Robert Price papers
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Papers of attorney, businessman, and political strategist Robert Price (1932–2016), who successfully managed John V. Lindsay's election to U.S. Congress as the representative from New York's 17th district (1958), and subsequent reelections to the same seat (1960, 1962, 1964), as well as Lindsay's first run for mayor of New York City (1965). Under Lindsay, Price served as the youngest deputy mayor in New York history. Price also engineered the sole victory of Nelson A. Rockefeller's otherwise unsuccessful bids for the presidency—the Republican nomination of the 1964 Oregon primary. The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, posters, flyers, ephemera, lapel pins and buttons, and other paraphernalia from each of the campaigns above, and includes material documenting Price's personal and business interests.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Price was born in the Bronx, New York, on August 27, 1932, to Eastern European Jewish immigrants Solomon and Frances (Berger) Price. Robert graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1950 and later attended New York University (A.B., 1953). After serving as corporal in the U.S. Army (1953–1955), Price married Margery Beth Weiner on December 18, 1955. They would have two children: Eileen Marcia Price (later Farbman), born 1960, and Steven Price, born 1962.
After marrying, Price worked as an assistant in the legal department of R. H. Macy & Company while attending Columbia University's School of Law. He took an LL.B. from Columbia in 1958 and passed the New York State bar that same year. He worked briefly (1958–1959) as a law clerk to Judge Archie Owen Dawson of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and as Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1959–1960), before forming a law partnership with Theodore R. Kupferman in 1960.
By then Price had entered the world of political strategy. In 1958 John V. Lindsay, who sought election to Congress as the representative from New York's 17th district (on Manhattan's Upper East Side, so-called the "Silk Stocking District" for its affluence), recruited Price from the New York Young Republican Club to manage his campaign. Lindsay won the election and three subsequent reelections to the same seat in 1960, 1962, and 1964.
In 1964 Lindsay "lent" Robert Price to New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller to manage the latter's bid for the Republican nomination for president. Through Price's skill, Rockefeller, who had been running fourth in the Oregon polls, won that state's May 15 primary, eliminating Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. from the race and suddenly becoming a threat to rival Barry Goldwater in the upcoming California primary. Rockefeller wished to retain Price for the duration, but Lindsay needed him for his own reelection to Congress in November 1964, and so refused Price's services to Rockefeller.
John Lindsay decided to run for Mayor of New York City in 1965, and once again tapped Robert Price to get him elected. This he did, and Lindsay became the City's 103rd mayor on January 1, 1966. In reward Lindsay appointed Price his deputy, making him, at thirty-three, the youngest deputy mayor in New York history. Although his tenure was brief—from January to November 1966—Price negotiated an end to the 13-day transit strike that met the Lindsay administration on its first day. Price also killed Robert Moses's ill-met proposal to build an 8-lane highway, the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX) through Little Italy and Soho to connect the Holland Tunnel with the Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges.
Robert Price effectively left politics in 1966, beginning work that year as Executive Vice President, then Director, of the Dreyfus Corporation, and Investment Officer for the Dreyfus Fund. Between 1969 and 1972 he was President then Chairman of the Board of Price Capital Corporation (later called Highland Capital Corporation). Next he served as Vice President and General Partner of Lazard Frères & Co., Investment Bankers, from 1972 through 1978. The following year he founded Price Communications Corporation, which, by 1985, owned and operated three television and eleven radio stations, and had purchased New York Law Journal. In 1992, with his son, Steven, Price founded PriCellular Corp., a rural cellular carrier. The company went public in 1994 and in 1998 was acquired by American Cellular Corp. for $1.4 billion.
Robert Price died in Manhattan on April 15, 2016, aged eighty-three. His son, the philanthropist Steven Price, is executive chairman of Townsquare Media, an American radio network and media company, and a minority owner of the Atlanta Hawks basketball team.
See Sam Roberts, "Robert Price, Strategist for Lindsay and Rockefeller, Dies at 83," New York Times, April 22, 2016.
