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Maxwell D. Taylor Papers


The 164 papers contained in this inital collection reflect selected speeches and articles of Maxwell D. Taylor during the period 1955 through 1967. As the Army's twentieth Chief of Staff, 1955-1959, Taylor supported an increase in conventional forces to ensure a capability of flexible response and guided the reorganization of the standard Army division. Among the documents contained in this digital collection are Taylor's own official calendar/diary for the period 1955 - 1959 and many items which contain Taylor's own hand editing of the text. Many of these documents are available for the first time and offer researchers a unique look at important national security issues and concepts during the period after the Korean Conflict and through the initial years of the Vietnam Conflict.

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10th Annual American Legion Boys' Nation Remarks
Speech 26 JULY 1955, given in Room 3E-869, The-Pentagon Washington, D. C. [.3 mb]

37th Industrial Preparedness Dinner Meeting American Ordnance Association Grand Ballroom, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, N.Y.
Speech 7 DECEMBER 1955 [1.1 mb]

ABC's Issues And Answers, Interviewed By Howard K. Smith, ABC News Commentator And John Scali, ABC State Department Correspondent
Speech 12 DECEMBER 1965 [.8 mb]

Address Before The Research Institute Of Japan-Tokyo
Speech 8 SEPTEMPER 1966 [.10 mb]

Address-Graduation Exercises, International Police Academy, Washington, D C
Speech 17 DECEMBER 1965 [.3 mb]

Addressing Frau Reuter On The Occasion Of Placing A Wreath On Ernst Reuter's Grave In Berlin
Speech 17 APRIL 1956 [1.1 mb]

Al Smith Memorial Dinner, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, New York
Speech 20 OCTOBER 1955 [.8 mb]

American Frontiers In The Sixties, CBS News, The Great Challenge Series
Speech 26 MARCH 1961 [.1 mb]

American Frontiers In The Sixties, Fourth Program In The Great Challenge Series For 1961 As Broadcast Over The CBS Television Network
Speech 26 MARCH 1961 [1.9 mb]

American Legion Boys' Nation, Pentagon, Why An Army? Prevent War, Overseas Deployments, Strategic Reserves, Indigenous Forces
Speech 26 JULY 1956 [.1 mb]

American Ordnance Assoc Meeting Aberdeen, Md, Transcript Of Remarks
Speech 4 OCTOBER 1956 [.2 mb]

Annual Banquet Of The University Of Virginia Club Of Washington, Fort Mcnair Officers' Club, Washington, D. C., Address
Speech 28 FEBRUARY 1956 [.3 mb]

Annual Dinner Of The Association Of Military Colleges And Schools Of The United States Chinese Room, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C., Address
Speech 13 MARCH 1956 [.6 mb]

Appropriate Guidance From The NSC To The DOD, Delivered Before Subcommittee On National Policy Machinery
Telegram 9 JUNE 1960 [1.6 mb]

Argentine Army Officers Room 5C-I040, The Pentagon, Draft Remarks
Speech 11 DECEMBER 1956 [.6 mb]

Army -- Deterrent To Aggression, Business Advisory Council, For The Department Of Commerce, Washington, DC, Notes
Speech 15 DECEMBER 1955 [.2 mb]

Army -- Deterrent To Aggression, Calvin Bullock Forum, New York, N. Y.
Speech 7 DECEMBER 1955 [.4 mb]

Army As An Instrument Combatting Communism, School Of Government Sheraton Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Michigan
Speech 8 MAY 1956 [1.2 mb]

Army At Home And Abroad, Union League Club Luncheon New York, New York
Speech 10 DECEMBER 1956 [.7 mb]

Army For Peace
Speech 6 APRIL 1956 [.7 mb]

Army Scientific Advisory Panel Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Remarks
Speech 25 JANUARY 1956 [.2 mb]

Army Support And Implementation Of The Reserve Forces Act
Speech FEBRUARY 1956 [.2 mb]

Army Wife, Article For U.S. Lady Magazine
Speech 22 JUNE 1956 [.6 mb]

Army, Today And Tomorrow, Annual Convention Of The Association Of The United States Army, Sheraton-Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Speech 25 OCTOBER 1956 [.8 mb]

