Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, statements, writings, legislative files, subject files, appointment books, scheduling files, press releases, newsletters, clippings, printed matter, family papers, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Kemp's service as U.S. representative from New York (1971-1989). Documents his career as a professional football player in the American Football League (1960-1969), primarily with the Buffalo Bills, and union president of the American Football League Players Association; campaigns for president in 1988 and vice president in 1996; chairmanship of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform (1995-1996); and endeavors as codirector of the free market advocacy group Empower America (1993-2002). Also documents Kemp's work as special assistant to Governor Ronald Reagan of California and as member of the U.S. Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and of the U.S. National Bipartisan Commission on Central America. Includes articles written by Kemp as a columnist for the San Diego Union in the 1960s; files of staff members, John D. Mueller, Mary Shannon Brunette, and Sharon Zelaska; and files of Grace-Marie Arnett, director of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform.

Subjects include abortion, arms control, civil rights, Communism, the conservative movement, aid to the contras (Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense) of Central America, defense, economic policy, education, enterprise zones, human rights, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (1987), Richard M. Nixon and the Watergate Affair, support for Israel, monetary policy, New York state and national politics, international issues, politics, prayer in schools, the Republican Party, Soviet Union, Strategic Defense Initiative, supply-side economics, taxation, the vice-presidential debate between Kemp and Albert Gore, and Vietnam.

Correspondents include James P. Backlin, James Addison Baker, Nicholas Anthony Buoniconti, George Bush, Richard B. Cheney, Bill Clinton, James C. Dobson, William Clark Durant, Frank J. Fahrenkoph, Jerry Falwell, Irving Kristol, Trent Lott, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Pete Rozelle, Peter F. Secchia, Don Shula, George Pratt Shultz, Jude Wanniski, Vin Weber, and Ralph C. Wilson.