Reference Request
Finding Aids to Records of Professional Societies in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 09-295
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Office of the Director
Records, 1959-1999
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Office of the Director |
Title: | Records |
Dates: | 1959-1999 |
Quantity: | 20.58 cu. ft. (20 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box) |
Collection: | Accession 09-295 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of records created and maintained by Ben Read, Director, 1969-1973; James Billington, Director, 1973-1987; and Charles Blitzer, Director, 1988-1997. Materials include correspondence, program files, Board of Trustees member files, budget information, records documenting the legislative establishment of the center and the choosing of a location (see the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars library for books related to this search), photographs, newspaper clippings, brochures, and reports. Some materials are in electronic format. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Ben Read, Director, 1969-1973; James Billington, Director, 1973-1987; and Charles Blitzer, Director, 1988-1997. Materials include correspondence, program files, Board of Trustees member files, budget information, records documenting the legislative establishment of the center and the choosing of a location (see the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars library for books related to this search), photographs, newspaper clippings, brochures, and reports. Some materials are in electronic format.
Index Terms
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Name
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 09-295, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Office of the Director, Records
Container List
Box 1
Pei Cobb Freed and Partners
PADC (Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation)
ICTC (International Cultural and Trade Center)
Checklist of Certain Issues Relating to Development of Substantive Role of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS) and Compilation of Advice Received, September 1, 1969
Film: Visitor's Center
C Names
Calabresi, Guido
Cambridge University Press
Cannon, Harold (NEH)
Carey, Paul
Cavell, Stanley
Challinor, David and Joan
Chapin, Schuyler G.
Chopra, Pran
Clad, James
Clark, Ambassador William (Bill)
Cohen, I. Bernard
Cole, John Y.
Colton, Joel G.
Colton, Timothy
Conable, Barber B., Jr.
Connor, W. Robert
Connor, Walker
Cooper, John Milton, Jr.
Corbet, Hugh
Cordesman, Tony
Crowe, Admiral William J.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
Cutler, Lloyd
D Miscellaneous Correspondence
Dam, Kenneth W.
Dam, Marcia
d'Amboise, Jacques
Darby, John
Darman, Dick (OMB)
Datta-Ray, Sunandra
Delacote, Goery
Deng, Francis
d'Harnoncourt, Anne
DiGiacomo, Michael
Dillon, Wilton
Dionne, E. J.
Dumas, Craig
Dunn, Mary Maples
E Miscellaneous Correspondence
El Reedy, Ambassador (Egypt)
Elder, Joe
Epstein, Joe
Jain, Jyotindra
Jameson, John
Johnson, E. Verner
Jones, Peter
Box 2
K Miscellaneous Correspondence
Kennedy, Justice Anthony
Kennedy, Frances
Kennedy Library Foundation
Kennedy, Roger
Kerber, Linda
Kipper, Judith
Kirby, Bill
Klein, Kenneth H. (Government Affairs, Xerox Corporation)
Klion, Stanley
Knox, Bernard
Kramrisch, Stella
Kux, Ernst
Kvart, Igal
Kampelman, Jeffrey
Kass, Leon
Kassebaum, Nancy
Katz, Stanley
Kauffmann, Stanley
Keller, Morton (Mickey)
Kennan, Chris
Kennan, Elizabeth Topham
L Miscellaneous Correspondence
Laetsch, W. M. ("Mac")
Laiou, Angeliki
Lamm, Donald
Lane, Joan
Lanier, Richard
LaRiche, Jeffrey
Lariviere, Richard
Lavin, Irving
Levy, David
Lewis, Anthony
Lewis, Bernard
Lewis, Drew
Lewis, Phoebe
Lewis, Ambassador Samuel W. (Alternate for Secretary Christopher, Department of State)
Hoover, Herbert (Library)
Hope, Kenneth
Horner, Connie
Horowitz, Don
Hotung, Eric
Hoving, John
Howard, A. E. Dick
Howard, Frances Humphrey
Howard, Lois
Hoyer, Steny
Hughes, Tom
Hunt, Governor James B., Jr.
