Sol M. Linowitz papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 638
Subjects: Sutherland and Sutherland; Inc Haloid Xerox; Xerography; Commission on United States-Latin American Relations; United States. Dept. of State Advisory Committee on International Organizations; Administration; Airlines; Arab-Israeli conflict; Federal City Council (Washington, D.C.); Politicians; World politics; Urban policy; United States. Presidential Commission on World Hunger; Universities and colleges; United Nations; Correspondence; Rank Organisation; Economic assistance; Description and travel; Court of public opinion (Television program); Civil rights; Modern History; Panama Canal Treaties; Price regulation; Organization of American States; Deregulation; Urban Sociology; United States. Office of Price Administration; Law; Foreign relations; Societies; Politics and government; Cornell Law School; Xerox Corporation; Social service; Coudert Brothers; Cities and towns; Social responsibility of business; Cabinet officers; Food supply; United States; International trade; World War, 1939-1945; Council on Foreign Relations; Special Committee on Campus Tensions; Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York; Alliance for Progress; History; Latin American Summit Conference, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 1967; Practice of law; Education; International relations; Jews; Hunger; Presidents; Marine Midland Bank; Globalization; Officials and employees; Inter-American Dialogue (Organization); International Executive Service Corps; Election; Antitrust law; National Urban Coalition (U.S.); Selection and appointment; Rent control; United States. President's General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs
Description: Diaries, correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, notes, interviews, oral history transcripts, biographical material, legal files, organizational records, travel files, clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers documenting Linowitz's career as an attorney chiefly with Sutherland and Sutherland in Rochester, N.Y., and with Coudert Brothers international law firm in Washington, D.C, executive for Xerox Corporation (earlier known as Haloid Xerox, Inc.), ambassador to the Organization of American States, co-negotiator with Ellsworth Bunker of the Panama Canal treaties, and Jimmy Carter's special representative to the Middle East peace negotiations.  Includes drafts and production files for Linowitz's memoir, The Making of a Public Man : A Memoir (1985) and an oral history from 1982-1983.

Documents his service in the Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter administrations; and as co-founder with David Rockefeller of the International Executive Service Corps; representative to the Alliance for Progress; representative at the Latin American Summit Conference, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 1967; head of the public affairs television show Court of Public Opinion; founding chairman of Inter-American Dialogue; and student at Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N.Y.  Also documents his work with the Commission on United States-Latin American Relations; Council on Foreign Relations; Federal City Council in Washington, D.C.; National Urban Coalition; Special Committee on Campus Tensions; U.S. Office of Price Administration during World War II; and U.S. Presidential Commission on World Hunger.

Subjects include antitrust issues; civil rights; community service; corporate responsibility; deregulation of airlines; education; national and international events; the Gerald Ford administration; global markets; government; international aid; international relations; Israel; Jewish concerns; Latin America; law; Marine Midland Bank; the Middle East; Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York; Palestinian autonomy; politicians; national and international politics; politicians; presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter, Edmund Muskie, and Bill Clinton; presidential elections and appointments; Rank Organisation in London, Eng.; public service institutions; rent control; travel to Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East; the United Nations; urban issues; U.S. President's General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs; U.S. State Dept. Advisory Committee on International Organizations; and xerography.

Correspondents include Menachem Begin, Peter G. Bourne, Ellsworth Bunker, Chester Floyd Carlson, Jimmy Carter, John H. Dessauer, Joseph Epstein, Henry A. Grunwald, Alexander Meigs Haig, Lee Hamilton, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Edward Moore Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Galo Plaza Lasso, David Eli Lilienthal, Peter G. Peterson, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Dean Rusk, George Pratt Schultz, Robert S. Strauss, Earl Warren, and Joseph C. Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Classified, in part.

Gift, Sol M. Linowitz and estate of Sol M. Linowitz, 2001-2006.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

Lawyer, diplomat, U.S. presidential advisor, and businessman.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.