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Honor America Day
Letter from Richard Nixon to Bob Hope, July 13, 1970. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (134.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0134]
Letter from Carl F. Ruenger to Bob Hope, June 7, 1970. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (134.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0134_01, bhp0134_01p1]
Dick Gregory and Honor America Day
Letter from Dick Gregory to Bob Hope, July 1, 1970. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (134.03.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0134_03, bhp0134_03p1, bhp0134_03p2]
Hope for the Families of POWs
Letter from “Vickey” to Bob Hope, ca. 1970s. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (135.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0135_02]
Jokes for White House dinner honoring POWs, May 24, 1973. Typescript. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (136.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0136_01]
Jokes for White House dinner honoring POWs, May 24, 1973. Typescript. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (136.01.01)
[Digital ID # bhp0136_01p1]
The Entertainer as Diplomat
Bob Hope in Vientiane, Laos, with Nguyen Van Tranh (middle), and Rev. G. Edward Roffe (1905–2000, left), Christian Alliance Church minister and interpreter, December 23, 1971. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (133.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0133]
Hope for the POWs
Letter from POW Fred Flom to Bob Hope, February 24, 1973. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (135.00.00)
[Digital ID# 169a]
Letter from Bob Hope to Fred Flom, May 3, 1973. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (136.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0136]
Feiffer and the POWs
Jules Feiffer. Cartoon with handwritten notes, March 18, 1973. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (137.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0137]
Letter from Jules Feiffer to Robert Chambers, March 27, 1973. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (138.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0138]
Jules Feiffer. Cartoon with handwritten notes, March 1973. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (137.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0137_01]
Academy Awards Controversy
Telegram from James A. Klein to Bob Hope, April 8, 1975. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (139.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0139]
Bob Hope. Handwritten draft of announcement for Frank Sinatra to read during Academy Awards broadcast, April 8, 1975. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (140.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0140]
"I Am Now for Gun Control"
Letter from Senator Edward M. Kennedy to Bob Hope, May 27, 1981. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (139.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0139_02]
Note from Harold R. Jerue to Bob Hope written on photocopy of newspaper article, ca. May 1981. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (141.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0141_02]
Anita Bryant
Bob Temmey. “Bob Hope: Why I Don’t Agree with the War on Homosexuals.” National Enquirer, ca. July 1977. Newspaper clipping. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (142.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0142]
Letter from Gladys Williams to Bob Hope, January 10, 1978. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (143.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0143]
Letter from Bob Hope to Gladys Williams, February 7, 1978. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (144.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0144]
Letter from Don Anderson to Bob Hope, April 28, 1978. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (141.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0141]
Letter from Reverend James Frensley to John McKinley, president of Texaco, April 25, 1978. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (143.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0143_01]
Letter from Bob Hope to Reverend James Frensley, May 15, 1978. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (144.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0144_01]
Letter from J. L. Bower to Bob Hope, April 25, 1978. Typescript. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (141.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0141_01]
Utter Confusion
Jules Feiffer. A Dance to the New Year, December 29, 1991. Reproduction of ink drawing on paper with paste-ons. Jules Feiffer Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (146.00.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24375]
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