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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

[Letter from the Committee of the Judiciary]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09613.03.04.69 Author/Creator: Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Typed document Date: July 30, 1974 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy

One typed unaddressed letter apologizing for a report not being delivered to them.

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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