Johnson Appointment - White House Aide, 1955-2011, bulk 1959-1969
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Subseries consists of correspondence, notes, clippings, official documents, small artifacts such as political pins, ledgers, memoranda, drafts, photographs, clippings, and printed matter pertaining to Diamonstein-Spielvogel's work as a White House Aide (1963-1966) to Eric Goldman under the Johnson administration. There is a small amount of materials documenting Diamonstein-Spielvogel's work for the TV series Open Mind, then hosted by Goldman, as well as drafts and correspondence from the writing of Goldman's book The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson.
Highlights also include materials surrounding the inauguration of the White House Fellows Program and the Presidential Scholars Program. Also of particular note is documentation of the first and only White House Festival of the Arts organized by Diamonstein-Spielvogel, which speaks to the interaction of art and politics. Other materials relevant to this series exist in small amounts in the Correspondence Series.
The subseries is arranged chronologically. Two larger groupings of folders are present within this chronology: the Festival of the Arts group contains materials related to the White House Festival of the Arts and is arranged alphabetically; the White House Binders group contains folders of professional White House papers originally maintained in binders by Diamonstein-Spielvogel. Original order and folder titles have been retained.
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