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• James Monroe and John Adams: an unlikely "friendship".(Biography)

  - 2005-09-22

  RECENT HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP on the political culture of the early United States has turned from analyzing ideologies and issues to examining the personalities and motivations of the first party leaders. Within a framework often termed the "republican paradigm," an incongruous mixture of conservative, deferential, communal, ...

  Tags: Boston, France, friendship, Government, president, Republic, Republican, Richard, SOFTWARE, Taxes, The Library of Congress, U.S., U.S. Congress, Virginia, Wood

• Source material: sequestered from the court of history: the Kissinger transcripts.

  - 2004-12-01

  Upon leaving office in 1976, Henry Kissinger donated the records of his telephone diplomacy with foreign leaders to the Library of Congress as his private property under restrictive terms that sealed them until after his death. Against claims that the materials were public documents or Nixon historical materials. Kissinger fought...

  Tags: Administrator, agency, agreement, Government, JEFFREY, MARKETING, phone, president, The Library of Congress, transcript, U.S. Department of State, U.S. General Services Administration, White House

• Obituaries: Cloyd Dake Gull

  - 2003-06-01

  Cloyd Dake Gull, ASIST president in 1960, passed away in the Washington area on May 1. Born in 1915, Gull had a long and industrious career in the information profession. H was involved with federal, government and special libraries, and he participated in the development of MEDLARS. He held numerous...

  Tags: CAREER, deputy, Government, Indiana University, president, SOFTWARE, The Library of Congress

• Abraham Lincoln's Library. (Frontline).

  - 2003-02-01

  IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR a stark neglect was righted, with the opening of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, state capital of Illinois. Much less brilliant stars in the American political firmament, including most of the twentieth-century occupants of the White House since Franklin Roosevelt,...

  Tags: Government, Illinois, Leadership, Lincoln, president, The Library of Congress, White House

• Interrelated Technologies.(National Technical Information Service to close)

  - 1999-10-01

  End of an era? NTIS' demise. The U.S. Dept. of Commerce plans to close the National Technical Information Service because USDC believes NTIS' core function of providing government information for a fee is no longer needed in the age of the Internet. Commerce Secretary...

  Tags: Databases, Government, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SOFTWARE, Storage, The Library of Congress, U.S. Congress

• When the people spoke, what did they say? the election of 1936 and the Ackerman thesis.(Bruce Ackerman)(Moments of Change: Transformation in American Constitutionalism)

  - 1999-06-01

  Bruce Ackerman in We the People: Transformations presents a controversial analysis of the Presidential election of 1936 and the surrounding constitutional controversy concerning New Deal legislation. His assertion that the populace acted to change constitutional law through the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is not supported by evidence and has...

  Tags: FDR, Government, Jones, Park, president, Republican, Robert, Roosevelt, Stone, The Library of Congress, U.S. Congress

• NOTEBOOK

  - 1999-03-08

  Educational exemptions from copyright rules should extend to digital transmissions, APTS, CPB and PBS told Library of Congress LOC March 3. In reply comments on LOC rulemaking on promoting distance learning, they asked that exemptions currently covering college courses be extended to K-12 education. Public broadcasters also reiterated...

  Tags: AT&T Corp., conference, FCC, fiber, FINANCE, Government, Investment, merger, network, notebook, Qwest Communications Inc., revenue, TCI, The Library of Congress

• The Dying of the Trees: The Pandemic in America's Forests. - book reviews

  - 1995-09-22

  This is a very scary book, and the first about forest decline written for a general audience. But Charles Little is neither a sensationalist writer nor a doomsayer environmentalist. His credentials as a policy analyst include experience as head of the natural resources-policy research office of the Congressional Research Service...

  Tags: Congressional Research Service, environmentalist, Government, SOFTWARE, The Library of Congress