Sound Recordings and Other Material from the Zbigniew Brzezinski Papers
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Sound recordings and other material from the Zbigniew Brzezinski papers circa 1979-2008 1979-1997
33 sound recordings, including sound tape reels, sound cassettes, microcassettes, and sound discs
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-
Biographical History for: Sound recordings and other material from the Zbigniew Brzezinski papers circa 1979-2008 1979-1997
Biographical Note Foreign policy advisor, political scientist, educator, and author. Full name: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski. Born in Warsaw, Poland, on March 28, 1928, Zbigniew Brzezinski moved with his family to Canada in 1938 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1958. Dr. Brzezinski served as instructor and assistant professor at Harvard, 1953-1960, and as assistant professor and professor at Columbia University, 1962-1977. While still at Columbia, he served as the first director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 until 1976, which led to his position as foreign policy advisor to the Jimmy Carter presidential campaign. From 1977 until 1981, Brzezinski served as national security advisor within the Carter administration. He returned to his professorship at Columbia in 1981 and continued there until moving to Johns Hopkins University in 1989. In 1981, Brzezinski also accepted a position as counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.
Scope and Content Note The Carter Administration series consists of recorded speeches and interviews, accompanying transcripts, and other material related to Brzezinski's tenure as national security advisor in President Jimmy Carter's administration. The Speeches, Testimony, and Travel series consists of post-1981 recorded speeches and interviews, diaries, accompanying transcripts, and other material concerning Brzezinski's domestic and foreign speaking engagements, and travel. The Subject File series consists of post-1981 recorded interviews with print and broadcast media sources, episodes from the NPR radio program on which Brzezinski occasionally guested, America Abroad, including the non-broadcast pilot program, and recorded instructions by Brzezinski to his secretary, Trudy Werner. Also included are recorded interviews with authors Tom Hayden and Sally Quinn, which were included with the Zbigniew Brzezinski Papers. The Supplementary Material series consists of cover letters and published editions of speeches that supplement the sound recordings in the collection.
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Series 1. Carter Administration, 1979-1981
Recorded speeches and interviews, accompanying transcripts, and other material related to Brzezinski's tenure as national security advisor in the Carter administration.
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Compilation of news about Billy Carter, 1980-07-14 to 1980-07-25
Compilation of news broadcasts concerning the scandal involving Billy Carter's alleged connections to the Libyan government.
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Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski for ABC News, 1979-03-23
Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses world security issues, with particular emphasis on U.S.-Soviet relations.
Interview conducted by Ted Koppel, ABC News.
Sound recording of the interview, 1979-03-23
Transcript of the interview, undated
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, MacNeil/Lehrer Report, 1980-10-15
Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses events in the Middle East, including the Iran-Iraq War and the role of the Soviet Union in the region, on the MacNeil/Lehrer Report, WETA-TV.
Sound recording of the interview, 1980-10-15
Remarks by President Jimmy Carter at the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, 1981-01-16
President Jimmy Carter awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Harold Brown, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Warren Christopher, Walter Cronkite, Kirk Douglas, Margaret Craig McNamara, Karl Menninger, Edmund S. Muskie, Esther Peterson, Gerard C. Smith, Robert S. Strauss, Elbert Tuttle, Earl Warren, Andrew Young, and, via proxy, Roger Baldwin.
Sound recording of the speech, 1981-01-16
Transcript of the speech, undated
Zbigniew Brzezinski remarks at the dedication of the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family, 1980-09-14
Sound recording of the speech, 1980-09-14
Zbigniew Brzezinski speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, 1979-12-18
Sound recording of the speech, 1979-12-18
Series 2. Speeches, Testimony, and Travel, 1983-2007
Recorded speeches, interviews, and diaries; accompanying transcripts; and other material concerning Brzezinski's domestic and foreign speaking engagements, and travel.
Excerpts of Zbigniew Brzezinski comments on U.S.-Russian relations, Voice of America, 2000-05-17
Excerpts of Zbigniew Brzezinski comments on U.S.-Russian relations, Liberty Live, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1996-05-14
"New Dilemmas in U.S. Foreign Policy," 1988-02-06
Sound recording of the speech, 1988-02-06
"The New Frontier of Politics, the New Dimension of Ethics," 1994-10
Zbigniew Brzezinski speech on the dehumanizing effects of the scientific revolution on culture, at the Geopolitics and Human Progress Conference (2nd Symposium sur la santé positive), Montreal, Canada.
Sound recording of the speech, 1994-10
Zbigniew Brzezinski diary and instructions to his secretary, 1987-05-12 to1987-05-22
Primarily consists of Brzezinski dictating a travel diary for his trip to Hungary and Poland during the inclusive dates.
Label from original container: "Hungary - Poland ; May 12-22 1987."
Zbigniew Brzezinski remarks on managing NATO enlargement at the United States Institute of Peace working group on European security, 1997-03-05
Sound recording of the remarks, 1997-03-05
Zbigniew Brzezinski speech at American Council of Polish Cultural Clubs award banquet, 1984-06-30
Sound recording of the speech, 1984-06-30
Zbigniew Brzezinski speech at the National War College, 1984-01-09
Zbigniew Brzezinksi discusses U.S.-Soviet relations.
Sound recording of the speech, 1984-01-09
1 sound cassette (approximately 53 minutes)
Zbigniew Brzezinski speech delivered at the Poland in the Geopolitically Transforming World Conference, the 60th annual meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Georgetown University, 1997-06-16
The topic of the panel discussion was "Poland in the Geopolitically Transforming World."
