Gerald W(illiam) Bush (#43)

An Inventory of His Personal Papers
1961-1966
In the John F. Kennedy Library
National Archives and Records Administration

Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
List of Series
Series Description


Administrative Information

Abstract
Papers 1961-1966
Management consultant. Director of Training for the Far East (1962-1964), Special Assistant to the Director (1964-1965), Peace Corps. Research materials for his doctoral dissertation, The Peace Corps: A Study in Open Organization (1968); includes memorandums, reports, notes, speeches, records of the Director's staff meetings, records of decisions, and weekly reports to the President.

Access
Open.

Usage Restrictions
According to the deed of gift signed August 1978, 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 copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excesses of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law. The copyright law extends its protection to unpublished works from the moment of creation in a tangible form. Direct your questions concerning copyright to the reference staff.

Provenance
Received from Gerald W. Bush of Pittsburgh, PA, in September 1978 (Acc. 1978-046).

Extent
About 6,600 items (4.4 feet)

Withdrawn Items
As required by the terms of the deed of gift, eighty-eight (88) items, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or a libel of a living person, have been removed and placed under seal. Document withdrawal sheets listing the closed items have been inserted 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.

Date Opened
November 1981

Processed by
Janet S. Hollyday

Encoded by
James M. Roth

Related Collections
William Josephson Papers, John F. Kennedy Library
Microfilm Records of the Peace Corps, John F. Kennedy Library

The Personal Papers of Gerald W(illiam) Bush (1937-1999)

Biographical Note

Collection Overview
The personal papers of Gerald W. Bush consist largely of unpublished memoranda, reports, notes and speech texts and a smaller amount of published articles, books and reports which document the concept, organization and evolution of the Peace Corps (1961 -1966). The papers reveal philosophical, legislative, and logistical problems which faced the Peace Corps organizers. A large portion of the Bush papers deals with the proposed solutions to these problems ranging from public relations to methods of tropical disease prevention. Significant materials in the collection include copies of director's staff meeting records, records of decisions, staff memoranda and weekly reports to the president. However, these are not complete sets of each type of material since they were collected by Mr. Bush only as background material for his thesis topic. The Bush papers have been kept in the order in which they were received and Mr. Bush's folder titles have been retained. The papers are arranged, as Mr. Bush had them, into two series: Working File and Printed Materials. Some of the books in the Printed Materials series have been transferred to the Kennedy Library book collection; a list of the transferred items is filed in the first folder of the series.

List of Series
Series 1. Working Files
Series 2. Printed Materials

Series Description

Series 1. Working Files.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series contains subject files of memoranda, reports, notes, articles and speech texts Mr. Bush used as background material for his thesis on the Peace Corps.

Series 2. Printed Materials.
Arrangement: alphabetical.

This series contains published books, articles and reports on the Peace Corps which Bush used in writing his dissertation.