Goldy, Daniel L. Papers

Official with the Department of the Interior, 1947-1951; the Economic Cooperation Administration and Mutual Security Agency, 1951-1952; the Department of Labor, 1946-1947 and 1952-1958

The papers of Daniel L. Goldy document primarily his U.S. government service with the Department of Labor, the Department of the Interior, and the Mutual Security Agency during the Truman administration, and the Department of Commerce during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Goldy's areas of specialization in the positions he held during the Truman administration were employment services, resource management, and economic development; during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations they were economic development and export expansion. The collection is composed primarily of several subject files documenting Goldy's work in different agencies. About 25% of the collection documents Goldy's Truman administration positions, and about 40% his Kennedy and Johnson administration positions. Smaller amounts of material document his service in the U.S. Navy, with State agencies in Illinois and New Jersey, in the Department of Labor during the Eisenhower administration, and his business and personal affairs.

See also Oral History

Size: 59 linear feet, 11 linear inches (about 110,000 pages)
Access: Open, with the exception that a few documents have been closed in accordance with the requirements of the Executive Order governing the administration of classified information.
Copyright: Daniel L. Goldy donated his copyright interest in any unpublished writings in this collection or in any other collection in the possession of the United States Government to the people of the United States. In addition, documents prepared by United States Government employees in the course of their official duties are also in the public domain. Copyright interest in documents that do not fall in the above two categories is presumed to remain with the writers of the documents.
Processed by: Dennis Bilger, Raymond H. Geselbracht, Anita Smith, Sharie Simon, Randy Sowell, and Monica Milliren (1994); Jan Davis and David Clark (2016).

The papers of Daniel L. Goldy document primarily his U.S. government service with the Department of Labor, the Department of the Interior, and the Mutual Security Agency during the Truman administration, and the Department of Commerce during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Goldy's areas of specialization in the positions he held during the Truman administration were employment services, resource management, and economic development; during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations they were economic development and export expansion. About 25% of the collection documents Goldy's Truman administration positions, and about 40% his Kennedy and Johnson administration positions. Smaller amounts of material document his service in the U.S. Navy, with State agencies in Illinois and New Jersey, in the Department of Labor during the Eisenhower administration, and his career as a businessman involved in the lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest. Goldy's brief assignment early in his career with the Office of Defense, Health and Welfare and the War Manpower Commission are apparently not documented in the collection, nor is his service from 1976 to 1979 as director of the Oregon Department of Economic Development.

The collection is divided into ten series. The small Illinois Department of Labor File relates to Goldy's work with the Division of Placement and Unemployment Compensation from 1937 to 1941. Another small series, the Department of the Navy File, gives some insight into Goldy's wartime work on procurement for that department.

The Department of Labor File has three subseries. The United States Employment Service File includes information on the appointment of an advisory council for the agency, employment services for veterans, labor legislation, and reconversion. The Bureau of Employment Security, Pacific Northwest File has information, primarily, dating from 1952 to 1958, about economic development, labor-management relations, migratory farm labor, labor legislation, and industrial development in Alaska. The Bureau of Employment Security File contains information on similar topics but concerning the agency region that included New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

The Department of the Interior File provides the collection's most important documentation for the Truman administration. The series is divided into two subseries. The Correspondence File, though small, contains very good quality documentation. It has four folders. The first holds high level correspondence relating to Goldy's work as Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, with authority over the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Mines, the Geological Survey, and the National Park Service. The second holds correspondence between Goldy and high level Interior Department officials in Washington relating to Goldy's work as Regional Administrator of the Bureau of Land Management for the Pacific Northwest; the third folder concerns this same office, but the correspondence is between Goldy and government officials and others within the Pacific Northwest region; and the fourth folder contains primarily carbon copies of outgoing correspondence from Regional Administrator Goldy to the Director and Associate Director of the Bureau of Land Management, t