Investigative Reporters and Editors News Series, Letters of Support for Negative Publicity 1977

This collection is arranged in five series: Series I: Personal; Series II: Politics; Series III: Photographs; Series IV: Award Plaques; and Series V: Oversize.

Responding to an inquiry about preserving his papers, Rosenzweig's son, Burke Rosenzeig, wrote Barry Goldwater in 1994, As you know, for most of his life Dad did his own typing and filing and otherwise conducted his affairs without benefit of a secretary. He wasn't real organized to say the least. In his latter years he occupied much of his time by going through his files and throwing out what he didn't think was important. Unfortunately, he wasn't very discriminating in this selection process.

As a result, after sixty years active in business, politics and philanthropy, he left only two boxes of manuscript material. The collection is sparse, scattered and incomplete. For example, his extant political correspondence does not include letters of correspondents from I-Z of the alphabet, and it covers only the first two years of his ten year chairmanship of the Arizona Republican Party. However, the collection contains valuable research files, such as his correspondence with Barry Goldwater, and the national list of donors to the 1964 Barry Goldwater presidential campaign. Correspondents include Senator Paul Fannin, Dean Burch, and Ray Bliss, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The original order was retained.

Series V: Oversize Materials contains awards and certificates presented to Rosenzweig, oversize photographs, and original cartoons by syndicated cartoonists, many of which include Rosenzweig by name.