Hunt, Michael
Hussain, Ambassador Abid
I Miscellaneous Correspondence
Ilchman, Warren
Irving, Robert
Iseman, Peter A.
J Miscellaneous Correspondence
Glade, William P.
Gleason, Tom
Glover, Mildred (Brooks Award)
Goellner, Jack
Goetzmann, William (Bill)
Golden, William T.
Goodheart, Eugene
Goodpaster, General Andrew
Goodwin, Craufurd
Gopal, S.
Gordon, Michael R.
Goswamy, Brigen
Gouda, Frances
Gould, Stephen Jay
Graham, Katharine
Graubard, Stephen
Gray, Hanna and Charles
Greenberg, Douglas (Vice President, American Council of Learned Societies)
Gregorian, Vartan
Grenier, Richard/Grenier, Cynthia
Griffiths, Phillip
Gros Louis, Ken
Hamby, Alonzo
Hamilton, Mark
Handley, James C. (GSA Regional Administrator)
Harmon, James A.
Hardy, Hugh (Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates)
Harris, Neil
Hauner, Milan
Hauser, Richard A.
Havel, Vaclav
Hayes, Webb
Heckscher, August
Hecht, Anthony
Herlihy, Pat
Herspring, Dale
Hexter, Jack
Hidayatullah, H. E. M.
Higginbotham, Judge A. Leon
Hollander, Bob
Foley, Thomas A. (Speaker of the House)
Forman, Paul
Freed, James Ingo
Frenzel, Bill
Fritchey, Polly
Ferrante, Joan
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth
G Miscellaneous Correspondence
Gaddis, John Lewis
Galan, F. W. (Estate)
Gallup, George
Gardner, Howard
Garment, Len and Suzi
Garrett, Jane
Gay, Peter
Gazit, Shlomo
Genovese, Eugene D.
Gillis, Malcolm
Ginsberg, Ruth Bader
F Miscellaneous Correspondence
Feldman, David
Fern, Alan
Foard, Doug
Box 3
Budget Justifications, FY 1996
Budget Justifications, FY 1997
Budget Justifications, FY 1998
Budget Justifications, FY 1999
Appropriation, FY 1997
Appropriation, FY 1996
National Academy of Public Administration (2 folders)
Correspondence, January-March 1995
Correspondence, April-June 1995
Correspondence, July-September 1995
Correspondence, October-December 1995
Correspondence, January-March 1996
Correspondence, April-June 1996
Correspondence, July-September 1996
Correspondence, October-December 1996
Rescission, FY 1995
Box 4
Correspondence, January 1994
Correspondence, February 1994
Correspondence, March 1994
Correspondence, April 1994
Correspondence, May 1994
Correspondence, June 1994
Correspondence, July 1994
Correspondence, August 1994
Correspondence, September 1994
Correspondence, October 1994
Correspondence, November 1994
Correspondence, December 1994
Checklist of Certain Issues Relating to Development of Substantive Role of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Compilation of Advice Received, September 1, 1969
Budget Justification, FY 1997
Budget Justification, FY 1996
Budget Justification, FY 1995
Budget Justification, FY 1994
Budget Justification, FY 1993
Budget Justification, FY 1992
Budget Justification, FY 1991
Budget Justification, FY 1990
Cold War History Project
Roche, Kevin
Rogers, William P. (Secretary of State, 1969-1973)
Rusk, Dean, 1975-1980 (Private Member, Athens, Georgia)
Stern, Alfred (alternate for Stuart Eizenstat)
Shultz, George P. (Secretary, Department of State, 6/1982)
Schweiker, Richard S. (1981-1983) (Secretary, Health and Human Services)
Scott, Anne Firor, 1979-1985 (Private Member, Chapel Hill, NC)
Box 5
Terra, Daniel (alternate for Secretary Shultz, State Department)
Vance, Cyrus R. (Secretary of State, 1977-1980)
Wallis, W. Allen (alternate for Secretary Schultz, State Department)
Warner, Rawleigh, Jr. (1971-1978, Private Member, New York City) (2 folders)
Warner, Robert M., July 1980-1985 (Archivist of the United States)
Weinberger, Caspar Willard, 1973-1975 (HEW)
Wilson, D. Edward, Jr. (alternate for James Baker)
Wick, Charles Z. (Director, United States Information Agency) (2 folders)
Memoranda to Pug Winokur
Advertisements
Search Committee, Chronological
WWICS Smithsonian Search - Search Committee
WWICS Smithsonian Search - Miscellaneous Information for Search Committee
Spencer Stuart
Lampe, John R. (Secretary, East European Program, 11/1/1986)
Litwak, Robert S.
