L. Mills Beam

Role

Head of the Americanism Educational League

Bio Notes

Ran the Americanism Educational League (AEL), a Cold War ideological-education operation with direct Nixon correspondence lines. His four-page Nixon correspondence was read in full (Research_5/142). A NARA-wide catalog sweep found the operation's paper trail extends across multiple record groups (Research_5/143). The AEL's Truman-era 1945 Lechner memo touches Japanese-American internment and the War Relocation Authority (Research_5/144). WHSF 38-28 holds Haldeman 1962 Nixon campaign correspondence with the AEL (Research_5/145-146).