The Frank Fahrenkopf interview with Tom DeFrank was added to the collection in 2013. The accession number for this addition is ML.2013.008. Thirteen interviews by Kate Kirkland were added in 2014. The accession number for these additions is ML.2014.041. The Jim Cicconi interview with Tom DeFrank was also added in 2014. The accession number for this addition is ML.2014.044. The Daniel Kurtzer interview with Robert "K.C." Johnson was added in 2015. The accession number for this addition is ML.2015.013. The interviews that comprise Series 3: Leadership Documentary Interviews were donated by staff at the Baker Institute on behalf of James A. Baker III in 2013. The accession number for this donation is ML.2014.011. The Derek Chollet interview was added in 2016. The accession number for this addition is ML.2016.007.

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People

• Baker, James Addison (1930-)
• Baker, Susan G., 1938-
• Bush, George, 1924-2018.
• Carlucci, Frank Charles, 1930-2018
• Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
• Cheney, Richard B.
• Chollet, Derek H.
• Deaver, Michael K.
• Djerejian, Edward P.
• Djerejian, Francoise
• Dole, Robert J., 1923-
• Donatelli, Frank
• Duberstein, Kenneth M., 1944-
• Edwards, Mickey, 1937-
• Fielding, Fred
• Fitzwater, Marlin
• Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006.
• Genscher, Hans-Dietrich (1927-2016)
• Greenspan, Alan
• Hamilton, Lee.
• Hurd, Douglas
• Kemp, Jack
• Kimmitt, Robert Michael, 1947-
• Laxalt, Paul.
• Malek, Fred
• Meese, Edwin
• Pickering, Thomas Reeve, 1931-
• Rogers, John F. W., 1956-
• Rubenstein, David M.
• Scowcroft, Brent
• Shultz, George Pratt, 1920-
• Simpson, Alan
• Spencer, Stuart K.
• Sununu, John E., 1964-
• Tutwiler, Margaret, 1950-
• Zoellick, Robert B.

Organization

• James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy

Subject

• Diplomacy

Publisher

Public Policy Papers

Finding Aid Date

2009

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