Army's Era Of Management
Speech OCTOBER 1956 [.4 mb]

Army's Interest In Aviation
Speech 25 MAY 1956 [.9 mb]

Articles For Review
Article 1961-65 [2.6 mb]

Association Of The United States Army Fort Benning, Georgia, First Annual Meeting
Speech 22 OCTOBER 1955 [.8 mb]

Basic Issues In National Defense University Of Missouri
Speech 22 SEPTEMBER 1960 [.7 mb]

Biographical Sketch, Memorandum
Speech 10 OCTOBER 1962 [.4 mb]

Blueprint Of National Security, California Institute Of Technology
Speech 12 OCTOBER 1960 [1.3 mb]

Broadcast Over Voice Of America (USIA)
Speech 21 SEPTEMBER 1956 [.2 mb]

Call On "Poopville"
Speech 28 JULY 1961 [.4 mb]

Carry-Over Habits, Article For St. Albans Bulletin, St. Albans, National Cathedral School For Boys Mount St. Alban, Washington, DC
Speech 20 DECEMBER 1955 [1.3 mb]

Chamber Of Commerce Of Metropolitan St. Louis, Gold Room, Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, Armed Forces Day Address
Speech 18 MAY 1956 [1.2 mb]

Chicago Council On Foreign Relations
Article 14-15 OCTOBER 1965 [1.5 mb]

Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, Address
Speech 21 JANUARY 1956 [1.1 mb]

Citizen And National Defense, Detroit Town Hall
Speech 15 MARCH 1961 [.8 mb]

Citizen And National Defense, Los Angeles Freedom Club
Speech 18 APRIL 1960 [.9 mb]

Citizen And National Defense, Outline
Speech 15 MARCH 1961 [.1 mb]

Civilian Personnel Directors Conference, The Pentagon, Room 2C-468
Speech 22 MAY 1956 [.5 mb]

Cold War, Time; The Weekly Newsmagazine
Speech 28 JULY 1961 [.8 mb]

Command Management School, At The Graduation Exercises, Class No.15 Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Address
Speech 13 APRIL 1956 [.3 mb]

Committee Of One Hundred Committee Of One Hundred Clubhouse, Miami, Florida, Address
Speech 10 JANUARY 1956 [.8 mb]

Committee Of One Hundred, Miami Beach, Florida
Speech 11 JANUARY 1966 [1.2 mb]

Commonwealth Club Of California, Garden Court, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California
Speech 31 OCTOBER 1955 [.10 mb]

Continuing Growth Of Mexico's Economy, The Mexican Light And Power Company, Limited
Speech 13 APRIL 1960 [.6 mb]

Cotton Festival (Open Gathering) Aiken, South Carolina
Speech 24 SEPTEMBER 1955 [.8 mb]

Defense Orientation Conference Association, Room 5A-1070, The Pentagon, Fourth Annual Meeting
Speech 23 SEPTEMBER 1955 [.7 mb]

Department Of Defense, Office Of Public Information, The Pentagon, Room 2E715, Washington, D.C., Minutes Of Press Conference
Speech 10 JANUARY 1956 [1.5 mb]

Development State's Role In Coordinating Foreign Affairs
Speech 31 MARCH 1966 [.5 mb]

Diary, 55-57
Speech 23 JUNE 1955 - 30 JUNE 1957 [54 mb]

Diary, 57-59
Speech 16 MARCH - 12 APRIL 1957 [17.5 mb]

Executives Club National School Boards Association, Inc Pickwick Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri, Symposium Of Chicago Grand Ballroom, Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
Speech 30 SEPTEMBER 1955 [1.3 mb]

Executives Club Of Chicago Grand Ballroom, Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
Speech 7 OCTOBER 1955 [1.1 mb]

Extract From An Address Before The Rotary Club Of New York At The Commodore Hotel
Speech 3 FEBRUARY 1966 [.2 mb]

Face The Nation, CBS News & Public Affairs Broadcast House Washington, D C
Speech 12 FEBRUARY 1956 [1.1 mb]

Fifth Graduating Class Army Supply Management Course Fort Lee, Virginia, Remarks
Speech 16 DECEMBER 1955 [.9 mb]

