Container List
Series III. Other political activities & material, 1930s-2012
Scope and ContentsSeries III holds scant material from Robert Price's time as deputy mayor of New York City (January–November, 1966): biographical press releases, some correspondence, and a few speeches. Of interest for their rarity are the campaign samples—e.g., ephemera, buttons, lapel pins, nail files, bumper stickers, and other paraphernalia—produced by public candidates other than John V. Lindsay or Nelson A. Rockefeller, from New York and elsewhere (see Box 4, Folders 2–17, and Box 8c). Series III includes a program and ticket for the Democratic Party's 1962 fundraising gala at Madison Square Garden at which Marilyn Monroe infamously sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy (see Box 4, Folder 13). Also in Series III is a portable, mechanical Shoup Voting Machine Corporation sample of the type of lever voting machine common at New York polling places before their replacement by electronic scanners (see Box 8d).
ArrangementMaterial is organized chronologically, except for the campaign samples, ephemera, and paraphernalia, which are grouped after the topic-specific folders. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 24 | Republican Club of the 9th Assembly District |
1957-1963 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 25 | Deputy Mayor. Biographical |
1965 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 26 | Deputy Mayor. Correspondence |
1966 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 1 | Deputy Mayor. Speech: "John Lindsay and the Urban Adventure"
Scope and ContentsRemarks before the Manhattan Chapter of the Brandeis University National Women's Committee, Waldorf-Astoria. |
1966 April 18 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 2 | Deputy Mayor. Speech: Statement before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust
and Monopoly (Quinine)
Scope and ContentsIn 1966 the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly began an investigation into what it called "a fantastic rise" in the price of quinine after members of Congress received numerous complaints from constituents who used quindine, a quinine derivative prescribed for irregular heartbeats. Although he was then Deputy Mayor of New York City, Robert Price was called to testify before the subcommittee because his law firm, Kupferman & Price, was general counsel in 1961–1962 to a small public company, Hexagon Laboratories, Inc., which had sought to obtain surplus United States quinine. At the same time, Dutch interests had bought most of the surplus for 20 cents an ounce and were (in 1966) selling it to pharmaceutical companies for $2 an ounce. |
1966 May 16 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 3 | Deputy Mayor. Speech: "Is City Government Obsolete?"
Scope and ContentsRemarks before the Governor's Conference on Decisions for Progress, Olympic Hotel, Seattle, Washington. |
1966 June 4 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 4 | Deputy Mayor. Speech: "Coming Political Struggle" (notes) |
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| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 5 | Abraham Lincoln quotation & correspondence
Scope and ContentsMultiple copies of an Abraham Lincoln quotation: "If I were trying to read, much less answer all the attacks made on me, this shop might well be closed for any other business. I do the best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." With carbon copies of letters by which Robert Price sent the quotation to various officials and businessmen throughout the United States. |
1968 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 6 | Richard Nixon cabinet
Scope and ContentsIssues of TIME (December 20, 1968) and Newsweek (December 23, 1968) profiling the incoming cabinet of President Richard Nixon. |
1968 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 7 | Op-Eds |
1974-2012 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 8 | Gerald Ford
Scope and ContentsMaterial exploring Robert Price's possible involvement in the political activities of the 38th President after his term's end. |
1975-2000 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 9 | Jimmy Carter
Scope and ContentsNewspaper clippings regarding Robert Price's possible appointment to a special counsel post to supervise a federal investigation of President Carter's family peanut business. The Carter family business received loans totalling $7 million from the National Bank of Georgia authorized by former federal Budget Director Bert Lance. |
1979 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 10-11 | Donald Rumsfeld [2 folders]
Scope and ContentsDonald H. Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense under Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, briefly sought the Republican nomination for president in 1988. |
1980-1986 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 12 | Campaign samples. New York [folder 1 of 4]
Scope and ContentsJack BALTZELL and Alice SACHS |
1930s-1960s | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 13 | Campaign samples. New York [folder 2 of 4]
Scope and ContentsCharles GOLD |
1930s-1960s | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 14 | Campaign samples. New York [folder 3 of 4]
Scope and ContentsTom MALLEE |
1930s-1960s | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 15 | Campaign samples. New York [folder 4 of 4]
Scope and ContentsWarren L. SCHNUR |
1930s-1960s | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 16 | Campaign samples. Non-New York
Scope and ContentsWilliam H. AYRES |
1950s-1960s | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 17 | Campaign samples. Bumper stickers [8 items]
Scope and ContentsCONNOR FOR CONGRESS [2 copies] |
1960s | |
| Offsite-Box: 8 | Box : 8c | Campaign samples. Bottle stoppers [2 items]
Scope and Contents"Colorful Plastic Bottle Caps for your opened soft drink bottles. They will keep your beverages fresh and sparkling for weeks." Apparently customizable, the two examples present are printed with "The Winchester Bank" and "SAKRETE." Perhaps Robert Price considered using bottle caps as a form of campaign advertisement. |
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| Offsite-Box: 8 | Box : 8c | Campaign samples. Buttons & lapel pins [18 items]
Scope and ContentsFor Congress AKERS 17th District |
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| Offsite-Box: 8 | Box : 8c | Campaign samples. Ink stamp
Scope and ContentsPAY TO THE ORDER OF / FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK / PARK AVENUE - 46th STREET BRANCH / Committe For New York Government Candidates. |
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| Offsite-Box: 8 | Box : 8c | Campaign samples. Nail files [4 items]
Scope and ContentsElect / JOHN W. HAHN / Councilman |
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| Offsite-Box: 8 | Box : 8c | Convention pins, ribbons, etc. [10 items]
Scope and ContentsHonorary Assistant Sergeant at Arms / 1948 / Philadelphia Republican National Convention
[lapel ribbon] |
1948-1964 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 18 | Publications. Campaign Technique Manual |
circa 1960s-1970s | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 19 | Publications. Democratic County Handbook |
circa 1960s | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 20 | Publications. Republican Party, National |
circa 1950s-1960s | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 21 | Publications. Republican Party, New York |
circa 1958-1964 | |
| Offsite-Box: 4 | Folder : 22 | Publications. Voter registration guides & ephemera |
circa 1952-1960 | |
| Offsite-Box: 8 | Box : 8d | Shoup Voting Machine Corporation sample
Scope and ContentsA portable, mechanical sample of the type of lever voting machine common at New York polling places before the introduction of electronic scanners. The Shoup Voting Machine Corporation, founded in 1905 by Samuel R. Shoup, eventually came to be called Advanced Voting Solutions, Inc., before going out of business in 2015. |
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