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Nevertheless, the following year, [[FDR]] appointed MacLeish Librarian of Congress. Because he was not a librarian, the American Library Association had opposed his candidacy for the post, although he had been endorsed by the Progressive Librarians Council,<ref>{{cite journal |last=McReynolds |first=Rosalee |year=Winter 1990/91 |title=The Progressive Librarians Council and Its Founders |journal=Progressive Librarian |publisher=Progressive Librarians Guild |issue=Issue no. 2 |url=http://www.libr.org/pl/2_McReynolds.html}}</ref> founded by [[Soviet]] agents<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nIYC5pd1XQoC Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America]'' (Yale University Press, 2000) ISBN 0300084625, pp. 178-180</ref> [[Philip Keeney|Philip]] and [[Mary Jane Keeney]]. Soon after MacLeish got the post, Philip Keeney would be working at the Library of Congress,<ref>{{cite journal |last=McReynolds |first=Rosalee |year=Winter 1990/91 |title=The Progressive Librarians Council and Its Founders |journal=Progressive Librarian |publisher=Progressive Librarians Guild |issue=Issue no. 2 |url=http://www.libr.org/pl/2_McReynolds.html}}</ref> where he handled classified material.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Report, 1949 |last=United States House of Representatives |first=Committee on Un-American Activities |authorlink=Committee on Un-American Activities |year=March 15, 1950 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |location=Washington |pages=3-4 (PDF pp. 9-10) |url=http://ia341007.us.archive.org/2/items/annualreportfory1949unit/annualreportfory1949unit_bw.pdf |accessdate=2010-07-25}}</ref>
Nevertheless, the following year, [[FDR]] appointed MacLeish Librarian of Congress. Because he was not a librarian, the American Library Association had opposed his candidacy for the post, although he had been endorsed by the Progressive Librarians Council,<ref>{{cite journal |last=McReynolds |first=Rosalee |year=Winter 1990/91 |title=The Progressive Librarians Council and Its Founders |journal=Progressive Librarian |publisher=Progressive Librarians Guild |issue=Issue no. 2 |url=http://www.libr.org/pl/2_McReynolds.html}}</ref> founded by [[Soviet]] agents<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nIYC5pd1XQoC Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America]'' (Yale University Press, 2000) ISBN 0300084625, pp. 178-180</ref> [[Philip Keeney|Philip]] and [[Mary Jane Keeney]]. Soon after MacLeish got the post, Philip Keeney would be working at the Library of Congress,<ref>{{cite journal |last=McReynolds |first=Rosalee |year=Winter 1990/91 |title=The Progressive Librarians Council and Its Founders |journal=Progressive Librarian |publisher=Progressive Librarians Guild |issue=Issue no. 2 |url=http://www.libr.org/pl/2_McReynolds.html}}</ref> where he handled classified material.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Report, 1949 |last=United States House of Representatives |first=Committee on Un-American Activities |authorlink=Committee on Un-American Activities |year=March 15, 1950 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |location=Washington |pages=3-4 (PDF pp. 9-10) |url=http://ia341007.us.archive.org/2/items/annualreportfory1949unit/annualreportfory1949unit_bw.pdf |accessdate=2010-07-25}}</ref>
During [[World War II]], MacLeish served as director of the War Department's Office of Facts and Figures and assistant director of the [[Office of War Information]]<ref>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/47 Archibald MacLeish], Academy of American Poets</ref>(where his subordinates included [[Owen Lattimore]], director of Pacific Operations, and [[Joseph Barnes]], in charge of international broadcasting),<ref>Erik Barnouw, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=UzVDHPsJ6AoC The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, 1933 to 1953]'' (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0195004752, p. 159</ref> then (in 1944) assistant secretary of state for Cultural Affairs.
During [[World War II]], MacLeish served as director of the War Department's Office of Facts and Figures and assistant director of the [[Office of War Information]]<ref>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/47 Archibald MacLeish], Academy of American Poets</ref> (where his subordinates included [[Owen Lattimore]], director of Pacific Operations, and [[Joseph Barnes]], in charge of international broadcasting),<ref>Erik Barnouw, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=UzVDHPsJ6AoC The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, 1933 to 1953]'' (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0195004752, p. 159</ref> then (in 1944) assistant secretary of state for Cultural Affairs.
After the war, MacLeish served with Hiss on the U.S. delegation drafting the [[United Nations]] [http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml Charter]. The official assigned by the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (predecessor of the CIA) to record the drafting of that document would later say MacLeish "kicked me out" of the session.<ref>[http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unationsday/docs/lindquist19april90.pdf Oliver Lundquist Interview], United Nations Oral History Project, Yale University, 1990</ref> [[Secretary of State]] [[Dean Acheson]] appointed MacLeish chairman of the U.S. delegation to the organizational meeting of [[UNESCO]].
After the war, MacLeish served with Hiss on the U.S. delegation drafting the [[United Nations]] [http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml Charter]. The official assigned by the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (predecessor of the CIA) to record the drafting of that document would later say MacLeish "kicked me out" of the session.<ref>[http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unationsday/docs/lindquist19april90.pdf Oliver Lundquist Interview], United Nations Oral History Project, Yale University, 1990</ref> [[Secretary of State]] [[Dean Acheson]] appointed MacLeish chairman of the U.S. delegation to the organizational meeting of [[UNESCO]].