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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

Organization of Collection

Restrictions

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Description of Series

1. Original Deposit, 1946-1994

2. Addition of 2003

3. Addition of 2005

4. Addition of 2006

University of Texas San Antonio

Inventory of the Herbert J. Spiro Papers, 1946-2002



Descriptive Summary

Creator: Spiro, Herbert J.
Title: Herbert J. Spiro Papers, 1946-2002
Dates: 1946-2002
Creator Abstract: Herbert John Spiro was born in 1924 in Hamburg, Germany and immigrated in 1938 to the United States where he would become a noted educator in political science, a U.S. ambassador, and a candidate for public office. While serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he earned a purple heart and two bronze star medals. After the war, Spiro attended Harvard where he received his Ph. D. in 1953. Spiro spent over a decade as a member of the faculty at Harvard, and taught political science at Amherst College and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the Free University of Berlin and the University of Texas. In total, he published thirteen books on government. From 1970-1975, Spiro was a senior member of the policy planning staff at the U.S. State Department, and under President Ford became ambassador to Equatorial Guinea (1975-1976), and Cameroon (1975-1977). He ran unsuccessfully on the Republican ticket for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives in 1991, the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992 and 1994, and the U.S. Senate in 1993.
Content Abstract: Correspondence, coursework, notes, papers, classified files, audio and videotapes, photographs, literary manuscripts, and printed materials spanning 1946-1994 document Herbert J. Spiro's education and teaching career, military service, government service, and involvement in politics and political campaigns. The bulk of the collection consists of academia office files, correspondence, course notes and lecture notes from Spiro's teaching career at Harvard, Amherst, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Texas. Also included are a number of essays and manuscripts by Spiro including Theory of Responsibility in Government and The Revolt Against Determinism. Of note are 1975 reel to reel taped interviews with Spiro when he was U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon. Campaign materials including flyers, newsclippings and correspondence offer insight into Spiro's run for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives, and the U.S. House and Senate in the 1990s.
Identification: MS 113
Extent: 51 linear feet (about 38,000 items)
Language: Materials are in English and German.
Repository: Archives and Special Collections Department, Library, The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Biographical Note

Born in 1924 in Hamburg, Germany, Herbert John Spiro immigrated to the United States in 1938 where he would become a noted educator in political science, an ambassador to Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, and a candidate for public office. Spiro became a naturalized citizen at the age of 20, attended San Antonio Jr. College from 1942-1943, served in the Army during World War II earning a purple heart and two bronze star medals. In 1945-1946 he was an administrative assistant for the U.S. War Dept. in Vienna, Austria. After the war, Spiro continued his education at Harvard where he graduated summa cum laude and went on to earn a Masters degree in 1950 and a Ph.D in 1953. Spiro spent over a decade as a member of the faculty at Harvard (1950-1961), and taught political science at Amherst College (1961-1965) and the University of Pennsylvania (1965-1973), in addition to the Free University of Berlin and the University of Texas. In total, he published thirteen books on government including: Government by Constitution, Word Politics: The Global System and Responsibility and Government.

During the 1970s, Spiro was active in national and international government. From 1970-1975, he was a senior member of the policy planning staff at the U.S. State Department, and under President Ford became ambassador to Equatorial Guinea (1975-1976), and Cameroon (1975-1977). Spiro ran unsuccessfully on the Republican ticket for the Texas House of Representatives in 1991, the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992 and 1994, and the U.S. Senate in 1993.

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Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, coursework notes and papers, classified files, audio and videotapes, photographs, literary manuscripts, and printed materials spanning 1946-1994 document Herbert J. Spiro's education and teaching career, military service, government service, and involvement in politics and political campaigns.The bulk of the collection consists of academia office files, correspondence, course notes and lecture notes from Spiro's teaching career at Harvard, Amherst, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Texas. Also included are a number of essays and manuscripts by Spiro including "Theory of Responsibility in Government" and "The Revolt Against Determinism." Of note are reel-to-reel taped interviews with Spiro in 1975 when he was U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon.Campaign materials including flyers, newsclippings and correspondence offer insight into Spiro's run for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives, and the U.S. House and Senate in the 1990s.

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Organization of Collection

1. Original Deposit
2. Addition of 2003
3. Addition of 2005
4. Addition of 2006

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Collection is restricted. Financial records and other sensitive information are closed pending processing. Please contact the UTSA Archives if you wish to access the collection.

Original audiovisual materials are closed to patron use. Please contact the UTSA Archives for information on the production of use copies.

Usage Restrictions

Permission to publish material from the Herbert J. Spiro Papers must be obtained from the University of Texas at San Antonio Archives.