Arrangement
The collection is organized in five series:
Series I. John V. Lindsay political campaigns, 1958–1971
Series II. Nelson A. Rockefeller political campaigns, 1961–1974
Series III. Other political activities & material, 1930s–2012
Series IV. Price professional, 1958–1990
Series V. Price personal, 1953–2003
Scope and Contents
The strength of the Robert Price Papers lies in the correspondence, newspaper clippings, posters, flyers, ephemera, lapel pins and buttons, and other paraphernalia from each of the political campaigns Price managed for John V. Lindsay: his initial run for Congress, as Representative from New York's 17th district in 1958, and reelections to the same seat in 1960, 1962, and 1964; and Lindsay's run for Mayor of New York City in 1965. (Price had effectively left politics for the business sphere by the time of Lindsay's bid for reelection in 1969, so he did not manage that campaign.) See Series I.
In 1964 Price engineered the sole victory of Nelson A. Rockefeller's otherwise unsuccessful bids for the presidency—the Republican nomination of the 1964 Oregon primary. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, flyers, ephemera, and other paraphernalia centered on Rockefeller's Oregon win, as well as his later service to Richard M. Nixon during Nixon's campaign for reelection in 1972. See Series II.
Robert Price's brief time as deputy mayor of New York City—from January to November, 1966—is represented by biographical press releases, some correspondence, and a few speeches. See Series III, which includes a wealth of campaign samples—e.g., ephemera, buttons, lapel pins, nail files, bumper stickers, and other paraphernalia—produced by public candidates other than John V. Lindsay or Nelson A. Rockefeller, from New York and elsewhere (see Box 4, Folders 2–17, and Box 8c). Of note is the program (with accompanying admission ticket) for the Democratic Party's 1962 fundraising gala at Madison Square Garden, where Marilyn Monroe infamously sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy (see Box 4, Folder 13). Also in Series III is a portable, mechanical Shoup Voting Machine Corporation sample of the type of lever voting machine common at New York polling places before their replacement by electronic scanners (see Box 8d).
The collection provides spotty coverage of Robert Price's evolving professional career outside the political sphere, from his days as a law clerk serving Judge Archie Owen Dawson of United States District Court, Southern District of New York, to his law partnership with Theodore R. Kupferman, through his days with the Dreyfus Fund (investment firm) and Lazard Frères & Co. (investment bankers), and his own Price Capital Corporation and Price Communications Corporation. See Series IV.
Personal material--e.g., correspondence, tax and financial records, résumés, and newspaper compositions--of Robert Price and his wife, Margery, their daughter Eileen (Price) Farbman, and son, Steven Price, rounds out the collection. See Series V.
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Access Restrictions
Open to qualified researchers.
Use Restrictions
This collection is owned by the New-York Historical Society. The copyright law of the United States governs the making of photocopies and protects unpublished materials as well as published materials. Unpublished materials created before January 1, 1978 cannot be quoted in publication without permission of the copyright holder. Photocopying undertaken by staff only. Limited to 20 exposures of stable, unbound material per day.
Preferred Citation
The collection should be cited as: "Robert Price Papers, MS 3130, New-York Historical Society."
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Steven Price, June 2018.
About this Guide
Processing Information
Archivist Joseph Ditta arranged and described this collection in April-May 2019.
Repository
Series I. John V. Lindsay political campaigns, 1958-1971, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Series I includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, posters, flyers, ephemera, lapel pins and buttons, and other paraphernalia from each of John V. Lindsay's campaigns to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 17th district (1958, 1960, 1962, and 1964), and from his initial campaign (1965) to become Mayor of New York City.
Arrangement
Series I is divided in two chronologically organized sub-series:
Sub-series I.A. Lindsay congressional campaigns, 1958–1964
Sub-series I.B. Lindsay mayoral campaign & miscellaneous, 1965-1971
Sub-series I.A. Lindsay congressional campaigns, 1958-1964, inclusive
Scope and Contents
John V. Lindsay was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 17th district, in office January 3, 1959 – December 31, 1965. The 17th district corresponded to Manhattan's Upper East Side, an area derided by some as the "Silk Stocking District" for its affluence. Robert Price managed Lindsay's initial election campaign (1958) and each of his subsequent reelections (1960, 1962, and 1964). Series I.A includes material from each campaign, such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, posters, flyers, ephemera, lapel pins and buttons, and other paraphernalia.
Arrangement
Material is organized chronologically.
1958 Congressional campaign (elected November 4, 1958) [3 folders], 1958, inclusive
1960 Congressional campaign (reelected November 8, 1960) [6 folders], 1959-1960, inclusive
1962 Congressional campaign (reelected November 6, 1962) [4 folders], 1961-1962, inclusive
1964 Congressional campaign (reelected November 3, 1964 [5 folders], 1963-1964, inclusive
1958-1964 Congressional campaigns. Loose material. [6 folders], [1958-1964], inclusive
1958-1964 Congressional campaigns. Photographs, [1958-1964], inclusive
1958-1964 Congressional campaigns. Balloons, [1958-1964], inclusive
Scope and Contents
Orange, yellow, and blue balloons stamped in black "LINDSAY FOR CONGRESS."