Lowenthal, Abraham, 1972-1981 (5 folders)
Box 6
Lowenthal, Abraham, 1982-1987
Lydgate, John
Lyons, James
M Names - General Files
McCan, Robert L.
McDill, Ada Jewell (Morgan)
Meisel, Albert (Deputy Director, WWICS)
Morse, Richard M.
Star, S. Frederick, 1980-1988
Wells, Samuel F., Jr.
Whitehead, Laurence
Wilde, Alexander
Yellin, Jon E., June 1985
Zies, Donal
Checklist of Certain Issues Relating to Development of Substantive Role of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Compilation of Advice Received, September 1, 1969
Media Institute Proposal
Media Institute, 1984
Media Institute, 1983
Publications, 1989
Radio Dialogue
Evening Dialogue, 1989-1990
Evening Dialogue, 1976-1980
Box 7
Evening Dialogues
History of Dialogues at the Center
E. D. on Liberalism - Les Aspin/Yankelovich
Dialogues and Programs
Governors
Evening Dialogues/Colloquia
Korber - German GP
National Council on Philanthropy
Planning and Program Committee (Center) Meetings (cross cutting)
President's Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies
Philanthropy Evening - Bill Dietel, Bob Payton, October 1, 1981
Project '87 - American Studies
Theology Project
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carter, Jimmy (Evening Dialogue at the Wilson Center)
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) - Bob Hollander
Budget, FY 1987
Budget, FY 1986
Hearings, October 3-4, 1977 - Special SI Hearings
Bower Award
Brochure Text (Al Rosenfeld)
British Royal Family (Invitation to visit Wilson Center)
Box 8
Budget Planning (3 Years Planning), 1989-1991 (2 folders)
Budget, FY 1988
Annual Report, 1990-1991
Arab States - Cooperation Council
Area Studies, Meeting June 1, 1989
Audit of Woodrow Wilson Center
Awards, Scrolls, Certificates (copies of)
Bailyn, B.
Bicentennial of Bill of Rights (2 folders)
Annual Report, 1989-1990
Publications, November-December 1987
Publications, October 1987
Publications, September 1987
Publications, August 1987
Publications, July 1987
Publications, June 1987
Publications, May 1987
Publications, April 1987
Publications, March 1987
Publications, February 1987
Publications, January 1987
Publications, December 1986
Publications, November 1986
Publications, October 1986
Publications, September 1986
Publications, August 1986
Publications, July 1986 (2 folders)
Publications, June 1986
Publications, May 1986
Box 9
Reddaway, Peter (Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies [KIARS]), 1984-1988 (2 folders)
Reddaway, Peter (Appointment as KIARS Secretary)
Reich, Walter
Roth, Richard L.
