Lyndon Baines Johnson Archives Collection. 1931 - 1968. Congressional Correspondence Files
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Lyndon Baines Johnson Archives Collection. 1931 - 1968. Congressional Correspondence Files
The series includes correspondence with and about members of Congress, former members of Congress, and Congressional officials such as the Sergeant at Arms. In addition to correspondence and memorandums, the series also includes statements, press releases, brochures, and newspaper clippings. Although many of the letters are courtesy notes, a substantial number concern legislation, political issues, foreign policy, and other topics.
The series includes correspondence with Speakers of the House Sam Rayburn and John McCormack, Vice President Alben Barkley, and many Senators including George Aiken, Clinton Anderson, Alan Bible, John Bricker, Styles Bridges, Prescott Bush, John Marshall Butler, Harry Byrd, Francis Case, Dennis Chavez, Joseph Clark, Earle Clements, Tom Connally, Frank Church, Price Daniel, Everett Dirksen, Paul Douglas, Allen J. Ellender, Sr., J. W. Fulbright, Walter George, Barry Goldwater, Albert Gore, Theodore Francis Green, Vance Hartke, Carl Hayden, Thomas C. Hennlings, Jr., Lister Hill, Henry Jackson, Edwin Johnson, Olin Johnston, Estes Kefauver, Robert Kerr, William Knowland, Russell Long, Warren Magnuson, Mike Mansfield, Eugene McCarthy, Ernest W. McFarland, A. S. Mike Monroney, Wayne Morse, James Murray, Richard L. Neuberger, William Proxmire, A. Willis Robertson, Richard Russell, Leverett Saltonstall, George Smathers, Margaret Chase Smith, John Sparkman, John Stennis, Stuart Symington, Robert A. Taft, J. Strom Thurmond, Ralph Yarborough, and many others.
The series also includes correspondence with many members of the House of Representatives, including Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., Chester Bowles, Jack Brooks, Omar Burleson, Helen Gahagan Douglas, William Langer, Joe Kilgore, George Mahon, Maury Maverick, Wilbur Mills, Karl Mundt, Wright Patman, W. R. Poage, Ray Roberts, Olin “Tiger” Teague, Albert Thomas, Homer Thornberry, and James C. Wright.
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