*Important info on how to view Library of Congress Rusher Documents(CAP)>>

[CottonBear]

I contacted a gov't documents librarain at UGA who contacted a librarian at the Library of Congress for me and got this important research information as per my request:
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From : Susan Tuggle <[e-mail]>
Sent : Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:32 PM
To : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject : Sealed documents

CottonBear(not my real name!),

My colleague at LC found out that the "sealed documents" are part of the William Rusher papers, located in the Manuscript Division at LC. One has to get permission from William Rusher to use the papers. The Manuscript Division Reading Room phone # is [phone].

I did a Google search and retrieved the following:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/rusher.html
Hope this info is helpful.

Susan Tuggle
Coordinator of Georgia Government Publications
UGA Libraries
Athens, GA 30602
[phone]

[CottonBear]

1. One need's Rusher's permission to view the sealed (CAP) documents.

I am still looking through all of the information in the link to the catalog of the collection. Very interesting. I hope some of our DU researches can use this.

[troubleinwinter]

11. Kennedy asked for them to be "subpoenaed". This would unseal them?

[CottonBear]

13. According to the Library of Congress librarian one needs permission

from William Rusher to use the papers.

Now, I'm not a lawyer so I'm stumped here. But, I don't think Sen. Kennedy would have requested them if he did not think he could ge tto see them. Some one else suggested that Rusher's lawyer will go over the documents to decide what can be seen (or maybe shredded...)

Who knows? Any ideas from DU lawyers would be helpful.

[librechik]

2. relevant excerpt (scroll down at link)

BOX 72 Policy Review, 1983-1987
Poole, Gordon and Lois, 1969-1987
Powell, Scott S., 1981-1988
Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.,
1957-1958, 1970-1989 For additional material
see Containers 142-145, Concerned Alumni of
Princeton

[CottonBear]

4. Ah ha!: Containers 142-145, Concerned Alumni of Princeton

Thanks for finding that. I'm doing about 5 things at once here at the office.

[librechik]

6. I'm pretty sure we'll get to look at these papers

unless there's something REALLY BAD that should never see the light of day in them (hint hint)

Sen Spector, remember one word: LEGACY

[hang a left]

7. Ah ha!! This is why CAP appeared on the 85 application and not

the 90 application. CAP was disbanded in 1989.


1970-1989 For additional material
see Containers 142-145, Concerned Alumni of
Princeton

[CottonBear]

12. Alito must be a dumbass to think no one kept records and files. n/t

[matt819]

24. And if he knew that it was disbanded

then he knew enough to know that he was a member, and that the organization no longer existed.

[acmavm]

3. Don't know what you guys are up to but I'll bet it bodes ill for some

republican somewhere.

[CottonBear]

5. I wanted to know if/how the Senators could view sealed documents at LoC

so I called the research library at UGA and spoke with the government documents librarian. I explained my question and she said she personally knew someone at the LoC to call and ask!

She called up to DC and spoke with a librarian there at the LoC and e-mailed me an answer post haste! It's very helpful to live in a town with one of the nations top major public research universities!

[librechik]

9. makes me wonder if the same material isn't available elsewhere

I guess I'd start with other faculty involved in the group--they always have to have faculty advisors.
Or maybe comb the Princeton student newspaper of the era. Perhaps an FOIA request of the FBI, since they routinely monitored student groups. I'm sure lots of folks remember that group, nobody has bothered to look them up, is all.

I have flu or something, though--can't really focus on the problem cuz me head hurts. Good luck all--but I bet we get to look at the papers. Perhaps after Rusher's lawyer scans them for liabilities. Prepare for a long wait.

[CottonBear]

10. A long wait to get Rusher's permission will mean Alito's hearing drags on.

Get better! Drink lots of fluids and get rest.

We need you healthy to fight the good fight!

edit: These document are Rusther's personal documents from his lifetime in politics. They must be important because the LoC accepted them into the collection.

[librechik]

16. really? I'm afraid they'll force a vote before the House holds hearings

on NSA--but I hope you are right--maybe the dems are trying a gambit...

[CottonBear]

18. Let's cross our fingers. We're depending on Kennedy at this point. n/t

[Ksec]

19. Damn, youre good...

really..

[CottonBear]

20. Thanks! I used to work at a research library so I just made a call...

It's DU that has inspired me to find answers and kick Republican ass! :kick:

[CottonBear]

Rusher seems to have been like Zelig. He knew everyone and had a

hand in everything to do with conservative politics. Read this information from the LoC site on his documents:

<snip>

Rusher's concern with what he regarded as the liberal bias of the national media is featured in files relating to the National News Council. Correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, and other material document the bipartisan council's work in monitoring the press and arbitrating disputes over the fairness of news stories. Also in the file are Rusher's records pertaining to the organization Concerned Alumni of Princeton documenting his objections to the intolerance by liberals of conservative views and traditional values at Princeton University and other colleges. The Subject File also focuses on conservative opinion regarding the government of South Africa and other African countries. Included are extensive files related to the American-African Affairs Association launched by conservative thinkers to counter the opposite views of the African-American Institute.

