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                               Hedrick Smith

            A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress


                Prepared by David Mathisen and Lisa Madison
     Revised and expanded by Connie L. Cartledge with the assistance of
                              Sherralyn McCoy

                                    1999

                 Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

                              Washington, D.C.

       Contact information: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html

                Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
                         Manuscript Division, 2003

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Collection Summary

Title:    Papers of Hedrick Smith , 1923 - 1992 (bulk 1965 - 1990 )
ID No.:    MSS62065
Creator: Smith, Hedrick
Extent:    57,200 items ; 184 containers plus 2 oversize plus 1 classified
; 72.4 linear feet
Repository:    Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abstract:    Correspondence, memoranda, interview transcripts, drafts of
speeches, articles, books, notes, radio broadcasts, legal material,
research material, family papers, press releases, printed material,
posters, maps, and other papers relating primarily to Smith's research for
his books and television productions about the Soviet Union and about
United States politics. Documents his career with the New York Times while
stationed in Washington, D.C., Moscow, Russia, and elsewhere, as well as
his coverage for United Press International of the civil rights movement in
the South and space exploration, 1959-1962.

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of
person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and
listed alphabetically therein.

Names:

Smith, Hedrick
Aspin, Les--Interviews
Bach, Julian--Correspondence
Baker, Howard H. (Howard Henry), 1925- --Interviews
Baker, James Addison, 1930- --Interviews
Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925- --Correspondence
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Darman, Richard Gordon, 1943- --Interviews
Deaver, Michael K.--Interviews
Dole, Robert J., 1923- --Interviews
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-
Freedman, Emanuel R.--Correspondence
Galich, Aleksandr, 1919-
Gingrich, Newt--Interviews
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986--Correspondence
Hellman, Lillian, 1906- --Correspondence
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Lewis, Anthony, 1927- --Correspondence
Manning, Robert, 1919- --Correspondence
McFarlane, Robert C.--Interviews
Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich, 1925-
Medvedev, Zhores A., 1925-
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-
O'Neill, Tip--Interviews
Poindexter, John M.--Interviews
Reagan, Ronald
Regan, Donald T.--Interviews
Reston, James, 1909- --Correspondence
Sakharov, Andrei
Sheehan, Neil--Correspondence
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-
Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs, 1926- --Correspondence
Vysotsky, Vladimir, 1938-1980
Wicker, Tom--Correspondence
United States. Congress --Officials and employees
United Press International
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Subjects:

New York times
Arms control
Civil rights--Southern States
Communism--Soviet Union
Dissenters--Soviet Union
Glasnost
Jews--Soviet Union
Journalism
Journalism--Russia--Moscow
Journalism--Washington (D.C.)
Lobbying
Mass media--Soviet Union
Minorities--Soviet Union
Nationalities, Principle of
Perestroika
Politicians
Politics, Practical
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Peace
Central America--History
Middle East--History--20th century
Outer space--Exploration
Soviet Union--Economic policy--1986-1991
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States
Soviet Union--Intellectual life--1970-1991
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991
Soviet Union--Religion
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989

Occupations:

Authors
Journalists
Lecturers

Administrative Information

Provenance:

The papers of Hedrick Smith, journalist, author, and lecturer, were given
by Smith to the Library of Congress in several installments from 1986 to
1993. Material relating to Smith's television program, "The Power Game,"
was given to the Library by the program's producer, Philip Burton, in 1990.

Processing History:

A preliminary list of the Hedrick Smith Papers was compiled for the early
material received in 1986 and was revised in 1992. The entire collection
consisting of accessions from 1986 through 1993 was arranged and described
in 1999. A description of the Smith Papers appears in Library of Congress
Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1986, pp. 19-21.

Transfers:

Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial
divisions of the Library. Video and sound recordings have been transferred
to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Photographs have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division.
Books have been transferred to the Library's general collection. All
transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the Hedrick Smith
Papers.

Copyright Status:

Copyright in the unpublished writings of Hedrick Smith in these papers and
in other collections in the custody of the Library of Congress is reserved.
Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division for further
information.

Restrictions:

Restrictions apply governing the use, photoduplication, or publication of
items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript
Division for information concerning these restrictions.

Security Classified Documents:

Government regulations control the use of security classified items in this
collection. Manuscript Division staff can furnish information concerning
access to and use of classified material.

