Stuart Eizenstat papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Commerce; Climatic changes; Jewish property; Commercial policy; United States; Confiscations and contributions; United States. Dept. of Commerce; International trade; World War, 1939-1945; Economic policy; Claims; Correspondence; Democratic Party (U.S.); Presidents; Civil rights; Energy policy; Global warming; Public welfare; United States. Dept. of the Treasury; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Education; Economic aspects; United States. Dept. of State; Foreign relations; Election
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, briefing books, transcripts of interviews, notebooks and notes, subject files, calendars, press releases, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other material relating chiefly to Eizenstat's writings, Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II, a book describing his role in the Holocaust restitution negotiations from 1995-2001 (published in 2003), and an unpublished book about Jimmy Carter.  Documents Eizenstat's service as presidential adviser to Jimmy Carter and public official during the administration of Bill Clinton.  Also documents his service as ambassador to the European Union; senior official with the Dept. of Commerce, Dept. of State, and Dept. of the Treasury; special envoy for property claims in Central and Eastern Europe; and as special representative for the president and secretary of state on Holocaust issues.  Subjects include cabinet meetings and relations; civil rights; climate change and global warming; economy; education; energy; foreign relations, especially with Iran, the Middle East, and the Soviet Union; international commerce and trade; presidential campaigns of Democratic Party candidates in 1968, 1976, and 1980; trade with Cuba; and welfare reform.

Correspondents include Madeleine Korbel Albright, Bill Clinton, Jesse Helms, Thomas F. McLarty, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Herman Wouk.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

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Gift, Stuart Eizenstat, 2000-2003.

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

transferred to Library of Congress General Collections.

Lawyer, presidential advisor, and public official.  Full name: Stuart Elliot Eizenstat.  Born, 1943.

Collection material in English, with French and German.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010144