SERIES 1: PERSONAL/POLITICAL Boxes 1 - 169
Browse the Foreign Trip Files Sub-series collection
The foreign trip files contain five cubic feet of records, dating from 1976 through 1997, documenting the fact-finding trips to foreign countries Senator Glenn made and the conferences in foreign countries he attended in his official capacity as a U.S. Senator. Glenn's interest in nuclear proliferation, arms control, and other foreign policy issues, coupled with his terms as chairman of both the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Subcommittee on Energy and Nuclear Proliferation of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and his membership in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, necessitated numerous trips to foreign countries. Included in the sub-series, for example, are the records of trips Glenn made to the People's Republic of China in 1976, 1979, 1981, 1994 and 1996. Many of the trips to China also included stops in the Republic of China (Taiwan), Japan, Korea, and the countries of Southeast Asia. He traveled to the Soviet Union in 1978, 1990 and 1994 and made trips to the Middle East or the Persian Gulf region in 1976, 1982, 1987, 1990 and 1991. Senator Glenn also traveled to the Solomon Islands in July 1978 when President Jimmy Carter appointed him the official U.S. representative to the ceremonies marking that country's independence.
Senator Glenn attended a number of high-level foreign policy and arms control conferences during his four terms in the Senate, including the Shimoda Conference on Japanese-U.S. relations in 1977 and the Pacific Dialogue Conference at Penang, Malaysia in 1994. From 1989 through 1995, Glenn was a regular attendee of the Wehrkunde Conferences on arms control, NATO, and European security held in Munich, Germany. He also attended conferences on U.S.-Russian relations sponsored by the Aspen Institute in 1996 and 1997.
During most of his foreign trips Glenn traveled as part of an official congressional delegation. These delegations normally were named for the one or two senior congressional members who took part in the trip and are listed under the abbreviation Codel. Files therefore are listed under such headings as Codel Mansfield/Glenn, Codel Ribicoff/Baker, Codel Nunn, Codel Glenn, and so forth. Folders within the sub-series are arranged chronologically under the name of a particular Codel, conference, or miscellaneous trip. Records complied from a particular trip may be divided by sub-headings into a number of files. Materials found within the files may include Senator Glenn's notes, correspondence, memoranda, briefing books, background materials, and itineraries. Files also may include speeches, conference papers, meeting transcripts, and newspaper clippings.