First Class, USCC United States Military Academy West Point, New York
Speech 9 APRIL 1956 [2.1 mb]

First Intermission Lincoln Center Progress Report Simon Boccanegra, Note From Jack McNulty
Speech 23 FEBRUARY 1961 [.3 mb]

Foreign Policy On A Disorderly Planet, New Dimensions of Foreign Policy in SCUSA, West Point
Speech 3 DECEMBER 1965 [.3 mb]

Foreign Service Luncheon
Article 31 MARCH 1966 [.7 mb]

Founder's Day Dinner West Point Society Of New York Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, N. Y., Address
Speech 17 MARCH 1956 [.9 mb]

Fund-Raising Appeal American-Korean Foundation Departmental Auditorium, Washington, D. C.
Speech 12 JULY 1955 [.6 mb]

General Taylor Press Conference, Tempelhof
Speech 22 APRIL 1956 [.1 mb]

George Catlett Marshall Dinner; Foot Hill College; Face The Nation
Article 27 OCTOBER 1965 [1.10 mb]

George Catlett Marshall Memorial Address
Speech 27 OCTOBER 1965 [.5 mb]

Harvard Law Forum
Speech 21 APRIL 1961 [.1 mb]

Harvard: Defense Policy Seminar
Speech 21 APRIL 1961 [.1 mb]

Holton-Arms Junior College 2125 "S" Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Speech 1 JUNE 1956 [.4 mb]

Imperial Defence College Briefing
Speech 17 AUGUST 1956 [.1 mb]

In The Service Of Security, Founders Day Exercises, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Speech 27 OCTOBER 1956 [.9 mb]

Inevitability Of Public Service, Commencement Exercises, Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut
Speech 10 JUNE 1956 [.4 mb]

Interview With General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief Of Staff, U. S. Army By Senator Kerr Of Oklahoma, Room T-42, Basement Of Senate Wing, Capitol
Speech 28 JULY 1955 [.1 mb]

Letter To General Bruce C. Clark, Commander-In-Chief, USAREUR APO 403, New York, N.Y., Regarding Organization Of Army Divisions
Letter 16 JUNE 1961 [.1 mb]

Letter To General Taylor From William Y. Smith, Regarding Study By T. C. Schelling
Letter 1 JUNE 1962 [.1 mb]

Limited War, National War College
Speech 18 NOVEMBER 1960 [.8 mb]

Lincoln Center
Speech JANUARY - JUNE 1961 [.1 mb]

Lincoln Center - Draft
Speech 16 JANUARY 1961 [.2 mb]

Lincoln Center Background
Speech FEBRUARY 1961 [.9 mb]

Lincoln Center: The High Cost Of Culture, Showbill
Speech 7 MARCH 1961 [.9 mb]

Look At Your Army, A Personal Message For Every American Soldier And Citizen
Speech 21 FEBRUARY 1956 [1.4 mb]

Maxwell D. Taylor Speeches 1960
Speech 1960 [.1 mb]

Meeting With Key Staff Officers, Room 5A-1070, Pentagon, Introducing New Secretary Of The Army, Honorable Wilber M. Brucker
Speech 29 JULY 1955 [.1 mb]

Military Operations Subcommittee Of The House Committee On Government Operations, Statement
Speech 1 MARCH 1956 [1.6mb]

Military Profession: An Address Delivered At The 13th Annual Commissioning Exercises Army And Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps The University Of Akron
Speech 6 JUNE 1966 [.4 mb]

Military Strategy For NATO (Council On Foreign Relations, 12 Apr)
Speech 12 APRIL 1961 [.1 mb]

Mission Of The United States Army
Speech NOVEMBER 1956 [1.2 mb]

More Certain Trumpet, At The University Club, New York City,
Speech 12 MARCH 1960 [.3 mb]

Mr. David Apter, Foreign Policy Association, Tape- Recorded Interview
Speech 12 DECEMBER 1955 [.1 mb]

N.Y. Society Military & Naval Officers World Wars
Speech 19 APRIL 1961 [.1 mb]

Nation' s Future
Speech 4 FEBRUARY 1961 [1.5 mb]

National Council
Speech 6 APRIL 1961 [.1 mb]

