FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZATIONS (FG)
[FG261
– FG300]
Subject
categories and sub-categories fully available for research are bolded. Closed categories and
sub-categories have a simple phrase describing their contents.
DESCRIPTION
OF SECONDARY FILE CODES
File
Code Description
FG261 United
Service Organization
FG264
FG266 United
States Information Agency (Transferred see FG298)
FG267 United
States International Trade Commission (USITC)
FG268 United States Metric Board
FG269 United
States Postal Service
FG269-01
FG269-02 Postal Service
Advisory Council
FG269-03 Postal Rate
Commission
FG269-04 Postmasters – Post
Offices
FG270
FG271 United
States Sinai Support
FG272 United
States Territorial Expansion Memorial Commission
FG273
FG274
FG275
FG276 Veterans Administration (1.75 ft.)
This
category contains memoranda, correspondence, reports, briefings, and notes
pertaining to Veterans Administration issues.
Topics include the appointment of Administrators, the controversial
tenure and resignation of Administrator Peter Nimmo, claims by veterans
and their families against the VA, establishing the VA as a cabinet level
agency, and VA budget and administrative matters.
FG276-01 Board of Veterans
Appeals
FG276-02 Inspector General,
Office of, VA
FG277
FG278 Water
Resources Council
FG279 Western
Interstate Nuclear Board
FG280 Woodrow
Wilson Memorial Commission
FG281 National
Commission on Unemployment Compensation
FG282 National
Health Resources Advisory Board
FG284 Presidential
Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments
FG286 United
States Circuit Judge Nominating Commission
FG286-01 Nominating Panels
(Circuit Judge) – Terminated
FG288 Strategy
Council (Drug Abuse)
FG289 National
Commission on Employment & Unemployment Statistics
FG290 Committee on
Selection of Federal Judicial Officers
FG291 Southwest
Border Regional Commission (Terminated)
FG294 Statistical
Policy Coordination Committee
FG296 National
Commission on Social Security (Terminated)
FG297 Advisory
Committee on Balanced National Growth & Development
FG298 United
States Information Agency
Topics
include the agency’s office space requirements, mission statement, staff
appointments, Voice of America matters, USICA name change back to USIA, and
other administrative material; information about Director Charles Wick
(including his involvement in taping conversations, an alleged “blacklist’ used
by the agency, foreign press coverage of Ronald Reagan’s speeches, and USIA
initiatives to articulate U.S. policies abroad.
Also includes USIA information products.
FG298-01 Voice
of
Letters from the public and others about VOA appointments,
VOA editorials, foreign press coverage, VOA reports, and efforts to modernize
VOA.
FG299 United
States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
FG300 President’s
Advisory Committee for Women (1 folder)
This
committee, which was formed under President Carter, was discontinued early in
the Reagan Administration. Its function was to advise the President on
Government initiatives needed to promote full equality for women. The material
in this subject category relates to the issue of abolishing the Committee, and
to unsolicited recommendations for Committee membership.