Christopher Columbus - 500th Anniversary, 1992
Coopers & Lybrand - CPAs
Congressional Challenge - Grant/Scripps Agreement
Congressional - Miscellaneous Correspondence
Congressional Hearings, 1991
Congressional Hearings, 1989
Constitutionalism (American Historical Association/American Political Science Association - Don Robinson), 10/1992
Czechoslovakia/WWC in Prague
Education
Educational Seminar and Education General, September 1989
Ethnicity Report/Requests
Ethnicity, 1988-1990 (2 folders)
European Alumni Association
Federal Conference Fund Requests, FY 1992
Fellows - Selection of Alternates, Memos from Staff, 1990
Ford Foundation
Foundation News - Letter to the Editor and Responses, 4/1992
German-American Conference, September 1983
Guest Scholars
George Washington University
Box 10
Glade, Bill
Gouda, Frances
Governance Institute
Gross, Chaim - Hubert Humphrey Bust in WWC Library
Harter, John
Health, Science, and Society Project (WWC and National Institute of Mental Health - Dr. Walter Riech)
Helsinki II - Conference
Hoover, Herbert - The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson (Introduction by Senator Hatfield)
Horne, Alistair
Housing Report
Hughes Report
Humanities Alliance
Hubert Humphrey Lecture Series, WWC
Industrial Cooperation Council
India - Crafts Museum
Iran-Contra Conference - "Constitutional Conduct of Foreign Policy after the Iran-Contra Affair," January 1991
Annual Report, FY 1992 (10/1991-10/1992)
ADM Foundation - Dwayne Andreas
Africa Project - Francis Deng
Anacostia Museum
Annual Report, 1989 (includes electronic records)
Annual Report, 1990-1991
Administration - General Memoranda (2 folders)
Academic Advisory Councils, 1988
New Delhi Conference with Atlantik-Brucke, November 1-5, 1989
Box 11
New Delhi Conference with Atlantik-Brucke, November 1-5, 1989
Japanese Contacts
Jones, Peter
Kennan Institute
Kennan Institute - Ad Hoc Visiting Committee Chaired by McGeorge Bundy, April 1992
Kennan Institute Research Scholars
Kosmo, Thomas (The Mentor Group)
Library of Congress
Library of Congress - Council of Scholars
Library - John Broderick Report, March 1991
Media Studies Project
MacMillan, Harold
Mellon Foundation
Memoranda - General Subject Matter
Mozart Book
A Names - General
B Names - General
Billington, James H. - Trip Reports, 1985-1987
Billington, James H. - 1973-1987 (2 folders)
Billington, James H. - Speeches, Reports, Articles, etc.
Black, Cyril (New Chairman of KIARS Advisory Council, 12/1983)
Braestrup, Peter
Brown, Bertram S.
Bowie, Robert
Bruneau, Thomas Charles
Bustin, George
Blitzer, Charles (NMI)
C Names - General
Carroll, Mark
Cooney, James A.
Cooper, Chester L.
D Names - General
Box 12
David, Zdenek
Deng, Francis M.
Distinguished Scholar Procedures and Extension Precedent
Dixon, Elizabeth
Dixon, John
Doane, Eloise
Drescher, Seymour
Dunn, William M.
Dysland, John
E Names - General
Ellison, Herbert
Fellowship Selection Procedures
Policy File - Fellowship/Administration
Gifford, Prosser
N Names - General
Nuccio, Richard A.
Nugent-Head, Marie
O'Neill, Lois Decker
Packard, George
P Names - General
Starr, S. Frederick, 1979
T Names - General
Thaxton, David
Tolson, Jay
W Names - General
Wilson Center Calendars
Wilson Center Reports (Complete Set)
Wilson Center Alumni Notes
Wilson Center Latin American Program Newsletter
Adams, Robert McCormick (Secretary Smithsonian), 1984-1990 (3 folders)
Agresto, John (Deputy Chairman, NEH) for Lynne Cheney
Box 13
Andreas, Dwayne O. (Private Member, Decatur, Illinois), 1987-
Alexander, Lamar
Austin, Granville (alternate for Secretary HEW)
Baker, James A., III (Private Member, Houston, Texas), 1977-1983
Baker, James A., III (Designated Representative of the President), 1984-1988
Baker, James A., III (Secretary of State), 1/1989
Baroody, William J., Jr., 1981-1990 (6 folders)
Baroody, William J., Sr. (Chairman, Private Member), 1971-1980 (4 folders)
Lindsay, Franklin
Linowitz, Sol
Lipset, Seymour Martin
Lipson, Leon
Lovejoy, Tom
Lowe, Ira
Lyons, James E.
