Political Reports from Consular Posts in USA (Folder 2) (1975).

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2008.

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Description: Newsletters from British consular posts in the various regions of the United States, including monthly pieces written by J M Heath, D E Richards, Archie Rendall, F Kennedy, Donald Stokes, Laurence P Hope, W C Hodgkins and others, all sent to Mark Russell, Counsellor for Internal Affairs, or to R A Fyjis-Walker, at the British Embassy in Washington DC. Monthly reports from Chicago, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska, Memphis, Detroit, Seattle, California, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Cleveland, Ohio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Urban affairs and city politics. Local politics, municipal ballots, primaries and Supreme court nominations. State economies, consumer climate, industrial outlook. Foreign affairs, US foreign policy. Oil, US economy, economic round-up, Mid-West economy. Automobile industry. Cars. Upturn in sales in the automotive industries. Education. Agriculture. Energy. Oil. Creation of the Energy Independence Authority. The 1976 Presidential Campaign. Ronald Reagan. Hubert Humphrey. The policies of President Ford. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. Assessment of President Ford's performance and the post-Nixon era. President Ford's cabinet reshuffle. Visit by Margaret Thatcher to the US. Political slush funds. Campaign funds. Federal Court trial of John Swainson, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, and his acquittal on the charge of conspiracy and bribery, but his conviction on three charges of perjury. Views in the US and of the American public on Britain. US-UK relations. Views on Britain and the problems of Northern Ireland. IRA bombing campaign. NAACP. Race.

The Nixon years, 1969-1974.

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