William J. Crowe papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32250
Subjects: Politics and government; Surveys; National security; United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Appropriations and expenditures; Petroleum industry and trade; Vincennes (Cruiser : CG-49); Strategy; United States; Operation Desert Shield, 1990-1991; Military readiness; Armed Forces; Correspondence; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; International relations; American Diplomatic and consular service; Defenses; Presidents; Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988; Military policy; Gay military personnel; Allied Forces Southern Europe; American Naval operations; History; United States. Navy; Foreign relations; Election
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, research material, subject files, naval records, orders for duty, political campaign files, scheduling notebooks, press releases, biographical material, clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Crowe's naval career, his service as chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his tenure as ambassador to Great Britain.  Documents Crowe's service as commander in chief of the Allied Forces Southern Europe and his involvement in political affairs including the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton.  Subjects include defense spending, Operation Desert Shield (1990-1991), gays in the military, military strategy, national defense and security, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Persian Gulf War (1991), politics and the military, the U.S. Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, USS Vincennes (Cruiser) incident during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), international relations, Asia and the Pacific Area, Indian Ocean Region, Micronesia and the Palau land survey, Middle East oil and the Persian Gulf Region, Soviet Union and Soviet military power, and Crowe's conversations with Philippine president Fidel V. Ramos and Soviet marshal Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeyev.

Correspondents include Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeyev, J.M. Boorda, Jimmy Carter, Sylvester R. Foley, Daniel K. Inouye, George Pratt Schultz, Mary Vance Trent, John William Vessey, John Adams Wickham, and Caspar W. Weinberger
Notes: Open to research.

Classified, in part.

Gift, William J. Crowe, 2006.

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

Naval officer and diplomat.

Collection material in English.

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