Preferred Citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following
information: Container number, Hedrick Smith Papers, Manuscript Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Biographical Note

 Date         Event

 1933 , July
 9            Born, Kilmacolm, Scotland

 1951         Graduated Choate School, Wallingford, Conn.

 1955         B.A., Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.

 1955 - 1956  Fulbright Scholarship, Balliol College, Oxford University,
              Oxford, England

 1956 - 1959  United States Air Force

 1957         Married Ann Bickford (divorced 1985)

 1959 - 1962  Reporter, United Press International, Memphis, Tenn.;
              Nashville, Tenn.; Atlanta, Ga.; and Cape Canaveral, Fla.

 1962 - 1988  Correspondent, bureau chief, and editor, New York Times

                 * 1962, correspondent covering civil rights in the South
                 * 1962-1963, diplomatic news correspondent, Washington,
                   D.C.
                 * 1963-1964, temporary correspondent, Vietnam
                 * 1964-1966, correspondent, Middle East; Cairo, Egypt;
                   and United Arab Republic
                 * 1966-1971, diplomatic news correspondent, Washington,
                   D.C.
                 * 1968, correspondent for Vietnam peace negotiations,
                   Paris, France
                 * 1971-1974, Moscow, USSR, bureau chief
                 * 1975-1976, deputy national editor
                 * 1976-1979, Washington bureau chief
                 * 1980-1985, chief Washington correspondent
                 * 1987-1988, Washington correspondent, New York Times
                   Magazine

 1969 - 1970  Nieman Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

 1971         Coauthor of The Pentagon Papers

 1972         Awarded Pulitzer Prize for his contributions to the
              publication of the Pentagon Papers

 1974         Awarded Pulitzer Prize for international reporting from the
              Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

 1976         Published, The Russians. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times
              Book Co.

 1980         Contributor, Reagan the Man, the President. New York:
              Macmillan Pub. Co.

 1986         Contributor, Beyond Reagan: The Politics of Upheaval. New
              York: Warner Books

 1987         Married Susan Zox

 1988         Published, The Power Game: How Washington Works. New York:
              Random House

 1989         Host and writer for Public Broadcasting Service television
              series, "The Power Game"

 1989 -       Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University
              School of International Studies, Washington, D.C.

 1990         Published, The New Russians. New York: Random House

 1990         Commentator and writer for the television production "Inside
              Gorbachev's USSR"

 1992         Editor, The Media and the Gulf War. Washington, D.C.: Seven
              Locks Press

 1995         Published, Rethinking America. New York: Random House

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Hedrick Laurence Smith (1933- ), span the years 1923-1992,
with the bulk of the papers concentrated in the period 1965-1990. The
majority of the items consist of research material for Smith's books and
television productions about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
and United States politics. The collection consists of six main series:
Correspondence, Speeches and Writings File, Television Productions, Subject
File, Notebooks, and Miscellany, plus oversize and security classified
material.

The Correspondence series, 1959-1990, contains a wide variety of
professional and personal correspondence. Much of the material consists of
social exchanges such as congratulations on awards and accomplishments,
particularly for his books, The Russians and The Power Game, and his
Pulitzer Prize award in 1974 for international reporting. Other items
relate to speaking engagements, articles, and book publishing efforts apart
from his New York Times duties or to descriptions of his assignments,
especially letters to his parents while Smith was stationed in Moscow from
1971 to 1974 as bureau chief for the Times. Among the prominent and
frequent correspondents in this series are Julian Bach, William F. Buckley,
Emanuel R. Freedman, W. Averell Harriman, Lillian Hellman, Anthony Lewis,
Robert Manning, James Reston, Neil Sheehan, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, and Tom
Wicker. There is additional correspondence and material relating to Smith's
Pulitzer Prize of 1974 in the Miscellany series.

Comprising almost one half of the collection, the Speeches and Writings
File, 1923-1992, reflects Smith's productivity in various formats,
including speeches, articles, books, and radio broadcasts. The majority of
the articles consists of drafts of Smith's New York Times articles from
1976 to 1984. Smith also filed drafts and printed articles in his research
files for The Russians and in the Subject File. The early articles document
Smith's tenure as a staff reporter covering the civil rights movement in
the South and space exploration for United Press International from 1959 to
1962.

