Timothy J. Reardon (#8.22)

Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
List of Series
Series Description


Administrative Information

Abstract
White House Staff Files 1960-1963
Government official. Administrative Assistant to President Kennedy (1961-63); Special Assistant to the President for Cabinet affairs (1961-64). Correspondence, memorandums, reports, subject files.

Access
Open.

Usage Restrictions
According to the letter of transfer 1965, copyright of these materials has been assigned to the United States.  Documents in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States as part of their official duties are in the public domain. Users of these materials are advised to determine the copyright status of any document from which they wish to publish.

Copyright
The donors of the John F. Kennedy papers have assigned their copyright in this material to the United States. Documents in the Kennedy papers prepared by officials or employees of the United States government as part of their official duties are in the public domain. Under the provisions of the United States Copyright Law, copyright in any writing created before January 1, 1978, and not in the public domain rests with the author and his heirs for the period of the life of the author plus fifty years or for one hundred years from the date the item was created if the author's date of death is unknown. Users of these materials are advised to determine the copyright status of any document from which they plan to publish.

Provenance
Files of Timothy J. Reardon, Jr., Administrative Assistant to the President and Special Assistant to the President for Cabinet and Intergovernmental Affairs, were donated to the John F. Kennedy Library in 1965 as part of the papers of John F. Kennedy.

Extent
About 11,000 pages (4 linear feet, 10 linear inches, 5.5 cubic feet).

Withdrawn Items
Classified Withdrawn Items: 7
Withdrawn Items: 26.
As required by the terms of the deed of gift, twenty-six items, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy or libel of a living person, have been removed and placed under seal. Seven items containing national security classified information have been removed as well. Document withdrawal sheets identifying all withdrawn items have been placed in the file where items have been removed. The library will review this closed material upon request for the purpose of opening items which no longer require restriction. Researchers may request that the documents containing national security classified information be submitted for mandatory review for possible declassification.

Date Opened
1972

Processed by
William W. Moss, February 1972

Encoded by
James M. Roth

Revisions
Finding aid revised by Donna L. Hanlon, and Karla M. Hayward, November 1988

Related Collections
Frederick Dutton Oral History Interview

The White House Files of Timothy J. Reardon

Biographical Note

Collection Overview
The Presidential papers of John F. Kennedy consist of several major bodies of research material. The White House Central Subject File is the principal White House file. The White House Name File contains copies of most incoming correspondence arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent and is cross-referenced to the Subject File. The Chronological File contains copies of documents prepared for the President's signature and is also cross-referenced to the Subject File. The Social File contains the records of the White House Social Office and includes the correspondence of the First Lady. The President's Office File contains the papers maintained by the President's personal secretary for his use. The National Security File contains the records of the staff of the special assistant to the President for national security affairs.

In addition, in what were called in the White House "storage" or "overflow" files are found various miscellaneous materials and the records of the offices of most members of the President's staff. The files described in this finding aid constitute one of the series of White House staff files included in the Presidential papers of John F. Kennedy.

The White House Staff Files of Timothy J. Reardon, Jr. cover the period from 1960 - 1963 when he served first as Administrative Assistant to President John F. Kennedy and then, in late 1961, replaced Frederick Dutton as Special Assistant to the President for Cabinet and Intergovernmental Affairs. A number of files in the Reardon series also include material from the Dutton period. For further information concerning this Cabinet post, the researcher may want to consult the Dutton oral history interview recorded by the John F. Kennedy Library's oral history program.  Dutton and Reardon were charged with routine supervision of inter-Cabinet coordination efforts, the activities of various presidential committees and commissions, and relations between the state and federal government as expressed through formal organizations such as governors' conferences, and the administration of disaster relief through the Office of Emergency Planning.

List of Series
Series 1. General Correspondence
Series 2. Subject File  

SeriesDescription

Series 1. General Correspondence.
About 1,500 pages (1.5 boxes).
Arrangement: alphabetical.

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports, articles and newsclippings from government officials, professional associates, organizations, friends, and the general public.

Series 2. Subject File.
About pages (10 boxes).
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

Correspondence and memoranda with government officials and professional associates, public service advertising programs, texts of speeches by government officials and the president, agenda, press releases, reports, articles, brochures and other printed material, newspaper clippings, photographs and handwritten notes.  Of note are the documents related to the president's programs on physical fitness, including the folders "President's Council on Physical Fitness" (Box 9); "Selective Service, 1961" (Box 10); "Youth Fitness: Pre-administration to 1963" (Box 11); and "Speeches, 1961" (Box 11).