Collection
KHPP
Journalist, author, socialite, and Kennedy and Churchill family friend. London correspondent, Cleveland News ; correspondent, Cleveland Press ; radio broadcaster, WGAR (1938-1942); executive, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (1942-1945); feature writer, Cleveland Plain Dealer (1948- ); campaigned for Presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy; member, Inaugural Committee (1961); member, Advisory Committee on the National Cultural Center (Kennedy Center); advocate for honorary American citizenship for Sir Winston Churchill; author/editor, Irrepressible Churchill (1967), Winston Churchill on America and Britain (1970), The Grand Original: Portraits of Randolph Churchill by His Friends (1971), Randolph Churchill, the Young Unpretender (1971). Correspondence, telegrams, manuscripts, photographs, campaign materials, news clippings, printed materials. Includes interviews and transcripts of broadcasts on the Kennedy and Churchill families, political campaigning, John F. Kennedy's inauguration, the Eminent Americans Program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the restoration of Blair House, and honorary American citizenship for Winston Churchill.