Restricted
RESTRICTED due to deteriorated condition. Do not remove from protective enclosure.
1958-1964 Congressional campaigns. Posters [6 items], [1958-1964], inclusive
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ELECT / JOHN LINDSAY / [portrait] / REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE / FOR CONGRESS / VOTE ROW A [1 copy]
VOTE FOR / GOVERNOR ROCKEFELLER'S TEAM! / FOR CONGRESS - 17TH DISTRICT / JOHN LINDSAY / FOR CONGRESS - 19TH DISTRICT / RICHARD S. ALDRICH / FOR STATE SENATOR / JOSEPH PINTO / FOR ASSEMBLYMAN / PAUL J. CURRAN / VOTE ROW "A" ALL THE WAY [1 copy]
RE-ELECT / CONGRESSMAN JOHN V. / [portrait] / LINDSAY / OUTSTANDING PUBLIC SERVANT / VOTE ROW A [4 copies]
1958-1964 Congressional campaigns. Buttons & lapel pins [20 items], [1958-1964], inclusive
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LINDSAY (gold lettering on red background; plastic) [10 copies]
LINDSAY (white lettering on blue background; metal) [1 copy]
Re-Elect Lindsay to Congress (small) [2 copies]
Re-Elect Lindsay to Congress (medium) [4 copies]
Back Up Lindsay Vote Column A on Election Day [2 copies]
I'M JOHN LINDSAY (black lettering on yellow background) [1 copy]
1958-1964 Congressional campaigns. Medal [5 copies], [1958-1964], inclusive
Scope and Contents
Obverse: image of U.S. Capitol surrounded by "17th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT NEW YORK / JOHN V. LINDSAY."
Reverse: "WITH APPRECIATION AND WARM REGARD" followed by facsimile signature "John V. Lindsay M.C."
1958-1964 Congressional campaigns. Ball-point pens [19 items], [1958-1964], inclusive
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Blue and white ball-point pen with black text: "With Best Wishes / Congressman / John V. Lindsay / 17th Congressional District" [17 copies]
Gold tone ball-point pen with facsimile signature: "John V. Lindsay" [2 copies]
1958-1964 Congressional campaigns. Ink stamp, [1958-1964], inclusive
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COMMITTEE FOR JOHN V. LINDSAY.
Sub-series I.B. Lindsay mayoral campaign & miscellaneous, 1965-1971, inclusive
Scope and Contents
John V. Lindsay served as the 103rd Mayor of New York City, in office January 1, 1966 – December 31, 1973. Price managed Lindsay's initial run for mayor in 1965. As a reward for the win, Lindsay appointed Price deputy mayor (at age 33 he was the youngest deputy mayor in the City's history). Price had effectively left politics for the business sphere by the time of the Lindsay's bid for reelection in 1969, so he was not involved with that campaign. Like Series I.A, Series I.B includes a mix of correspondence, newspaper clippings, posters, flyers, ephemera, lapel pins and buttons, and other paraphernalia.
Arrangement
Material is organized chronologically.
1965 Mayoral campaign (elected November 2, 1965) [10 folders], 1965, inclusive
1965 Mayoral campaign. FCC complaint, 1965 September - November, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Robert Price alleged that station personnel at WNBC-TV, Channel 4, New York, committed prejudicial acts against John Lindsay's mayoral campaign. For instance, one Lindsay television spot lacked sound, but the commercial preceding it and a Beame advertisement following it were audible.
1965 Mayoral campaign. Loose material [4 folders], [1965], inclusive
1965 Mayoral campaign. Periodical clippings [folder 1 of 7], 1965, inclusive
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James M. Perry, "The New Politics: Selling Lindsay Retail," New York Magazine, April 29, 1965.
1965 Mayoral campaign. Periodical clippings [folder 2 of 7], 1965, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Warren Weaver Jr., "Big Gamble of John Vliet Lindsay," New York Times Magazine, May 23, 1965 [article torn from issue, but retains cover photograph of Lindsay].
