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W. Michael Blumenthal Papers
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W. Michael Blumenthal is a businessperson and economic adviser who served as Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter Administration. He was born in Germany in 1926, and with his family escaped Germany for Shanghai in 1939. He emigrated to the United States in 1947 and received his B.Sc. from UC Berkeley in 1951. He received an M.P.A. in public affairs (1953) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics (1956) from Princeton University and went into business.
Starting in 1961, Blumenthal served as deputy assistant secretary for economic affairs, and later as the president's deputy special representative for trade negotiations in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He returned to the business world in 1967 to become president of Bendix Corporation.
In 1977 Blumenthal was named Secretary of the Treasury under Jimmy Carter. He resigned from the position in 1979, returning to the private sector. He was chairman and CEO of Unisys at his retirement in 1990.
Blumenthal is the author of The Invisible Wall: Germans and Jews: A Personal Exploration (1998) and From Exile to Washington: A Memoir of Leadership in the Twentieth Century (2013).
Blumenthal was the Founding Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin in 1997, and served there until 2014.
Source: New Start New Jersey Advisory Board biographical statement.
The W. Michael Blumenthal Papers document Blumenthal's service as Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter Administration. The papers include but are not limited to minutes and other records from the Cabinet Economic Policy Group, correspondence with public officials and business people, speeches and statements, photographs and press clippings, unclassified briefing books with Congressional testimony transcripts, subject files, and so on. Files from and relating to Blumenthal's government service from 1961 to 1967 are also present.
Materials are arranged in the order in which they were received.
The Blumenthal Papers were initially held on deposit at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library and were formally accessioned in November, 2018. Five boxes were donated in 2013, though most were donated earlier.
The collection was donated by W. Michael Blumenthal in November 2018. The accession number associated with the donation is ML.2018.018.
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This collection is unprocessed. Basic collection record and inventory created by Phoebe Nobles in May 2019.
No material has been separated from the papers.
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- 2019
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Includes Personal Chron File; Congratulatory Letters and Farewell Letters
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Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Anti-Dumping '77-'78, Anti-Inflation Program '77-'79, Balance of Payments '77. Biographical Notes: Boycott Matters, Brazil '77-'79
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Budget Office Management, Budgeting Zero Base, Cabinet Mtgs., Canada, Capital Formation '77-79, China '79
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Civil Service Records-Economic Stimulus
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Emergency Loan Guarantee Board '77, Energy, Engraving and Printing '77-'79, Exchange Stabilization Program '77, Export/Import bank '77-'78, Export Policy Task Force '78
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Federal Reserve System '77-'79, Financing, Footwear, Foreign Policy '77, France, Germany, Gold, Handwritten Notes '77-'79, Health, Edu, Welfare '78, HUD '77-'78, Humphrey-Hawkins Bill '77
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Illegal Aliens '77: IMF Matters, IRS '77-'79, Internat'l Financial Institutions '77-'78, Italy, Japan '77-'79, Jobs Strategy, Jones Act, Labor Management Committee '77
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Memo for the President, Correspondence from the President, Highlights of Treasury Activities '77-'79
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National Security Council '77, NYC '77-'79, OECD, Oil Imports/ Pricing (To be added)
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Panama Canal Treaty '77
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State Department, Steel, Sugar, Tax
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Tax Reform
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Tax Bill, Trade, Unemployment, U.S.S.R.
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Vice President, Welfare, White House, Witteveen Facility, World Bank
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Memos from the Staff: Miscellaneous, Altman, Anderson, Beckham, Bergsten
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Memos from the Staff: Bridges, Brill, Carswell, Davis, Fisher, Godley, Godley (Legislative Info Bulletin)
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Memos from the Staff: Godley, Hessler, Laitin, Lubick, McDonald, Morton, Mundheim, Solomon
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Memos from the Staff: Mosso-Taylor, Winograd, Woodworth; Approval/Disapproval Matters; Schedule Proposals
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Meetings with the President; Mandatory Retirement/Age Discrimination; Meetings; Mint; National Health Insurance Plan
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Taxes, photographs, Democratic Party files, press clippings, files on Mondale, Humphrey
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Appointment books, daily log, memberships, correspondence, House hearings publications
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Correspondence signed by the Secretary, Confirmation Hearings, Expenses, Etc.
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1960s: as Ambassador and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs
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Department of Treasury News Clips 1979
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Daily Log and Telephone Conversations 1962; Files 1961-1964
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1963 Daily Log, 1966 Agenda, Clippings on Kennedy Round, Files as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs
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Binders of Clippings on Kennedy Round; Appointments and Telephone Log as Ambassador
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Binders of Clippings on Kennedy Round; GATT Ministerial Meeting Material
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Binders from Treasury Secretary International Trips to Iran, U.A.E., U.S.S.R., Romania, Saudi Arabia
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Plus a cigar
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Photograph albums of the Carter Administration and an Iran visit, plus a certificate from Anwar El-Sadat, Arab Republic of Egypt
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Key to South Bend, Indiana; NYSE medal; 1977 United Way Campaign Commemorative; Statement at 1978 Joint Annual Meetings of World Bank
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Carter State Visit to Japan
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Memos to President; London Summit; Newsclips; Personal and Private Notes. From a 2013 donation.
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Letters on resignation, files on Germany, etc. From a 2013 donation.
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Files on EPG, Kennedy Round, correspondence 1961-1965, file to take to Germany. From a 2013 donation.
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Staff meeting notes; cabinet meetings; visit to Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Iran, and Kuwait; confirmation hearings; press; highlights of treasury activities memoranda. From a 2013 donation.
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