LeRoy Ashby and Rod Gramer Collection on Frank Church,

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1 LeRoy Ashby and Rod Gramer Collection on Frank Church, Overview of the Collection Creator Ashby, LeRoy;Church, Bethine C.Church, Frank;Gramer, Rod, ; Title LeRoy Ashby and Rod Gramer Collection on Frank Church Dates (inclusive) Quantity 23.0 linear feet, (12 linear feet of boxed material, 11 feet of cassette tapes (26 boxes, plus 335 audio-cassette tapes in 22 drawers)) Collection Number MSS 173 Summary Research files compiled by LeRoy Ashby and Rod Gramer, coauthors of the book Fighting the Odds, the Life of Senator Frank Church (Washington State University Press, 1994); together with tape recorded interviews conducted by Ashby and Gramer, including Frank Church ( ), his wife Bethine Church, family, friends, staffers, and colleagues, about Church's life and Senate career. Research files include photocopies of selected documents from the Church papers at Boise State University, arranged topically, with copies of some family documents dating back to the 1850s. The collection also includes an edited typescript of the book and photocopies of cited source documents, arranged by chapter. Repository Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives Special Collections and Archives 1910 University Drive Boise ID Telephone: archives@boisestate.edu Access Restrictions Collection is available for research with the exception of selected files. Contact Special Collections for information. Languages Sponsor English Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Biographical Note Rod Gramer was born in Boise in 1953 and graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in history in He was a journalist with the Idaho Statesman when he began research for a biography of Frank Church in 1978 with fellow journalist Marc Johnson. Johnson later left the project and Gramer continued alone, assisted by his wife Julie. Rod and Julie Gramer were the first researchers to use the Frank Church papers at Boise State University in Gramer left the Idaho Statesman in 1988 to become news director for television station KTVB-TV in Boise in In 1998 he moved to Portland, 1

2 Oregon, to assume a similar position with a television station there. Additional biographical information can be found in Who s Who in the American West 1992/93 and in Contemporary Authors (volume 147). LeRoy Ashby (b. 1938) earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in In 1972 he joined the faculty of Washington State University, where he has taught popular culture and twentieth-century American history. He has won several teaching awards and has written several books, including biographies of Senator William Borah and William Jennings Bryan. Like Rod and Julie Gramer, Ashby and his wife Mary were among the first users of the Church collection at Boise State. Further biographical information can be found in the Directory of American Scholars and Contemporary Authors (volume 33-36, First Revision). Content Description In 1994, Washington State University Press published a biography of U.S. Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho) entitled Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church, by LeRoy Ashby and Rod Gramer. Ashby, a professor of history at Washington State University, and Gramer, an Idaho journalist, began their research independently: Gramer in the 1970s, Ashby in the 1980s; each with the intention of writing their own book. They later combined forces to produce the jointly-written biography, which in 1995 won Utah State University s David W. and Beatrice C. Evans Award as the most significant biography from the West published in Both authors made extensive use of the Frank Church papers at Boise State University and conducted many interviews with Church s family, friends, staff, and political colleagues, as well as Senator Church himself. The research files include notes, photocopies of key documents from the Frank Church collection, and copies of both primary and secondary materials obtained elsewhere. The interviews were recorded on tape cassettes; some are accompanied by either partial or complete transcripts made by or for Rod Gramer and LeRoy Ashby. Like the Fred Hutchison collection (MSS 124), the Ashby-Gramer collection serves as a distillation of the much larger Church collection, presenting a selection of papers and documents the two researchers considered important to their research. Their files, maintained separately, are arranged alphabetically by topic, from Abortion to Wilderness. The earliest material in the files is census data from 1850 regarding the Church family. The collection also contains an edited typescript of the book and photocopies of source documents footnoted in the book, arranged by chapter. Use of the Collection Preferred Citation [item description], LeRoy Ashby and Rod Gramer Collection on Frank Church, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives. Administrative Information Arrangement 2