Richard Armstrong, "Second Man at City Hall" [profile of Robert Price], New York Times Magazine, December 26, 1965.
1965 Mayoral campaign. Periodical clippings [folder 3 of 7], 1965, inclusive
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"Why the G.O.P. is Smiling Again: Lindsay is Running," LIFE, May 28, 1965.
1965 Mayoral campaign. Periodical clippings [folder 4 of 7], 1965, inclusive
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"GOP Hope--LINDSAY OF N.Y.," Newsweek, May 31, 1965.
1965 Mayoral campaign. Periodical clippings [folder 5 of 7], 1965, inclusive
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"Lindsay on the Line," Newsweek, July 12, 1965.
1965 Mayoral campaign. Periodical clippings [folder 6 of 7], 1965, inclusive
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Noel E. Parmentel Jr., "John V. Lindsay: Less Than Meets the Eye," Esquire, October [1965].
1965 Mayoral campaign. Periodical clippings [folder 7 of 7], 1965, inclusive
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"Why City Government Must be Nonpartisan," LOOK, October 19, 1965.
1965 Mayoral campaign. Ephemera, 1965, inclusive
1965 Mayoral campaign. Balloons, 1965, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Orange, yellow, green, blue, and pink balloons stamped in black "LINDSAY FOR MAYOR."
Restricted
RESTRICTED due to deteriorated condition. Do not remove from protective enclosure.
1965 Mayoral campaign. Dashboard placards & license plate covers [4 items], 1965, inclusive
Scope and Contents
dashboard placards: OFFICIAL LINDSAY FOR MAYOR [2 copies]
license plate covers: LINDSAY FOR MAYOR [2 versions: neon orange & black; blue & white]
1965 Mayoral campaign. Record album, 1965, inclusive
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Vinyl, 33 & 1/3-RPM disc--"The Lindsay Record"--issued by Columbia Special Products. Side 1: "Everything's Coming Up Roses;" "Why Should it Be;" "What can I do for New York;" and "The Small Business People." Side 2: "Why I want to be mayor;" "What are we going to do for the City of New York." In a pictorial sleeve with Lindsay's portrait on front and his voting record on back.
Restricted
Until this record has been preservation reformatted, it may not be played. In any case, the New-York Historical Society lacks the required playback equipment. Researchers may consult the album sleeve for its information.
1965 Mayoral campaign. Posters [4 items], 1965, inclusive
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Milton Mollen / FOR COMPTROLLER / [portrait] / Elect Lindsay/Mollen/Costello [1 copy]
Dirty air. / Dirty lungs. / Dirty laundry. / He'll do / something / about air pollution/ ELECT / JOHN / LINDSAY / MAYOR / Vote the Lindsay Team / Lindsay-Mollen-Costello [1 copy, on stiff cardboard]
"He is fresh and everyone else is tired." / VOTE FOR / JOHN LINDSAY / FOR MAYOR [full length portrait in two parts]
1965 Mayoral campaign. Buttons & lapel pins [96 items], 1965, inclusive
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The Best News Since La Guardia / Lindsay for Mayor / [Bob Price name tag] [1 copy]
DEMOCRATS FOR LINDSAY [1 copy]
IF LINDSAY WERE MAYOR I'D MOVE BACK TO NEW YORK [2 copies]
LINDSAY FOR MAYOR (blue lettering on white background; small) [44 copies]
LINDSAY FOR MAYOR (blue lettering on white background; medium) [4 copies]
LINDSAY FOR MAYOR (with portrait; small) [6 copies]
LINDSAY FOR MAYOR (with portrait; large) [5 copies]
LINDSAY FOR MAYOR STAFF [1 copy]
LINDSAY STAFF (gold pinback) [3 copies]
PARA / VIVA / LINDSAY / SI SI SI / ALCALDE [For / Life / Lindsay / Yes Yes Yes / Mayor] [9 copies]
PRESS / LINDSAY [5 copies]
RADIO / LINDSAY [4 copies]
TV / LINDSAY [1 copy]
STOP / THINK / GO / LINDSAY [10 copies]
1965 Mayoral campaign. Buttons & lapel pins. Oversize, 1965, inclusive
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Let's Clean-Up the Mess In Our City / Vote the LINDSAY Team / Linday for Mayor / Costello for President of the City Council / Mollen for Comptroller [1 copy]
1965 Mayoral campaign. Television spots, 1965, inclusive
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One reel of 10mm [?] film labeled "4 JVL TV spots 10 seconds each":
1. "Rundown Schools"
2. "Looted Stores"
3. "Air Pollution"
4. "Slum Scene"
See Box 2, Folder 19, for documentation of Robert Price's complaint to the FCC that WNBC-TV, Channel 4, New York, among other allegations of favoritism, deliberately sabotaged the airing of Lindsay's spots.
