Emergency at Love Canal
This memorandum to President Jimmy Carter recommends Federal assistance to relocate about 750 families from Love Canal, New York, near Niagara Falls, where a school...
First ever space walk
This May 25, 1965, memorandum from Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, informed President Lyndon B. Johnson that the...
Icebergs!
This United States Hydrographic Office memorandum summarizes conditions in the North Atlantic for the first half of April 1912. Paragraph five records the...
Korea, 1950
On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. President Harry S. Truman returned to Washington, DC, from Independence, Missouri, and met with his advisors to...
Planning for a second term
Just days before the 1976 election, James E. Conner, Secretary to the Cabinet, wrote this cover letter (page one of two) to President Gerald Ford. The attached papers...
Planning Truman’s re-election
Less than three months before the 1948 election, Presidential incumbent Harry S. Truman received this memorandum (page one of eight) outlining the goals of his...
Suez Canal crisis
This August 12, 1956, memorandum recounts a meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and other advisers about Egypt’s...