Scope and Content: Subject files are compiled by the chief of staff (chief secretary until 1991) to inform the governor on issues affecting his administration and to provide the governor with background information for formulating policy positions.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by term, thereunder alphabetically by subject. Arranged by staff member, thereunder by office/subject category,and then alphabetically by subject. Arranged alphabetically by staff member
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Scope and Content: As the unit responsible for managing the governor’s mail, the Governor’s Correspondence Office gathered information to assist the governor in answering correspondence relating to state government policies, as maintained in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject
Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: The Office of State Planning was formed in 1975 (along with the Management Bureau) by splitting into two units the Office of State Planning and Management of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance.  It became the Governor’s Development Office ca. 1979, was renamed Governor’s Office of Economic Development ca. 1983, and was terminated by 1991.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
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Scope and Content: During the term of Endicott Peabody (1963-1965), the governor’s special assistant reviewed gubernatorial speech drafts prepared by the Research Dept., as documented in this series.
Arrangement: In two subseries. Arranged alphabetically by subject
Notes: A-G missing
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Scope and Content: The governor creates subject files to provide background information on various issues relating to the administration of state government.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by term. –thereunder alphabetically by subject
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Scope and Content: The Governor’s Legal Office advises the governor on all matters of legal concern.  Duties include drafting and reviewing legislation, drafting executive orders, and reviewing extraditions and pardons.  Subject files were created during the day-to-day operations of the office.
Arrangement: In four subseries
Restrictions: Evaluative/personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: MSD 2/506-507 deaccessioned from Archives, Apr. 1992.  Some material transferred to: Correspondence files ((M-Ar) 1679)
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Scope and Content: The Governor’s Scheduling Office, and also the Governor’s Correspondence Office, later known as the Governor’s External Relations Office, have since at least 1975 maintained files relating to public appearances and other activities of the governor’s spouse.  Series has been created to arrange and document appearances and speeches delivered at events sponsored by government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, and generally to administer involvement with issues of public concern. –Series includes events files (arranged chronologically; containing schedules, agendas, speeches/remarks, talking points, background data, and correspondence); issues/organizations files (arranged alphabetically), and files for special issues: Asia, including the state’s Asian-American Commission (Exec Order 328, Mar 3, 1992), which Weld chaired; breast cancer; child abuse and neglect, including the state’s Children’s Trust Fund (St 1987, c 729), for which Weld served as a member of the board of directors; the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Woman (Beijing, 1995), to which Weld was a U.S. delegate; also the National Governors’ Association, for which Weld served as cohost at its July 1994 Boston meeting, and the association’s Spouses’ Program, including its National Breast Cancer Awareness and Safe Kids campaigns. –There are also general files of schedules and correspondence (each arranged chronologically), speech drafts and clippings (each arranged chronologically by year); and scattered photographs and video and audiocassettes.  For related series see: Daily schedules ((M-Ar)511); Massachusetts. Executive Office for Administration and Finance. National Governors’ Association annual meeting files ((M-Ar)2036X)
Notes: Scheduled as: General correspondence; Event files; Issue files
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Scope and Content: The governor may request state agency heads to provide transition reports to facilitate the orderly transfer of responsibilities from one gubernatorial term to the next, and to assess the progress and status of state agencies.
Arrangement: Arranged by state agency
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Notes: Sent to Governor Francis W. Sargent in 1973 by United Service Organizations, Inc
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