James B. Stockdale papers

SUBJECT: Ceremonies and Recognitions

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 1	Subject Files, Change of Command Ceremony	1977
Box 1, Folder 2	Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame, Induction of James B. Stockdale	2005
Box 1, Folder 3	Stockdale Leadership and Ethics Symposium, University of San Diego	1998

SUBJECT: Correspondence

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 4	Letters sent and received, A Contents Note: Including: David Abshire, David Aaron, and MAJGEN James H.A. Ahmann	1977-1979
Box 1, Folder 5-10	Letters sent and received, B Contents Note: Including: Colonel Arthur Blair, VADM Robert Baldwin F.M. Ball, M.D., Bradford Becken, George Bentley, RADM John Bergen, William Bernrieder, Philip Bolger, Ronald Black, Kenneth Booth, RADM E.S. Briggs, Robert A. Brand, Governor Edmund G. Brown, CDR Thomas Buell, George Bush, and Richard Buress	1977-1979
Box 1, Folder 11-12	Letters sent and received between Professor Joseph G. Brennan and Stockdale	1975-1977, 1992
Box 1, Folder 13	Letters of Joseph G. Brennan	1978
Box 2, Folder 1-3	Letters sent and received, C Contents Note: Including: VADM James Calvert, Arthur Cannon, Dr. Andrew Cecil, RADM Malcolm Clark, W. Graham Claytor, N. Heyward Clarkson, Captain James Conway, ADM Ralph Cousins, and VADM William Crowe	1977-1979
Box 2, Folder 4	Letters sent and received, D Contents Note: Including: Professor Vincent Davis, RADM T.F. Dedman, and General James Doolittle	1977-1979
Box 2, Folder 5	Letters sent and received, E-F Contents Note: Including: RADM Henry E. Eccles, Brigadier General Joseph Foss, and Daniel Flood	1977-1979
Box 2, Folder 6	Letters sent and received, Malcolm Forbes	1974-1978
Box 2, Folder 7	Letters sent and received, G Contents Note: Including: General von zur Gathen, General Samuel B. Griffith, and J. Palmer Gaillard	1977-1979
Box 2, Folder 8	Letters sent and received, General Andrew Goodpaster	1977-1979
Box 2, Folder 9-10	Letters sent and received, H Contents Note: Including: Major General H.F. Harding, Anthony Harrigan, Admiral Thomas Hayward, Edward Hidalgo, ADM James Holloway, and Patrick Hughes	1977-1979
Box 3, Folder 1	Letters sent and received, I-J Contents Note: Including: Ambassador Peter Jay, Dr. Edward Jayne, and Maj Gen Herbert T. Johnson	1977-1979
Box 3, Folder 2-3	Letters sent and received, K Contents Note: Including: Captain Howard Kay, Albert J. Kelley, Admiral Isaac Kidd, VADM George E.R. Kinnear II, Henry Kissinger, and ADM Ronald Kurth	1977-1979
Box 3, Folder 4-5	Letters sent and received, Lyman Kirkpatrick	1974-1979
Box 3, Folder 6	Letters sent and received, L Contents Note: Including: Dr. Benjamin Labaree, RADM William P. Lawrence, and VADM Julien J. LeBourgeois	1977-1979
Box 3, Folder 7	Letters sent and received, VADM Julian J. LeBourgeois	1975-1977
Box 3, Folder 8-9	Letters sent and received, M Contents Note: Including: LTGEN Robert Mathis, Robert McCabe, Robert McKenna Hayward McDonald, J. William Middendorf, and John Monsarrat	1977-1979
Box 3, Folder 10	Letters sent and received, N-O Contents Note: Including: RADM James Nance, Senator Sam Nunn, and Paul Owen	1977-1979
Box 3, Folder 11	Letters sent and received, P Contents Note: Including: Senator William Proxmire, RADM Frederick Palmer, and John Pelletier	1977-1979
Box 3, Folder 12-13	Letters sent and received, R Contents Note: Including: Fred Rainbow, Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Charles Ravenel, Mrs. Thomas Robbins, Dr. Robert H. Rutford	1977-1979
Box 4, Folder 1-3	Letters sent and received, S Contents Note: Including: Charles T. Schumacher, Jeffrey Sacks, Dr. Ethan Sims, John Slocum, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Helmut Sonnenfeldt	1977-1979
Box 4, Folder 4	Letters sent and received, T Contents Note: Including: Lt. Gen. K.L. Taliman, ADM Carlisle Trost	1977-1979
Box 4, Folder 5	Letters sent and received, U-V Contents Note: Including: Michael Vlahos, Cyrus Vance	1977-1979
Box 4, Folder 6-8	Letters sent and received, W Contents Note: Including: Paul Warnke, VADM James Watkins, George Weyerhauser, Captain E.C. Whelan, General Louis Wilson, Captain Walter Woodson	1977-1979
Box 4, Folder 9	Letters sent and received, X-Z Contents Note: Including: Commodore R.D. Yanow, RADM Lando Zech	1977-1979
Box 4, Folder 10	Letters and papers regarding retirement	1979
Box 5, Folder 1-15	Letters sent and received Contents Note: Also found are clippings regarding In Love and War	1978-1983, 1985-1991, 1998
Box 10, Box 4	Letters sent and received regarding conferences	1994

