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Wesley McCune founded Group Research Inc. in 1962 after a successful career as a journalist for such magazines as "Newsweek", "Time", "Life", and "Changing Times. Group Research Inc. was based in Washington DC until ceasing operations in the mid-1990s. The organization collected materials that focus on the right-wing and span four decades. The archive includes information about and by right-wing organizations and activists in the form of publications, correspondence, pamphlets, reports, the newspaper "Congressional Record," and magazine clippings and other ephemera. McCune and his small staff also published an initially bi-monthly but in later years monthly newsletter Group Research Report which kept its subscribers abreast of the latest views and actions of right-wingers.

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, legal documents, transcripts, and printed materials of Phillips. Correspondents include George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, J.W. Fulbright, and William Ruckelshaus. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, legal documents, and transcripts illustrating Phillips' legal career, including papers from the Four Seasons Securities Laws Litigation and from Phillips' lawsuits against Alleghany Corporation, Investors' Diversified Services (a company controlled by Alleghany), and the American Stock Exchange. Also, the papers of the National Committee for Impeachment, of which Phillips was chairman.