Restricted
Until this film has been preservation reformatted, it may not be played. In any case, the New-York Historical Society lacks the required playback equipment.
Lindsay miscellaneous, 1966-1971, inclusive
Scope and Contents
A small amount of Lindsay-related newspaper clippings and press releases dating from after Robert Price's time as Deputy Mayor. Includes a press release naming Robert W. Sweet as Price's successor.
Series II. Nelson A. Rockefeller political campaigns, 1961-1974, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Series II includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, flyers, ephemera, and other paraphernalia centered on Rockefeller's 1964 Oregon primary victory, as well as his later service to Richard M. Nixon during Nixon's campaign for reelection in 1972.
Arrangement
Material is organized chronologically.
Rockefeller. General, 1961-1963, inclusive
1964 Oregon Republican Presidential Primary (May 15, 1964), 1964, inclusive
1964 Oregon Republican Presidential Primary. Advertisements, 1964, inclusive
1964 Oregon Republican Presidential Primary. Canvassing [2 folders], 1964, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes telephone scripts and door-to-door canvasser's instruction sheets.
1964 Oregon Republican Presidential Primary. Returned mailings, 1964, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Sixteen returned mailing envelopes (postmarked 21-22 April 1964), most still sealed, some empty, and a few open to reveal "Win With Rockefeller" brochures and a letter from William E. Walsh, State Chairman, Rockefeller for President Committee.
1964 Oregon Republican Presidential Primary. Clippings [5 folders], 1964, inclusive
Rockefeller. Ephemera [3 folders], 1964, inclusive
Rockefeller. Nixon re-election [2 folders], 1972, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes drafts of Rockefeller's speech nominating Richard M. Nixon at the Republican National Convention in Miami, August 22, 1972.
Rockefeller. General, 1973-1974, inclusive
Rockefeller material loaned to Cary Reich, 1964-1973, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Cary Reich (1949-1998) was the author of The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958 (New York: Doubleday, 1996). Includes a letter from Reich thanking Price for loan of the material.
Series III. Other political activities & material, 1930s-2012, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Series III holds scant material from Robert Price's time as deputy mayor of New York City (January–November, 1966): biographical press releases, some correspondence, and a few speeches. Of interest for their rarity are the campaign samples—e.g., ephemera, buttons, lapel pins, nail files, bumper stickers, and other paraphernalia—produced by public candidates other than John V. Lindsay or Nelson A. Rockefeller, from New York and elsewhere (see Box 4, Folders 2–17, and Box 8c). Series III includes a program and ticket for the Democratic Party's 1962 fundraising gala at Madison Square Garden at which Marilyn Monroe infamously sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy (see Box 4, Folder 13). Also in Series III is a portable, mechanical Shoup Voting Machine Corporation sample of the type of lever voting machine common at New York polling places before their replacement by electronic scanners (see Box 8d).
Arrangement
Material is organized chronologically, except for the campaign samples, ephemera, and paraphernalia, which are grouped after the topic-specific folders.
Republican Club of the 9th Assembly District, 1957-1963, inclusive
Deputy Mayor. Biographical, 1965, inclusive
Deputy Mayor. Correspondence, 1966, inclusive
Deputy Mayor. Speech: "John Lindsay and the Urban Adventure", 1966 April 18, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Remarks before the Manhattan Chapter of the Brandeis University National Women's Committee, Waldorf-Astoria.
Deputy Mayor. Speech: Statement before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly (Quinine), 1966 May 16, inclusive
Scope and Contents
In 1966 the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly began an investigation into what it called "a fantastic rise" in the price of quinine after members of Congress received numerous complaints from constituents who used quindine, a quinine derivative prescribed for irregular heartbeats. Although he was then Deputy Mayor of New York City, Robert Price was called to testify before the subcommittee because his law firm, Kupferman & Price, was general counsel in 1961–1962 to a small public company, Hexagon Laboratories, Inc., which had sought to obtain surplus United States quinine. At the same time, Dutch interests had bought most of the surplus for 20 cents an ounce and were (in 1966) selling it to pharmaceutical companies for $2 an ounce.