Glad, John
Glade, William
Gleason, Abbott ("Tom")
Goodman, Louis
Goodpaster, Andrew J. (General)
Gordon, Lincoln
H Names - General
Hall, Julia R.
Haltzel, Michael
Harding, Harry
Haseler, Stephen
Hawkins, Robert B., Jr.
Box 14
Heine, Jorge
Hodges, Barbara
Hoffman, George
Holbrook, Edythe
Hughes, Phillip S. ("Sam")
I and J Names - General
Johnson, Brad
Jones, Marcella
K Names - General
Katz, Mark (KIARS)
Publications Policy
Overhead
The "Plum Book"
General Staff Meetings (All Staff)
IRS Letter (Tax Ruling for WC)
Latin American Program Staffing, 1980-1981
Senior Executive Service/Civil Service
Sabbatical Policy at WWICS, 9/1983
Biographies of WWICS Senior Staff
WWICS Memoranda, 1971-1985 (4 folders)
Anglemyer, Mary
Barnett, Doak
Bensen, Virginia (Reid)
Woodrow Wilson House
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Commission
The Memorialization of Woodrow Wilson
Memoranda to Board of Trustees, 1971-1977 (5 folders)
Latin American Program - Background
Latin American Program - Academic Council
Latin American Program - Funding: Tinker Foundation
Latin American Program - Advisory Committee and Funding
Latin American Program - Fellowship Program
Latin American Program - Guest Scholars
Latin American Program, 1989-1990 (2 folders)
Box 15
Latin American Program, 1979-1988
Latin American Program - Memoranda from Abe Lowenthal
Latin American Program - Summer Interns
Latin American Program - Miscellaneous
Inter American Conference, October 15-16, 1983
Latin American Program - Special Events
Latin American Program - Organization of American States (OAS)
Library
Media Studies, 1989-1990 (2 folders)
Media Project
Media Studies Project Essay Contest
Media Studies Project, 1986-1988
Media Institute, 1985
Media Materials (Extra Copies)
Cheney, Lynne V. (Chairman, NEH, June 1986)
Cicconi, James W. (Alternate for James Baker)
Gelb, Bruce S. (Director, U.S. Information Agency, 1/1989)
Goldwin, Robert A., 1975-1977
Harlow, Bryce N. (Private Member, Washington, D.C., 1975-1980)
Heckler, Margaret M. (Health and Human Services, 1983-1985)
Higgins, James H. (Non-Board Member, Chairman, Investment Committee, 1985)
Himmelfarb, Gertrude (Private Member, New York, New York, 1983-1990)
Ianonne, Carol
Jacobs, Eli
Kampelman, Max M. (Private Member, 1979-1989) (7 folders)
Box 16
Dinner for Ambassador Max M. Kampelman (honoring his chairmanship), March 1, 1983
Barreaux, Theodore C. (Private Member, Washington, D.C., 1979-1990) (2 folders)
Barreaux, Ted
Batten, William M., 1972-1976
Bennett, William J. (NEH, 1981-1985)
Billington, James H. (Library of Congress, 1987-1988) (2 folders)
Catto, Henry
Cavazos, Lauro
Ripley, S. Dillon (Secretary, Smithsonian Institution) (2 folders)
Dinner Honoring S. Dillon Ripley, 6/12/1984
"Ripley Report," 1972
Roche, John P., 1968-1974
Investment Committee, 1995
Scripps House, 1992-1994 (3 folders)
Box 17
Scripps House, 1994-1995
Checklist of Certain Issues Relating to Development of Substantive Role of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Compilation of Advice Received, September 1, 1969
WWICS History (by Francis B. Sayre, Jr.)