SUBJECT: Memoranda, meeting minutes, and reports
Box 5-6

Container	Description	Date
Box 5, Folder 16-19	Official NWC memoranda issued by President, NWC	1977-1979
Box 5, Folder 20-21	Naval War College Foundation Annual Meeting	1978-1979
Box 6, Folder 1-4	Naval War College Foundation Annual Meeting	1978-1979
Box 6, Folder 5	Report on Foundations of Moral Obligation to the President, NWC	1980

SUBJECT: Personal items

Container	Description	Date
Box 6, Folder 6	Christmas card	1985
Box 6, Folder 7-8	Photographs Contents Note: Includes portraits of Stockdale, his family, and him with Joseph G. Brennan	undated

SUBJECT: Posthumous

Container	Description	Date
Box 6, Folder 9	The Funeral of James B. Stockdale	2005
Box 6, Folder 10	DVD of still pictures of funeral	2005 Jul 5
Box 6, Folder 11	DVD of funeral service	2005 Jul 5
Box 6, Folder 12	Service at the U.S. Naval Academy; and Service of Tribute aboard the USS Ronald Reagan	2005 Jul 16, 23
Box 6, Folder 13	Press releases and newspaper clippings	2005
Box 6, Folder 14	Seating passes	2005
Box 6, Folder 15	Exhibit program entitled “The Heroic Journey of VADM and Mrs. James B. Stockdale, A Life of Love, Honor, Courage and Commitment,” Museum of History and Art, Coronado Historical Association, April 8–July 10, 2005	2005

SUBJECT: Publications

Container	Description	Date
Box 10, Folder 3	The 1992 Campaign: Third Party Candidate; Perot Encounters Maze of Ballot Rules (NYT)	1992 May 14
Box 6, Folder 16	Biographical information, Vita and Medal of Honor Citation (copy)	1979
Box 6, Folder 17	Confinement Summary of Captain James Bond Stockdale, USN, Senior U.S. Navy returnee from captivity as a prisoner of war from 9 September 1965 to 12 February 1973	1965 Sep 9-1973 Feb 12
Box 10, Folder 8	Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’ Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior	1993
Box 10, Folder 7	Epictetus and Emotions	1994 Apr 18
Box 6, Folder 18	Journal and magazine articles written by or about ADM Stockdale	1978
Box 7, Folder 1	Journal and magazine articles written by or about ADM Stockdale	1979
Box 7, Folder 2-7	Newspaper articles and clippings regarding Stockdale’s resignation from The Citadel, and his choice as Vice President by Ross Perot Contents Note: Includes clippings from: Newport, This Week, The Stanford Observer	1977-1979, 1980-1982, 1984-1986, 1992
Box 10, Folder 1-2	Reflections on a Life of Pressure: Anecdotes and Amorphisms	1983 Oct
Box 10, Folder 9	USNA Model: Value and Principle – Centered Leadership	1994 May 25
Box 7, Folder 8	Writings by others: “The Closing of the American Mind” by Sidney Hook; “The Stockdale Course” by Joseph G. Brennan; “The Special Joys of Super-Slow Reading” by Sidney Piddington; “A Humanist Ponders the Future of Liberal Education” by Charles T. Wood; “Th	1973-1988
Box 7, Folder 9-12	Writings by Stockdale: “How we Passed the Word”; “The Life of the Mind in Captivity” and others	1979-1989

SUBJECT: Speeches

Container	Description	Date
Box 10, Folder 6	Speech: Anderson Memorial Day Speech	1994
Box 7, Folder 13	Audiotapes of speeches given at Salve Regina University; NWC Convocation; U.S. Military Academy; National War College; TV topic, and Peoria, IL	1978-1979
Box 10, Folder 10	Audiotape: “8 Years in Hanoi Prison: Survival and Dignity”	1982 Feb 25
Box 10, Folder 5	Speech: Naval Academy Class of 1994, Ethics Book Dinner	1994 Mar 29
Box 7, Folder 14-17	Speeches	1965, 1974-1978
Box 8, Folder 1-11	Speeches	1978-1982, 1985-1992
Box 8, Folder 12	Speech given to the Third Taft Values Institute at the Taft School	1979 Jul
Box 8, Folder 13	Speeches and writings on Leadership and the Stockdale Course	1983
Box 8, Folder 14	Unity over self	1983 Oct

SUBJECT: Teaching and classes
Box 9

Container	Description	Date
Box 9, Folder 1	Class schedules and NWC Instruction	1986
Box 9, Folder 2	Course proposals for St. John’s College and Stanford University Sophomore Seminar	1982-1983
Box 9, Folder 3-4	Foundations of Moral Obligation lecture notes (2 volumes)	circa 1978-1979
Box 9, Folder 5	Foundations of Moral Obligation syllabus	circa 1978-1979
Box 9, Folder 6-7	Senior Service College education policy	1977-1979

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