3 Collection arranged in six series: 1. Rod Gramer research files; 2. LeRoy Ashby research files; 3. Citation source documents and typescript; 4. Transcripts of interviews by Rod Gramer; 5. Transcripts of interviews by LeRoy Ashby; and 6. Interviews on tape. Acquisition Information Gift of Rod Gramer, 1998 and LeRoy Ashby, Related Materials See also: Frank Church Papers Fred H. Hutchison Papers Carl Burke Papers Detailed Description of the Collection 1: Rod Gramer research files Container(s) Description Dates Box Folder 1 1 Abortion 1 2 Aging 1 3 Agriculture 1 4 Andrus, Cecil 1 5 Arms control 1 6 Banking and Federal Reserves 1 7 Verda Barnes 1 8 Basques 1 9 Chester Bowles 1 10 James L. Brown 1 11 Beorge Bush 3

4 1 12 G. Harold Carswell 1 13 Chase Church 1 14 Forrest Church 1 15 Frank Church: Early Years and Family History Frank Church: High School Frank Church: As Compromiser 1 18 Frank Church: Frank Church: Post-Senate 1 19 Frank Church: Death 1 20 Frank Church: Death 1 21 Frank Church: Letters Received Frank Church: Condolence Letters and Tributes 1 23 Civil Rights Chase A. Clark 1 25 D. Worth Clark 1 26 Clark family history 1 27 Congress/President 1 28 Education 2 1 Election Election Election Election

5 2 5 Election (recall) Election Election Election Election Election Election (staff) Election: early months Election: announcement speech Election: California Election: Colorado Election: Ohio Election: Nebraska Election: Oregon Election: Rhode Island Election: Vice-Presidential consideration Election Election: ABC and NCPAC Election: Committee for Positive Change Election: New Right Energy 5

6 3 15 Environment 3 16 Executive powers 3 17 Federal debt 3 18 Filibuster 3 19 Financial disclosure 3 20 Fish 4 1 Foreign aid 4 2 Foreign policy Foreign policy Foreign policy: committee chairmanship 4 5 Foreign aid policy: Africa 4 6 Foreign aid policy: Cuba 4 7 Foreign aid policy: Cuba Trip 4 8 Foreign aid policy: Europe 4 9 Foreign aid policy: India-Pakistan 4 10 Foreign aid policy: Iranian hostage crisis 4 11 Foreign aid policy: Israel 4 12 Foreign aid policy: Korea 4 13 Foreign aid policy: Latin America 4 14 Foreign aid policy: Libya 4 15 Foreign aid policy: Libya; Bayh 6

7 4 16 Foreign aid policy: Libya; Symms 4 17 Foreign aid policy: Middle East 4 18 Foreign aid policy: Russia 4 19 Foreign aid policy: Uganda 4 20 J. William Fulbright 4 21 Gasahol 4 22 Gun control 4 23 Hells Canyon 4 24 Walter Hickel 4 25 Indians 4 26 Inflation 4 27 Intelligence investigation 4 28 Intelligence investigation 5 1 Intelligence investigation 5 2 Lyndon B. Johnson 5 3 Kennedy-Johnson White House favors file Edward Korry 5 5 Labor and business 5 6 Law and order 5 7 Walter Lippman 5 8 McCarthyism 7

8 5 9 James McClure 5 10 Military spending 5 11 Mine safety 5 12 Multinational corporations 5 13 Multinational corporations: ITT and Chile 5 14 Multinational corporations: ITT and Chile 5 15 Multinational corporations: Lockheed and Northrop 5 16 Multinational corporations: OPIC 5 17 Multinational corporations: Oil Companies 6 1 Multinational corporations: Oil Companies 6 2 Multinational corporations: Oil Companies 6 3 Natural gas deregulation 6 4 Nuclear energy 6 5 Occupational Safety and Health Administration 6 6 Panama Canal 6 7 Politics and government 6 8 Range management/cattle 6 9 Reclamation 6 10 Reclamation Act 6 11 Nelson Rockefeller 6 12 Social Security 8

9 6 13 Steve Symms 6 14 United Nations 6 15 Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam 7 1 Vietnam Vietnam: Cooper-Church Amendment Vietnam: Cooper-Church Amendment Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam: Case-Church Amendment Vietnam Vietnam: Case-Church Amendment Vietnam: Tom Dine Papers 8 3 Vietnam Vietnam Watergate 8 6 Book: outline 8 7 Book: interview plan 9

