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                                    United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

 

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                              United States Postal Service Board of Governors

 

FG269-02                              Postal Service Advisory Council

 

FG269-03                              Postal Rate Commission

 

FG269-04                              Postmasters – Post Offices

 

FG270                                    United States Railway Association

 

FG271                                    United States Sinai Support Mission

 

FG272                                    United States Territorial Expansion Memorial Commission

 

FG273                                    Upper Great Lakes Regional Commission (Terminated)

 

FG274                                    Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission (Terminated)

 

FG275                                    Upper Missouri Regional Commission (Terminated)

 

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                                    Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

 

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 5/5/81

 

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 America

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.