Although a key and influential figure, U. Alexis Johnson did not leave a valuable collection of papers. The Nixon Museum and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA is not a presidential library. Because of the way Nixon left office, the U.S. government did not turn over administration documents to the former president. The Nixon Presidential Project , U.S. National Archives, College Park, MD houses Nixon White House records. Other foreign policy records of the Nixon administration remain classified.
Congressional collections contain small snippets of useful information.
U. Alexis Johnson gave on Okinawa and U.S.-Japanese relations, while Tower was in Tokyo as part of the official delegation to the funeral of former prime minister Yoshida Shigeru. A few film makers used Okinawa as a setting for their stories. Despite its cultural significance and relative youth, the film industry is quite bad about preserving its historical record.