Deputy Mayor. Speech: "Is City Government Obsolete?", 1966 June 4, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Remarks before the Governor's Conference on Decisions for Progress, Olympic Hotel, Seattle, Washington.
Deputy Mayor. Speech: "Coming Political Struggle" (notes), undated, inclusive
Abraham Lincoln quotation & correspondence, 1968, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Multiple copies of an Abraham Lincoln quotation: "If I were trying to read, much less answer all the attacks made on me, this shop might well be closed for any other business. I do the best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." With carbon copies of letters by which Robert Price sent the quotation to various officials and businessmen throughout the United States.
Richard Nixon cabinet, 1968, inclusive
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Issues of TIME (December 20, 1968) and Newsweek (December 23, 1968) profiling the incoming cabinet of President Richard Nixon.
Op-Eds, 1974-2012, inclusive
Gerald Ford, 1975-2000, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Material exploring Robert Price's possible involvement in the political activities of the 38th President after his term's end.
Jimmy Carter, 1979, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings regarding Robert Price's possible appointment to a special counsel post to supervise a federal investigation of President Carter's family peanut business. The Carter family business received loans totalling $7 million from the National Bank of Georgia authorized by former federal Budget Director Bert Lance.
Donald Rumsfeld [2 folders], 1980-1986, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Donald H. Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense under Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, briefly sought the Republican nomination for president in 1988.
Campaign samples. New York [folder 1 of 4], 1930s-1960s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Jack BALTZELL and Alice SACHS
Bruce BARTON
Lester BAUM
LaFollette BECKER
Frederic S. BERMAN
Matthew H. BRANDENBURG
Charles D. BREITEL
John R. BROOK
Frederick BRYAN
John J. BURNS
John M. BURNS
Samuel C. CANTOR
William A. CARROLL
Samuel C. COLEMAN
Robert T. CONNOR
Edward CORSI
John ELLIS
Burton M. FINE
Campaign samples. New York [folder 2 of 4], 1930s-1960s, inclusive
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Charles GOLD
Dick GREGORY
Jacob GRUMET
W. Averell HARRIMAN
Burton G. HECHT
Stanley M. ISAACS
Jacob "Jack" JAVITS
Jules J. JUSTIN
Ken KEATING
KENNEDY-JOHNSON
John F. KENNEDY [Ticket and program to JFK's birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden, May 19, 1962.]
Robert F. KENNEDY
Edward I. KOCH
Theodore KUPFERMAN
John LAMULA
Louis J. LEFKOWITZ
Herbert H. LEHMAN
Arthur LEVITT
Charles D. LIEBER
J. Edward LUMBARD
James A. LUNDY
Campaign samples. New York [folder 3 of 4], 1930s-1960s, inclusive
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Tom MALLEE
George J. MINTZER
Francis T. MURPHY Jr.
William H. McINTYRE
New York State Supreme Court
Richard M. NIXON
William F. PASSANNANTE
Samuel R. PIERCE Jr.
Henry V. POOR
Ogden REID
John H. RAY
Gilbert A. ROBINSON
William F. RYAN
Campaign samples. New York [folder 4 of 4], 1930s-1960s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Warren L. SCHNUR
Paul R. SCREVANE
Benjamin SHALLECK
Maxwell SHAPIRO
William S. SHEA
Daniel STEINER
Robert K. STRAUS
Gerald H. ULLMAN
James B. WALKER Jr.
Fred WARDER
Malcolm WILSON
Campaign samples. Non-New York, 1950s-1960s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
William H. AYRES
E. Y. BERRY
Hamer BUDGE
Charles E. CHAMBERLAIN
Louis W. COLLIER
Edward J. DERWINSKI
Samuel L. DEVINE
Doug ELLIOTT
Samuel N. FRIEDEL
Cecil HARDEN
Joe HOLT
Craig HOSMER
Richard J. HUGHES
Melvin R. LAIRD
Glen LIPSCOMB
George Cabot LODGE
Charles McC. MATHIAS
James P. MITCHELL
F. Bradford MORSE
Hjalmar C. NYGAARD
Albert H. QUIE
Richard RICHARDS
Milnor ROBERTS [33 & 1/3-RPM floppy record]
William SCRANTON
Abner W. SIBAL
John K. TABOR
Stan TUPPER
George VAVOULIS
Wheelock WHITNEY
Bob WILSON
Wendell WYATT
J. Arthur YOUNGER
Campaign samples. Bumper stickers [8 items], 1960s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
CONNOR FOR CONGRESS [2 copies]
GOLDWATER / MILLER
JOHNSON / HUMPHREY FOR THE USA
KENNEDY U.S. SENATOR [Robert F. Kennedy]
RE-ELECT VAVOULIS MAYOR [George Vavoulis] [3 copies]
Campaign samples. Bottle stoppers [2 items], undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
"Colorful Plastic Bottle Caps for your opened soft drink bottles. They will keep your beverages fresh and sparkling for weeks." Apparently customizable, the two examples present are printed with "The Winchester Bank" and "SAKRETE." Perhaps Robert Price considered using bottle caps as a form of campaign advertisement.
