An audio recording of the award ceremony featuring remarks from Senator Hayden, US Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and US Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall.
Letter of introduction for Dwight B. Heard on the arrival of National Park Service Director Stephen T. Mather to Phoenix. Mather's visit includes trips to Roosevelt Dam and Tumacácori.
Letter from Dwight B. Heard, president and publisher of The Arizona Republican, to Carl T. Hayden about a visit by Stephen Mather.
Motion picture footage of television news coverage of the 1960 Republican National Convention at Chicago Illinois. The footage includes the introduction of Goldwater by Arizona Governor Paul Fannin, a brief interview with Mrs. Margaret "Peggy" Goldwater (00:14:00) seconds of the nomination by Congressman Bruce Alger of Texas (00:20:45), Gregory D. Shorey of South Carolina (00:24:00), L. Roy Houck of South Dakota (00:29:05) and Congressman John J. Rhodes of Arizona (00:33:08). Goldwater then asks for his name to be withdrawn from the slate (00:36:53). The footage ends just before the vote tally for Nixon is completed.