Dates: Date Span: 1946-1997
The papers of Waldemar A. Nielsen consist of correspondence, printed material, reports, photographs, speeches and other items concerning Nielsen’s career, and especially his association with the Marshall Plan.
Size: 1 linear feet, 4 linear inches (about 2,400 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: Signe Nielsen donated to the U.S. government her copyright interest in all writings in this collection, and in any other collection of papers in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration. Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are also in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Erica Flanagan, Shawn Peters (2009).
Updated by: Shawn Peters (2009) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.
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1917 (March 27) |
Born Waldemar August Nielsen, Greensburg, Pennsylvania |
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1939 |
B.A., Phi Beta Kappa in economics and business administration, University of Missouri |
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1940 |
M.A. in political science, University of Missouri |
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1947-1948 |
Special Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce |
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1948-1952 |
Chief of Labor, Education and Information Divisions in Paris, Economic Cooperation Administration and Mutual Security Agency |
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1952 |
Joined the Ford Foundation as Deputy Director of its Behavioral Sciences Division |
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1961-1968 |
President, African American Institute |
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2005 (November 2) |
Died, New York |
The papers of Waldemar A. Nielsen are arranged in one series, a Subject File, and are comprised of articles, correspondence, reports, photographs, printed material, speeches and other items mostly concerning the Marshall Plan. While working for the Secretary of Commerce in Washington and for the Economic Cooperation Administration in Paris, Nielsen helped disseminate information about the Marshall Plan to Americans and to beneficiaries of the program in Europe. Most of the documents relate to Nielsen’s role as an information provider to the public.
Much of the collection consists of reports describing the Marshall Plan’s intended or actual economic effects on European countries, especially France and Greece. Also included are speeches, statements and articles drafted by Nielsen for Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman and Under Secretary of Commerce William C. Foster. Other materials relate to the commemoration of the Marshall Plan’s 50th anniversary in 1997.
Related materials at the Truman Library include the papers of Harry B. Price, Milton Katz, and Charles Hulten, and an oral history interview with Leland Barrows.
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SUBJECT FILE, 1946-1997 Articles, correspondence, reports, drafts, photographs, printed material, speeches and statements mostly relating to the Marshall Plan. Arranged alphabetically. |
Box 1
- Anniversary— Marshall Plan, 1957
- Articles
- Correspondence Re: Marshall Plan
- Economic—Pre-Marshall Plan
- “Energy and the Atlantic Alliance,” 1956
- Film Project
- Film Project—Interviews
- Greece
- Labor and Security
- Marshall Plan and Information Program
Box 2
- NATO
- Photographs
- Printed Material
- Proposals and Reports
- Reports
- Reunion, Marshall Plan—1997
- Speeches—Foster
- Speeches—Harriman [1 of 2]
Box 3
- Speeches—Harriman [2 of 2]
- Testimony—Statements [1 of 3]
- Testimony—Statements [2 of 3]
- Testimony—Statements [3 of 3]
- U.S. Information Agency, 1960s