Campaign samples. Buttons & lapel pins [18 items], undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
For Congress AKERS 17th District
CONNOR for Congress [3 copies]
GOLDWATER
I / HATE / BARRY [Goldwater]
IRM
Bill MILLER [with portrait]
Bill MILLER for Veep
New York State Citizens Committee
NIXON
NIXON '60 Now!
Relax
Bill SCRANTON
SCRANTON for President
Elect SCREVANE Mayor
STEVENSON
Bill VANDEN HEUVEL for Congress
Campaign samples. Ink stamp, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
PAY TO THE ORDER OF / FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK / PARK AVENUE - 46th STREET BRANCH / Committe For New York Government Candidates.
Campaign samples. Nail files [4 items], undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Elect / JOHN W. HAHN / Councilman
Re-Elect / Wm. H. HESS / to Congress
Re-Elect / TOM V. MOORHEAD / State Senator
SAY / I'M FOR NIXON / VOTE REPUBLICAN
Convention pins, ribbons, etc. [10 items], 1948-1964, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Honorary Assistant Sergeant at Arms / 1948 / Philadelphia Republican National Convention [lapel ribbon]
St. Olaf College Political Emphasis Week 1962
Delegate Republican State Convention Sept. 18-19, 1962, Buffalo, New York [lapel ribbon]
New York Republican State Committee Guest
N Y COUNTY [with Republican elephant]
Republican National Convention San Francisco 1964 "Bob Price" [name tag]
Republican National Convention San Francisco 1964 "Radio - T.V." [name tag]
Delegate San Francisco 1964 / Air Transport Association Flying Elephant Club [key]
[pink envelope printed "KEY" holding 2 small keys]
Publications. Campaign Technique Manual, circa 1960s-1970s, inclusive
Publications. Democratic County Handbook, circa 1960s, inclusive
Publications. Republican Party, National, circa 1950s-1960s, inclusive
Publications. Republican Party, New York, circa 1958-1964, inclusive
Publications. Voter registration guides & ephemera, circa 1952-1960, inclusive
Shoup Voting Machine Corporation sample, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
A portable, mechanical sample of the type of lever voting machine common at New York polling places before the introduction of electronic scanners. The Shoup Voting Machine Corporation, founded in 1905 by Samuel R. Shoup, eventually came to be called Advanced Voting Solutions, Inc., before going out of business in 2015.
Series IV. Price professional, 1958-1990, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Series IV contains material spanning Robert Price's evolving professional career, from his days as a law clerk serving Judge Archie Owen Dawson of United States District Court, Southern District of New York, to his law partnership with Theodore R. Kupferman, through his days with the Dreyfus Fund (investment firm) and Lazard Frères & Co. (investment bankers), and his own Price Capital Corporation and Price Communications Corporation. Coverage is spotty.
Arrangement
Material is organized chronologically.
Robert Price, "Monetary Remedies Under the Untied States Copyright Code", 1958-1959, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Published in Fordham Law Review, vol. 27, no. 4 (Winter 1958–59), 555–578. [Folder contains complete issue and offprint.]
Robert Price, "The Admissibility of Wiretap Evidence in the Federal Courts", 1959, inclusive
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Published in University of Miami Law Review, vol. 14 (1959), 57–71. [Folder contains offprint.]
United States District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York [2 folders], 1958-1959, inclusive
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Robert Price served as law clerk to Judge Archie Owen Dawson, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1958–1959, and as Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1959–1960.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit [3 folders], 1959-1960, inclusive
Kupferman & Price, 1960-1965, inclusive
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Law partnership of Robert Price and Theodore R. Kupferman; dissolved in 1965 when Price was appointed Deputy Mayor of New York City. [Attorney and New York City council member Theodore Kupferman (1920-2003) would succeed to John Lindsay's vacated seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 17th district, serving February 8, 1966 – January 3, 1969.]
Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] annual report, 1960, inclusive
Atlantic States Industries, 1964, inclusive
United States Jaycees [Junior Chamber of Commerce] award [2 folders], 1966-1967, inclusive
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Robert Price was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of America for 1966 by the United States Jaycees, affiliated with Junior Chamber International, a leadership training and civic organization for people between the ages of 18 and 40. Price's fellow honorees included future United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano Jr., and political activist Ralph Nader.
Dreyfus Fund [6 folders], 1966-1969, inclusive
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Robert Price was Executive Vice President and a Director of the Dreyfus Corporation and Investment Officer for the Dreyfus Fund, 1966-1969.
Price Capital Corporation. General [5 folders], 1969-1971, inclusive
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Robert Price was President then Chairman of the Board of Price Capital Corporation (later called Highland Capital Corporation), 1969-1972.
Lazard Frères & Co. [8 folders], 1972-1982, inclusive
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Robert Price was Vice President and General Partner of Lazard Frères & Co., Investment Bankers, 1972-1978.
Lane Bryant, 1977, inclusive
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Robert Price was elected to the board of directors of Lane Bryant, the women's clothing store chain, in 1977.
Intarome Fragrance Corporation, 1978-1986, inclusive
Price Communications Corporation [2 folders], 1979-1989, inclusive
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Robert Price was founder and president of Price Communications Corporation. By 1985 PCC owned and operated 3 television and 11 radio stations, and, in that year, purchased the New York Law Journal.
WPCK AM / WIRK FM, 1983-1984, inclusive
Telemation, Inc. / TLM Corporation [2 folders], 1986-1990, inclusive
Series V. Price personal, 1953-2003, inclusive
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Series V includes personal material (e.g., correspondence, tax and financial records, résumés, and newspaper compositions) of Robert Price and his wife, Margery, their daughter Eileen (Price) Farbman, and son, Steven Price.
Arrangement
Series V is divided in three chronologically organized sub-series:
Sub-series V.A. Robert Price, 1953–2003
Sub-series V.B. Eileen (Price) Farbman, 1977–1987
Sub-series V.C. Steven Price, 1975–1988
Sub-series V.A. Robert Price, 1953-2003, inclusive
Address / telephone book, undated, inclusive
Columbia University School of Law, 1953-1984, inclusive
Park Lane Dairy, 1954-1961, inclusive
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Material documenting the sale of Robert Price's father Solomon's grocery business, the Park Lane Dairy (594 Fort Washington Avenue, Manhattan), to the Gristedes supermarket chain.
Art, 1959-1965, 1972, inclusive
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Documentation of two artworks owned by Price: Everett Shinn's "Roman Amphitheatre" [sic] (1959-1965) and Rembrandt's etching "The Bathers" (1972).
Robert Price résumés, circa 1960s-1981, inclusive
Photographs, 1963-1964, undated, inclusive
Robert & Margery Price. Tax information, 1993, inclusive
Robert Price. Charitable contributions, 1996, inclusive
Robert Price. Taxes [7 folders], 1998, inclusive
Price Family Foundation. Taxes [3 folders], 1998-2001, inclusive
Checkbook balancer, circa 1972, inclusive
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A small, mechanical adding machine, with stylus, designed to fit in a checkbook. Produced by the Diamond Check Division of Diamond International Corporation beginning in 1972. For more information refer to the example held by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Bank statements, canceled checks. Citibank, 1986-1989, inclusive
Bank statements, canceled checks. Citibank, 2001-2003, inclusive
Bank statements, canceled checks. Chase, 2002-2003, inclusive
Miscellaneous, 1953-1984, undated, inclusive
Sub-series V.B. Eileen (Price) Farbman, 1977-1987, inclusive
Eileen Price résumés, college admissions, etc., 1977-circa 1983, inclusive
Steven & Eileen Farbman tax papers, 1987, inclusive
Sub-series V.C. Steven Price, 1975-1988, inclusive
Bar Mitzvah Haftarah, 1975 March 1
Newspaper profile, 1977 January 7
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David C. Berliner, "Children's Express: News Kids on the Block," Washington Post, January 7, 1977.