Scope and arrangement
The Economic Club of New York records date from 1910 to 2008 and document meetings hosted by the club. The files contain meeting transcripts, photographs, programs, and audio and moving image recordings.
The majority of the files are typed meeting transcripts, which date from 1910 to 1980, and indicate each meeting's location, date, and the names of the guests of honor. Some notable guests of honor are William Howard Taft (1919), Fiorello La Guardia (1921), Winston Churchill (1932), Henry Ford (1949), Robert F. Kennedy (1961), Richard Nixon (1952), John F. Kennedy (1962), and Eugene McCarthy (1968).
There is also small selection of photographs and programs that accompany the meeting files. Box 9 consists exclusively of large group photographs dating from 1953 to 1957, which depict club members and their guests at dinner meetings.
The audio and moving image recordings (mainly audio) date from 1972 to 2008, and contain speeches by guests of honor and club members. Notable guests of honor are political leaders and dignitaries including James Baker, Lloyd Bentsen, Bill Bradley, Warren E. Burger, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Hugh L. Carey, Jimmy Carter, Mario Cuomo, Bob Dole, Gerald Ford, Newt Gingrich, Rudolph Giuliani, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Henry Kissinger, Tom Kean, Edward Koch, Walter Mondale, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Richard Nixon, Tip O'Neill, George Pataki, Caspar Weinberger, and Christine Todd Whitman.
Other guest speakers are foreign leaders such as Menachem Begin, Jacques Chirac, Jean Chrétien, Mikhail Gorbachev, John Major, Yitzhak Rabin, Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Shamir, James Shen, Margaret Thatcher, Pierre Trudeau, and Zhu Rongji; business and financial leaders such as Lee Iacocca, John McGillicuddy, David Rockefeller, Felix Rohatyn, and George Soros; and economists and policy makers such as Alan Greenspan, Jose Ángel Gurría, Pedro Malan, Robert Rubin, James R. Schlesinger, and Paul A. Volcker.
Most meetings which have audio recordings do not have written transcripts. Three of the recordings are of meetings of the Economic Club of Detroit. A detailed listing of speakers and meeting topics can be found as an Additional Resource.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged chronologically.