Thomas Blake Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: GTM-0026

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Papers of Thomas Dawes Blake, a public relations specialist who served in the U.S. State Department in the 1940s. It includes typescripts documenting his time working for the U.S. government during World War II, including his role as assistant to Stephen Early, press secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the reaction to the death of FDR by White House staff. It also includes a file on the Mexico Water Treaty (1945), a file of memoranda to Col. Behn from 1947 (while Blake was employed as representative of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation), letters from various political figures (including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Henry Cabot Lodge, George A. Smathers, Harry F. Byrd, and James Roosevelt, mostly thank you note for supporting their political campaigns), photographs of LBJ announcing his candidacy in 1960 (in which Blake appears in the background of the photos), and some political campaign ephemera for Democratic politicians (such as "Walking with Stevenson" pin in support of Adlai Stevenson).

Dates

Creation: 1947 - 1976

Creator

Blake, Thomas Dawes, 1903-1991 (Person)

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