This collection is open for research. Access restrictions are noted at the file level. Select oral histories in this collection may be accessed, but may not be quoted due to donor imposed restrictions. The following oral histories in this collection may not be quoted until the death of the interviewee: Judy Cole, Vera Hirschberg, Ann Korologos, Susan Porter Rose, and Georgiana Sheldon Sharp. The following oral history in this collection may not be quoted: Charles L. Clapp.
Summary
The collection consists primarily of oral history recordings, interview transcripts, project documentation, photographs, and related papers donated by the interviewees documenting high-ranking women working in the Nixon administration. Interviewees include Virginia Allan, Anne L. Armstrong, Catherine May Bedell, Helen Delich Bentley, Charles L. Clapp, Evelyn Cunningham, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Barbara Hackman Franklin, Vera Glaser, Cynthia Holcomb Hall, Rita Hauser, Patricia Reilly Hitt, Jeanne M. Holm, Patricia Hutar, E. Pendleton James, Virginia Knauer, Esther Christian Lawton, Fred Malek, Paula Adams Tennant [published as "Adams"], and Margita E. White. Full list of interviewees available in the finding aid.
In the Special Collections Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. (#00001).
Biographical or Historical Sketch
These oral history interviews and related papers are the product of the "A Few Good Women: Advancing the Cause for Women in Government, 1969-1974" oral history project initiated by the Honorable Barbara Hackman Franklin in 1995. Following the donation of her papers to the Penn State University Archives in 1994, Ms. Franklin agreed to the suggestion of University Archivist Lee Stout that an oral project be developed to record the reminiscences of the women who were recruited and trained for upper-level government positions during the administration of President Richard M. Nixon.
