Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 1920-2010. Papers of James J. Kilpatrick, 1969-1978. - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 1920-2010. Papers of James J. Kilpatrick, 1969-1978.

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Papers of James J. Kilpatrick, 1969-1978.

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Contain files of Kilpatrick's personal correspondence, reader mail in response to his columns and television appearances, correspondence concerning his speeches, together with some notes for, and copies of, his talks, radio and television transcripts, magazine essays, and correspondence, proofs, and reviews for The Foxes Union (1977). Topics include abortion, federal arts subsidies, amnesty for draft evaders, the federal bureaucracy, the business community, President Jimmy Carter, censorship, school discipline, government aid to private schools, E.R.A., and foreign affairs, particularly Rhodesia. Topics also include inhospitable hotels, laetrile, Bert Lance, Medicare abuse and government regulation of hospitals and practitioners, Richard Nixon, the Panama Canal, U.S. politics, school busing, reverse discrimination, the Book of Common Prayer, abuse of freedom of the press, social security, tax cuts, and the teaching of English. Also include a number of prominent correspondents writing brief notes on letters generally in response to a column.