Sound recording of the speech, 1997-06-16
1 sound disc (compact disc-recordable) (1 hour, 2 minutes)
Zbigniew Brzezinski speech on the future of communism at the Glasnost: Illusion or Reality lecture series, 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, 1989-03-23
Sound recording of the speech, 1989-03-23
Zbigniew Brzezinski speech on National Security Advisor reform, circa 1983
Sound recording of the speech, circa 1983
1 sound cassette (approximately 25 minutes)
Zbigniew Brzezinski speech on Solidarity in Poland, circa 1982
Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses the Solidarity movement in Poland, the imposition of martial law in Poland by the Soviet Union, and the imposition of economic sanctions by the United States.
Sound recording of the speech, circa 1982
Zbigniew Brzezinski speech to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security and the Center for National Security, 1993-12
Speech given as a luncheon address at Democracy and the Rule of Law: A Tribute to Ambassador Max M. Kampelman, a conference co-sponsored by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security and the Center for National Security Law, December 2-3, 1993.
Sound recording of the speech, 1993-12
Series 3. Subject File, 1981-2004, and undated
Consists of post-1981 interviews with print and broadcast media sources, episodes from the NPR radio program America Abroad, on which Brzezinski occasionally guested, including the non-broadcast pilot program, and recorded instructions by Brzezinski to his secretary, Trudy Werner.
America Abroad. Pilot program, circa 2003
1 sound disc (compact disc-recordable) (approximately 53 minutes)
America Abroad. America and Afghanistan, Rebuilding a Nation, 2004-01
1 sound disc (compact disc-recordable) (approximately 52 minutes)
America Abroad. America and Europe, an Alliance in Danger, 2003-04
1 sound disc (compact disc-recordable) (59 minutes)
America Abroad. America and Iran, Cooperation or Conflict in the Post-Saddam Gulf, 2003-11
1 sound disc (compact disc-recordable) (approximately 54 minutes)
Brzezinski appears as a guest on this program.
America Abroad. Pakistan, America's Unstable Ally, 2004-04
America Abroad. The United States and the Two Koreas, Growing Tensions on the Peninsula, 2003-07
Interview with Sally Quinn, Diane Rehm Show, 1989-06-15
segment
Sound recording of the interview, 1989-06-15
Handwritten on original container: "Diane Rehm/Sally Quinn 6/15/89 (side 2)."
Interview with Tom Hayden, Dateline, 1983-03-14
Interview conducted by Sanford Ungar for NPR News.
Sound recording of the interview, 1983-03-14
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, al Haaretz, 1997-01-10
Sound recording of the interview, 1997-01-10
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, al-Ahram, circa 1988
Interview conducted by Hamdi Fouad.
Sound recording of the interview, circa 1988
on 1 sound cassette (approximately 22 minutes)
Handwritten on original container: "Hamdi Fouad; Al-Ahrem."
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dateline, 1983-03-30
Interview conducted by Sanford Ungar, NPR News.
Sound recording of the interview, 1983-03-30
Supplementary material: Cover letter addressed from Helene Atwan of publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, to Trudy Werner, 1983-03-30. See Box 1, Folder 12.
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Reporter's Roundup, 1984-09-15
Mutual Broadcasting System.
Sound recording of the interview, 1984-09-15
Supplementary material: Cover letter addressed from Barton J. Tessler of Mutual Broadcasting System, to Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1984-09-18. See Box 1, Folder 13.
Oral history interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1981-02-20
Interview conducted by Marie Allen.
Sound recording of the interview, 1981-02-20
Zbigniew Brzezinski instructions and memorandums, undated
on 1 sound cassette (approximately 18 minutes)
Side A of the recording is severely affected by static; speech is not understandable with normal playback.
Zbigniew Brzezinski instructions to his secretary, circa 1983
1 sound cassette (approximately 12 minutes)
Zbigniew Brzezinski gives instructions to his secretary and dictates various letters. Refers to an Arabic translation of the Zbigniew Brzezinski book, Power and Principle, and includes instructions to send advance copies to various dignitaries.
Zbigniew Brzezinski instructions to his secretary, circa 1986
1 sound cassette (approximately 9 minutes)
Brzezinski gives instructions to send promotional pamphlets and advance copies of his book on U.S.-Soviet relations, Game Plan, to various dignitaries, with dictated cover letters to President Ronald Reagan and John Poindexter.
Series 4. Supplementary Material, 1983-2008
Consists of cover letters, notes, and published editions of speeches that supplement the sound recordings in the collection.
Cover letter from Lauren Van Metre to Trudy Werner, and photocopy of original cassette label, 1997-04-08
Relates to the Brzezinski speech recorded on cassette RYM 5164.
Photocopy of Polish Heritage, v. 35, no. 3 (Fall 1984)
Includes the text of a Brzezinski speech delivered in June 1984 at the American Council of Polish Cultural Clubs award banquet. Recorded on cassette RYM 5160.
Note to Zbigniew Brzezinski, 2008-04-14
Relates to a Zbigniew Brzezinski speech delivered at the Poland in the Geopolitically Transforming World Conference. Recorded on disc ICD 53033.
Cover letter from John Norton Moore and John M. Shenefield to Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1993-12-15
Relates to a 1982 Brzezinski speech on Solidarity in Poland. Recorded on cassette RYM 5172.
Cover letter from Helene Atwan of publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux to Trudy Werner, 1983-04-08
Relates to a 1983 interview with Brzezinski for the NPR News program Dateline. Recorded on cassette RYM 5178, side B.
Cover letter from Barton J. Tessler of the Mutual Broadcasting System to Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1984-09-18
Relates to a 1984 interview with Brzezinski for the Mutual Broadcasting System program Reporter's Roundup. Recorded on cassette RYM 5177.