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Index Terms

Personal Names
Spiro, Herbert J.
Organizations
United States. Congress. House--Elections.
United States. Congress. Senate--Elections.
Subjects
Ambassadors--United States.
Political science--Study and teaching.
Politicians--Texas.
Locations
United States--Politics and government--20th century.
Texas--Politics and government--20th century.
Genres/Formats
Audiotapes.
Correspondence.
Interviews.
Manuscripts for publication.
Videocassettes.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Herbert J. Spiro Papers, 1946-2002, MS 113, Archives and Special Collections, University of Texas at San Antonio Library.

Acquisition Information

Received from the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin in July 2002 (Acc. 2002-033) and from Herbert J. Spiro in 2003-2006 (Acc. 2003-033, 2005-052, 2006-016).

Processing Information

Unprocessed collection.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

1. Original Deposit, 1946-1994
(34 linear feet)

Accession 2002-033.
Restricted: Financial records and other sensitive materials are closed pending processing. Collection may be used with the assistance of the Archivist.
Box
1 State representative campaign, 1991
Box
2 Election results, 1992
U.S. Senate special election, 1993
Box
3 Spiro for Congress campaign, 1992
Spiro for U.S. Senate special election, 1993
Box
4 Spiro for Congress campaign, 1992
Box
5 Political campaigns [includes audiovisual materials], 1992-1994
Box
6 Classified files, correspondence, and course notes from time at Amherst and the University of Pennsylvania, 1959-1991
A-G, 1959-1991
Box
7 H-M, 1959-1991
Box
8 N-Z, 1959-1991
Box
9 Classified files, correspondence and course notes from time at Amherst and the University of Pennsylvania
Box
10 Financial records, manuscript
Box
11 Financial records, correspondence, personal and classified files
Box
12 Correspondence, personal and classified files
Box
13 Correspondence, personal and classified files, some photographs
Box
14 College course notes and book manuscripts, financial files
Box
15 Course notes, tapes, and manuscripts of "Theory of Responsibility in Government" and "The Revolt Against Determinism"
Financial files
Reel-to-reel tapes:
"Voice of America" interview with U.S. ambassador to Cameroon, August 8, 1975
Unidentified
"Voice of America" interview with ambassador Spiro, 1975?
Swearing in of Mr. Spiro as ambassador to Cameroon, by Sergeant Ingersoll, August 1, 1975
Interview with ambassador Spiro, #1 and #2
Box
16 Course notes and information concerning tenure at Woodrow Wilson Center
Box
17 Financial records, photographs, 1967
Box
18 Correspondence with author David Reisman
Course notes and research material concerning the theory of application and openness
Volksahlung, 1987
Press release, ambassador Spiro, July 2, 1975
Guggenheim Foundation
Pomona, October 1978
NATO College, Rome
Draft, "Interdependence and Replication: America's Unique Role in the World," by Herbert J. Spiro
Attache: ambassador, embassy, foreign service
GMF, openness vs. privacy, November 1978
Reisman
Colloquium, January 11, 1978
Restitution
Replication note books
Gov. I, 1960
Politik in Texas
John L. Loeb, Jr., correspondence, 1982-1984
Two Germanys, NATO and WP
John L. Loeb, Jr., 1963
Expenses
Draft, "A Sound Dollar"
"The Captivity of the Hostages has set America Free," by John L. Loeb, Jr., conservative party seminar in Albany, February 11, 1980
"Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy Consensus: an Essay," by Herbert J. Spiro
SS 740
Guest lecturers
Lt. Col. Roy H. Shelton, Jr.
Travel
Box
19-20 Correspondence, course notes, State Department materials while at Harvard
Box
21 Financial records
Box
22 Course notes, correspondence, manuscripts, and financial records
Box
23 Classified files
State Department, 1974-1989
Lecture notes, 1946-1948
Box
24 University of Texas lecture notes
Book manuscripts and proofs
Box
25 Correspondence concerning University appointments
Correspondence with Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania
A.J. Spiro estate, 1957-1969
Box
26 State Department
Classified files
Photographs
Notes while teaching at University of Pennsylvania, financial files
Box
27 Amherst, classified files, A-F, 1961-1965
Box
28 Amherst, classified files, G-L, 1961-1965
Box
29 Classified files, Mc-P
Macalester, University of North Carolina, 1967
Morgenthau, Hans J.
Merrell, Charles E., books
McGraw-Hill
Midgley-APSR, 1965
Merrell, Charles E. Books, Inc.
Mead, Lawrence
Mitchell, Meisha, 1964-1965
Natural Law Forum, 1964
Nelson, Bryo
New college plan
NCA, 1966
NCA Foreign Relations Project
Oberlin, 1965
Penn, 1965
Pennsylvania, 1963
Princeton, 1966
ASA meeting, 1963
Palmer, Joseph
Philadelphia World Affairs Council, 1964
Parsons, Talcott
Charlesworth Annals, 1964
Primacy of politics, 1964
Primacy of politics in Africa, 1964
Pittsburgh, 1965
Prentice-Hall, 1966
African Studies Association, 1966
Box
30 Classified Files, Q-Z
Box
31 Classified files
Course work
Book manuscript preparation
Box
32 Classified files
Course work
Book manuscript preparation
Box
33 Lecture notes, 1950-1965
Box
34 Classified files, 1955-1975
Financial records, 1964-1967
Correspondence, University of Pennsylvania, 1968-1969