Papers relating to Smith's best-selling books The Russians, The New
Russians, and The Power Game include research material, notebooks, and
notes. The Russians focused on the daily lives of the Russian people under
the Communist system, while The New Russians explored the change for Soviet
citizens with the introduction of glasnost (openness) and perestroika
(restructuring). Among the prominent subjects in files related to The
Russians are Russian culture, dissent, nationalities and minorities,
religion, the economy, United States/Soviet relations, and the exodus of
Jews. Subject files on dissent also include extensive material relating to
dissidents Aleksandr Galich, Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev, Zhores A.
Medvedev, Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, and Vladimir
Vysotsky. The Solzhenitsyn files include items relating to a meeting with
Smith and Washington Post reporter Robert Kaiser in 1972 and a second
interview with Solzhenitsyn two years after his expulsion from the Soviet
Union. These files also contain material pertaining to the publication of a
revised edition of The Russians in 1983.

The New Russians chronicles the reforms in the Soviet Union under Mikhail
Gorbachev and how the Soviet people coped with these changes. Subjects
represented are nationalities, politics, consumer and economic issues,
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, and glasnost in the media and in intellectual
expressions. There is overlap between the research files for this book and
files for Smith's television production, "Inside Gorbachev's USSR," since
many of the same topics are featured in both series.

In The Power Game Smith turned his attention to national politics in the
United States, focusing on Congress and the executive branch primarily
during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The bulk of this material consists
of interview transcripts, notebooks, and notes. Topics featured are
lobbying, arms control, defense policies, and the power of Congressional
staff. Individuals interviewed for The Power Game include Les Aspin, Howard
H. Baker, James Addison Baker, Richard Gordon Darman, Michael K. Deaver,
Robert J. Dole, Newt Gingrich, Robert C. McFarlane, Tip O'Neill, John M.
Poindexter, and Donald T. Regan. Files for a potential book entitled "Three
Presidents: Three Decisions" focus on three critical foreign policy events,
the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 during John F. Kennedy's administration,
the deescalation of the war in Vietnam before Lyndon Johnson's announcement
not to seek reelection in 1968, and the decision by Richard M. Nixon to
invade Cambodia in 1970. Also filed with the "Three Presidents" material
are items for a projected publication with fellow Times reporter William
Beecher on America's "Vietnam turnaround."

The Television Productions series, 1956-1990, includes interviews, research
files, notes, notebooks, and scripts documenting Smith's roles as
commentator and writer primarily for the productions "Inside Gorbachev's
USSR" and "The Power Game." The Gorbachev program provided American viewers
with a close look at the Soviet people and dealt with the conflict between
reform and the old political system, the efforts toward glasnost in the
media, and the escalation of ethnic tensions in some of the Soviet
republics. "The Power Game," adapted from Smith's book of the same title,
provided an analysis of behind-the-scenes efforts by politicians to gain
power and keep it and how they at times used or misused their power.
Interview notebooks for "The Power Game" also include transcripts of
Smith's introductory comments or "standups" as well as government hearings
and speeches.

Papers in the Subject File, 1957-1990, and the Notebooks series, 1966-1990,
primarily document Smith's years as a correspondent and bureau chief
stationed in Washington, D.C. The notebooks include interviews and
conversations with leading officials in Washington and abroad. The bulk of
both series relates to the presidential administrations of Jimmy Carter and
Ronald Reagan. Topics include the reorganization of Carter's cabinet, peace
in the Middle East, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the presidential
campaigns of 1980 and 1984, Central America, and United States/Soviet
relations. The Subject File also contains extensive material concerning the
Vietnam conflict during the Nixon administration and Smith's coverage of
the Vietnam peace talks in Paris from May through November 1968. Also
included are items relating to the Pentagon Papers wiretapping suit in
which Smith sued Nixon and officials in his administration for tapping
Smith's telephone for several months in 1969.

The Miscellany series, 1957-1988, consists chiefly of correspondence,
interviews, biographical material, financial records, and family papers.
The bulk of the series consists of papers relating to Smith's Pulitzer
Prize for international reporting and his New York Times expense statements
recording details of Smith's daily professional activities and contacts
with government agencies. The family papers include a compilation of
Smith's letters from 1971 to 1972, which were read by his mother at her
book club, describing some of his experiences while in Moscow.

Organization of the Papers

The collection is arranged in eight series:

   * Correspondence, 1959-1990, n.d.
   * Speeches and Writings File, 1923-1992, n.d.
   * Television Productions, 1956-1990, n.d.
   * Subject File, 1957-1990, n.d.
   * Notebooks, 1966-1990
   * Miscellany, 1957-1988, n.d.
   * Classified, 1968-1982
   * Oversize, 1966-1974
November 4, 2003