Identity area

Reference code

WB IBRD/IDA EXC-10-5789S

Title

Travel briefings of staff assistants to the President

Date(s)

  • 1975 - 1981 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

0.80 linear feet of textual records

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Archival history

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Content and structure area

Scope and content

The series consists of the travel briefing files of three staff assistants for three trips during the McNamara Presidency. The first are the files of Sven Burmester, Special Assistant to the President, for the Middle East trip (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates) of March 5-16, 1975. The second are the files of Caio Koch-Weser, Personal Assistant to the President, for the West Africa trip (Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Guinea, The Gambia, and Senegal) of November 1-15, 1977. The last are the files of Oliver Lafourcade, Personal Assistant to the President, for the trip to India and Pakistan, March 28-April 1, 1981. All of these trips also have briefing files in the President's travel briefs series.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Records are arranged chronologically.

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Conditions governing access

Records are subject to the World Bank Policy on Access to Information.

Conditions governing reproduction

Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.

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      Related units of description

      • Records of the Office of the President -- Records of President Robert S. McNamara -- Travel briefings (WB IBRD/IDA EXC-10-4540S).

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      Rules and/or conventions used

      Internal World Bank Group Archives rules based on ISAD(G).

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      Dates of creation revision deletion

      8 July 2003

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