more...
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/rusher.html

[sasha031]

15. wow

[CottonBear]

17. Rusher was the original anti-liberal media evil insider. Check this out:

:scared:

<snip>

Within the writings file are drafts, research notes and publishing material
relating to Rusher's articles and books. Correspondence and research
material regarding The Coming Battle for the Media illustrate Rusher's deep
concern over what he perceived to be the dangerous liberal inclination of
the national media despite the efforts of such organizations as the
National News Council . His distress over American communists and their
alleged infiltration into public and private institutions is documented by
drafts and research materials pertaining to his book Special Counsel, an
account of his work with the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in
1956-1957. The file also includes a substantial amount of "fan mail" from
people who heard his speeches, watched his television programs, or read his
columns and books.

more...
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/rusher.html

[sasha031]

21. the good old days of McCarthyism are alive and well

:sarcasm:

you can picture these guys all huddled up together lamenting and conspiring to go back a few centuries.

[CottonBear]

22. Look through the LoC link in the original post.

Rusher was a conservative insider for decades.
I had no idea who he was before this Alito hearing. :scared:

Collection Summary

Creator: Rusher, William A., 1923-
Title: Papers of William A. Rusher 1940-1989 (bulk 1968-1988)
Size: 78,400 items; 224 containers; 89.6 linear feet; 36 microfilm reels
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Abstract: Author, lawyer, and publisher. Correspondence, memoranda,
diaries, drafts and manuscripts of articles, books, book reviews, columns,
minutes of meetings, reports, research notes, reference material, financial
and legal papers, photographs, and other papers relating to Rusher's role
as publisher of the National Review and the development of the conservative
movement in American politics.

Selected Search Terms

Names:

Agnew, Spiro T., 1918-
Ashbrook, John M.
Bauman, Robert, 1937-
Blackwell, Morton C.
Buchanan, Patrick J.
Buckley, James Lane, 1923-
Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-
Burnham, James, 1905-1987
Cohn, Roy M.
Evans, M. Stanton (Medford Stanton), 1934-
Goldwater, Barry, 1938-
Heston, Charlton
Hodel, Donald Paul, 1935-
Liebman, Marvin
Moore, Roger, 1927-
Reagan, Ronald
Rickenbacker, William F., 1928-
Viguerie, Richard A.
Wayne, John, 1907-1979
American Conservative Union
American-African Affairs Association
National Draft Goldwater Committee
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Young Americans for Freedom

Subjects:

National review
American periodicals--New York (State)--New York
Conservatism
Liberalism
Periodicals--Publishing--United States
Political clubs
Presidents--United States--Election
Presidents--United States--Election--1964
Press and politics--United States
South Africa--Politics and government--1948-
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989

Occupations:

Authors
Lawyers
Publishers

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/rusher.html

[CottonBear]

8. Shameless kick!

:kick:

[CottonBear]

14. DU lawyers: can a subpoena force open sealed documents w/out

the living author's permission?

[CottonBear]

23. I just heard Specter say the documents are being looked at...

Maybe we will know something tomorrow.

[MADem]

25. William A. Rusher, mean-looking bastard

Edited to put a smaller pic in--the one I cadged off the site was hideously HUGE (or HUGH!1!1!1)

William A. Rusher is a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute. He served as publisher of National Review magazine from 1957 to 1988. A veteran spokesman for the conservative viewpoint on public issues, Rusher has become known across the United States in the past forty years. He has been a familiar television and radio personality. A newspaper columnist since 1973, his syndicated weekly "The Conservative Advocate" appears in newspapers all over the United States. A professional lecturer and prolific author, with five hardcover books and numerous magazine articles. His 1975 book, The Making of the New Majority Party, sold over a quarter of a million copies in hardcover and paperback, and his 1984 book, The Rise of the Right appeared in expanded form in a trade paperback edition.

Rusher has also been an influential political activist, and was one of the three men who in 1961 launched the draft of Barry Goldwater for the 1964 Republican nomination—a drive that captured and transformed the Republican Party, and continued under Ronald Reagan. He graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, served in the Air Force in India in World War II, and was an associate for seven years at a large Wall Street law firm. In 1956 and 1957 he was associate counsel to the U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee before joining National Review.


In 1989 Mr. Rusher became a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute, for which he advises and writes from his home in San Francisco, in addition to continuing his regular schedule of columns. Mr. Rusher also remains a member of the Board of Advisors of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, a member of the board of directors of National Review Inc., and chairman of the board of advisors of the Media Research Center.

...Read William Rusher's syndicated column on World Net Daily.(Shit, that sentence tells you all you need to know!!! He's a CRAP-SPEWER, just like the rest of 'em!!!)

[Sydnie]

26. The elephant on the bookcase is a nice touch

gag me! :puke:

[CottonBear]

28. Gah! He's cadaverous!

Seriously, I had no idea who this man was before the Alito hearings. He's super duper connected to extreme conservatives dating back to WWII.
:scared:

[Sydnie]

27. hummmm ... who else might we find out about? n/t