10 8 8 Book: research plan 8 9 Book: research: Jack Anderson index 8 10 Book: research: book 2, hapter 8 11 Book: research: book 3, chapter 3 (Vietnam) 8 12 Book: chapter 1 interview excerpts 8 13 Book: chapter 2 interview excerpts 8 14 Book: research notes from books 8 15 Book: letters from LeRoy Ashby, Bryce Nelson: tribute to Frank Church 8 17 Frank Church: last interview with Gramer, transcript Mike Wetherell: Memo to FC : LeRoy Ashby research files Container(s) Description Dates Box Folder 9 1 Abortion Adoption Aging Agriculture Aides (office staff) Amtrak Arabs

11 9 8 Balanced budget Basques Boise, Tom Borah, Mary Busing Carter, Jimmy Carter Administration: Relations With Central America Central Intelligence Agency: Intelligence Committee Central Intelligence Agency: Intelligence Committee Central Intelligence Agency: Intelligence Committee Central Intelligence Agency: Intelligence Committee: Financial Report Central Intelligence Agency: Post-Committee Files Central Intelligence Agency Bush CIA Nomination China Church, Bethine Church, Frank Civil Rights Colleagues and friends Communist propaganda

12 10 7 Cuba Disclosure of income and assets Draft, military undated Economy Education Energy and nuclear energy Equal Rights Amendment Federal Bureau of Investigation Foreign policy issues Foreign Relations Committee Chair Geneva protocol Genocide treaty Great Society Gun control Human Rights Idaho s Conservatism and Church s Liberalism International Telephone and Telegraph Company Internment Camp, Japanese Americans Israel and the Middle East Kissenger, Henry Labor

13 11 12 Latin America Liberalism Libya Middle East Mikva, Abner Miscellaneous Mormons Multinational corporations Multinational corporations Multinational corporations Multinational corporations: CIA Multinational corporations: CIA National Energy Act New Frontier Nicaragua Nuclear weapons: India Office of Economic Opportunity Office Staff and Administration Overseas Private Investment Corporation Pakistan Panama

14 13 10 Panama Panama Panama Pfost, Gracie Pink Sheet on the Left Pornography Prayer Amendment Russian Brigad Salt II Salt II, Soviet Union State Department Sugar Taiwan and China Urban affairs Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam Watergate Welfare Western Coalition of Senators

15 14 14 Wilderness Drew Pearson: Senator and Senate personalities undated 15 2 Drew Pearson: Senator and Senate personalities Drew Pearson: Senator and Senate personalities Drew Pearson: Frank Church Central Intelligence Agency: Clippings CIA Files CIA Files CIA Files Lyndon Johnson: Vietnam and Foreign Aid Nixon Papers Nixon Papers, Newspaper references to Frank Church (Information Bank) Newspaper references to Frank Church (Information Bank) Newspaper references to Frank Church (Information Bank) Newspaper references to Frank Church (Information Bank) Newspaper references to Frank Church (Information Bank) Newspaper references to Frank Church (Information Bank) CIA file on Frank Church undated 3: Citation source documents and typescript 15

16 Container(s) Description Box Folder Citation source documents and typescript, Fighting the Odds 4: Transcripts of interviews by Rod Gramer Contact Special Collections and Archives for additional information 5: Transcripts of interviews by LeRoy Ashby Contact Special Collections and Archives for additional information 6: Interviews on tape Contact Special Collections and Archives for additional information Names and Subjects Subject Terms : Church, Bethine C.--Interviews Church, Frank--Archives Church, Frank--Interviews Finding aid prepared by Collection processed by staff of BSU Special Collections

Karl Boyd Brooks Papers,

Karl Boyd Brooks Papers, Overview of the Collection Creator Brooks, Karl Boyd Title Karl Boyd Brooks Papers Dates 1986-1996 (inclusive) 1986 1996 Quantity 18.0 linear feet, (36 boxes) Collection Number MSS 235 Summary The Karl