
  • Congress and the Nation.
  • Current Digest of the Soviet Press.
  • Drucker, Peter. The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.
  • Foreign Affairs.
  • Foreign Policy.
  • Heck, Charles B., ed., Trialogue: Trilateral Leaders Discuss Global Redistribution of Power and Problems of Trilateral Community, Japan, May 1975. New York: The Trilateral Commission, 1975.
  • ———. Trialogue: Improper Corporate Payoffs Termed a “Cancer” Which Weakens Firms, Subverts Markets and Threatens Democratic Values, Canada, May 1976. New York: The Trilateral Commission, 1976.
  • McCullough, David. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977.
  • Mondale, Walter with David Hage. The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics. New York: Scribner, 2010.
  • National Archives and Records Administration. Public Papers of the Presidents: Harry S Truman. 1947, 1949. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1963, 1964.
  • ———. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy. 1961, 1963. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1962, 1964.
  • ———. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1968–1969. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1970.
  • ———. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1975, 1976. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1976, 1977.
  • ———. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977–1981. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1978–1982.
  • The New York Times.
  • Nixon, Richard. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978.
  • Reich, Charles. The Greening of America. New York: Random House, 1970.
  • Sewell, John W. and Overseas Development Council Staff. The United States and World Development: Agenda 1977. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1977.
  • Steadman, John. The National Military Command Structure: Report of a Study Requested by the President and Conducted in the Department of Defense. Washington: Government Printing Office, July 1978.
  • United Nations. Treaty Series.
  • U.S. Department of State. American Foreign Policy, Basic Documents, 1977–1980. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1980.
  • ———. Bulletin, 1948, 1954, 1968, 1972, 1974–1980. Washington: 1948, 1954, 1968, 1972, 1974–1981.
  • U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on House Administration. The Presidential Campaign, 1976. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1978.
  • U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on International Relations. Implementation of “New Directions” in Development Assistance: Report to the Committee on International Relations Prepared by AID. Committee Print, 94th Cong., 1st Sess. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1975.
  • U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on the Judiciary. U.S. Immigration Policy and the National Interest: The Final Report and Recommendations of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy with Supplemental Views by Commissioners, March 1, 1981. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1981.
  • U.S. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Vance Nomination; Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session, on the Nomination of Hon. Cyrus R. Vance to be Secretary of State, January 11, 1977. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1977.
  • U.S. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Foreign Assistance of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety Fifth Congress, First Session, on Human Rights Issues and Their Relationship to Foreign Assistance Programs, March 4 and 7, 1977. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1977.
  • Vance, Cyrus R. Hard Choices: Critical Years in America’s Foreign Policy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
  • The Wall Street Journal.
  • The Washington Post.