National Defense Transportation Association, Sheraton Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
Speech 13 OCTOBER 1955 [.8 mb]

National Defense Week Luncheon Persian Room, Skirvin Hotel Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Address
Speech 16 FEBRUARY 1956 [.1 mb]

National Guard Association, Hotel Roosevelt, New Orleans, Louisiana, Seventy-Seventh General Conference
Speech 19 OCTOBER 1955 [.7 mb]

National Institute Of Social Science, Gold Medal
Speech 2 DECEMBER 1965 [.2 mb]

National Military Program
Speech [ mb]

National Press Club, Washington, D.C., Address
Speech 3 APRIL 1956 [.6 mb]

National War College
Article 8 OCTOBER 1965 [.3 mb]

Need For A New Military Strategy, Air War College
Speech 20 MAY 1960 [.4 mb]

New Staff Officers -Pentagon Outline Remarks New Staff Officers -Pentagon Outline Remarks
Speech 15 OCTOBER 1956 [.1 mb]

New Veteran, Indianapolis, Indiana
Speech 11 NOVEMBER 1965 [.5 mb]

Norwegian Parliamentarians, Briefing
Speech 8 FEBRUARY 1956 [.2 mb]

Observance Of National Defense Week Houston , Texas, Outline For Address
Speech 18 FEBRUARY 1956 [.4 mb]

Occasion Of His Being Sworn In As Chief Of Staff, United States Army, Remarks
Speech 30 JUNE 1955 [.1 mb]

Officers Of The First Division, NY
Speech 29 APRIL 1961 [.1 mb]

Opening Of Korean Art Exhibit, Remarks
Speech 21 NOVEMBER 1955 [.1 mb]

Outline For Remarks To New Staff Officers - Pentagon
Speech 2 MARCH 1956 [.1 mb]

Overseas Press Club Of America, Inc. - Address
Speech 26 JANUARY1956 [.6 mb]

Peace And Stability for Vietnam Is Constant U.S. Objective
Article [.2 mb]

Pilgrims Address
Speech 26 JANUARY 1966 [.6 mb]

Power For Peace, Armed Forces Day Address
Speech 19 MAY 1960 [.7 mb]

Pre-Navy Game Football Rally, Remarks
Speech 24 NOVEMBER 1955 [.1 mb]

Principles For Today's Army, Officers' Call Draft
Speech 9 MARCH 1956 [1.3 mb]

Problems Of Multi-Polar Power
Article [.7 mb]

Proposals To Cope With Multipolarity
Article 1966 [.6 mb]

Public Relations Society Of America, Hotel Sheraton East
Speech 15 FEBRUARY 1961 [.4 mb]

Quantico Conference Of Defense Leaders
Speech 16 JULY 1985 [.2 mb]

Quantico Conference Of Defense Leaders, Quantico, Virginia, Summary of remarks By General Maxwell D.Taylor, Chief of Staff Of The Army
Speech 15 JULY 1955 [.1 mb]

Quantico Conference, Summary Of Remarks
Speech 23 JUNE 1956 [.3 mb]

Remarks At First Meeting With The Army Staff After Assuming Duties Of Chief Of Staff
Speech 7 JULY 1955 Memorandum [.1 mb]

Remarks Of The Chief Of Staff, U.S. Army At The Alumni Luncheon, Washington Hall, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, June 4, 1956
Speech [ mb]

Retired Officers Luncheon, Ft Myer Outline For Remarks
Speech 19 OCTOBER 1956 [.1 mb]

Review Of The Corps Of Cadets, Colombian Military Academy
Speech 12 SEPTEMBER 1956 [.3 mb]

Robert E. Lee Memorial, Stratford Hall, Va
Speech 7 MAY 1961 [.1 mb]

Role Of The Army In National Strategy, National Strategy Seminar At The Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
Speech 6 JUNE 1956 [7.4 mb]

Security Through Balanced Deterrence, Calvin Bullock Forum
Speech 10 DECEMBER 1956 [.1 mb]

Security Will Not Wait, Princeton Seminar Woodrow Wilson School Of Public & International Affairs
Speech 21 MARCH 1961 [.1 mb]

