Letters, telegrams & promotional literature related to San Diego’s interest in NASA’s Electronic Research Center being located in S.D. Examples are: Telegram from Reed Lawton, President Industrial Assn. of the San Fernando Valley (2/26/64) re/ support for a California location for NASA’s Electronic Research Center; corresp. from Walter Zable (Cubic Corp.), Normand W. Des Champs, Richard L. Callaghan (NASA) & Congressman Wilson (Feb.-Mar. 1964) re/ Electronic Research Center, “unnecessary Government enterprises,” “Competition for this so-called `political plum’” & “a new NASA Research Center is the most effective organizational situation for increasing Space electronic research capability throughout the nation;” copy of letter (2/13/64) from Congressman Wilson to Richard G. Capen, Jr. (Copley Newspapers) & attached newsclipping (Washington Post, 2/1/64) re/ “$50 million electronic research center to be located in the greater Boston area” & “It is a real thorn in the side that CNS, the Chamber and the City don’t jump on Van Deerlin for sucking them into his `news trap’ as he has done in not only this instance, but also in the case of the `proposed’ Coast and Geodetic Survey facility for San Diego;” corresp. of Congressman Wilson, Harry L. Summers & Richard L. Callaghan (NASA) (Nov.-Dec. 1963) re/ interest in Rancho Bernardo as a possible location for NASA’s Electronic Research Center; Memo for File (n.d.) re/ meeting with NASA “and very little encouragement from Dr. Simpson was forthcoming;” large folder of corresp. & reports promoting San Diego, California as the ideal location for an Electronic Research Center--the itemized tab titles of this folder are “City of San Diego, Introduction, Educational Facilities, R & D Oriented Firms, Representative Personnel, Related Information & Conclusion;” copy of Congressman Wilson to George Simpson, Assist. Dep. Admin., NASA (11/15/63) re/ “I urge you to give consideration to the City of San Diego, California as the most advantageous site for the . . . Electronic Research Center;” copy of letter of Richard L. Callaghan (11/27/63) re/ Wilson’s letter to Dr. Simpson & the Area Survey Committee as a fact finding group; two letters of S.D. Chamber of Commerce to Congressman Wilson (10/3 & 11/21 1963) re/ competition with Boston, Mass. for site of Electronic Research Center.