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2. Addition of 2003
(9 linear feet)

Accession 2003-033.
Restricted: Financial records and other sensitive materials are closed pending processing. Collection may be used with the assistance of the Archivist.
Box Folder
35 43 videocassettes
Box Folder
36 1 Freie Universitat Berlin [contains various writings]
2 Untitled Folder [contains various writings, clippings, and correspondence]
3 Music Note Book
4 Untitled Folder [contains drafts and other writings]
5 Untitled Folder [contains book excerpts]
6 Untitled Folder [Adversaries of the Truth by H. Spiro]
7 Gen Bills '95
8 Perritt Incidentals
9 Joe H. Barrett
10 Bank 93-94
Bank statements
11 Untitled Folder [contains assorted letterheads]
12 Senate Filing
13 FEC Reports
14 Manila Envelope from US Senate Select Committee on Ethics
15 Bio
16 Federal Election Commission
17 Untitled Folder [contains letterhead]
General Election Returns [not in a folder]
18 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous notes, clippings, correspondence, etc.]
19 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous correspondence]
20 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous notes, clippings, correspondence, etc.]
21 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous notes, clippings, letterhead, etc]
The Making of a Political Scientist: An Empirical Analysis of Ph.D. Programs
4 editions of the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in the Social Sciences
Box Folder
37 1 1989 CG et al.
2 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous notes and correspondence]
3 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous notes, book excerpts and correspondence]
4 Haynes, Ulrich
5 Senate Support
6 C.V.'s
7 Untitled Folder [contains correspondence, papers, excerpts, and certificate]
Miscellaneous correspondence not in a folder
8 Untitled Folder [contains assorted memos, clippings, etc.]
9 Untitled Folder [contains correspondence, notes, etc.]
10 Untitled Folder [contains political paperwork, correspondence, newsletters]
11 No $ Replies
Miscellaneous correspondence not in a folder
12 Republicans
13 Medical
Miscellaneous correspondence not in a folder
Box Folder
38 1 Adversaries of the Truth
2 CVS
3 CFR
4 Council of American Ambassadors
Friends of Cameroon Directory [not in a folder]
5 Tot'sm
6 Addresses
7 Cards, Addresses, etc.
8 C.V.s
Friends of Cameroon Directory June 1995 [not in a folder]
9 EG
10 Libraries
11 George Hume Kennerly Photographic Archive
12 Manila Envelope from Dept. of State, U.S.A.
13 Texas/LBT [Hanging file]
14 Tom Thornton
15 Wilhelm Gymnasium
16 Eckstein/Irvine June 1993
17 Ecstein
18 Video ACTV
19 Spiro-ACTV
20 Atliante, Nov. 14-17, 1994
21 AMBS, NY
22 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous paperwork]
23 Balloon Cpgor Photos
1 inch of assorted paperwork not in a folder
24 Contributions
25 HBG 96
Assorted paperwork not in a folder
26 HAA May 1996
27 Harvard Union/Research '96
Assorted paperwork not in a folder
28 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous paperwork]
29 El Paso, September 28, 1996
30 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous paperwork]
German Paper not in a folder
31 Harvard Club Austin 94-95
32 H'50 1994 X-Mas
33 Harvard Austin
34 Harvard Alumni Association
35 HAA
36 HAA '94
37 Harvard '50 (94-95)
38 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous Harvard paperwork]
Herbert Spiro for Senate Representative Flyers
Box Folder
39 3 notebooks
1 Mailing List (alphabetically)
2 Untitled folder [contains correspondence]
3 Untitled folder [contains correspondence]
4 Untitled folder [contains clipping and a speech]
5 Untitled folder [contains speech and newspaper]
6 Untitled folder [contains miscellaneous political papers]
Assorted papers and newspapers not in a folder
7 Hartz, Katz, Train, Sua, etc.
8 Stationery
9 Untitled folder [contains miscellaneous correspondence]
10 Untitled folder [contains miscellaneous correspondence]
11 Gov 106b Spring 1952
12 Endorsements
13 Lists
14 Aspen [Hanging folder]
1 budget book not in a folder
15 Book Reviews
16 PJs
17 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous papers and notes]
18 Course GOV 365N [book]
19 Untitled Folder [contains course syllabus, clippings, and other materials]
Miscellaneous paperwork, syllabi, and notes
20 Spiro
21 GOV 365N
22 Freie Universitat Berlin [contains miscellaneous correspondence,etc]
23 Betsy [envelope]
24 Envelope Addressed to Prof Herb Spiro [contains correspondence]
25 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous clippings, notes, and correspondence]
26 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous clippings, notes, and correspondence]
Box Folder
40 49 videocassettes
Box Folder
41 1 USPS box with correspondence
1 box entitled Novel by Herbert Spiro
1 box containing various writing samples and excerpts
10 long desk calendars
Box Folder
42 1 Untitled Folder [containing miscellaneous correspondence]
2 Untitled Folder [contains photos]
3 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous correspondence]
4 Divorce
Notes, paperwork, not in a folder
5 1983 & 1982 US IRS Taxes
6 Correspondence
1 tied bundle of miscellaneous papers
7 Untitled Folder [Contains manuscript draft?]
Manuscript copies and other paperwork
8 Untitled Folder [contains miscellaneous book excerpts, notes, etc]
9 1 envelope addressed to Mrs. Spiro containing photos
Miscellaneous paperwork not in a folder
10 Untitled Folder [Contains manuscript draft?]
11 Freie Universitat Berlin [Contains documents in German]
Book excerpts, notes, cards and correspondence
Box Folder
43 1 Untitled folder [Contains misc writings, clippings, magazines, etc]
2 S/P
A copy of Spiro's will [not in a folder]
3 Town & Country Title Company
4 Untitled Folder [Contains miscellaneous correspondence and paperwork]
5 Contribs Senate
6 German Trip 1969 Elections Internationes
7 Council
8 Harvard Club
9 310 L 1991
10 USIA
11 Untitled Folder [Contains primarily bank statements]
12 December 1964 NY Times
13 3 magazines [not in a folder]
14 Hignet, Keith
15 Bibliography, Biography
16 Untitled Folder [Contains miscellaneous paperwork]
17 Untitled Folder [Contains miscellaneous paperwork]
18 Untitled Folder [Contains miscellaneous paperwork]
19 S/PC
20 Amherst Journal Record
21 Carl J. Fredrick
22 Book Reviews
1 tied bundle of miscellaneous paperwork and graded papers