Security Will Not Wait, Reprint From Foreign Affairs: An American Quarterly Review
Speech JANUARY 1961 [.8 mb]

Senate Armed Services Committee, Statement
Speech 11 JULY 1955 [.1 mb]

Solider And The Army, Troop Topic Draft
Speech 3 MARCH 1956 [1.5 mb]

Soviet Military Threat In The 1960s, National Military-Industrial Conference
Speech 25 APRIL 1960 [.8 mb]

Speech File No. 1
Speech JULY - OCTOBER 1955 [.1 mb]

Speech File No. 2
Speech NOVEMBER 1955 - FEBRUARY 1956 [.1 mb]

Speech File No. 3
Speech MARCH 1956 [.1 mb]

Speech File No. 4
Speech JUNE 1956 - DECEMBER 1956 [.1 mb]

Stamford Forum For World Affairs
Speech 19 FEBRUARY 1961 [.8 mb]

Statement Before The Fulbright Committee
Article 17 FEBRUARY1966 [.6 mb]

Student Conference, West Point, Edited Transcript Of Remarks
Speech 7 DECEMBER 1956 [1.1 mb]

Subcommittee Of The Committee On Appropriations United States Senate Relative To The Department Of The Army Budget For Fiscal Year 1957
Speech 9 MAY 1956 [.9 mb]

Subcommittee On Department Of Defense Appropriations Of The Committee On Appropriations House Of Representatives Relative To The Department Of The Army Budget For Fiscal Year 1957, Statement
Speech 1 FEBRUARY 1956 [.5 mb]

Suggested Remarks By General Taylor On The Appeal Of The Lincoln Center
Speech JANUARY - JUNE 1961 [.1 mb]

Suggested Spot Announcement For General Taylor
Speech 10 APRIL 1956 [.1 mb]

To The Citizens Of Carentan
Article 15 JUNE 1947 [.1 mb]

TV Program "Wide Wide World", Remarks
Speech 13 MAY 1956 [.1 mb]

U.S. Army -- Power For Peace, House Committee On Un-American Activities Symposium On Communism
Speech 2 JULY 1956 [.8 mb]

U.S. Military Policy And The Captive Nations
Speech 15 MARCH 1960 [.3 mb]

U.S. News & World Report, Exclusive Interview, And Now--The Atomic Army
Speech 3 FEBRUARY 1956 [.8 mb]

Uncertain Trumpet, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
Speech 5 FEBRUARY 1960 [.9 mb]

Union Club, Remarks
Speech 21 FEBRUARY 1956 [.1 mb]

United States Army, Conference Of Civilian Aides To The Secretary Of The Army Fort Bliss, Texas
Speech 6 APRIL 1956 [.6 mb]

United States Army, Joint Civilian Orientation Conference No.23, Room 3E 869, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
Speech 4 OCTOBER 1956 [1.5 mb]

United States Senate Committee On Armed Services, Synopsis Of Testimony By Hon. Wilber E. Brucker, Secretary Of The Army, And General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief Of Staff Of The Army
Speech 20 FEBURARY 1956 [.5 mb]

USMAPS Graduation, 21st Graduating Class
Speech 26 MAY 1967 [.2 mb]

Veteran And The Army, Annual Convention Of The Military Order Of The World Wars, St. Mary's High School Auditorium Annapolis, Maryland, Address
Speech 19 OCTOBER 1956 [.7 mb]

VFW, Superior, Wisconsin
Article 13 SEPTEMBER [.8 mb]

Viet-Nam Summary
Article [.2 mb]

War Of Liberation: A New Term For Aggression
Speech JANUARY 1966 [.4 mb]

West Point - SCUSA
Article 3 DECEMBER 1965 [1.2 mb]

West Point Society
Article 21 SEPTEMBER 1965 [.2 mb]

What Is Lincoln Center
Speech JANUARY - JUNE 1961 [.6 mb]

You And Your Army, Armed Services Rally Of The National Jewish Welfare Board, Temple Emanuel, 1 East 65th Street, New York, New York
Speech 1 JULY 1956 [.1 mb]

Youth Wants To Know Presents General Maxwell Taylor
Speech 18 MARCH 1956 [.8 mb]


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