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3.5x5 color photo of Johnny and June Cash at the President's home (Quarters AA). The Cashes and the LeBourgeois are getting ready to sit for a meal together.

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Biographical sketches, career material, publication and writings of NWC presidents.

Content Description From the Collection:

Academic and administrative files consisting mainly of correspondence, memoranda, lectures, reports and syllabi regarding Naval War College programs and matters pertaining to military education topics, including Electives Program, Cooperative curricula, Strategy Department courses, Presidents’ files, College curriculum and professional conferences and associations. 1975–1986.

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9x12 black and white portrait of LeBourgeois, potentially pre-Presidency at the NWC

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Biographical sketches, career material, publication and writings of NWC presidents.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of twenty-seven boxes of official and personal papers that are divided into eight series that document the admiral's military career and retirement employment. The collection is unrestricted and open to researchers.Series One, Correspondence, contains the admiral's personal letters received, 1935-1988, and professional correspondence, 1955-1957. Correspondents include his brother Charles, family members and friends who wrote to him while he was at the U.S. Naval Academy, 1935-1939, and later assignments. Professional correspondence covers the years 1953-1957 and includes letters sent and received from naval personnel.Series Two, Writings, has the admiral's published and unpublished writings, dating from 1950 to 1985. Published writings appeared in The Navy Magazine and the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings.Series Three houses speeches given during the years 1962 to 1985. Topics vary and include convocation addresses, the Soviet Navy, logistics, and SEATO.Series Four contains published writings by prominent political figures and naval officers, including CDR Thomas Buell, Edward L. Katzenbach, Senator Robert Taft, and ADM Arleigh Burke, 1965-1988. Speeches by naval officers and political figures, 1953-1987, are in Series Five. They include President Richard M. Nixon, Senators Sam Nunn and J.W. Fulbright, and the Secretary of the Navy James H. Webb.Series Six, Subject Files,...

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Biographical sketches, career material, publication and writings of NWC presidents.

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5X7 black and white photo of VADM LeBourgeois at the Chamber of Commerce reception. Mayor and Mrs. Humphry Donnelly at right in receiving line