FEDERAL GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZATIONS (FG)

[FG036 – FG058]

 

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

 

FG036                                    Senate Committees

 

FG036-02                              Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry

 

FG036-03                              Appropriations

 

FG036-04                              Armed Services

 

FG036-05                              Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs

 

FG036-06                              Budget

 

FG036-07                              Commerce, Science and Transportation

 

FG036-08                              Energy and Natural Resources

 

FG036-09                              Finance

 

FG036-10                              Foreign Relations

 

FG036-11                              Governmental Affairs

 

FG036-12                              Labor and Human Resources

 

FG036-13                              Judiciary, Senate Committee on

 

FG036-14                              Environment and Public Works

 

FG036-16                              Small Business [Senate Committee]

                                                Empty category

 

FG036-17                              Rules and Administration, Senate Committee

 

FG036-18                              Veterans Affairs, Senate Committee   (1 folder)

A secondary subject category containing correspondence sent to the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs regarding nominations and Richard Childress' testimony concerning the POW/MIA issue.

 

FG037                                    Select and Special Committees of the House and Senate

 

FG038                                    Vice President

 

FG038-01                              Former Vice Presidents

 

FG038-02                              Vice President’s Staff

 

FG039                                    Joint Committees of Congress

 

FG039-01                              Atomic Energy, Joint Committee on

 

FG039-02                              Congressional Operations, Joint Committee on

 

FG039-03                              Defense Production, Joint Committee on

 

FG039-04                              Economic Committee, Joint Committee on

 

FG039-05                              Internal Revenue Taxation, Joint Committee on

 

FG039-06                              Library, Joint Committee on

 

FG039-07                              Printing, Joint Committee on

 

FG040                                    Architect of the Capitol

 

FG041                                    Botanic Garden

 

FG042                                    Capitol Page School

 

FG043                                    Capitol Police

 

FG044                                    Congressional Budget Office

 

FG045                                    General Accounting Office

 

FG046                                    Government Printing Office

 

FG047                                    Library of Congress

 

FG047-01                              American Folk Life Center

 

FG048                                    Copyright Royalty Tribunal  

 

FG050                                    Judicial Branch   (3.2 ft.; boxes 1-8)

A secondary subject category containing letters, memos, talking points, and draft Congressional testimony by the Justice department concerning support for Reagan judicial nominees; complaints or support for particular sitting judges; supporting qualified women nominees; supporting pro-life nominees; the need to hill judicial vacancies expeditiously; mid-term reports on Reagan administration judicial selection process; various legislation covering the appointment, administration and judication issued for the judicial branch such as the Federal Court Improvement Act of 1983; the Bankruptcy Court Reform Act Amendments of 1984; Federal Court Security; Judicial Branch Improvements Act, Judicial Retirement;  etc.  This category also contains a number of agendas, background information and summaries of decisions from the President’s Federal Judicial Selection Committee.

 

FG051                                    Supreme Court of the United States   (6 ft., boxes 1-15) 

A secondary subject category containing letters, memos, talking points, mass public support mailings, briefing books, and testimony regarding the selection and possible appointment to the Supreme Court of Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Robert Bork, Douglas Ginsburg, and Anthony Kennedy; and the elevation of William Rehnquist to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.  In addition, this category contains letters, memos, press releases and notes regarding the public campaign to put pro-life judges on the Supreme Court; the proposed Intercircuit Tribunal;  White House reactions to specific Supreme Court decisions; the formal opening of the Supreme Court; Supreme Court Police Protection; S. 833 (Supreme Court discretion to review new cases); preparation of swearing-in ceremonies; S.952 (restricting selection of cases for Supreme Court review), and retirement letters from Justice Stewart, Chief Justice Burger,  and Justice Powell.

 

FG052                                    Courts of Appeal, United States   (3.2 ft.; boxes 1-11).             

A secondary subject category containing letters, memos, candidate reviews, and potential judicial nominee’s questionnaires, briefing books, and standard nomination packets regarding the possible selection and/or nomination of judges to the United States Courts of Appeal. This subject category includes material relating to the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Included in this category are resignation letters, thank-you notes for nomination, material regarding H.R. 1162  (the Court of Appeals Venue Act), and material regarding contentious nomination process for certain appeals court nominees such as Alex Kozinsky for the Ninth Circuit and Daniel Manion for the Seventh Circuit.

 

FG053                                    District Courts, United States  -             

See accompanying inventory of processed material

 

Note: With the passage of the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982, effective October 1, 1982, the United States Claims Court and the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals were overhauled and repositioned as the new United States Court of Claims (FG054) and the new United States Court of Appeals for the Federal District (FG055).  All material at the Reagan Library has been filed by the new court designations. 

 

FG054                                    Court of Claims, United States   (.75 ft.; boxes 1-2) 

A secondary subject category containing letters, memos, standard nomination packets, and potential nominee’s judicial questionnaires regarding possible selection and/or nomination of judges to the United States Court of Claims.  In addition, this category contains memos, notes and letters regarding S.1700, and H.R. 4482 (later to be called the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982) administration of the new court, an opening ceremony for the new court, the legality of the new court, a later salary/retirement amendment to the FCIA, and the possible elevation of the new Court of Claims judges to Article III status.

 

FG055                                    United States Court of Appeals for the Federal District 

(1 ft; boxes 1-3)

A secondary subject category containing letters, memos, standard nomination packets, and potential nominee’s judicial questionnaires regarding possible selection and/or nomination of judges to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal District.  In addition, this category contains memos, notes and letters regarding comments on H.R. 4482 (the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982), the jurisdiction of the new Court of Appeals for the Federal District, judicial retirement letters and discussions of the difficulties raised in nominating Sherman Unger for this court. Most of this subject category consists of transferred material misclassified by the White House Office of Records Management within FG052 (Courts of Appeal, U.S.).

 

FG056                                    United States Court of International Trade   (.2 ft; box 3) 

A secondary subject category containing letters, memos, notes, and standard nomination packets regarding possible selection and/or nomination of judges to the United States Court of International Trade.  In addition, this category contains memos, notes and letters regarding personnel matters at the Court after the sudden death of Judge Scovel Richardson, judicial retirement, selection process of the judges for this court and comments on H.R. 2183 (amending Title 28) granting judges on this court membership in the Judicial Conference of the United States.

 

FG057                                    Court of Military Appeals, United States  

(.35 ft.; boxes 3-4) 

A secondary subject category containing letters, memos, notes, and standard nomination packets regarding possible selection and/or nomination of judges to the United States Court of Military Appeals. In addition, this category contains memos, notes and letters regarding judicial retirement, and the removal and/or disability retirement of Judge Albert Fletcher from the Court of Military Appeals.

 

FG058                                    United States Tax Court   (.5 ft.; boxes 4-6) 

A secondary subject category containing letters, memos, notes, and standard nomination packets regarding possible selection and/or nomination of judges to the United States Tax Court.