Originals, 1971
Funding - Senator Bible, Committee on Appropriations
Funding - Representative Julia Butler Hansen, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations
Originals for Woodrow Wilson Memorial Commission (WWMC) Files
President Truman
Letters to Applicants
Johnson, Ted (Dissertation on WWICS)
Responses to Hubert H. Humphrey Letter, III-VII (5 folders)
Substantive Replies to November 14 Letter
Non-substantive Replies on Brochure
Responses to Hubert H. Humphrey Letter of April 15
Box 18
Responses to Hubert H. Humphrey Letter of April 15, LTF Require Action (2 folders)
Board of Trustees List
Congressional Dinner, June 4, 1969
WWMC Correspondence
Progress Reports
Statements
Proposal to Prepare a Study of the Size and Characteristics of Washington's Community of Transient Scholars, Facilities Now Available to Them, and Additional Facilities Needed, 1970
Report of the Acting Director with Recommendations to Board of Trustees, 9/19/1969
Research Center in Washington, D.C. - Woodrow Wilson Memorial, 1967-1968
Serving Transient Scholars
Research Center in Washington, D.C. - Woodrow Wilson Memorial, Perhaps 1965-1967
Act: Public Law 90-637 Creating the Wilson Center, October 24, 1968
20th Anniversary (Dinner at State Department), March 7, 1989 (2 folders)
Newspaper Articles
125th Anniversary of Birth of President Wilson, February 3, 1982
125th Anniversary of Birth of President Wilson, 1981 (Cancelled)
15th Anniversary of Legislation Creating WWICS, October 24, 1983
15th Anniversary of WWICS Opening Its Doors, November 5, 1985
10th Anniversary of WWICS Opening of Doors, October 23, 1980
10th Anniversary of WWICS Legislation, October 24, 1978
6th Anniversary of WWICS
50th Anniversary of Death of President Wilson, February 3, 1974
Official Dedication of Woodrow Wilson Center, February 18, 1971
Amendment to Expand WWICS Board
"Chairs" (Endowed chairs, fellowships, etc.)
Investment Committee/Endowment
Boards Profile/Questionnaire (from fund-raising training course)
George Kennan, 1992
Kennan, George F., 1982-1983
Woodrow Wilson International Center - Irvine Street
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton University)
Official WWICS Seal
Correspondence (General - Board Related)
Memoranda to Board of Trustees, 1978
Box 19
Memoranda to Board of Trustees, 1979-1989 (9 folders)
Report of the Acting Director with Recommendations to Board of Trustees, 9/19/1969 (3 folders)
Center City Development Considerations
Box 20
Development Prospects for an International Center in Downtown Washington, D.C.
International Cultural and Trade Center
Serving Transient Scholars in Washington, D.C., 1972
Georgetown Site
Old Post Office, 1973
Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts, 1972/1973
Pennsylvania Avenue Plan, 1974
Woodrow Wilson Museum of Man and Environment, 1972
Archives Building (adjacency requirements for additional building), 1972
Temporary Quarters in Smithsonian, 1970
Senator Humphrey Letter to General Quesada, July 1970
Urban Design and Development Corporation/Schwarz, 1969
Billington Letter to Baroody (Plans for Center Site), 1973
Ben Read Memoranda to Hubert Humphrey re: Center Site (and other issues), 1969
Market Square, 1968/1969
S. Dillon Ripley Letter to Nat Owings of Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue re: Advanced Study Center, 1966
National Capital Planning Commission, 1968
Hillwood (Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post), 1973
James Billington Letter to Board Chairman Baroody, Sr. re: Permanent Building for WWICS, 1973
Capitol Hill/Providence Hospital
Providence Hospital Site, 1979/1980/1988
Map - Near District Building, 1978
Site Memoranda/Correspondence, 1970-1988 (9 folders)
Real Estate Negotiations (from Prosser Gifford's File, 1988), 1984
Faulkner, Fryer, and Vanderpool Study, 1974
WWICS History
Report of the Acting Director with Recommendations to Board of Trustees, 9/19/1969 (2 folders)
Checklist of Certain Issues Relating to Development of Substantive Role of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Compilation of Advice Received, September 1, 1969
Box 21
James Billington - Addresses A-K (index card box)
James Billington - Addresses K-W (index card box)
James Billington - Addresses XYZ-Subjects (index card box)
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