Speeches and writings, correspondence, memoranda, reports, proposals, minutes, testimony, legal documents, and printed matter, relating to education policy during the presidential administration of Richard M. Nixon, school desegregation, surveillance of radical movements, administration of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Watergate affair and subsequent trials. Mardian was General counsel, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1969-1970; executive director, Cabinet Committee on Education, 1970-1971; assistant attorney general, 1970-1972; political coordinator, Committee to Re-elect the President, 1972-1973.