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[Identification of item], Richard Nixon Portrait Committee Records, University Archives, Duke University.
The Richard Nixon Portrait Committee Records were received by the University Archives as a transfer between 1969-1974.
Processed by Joshua Larkin Rowley, September 2008
Encoded by Joshua Larkin Rowley, September 2008
Accessions A69-57, A69-58, A69-173, A70-76, and A74-27 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.
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A group of Law School students formed the bipartisan Nixon Portrait Committee to raise funds for a portrait of President Richard Nixon, a 1937 graduate of the School. The Committee was chaired by Charles S. Mill, Jr., a student in the Duke Law School. The portrait was painted by Joseph Wallace King and was presented to the Law School at the 1969 Commencement ceremony. Since that time it has been stored in the Law School and the Art Museum. In March of 1998, there were plans to loan the portrait in turn to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Nixon Library, and the National Portrait Gallery.
Contains material pertaining to the operation of the Committee and includes correspondence; lists of donors and the amounts of their contributions; financial papers that include deposit slips, invoices, and bank statements; and a file on Joseph Wallace King, the artist commissioned to execute the portrait, that consists of newspaper articles, a color catalogue, and a letter from King describing his experience in the White House. The material range in date from 1968-1974.
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