Egil Krogh Papers, White House Special Files, 1969-1973

Title: Egil Krogh Papers, White House Special Files, 1969-1973

Dates: 1969-1973

Collection Number: 2500462

Creator/Collector: Krogh, Egil, 1939-. Domestic Council (U.S.)

Extent: 34 linear feet, 7 linear inches; 79 boxes

Repository: Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

Abstract: Egil "Bud" Krogh, Jr. was the Deputy Counsel to the President and, later, Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs. His responsibilities included drugs, crime, law enforcement, housing, government reorganization, and transportation. The files record each of these responsibilities.

Language of Material: English

Collection is open for research. Some materials may be unavailable based upon categories of materials exempt from public release established in the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act of 1974.

Most government records are in the public domain; however, this series includes commercial materials, such as newspaper clippings, that may be subject to copyright restrictions. Researchers should contact the copyright holder for information.

Egil Krogh Papers, White House Special Files, 1969-1973. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

These materials are in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration under the provisions of Title I of the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-526, 88 Stat. 1695) and implementing regulations.

The Domestic Council was established by Executive Order 11541 (July 1, 1970) to formulate and to coordinate domestic policy recommendations to the President. During the Nixon administration, Council membership included the President and Vice President of the United States; the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Health, Education and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, Transportation, and Treasury; the Director of the office of Management and Budget; the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors; and other individuals as designated by the President. Council work was accomplished through ad hoc project committees set up to deal with either broad program areas or specific problems. John D. Ehrlichman was the Executive Director of the Council staff. Support staff could be drawn from department and agency experts, as well as from the Office of Management and Budget.

The Materials of Egil (Bud) Krogh, Jr., Deputy Assistant to the President (domestic affairs) reflect his responsibilities as Assistant Director of the Domestic Council staff, as Executive Director of the Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control, and as White House liaison officer for District of Columbia affairs. Krogh's broad areas of responsibility were drugs, crime, law enforcement, housing, government reorganization and transportation. In his exit interview, Krogh stated that he spent 50-60% of his time on narcotics and law enforcement, 20% on transportation, and 20% on the District of Columbia. He said that he had policy making responsibilities in the areas of law enforcement and narcotics, and he contributed indirectly to national transportation policy. He served as project manager over a staff of five assistants. The materials are arranged into eight series: Chronological Files; Alpha Name Files; Alpha Subject Files; Alpha Subject Files/Crime; Alpha Subject Files/Drugs; Alpha Subject Files/Transportation; Alpha Subject Files/Books, Briefing Papers, Manuals, Reports; Oversized Attachments. The first series, Chronological Files, contains mostly carbon copies of outgoing memoranda and letters. The second series, Alpha Name Files, consists mostly of incoming correspondence to Krogh from Department and Agency officials and job-seeking candidates. The Alpha Subject Files have been arbitrarily subdivided into five series because of large concentrations of materials on drugs, crime, transportation, and briefing and reference materials. The Alpha Subject Files series contains materials filed by subject that reflect all of Krogh's activities. The series entitled Alpha Subject/Crime; Alpha Subject/Drugs; and Alpha Subject/Books, Briefing Papers, Manuals, Report each contain materials relating to the subtopics indicated. The Oversized Attachments series contains files that the White House Central File Unit received from Krogh's office and placed in the Oversized Attachment files rather than in the subject category file FG 6-11-1 under Krogh's name because of bulk of volume. The White House Central Files assigned the material an OA number when it was received. The Special Files Unit pulled the OA files in this series from the Central Files to be included with Krogh's other Special Files materials. Photographs, cassette tapes, newspaper clippings, and "thermofax" copies of documents have been removed from the files and replaced with electrostatic "preservation" copies. Audiovisual Collection withdrawal sheets mark the place of the original photographs or tapes which are available in the AV Collection, PA78-2-2-27. Approximately eighty photographs and one cassette tape were transferred to the audio-visual collection.