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3. Addition of 2005
(4 linear feet)

Accession 2005-052.
Restricted: Financial records and other sensitive materials are closed pending processing. Collection may be used with the assistance of the Archivist.
Box
44 Correspondence from Glenn Scharm, 2000-2002
Box
45 Financial information such as bills, tax information, credit card statements
Box
46 Financial information and other documents, 1991-1998
Box
47 Correspondence
Box
4 Tax information, 1991-1997

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4. Addition of 2006
(4 linear feet)

Accession 2006-016.
Restricted: Financial records and other sensitive materials are closed pending processing. Collection may be used with the assistance of the Archivist.
Box
1-4 VHS videocassettes
Box Folder
5 business cards
media, reel
1 Peter
2 E.K. Bibliography
3 Harvard College, 1959 class rosters
3 Weimar99 essay contest
3 Rhodes Scholarships
3 Will of Howard C. Petersen
4 96 Hamburg
5 correspondence
5 "From Bureaucratic Politics to Philosophy of History: The Laws of Replication"
5 German writing
6 Handwritten correspondence
Betacam: Conversations with Herb Spiro; John Loeb, Jr. -- Guest, December 14, 1993; Part 1
Betacam: Conversations with Herb Spiro; John Loeb, Jr. -- Guest, December 14, 1993; Part 2
Betacam: Peter Spiro, December 13, 1993
Betacam: Thomas P. Thornton, December 13, 1993
7 Handwritten correspondence
8 correspondence and writings
Harvard University exam book
9 article from Amherst Journal Record
10 WS Intl., other clippings
11 Alamo and Kristalnacht
Box Folder
6 1 Old Harvard MS
2 clippings, photos and postcards
article from The Weekly Standard
correspondence (in German and English)
3 Dr. Devine
Last Will and Testament of Herbert J. Spiro
4 Telephone 1994
5 USAA
6 The Texas Commercial Package Policy
financial papers
7 Towers of Town Lake
8 1993
9 1995 taxes
10 Bill 1989
11 Audit 1996
12 Spiro personal papers
Federal Bureau of Investigation, FIOPA deleted page information sheet
13 FOIA -- Privacy Act 1980
14 Travel 1994
15 2001
Box Folder
7 international driving permit
vaccination records
health certificates
passports
address book
check and check stubs
datebooks, 1949-2003

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