White House Central Files (Johnson Administration). 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. White House Subject Files on Political Affairs

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White House Central Files (Johnson Administration). 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. White House Subject Files on Political Affairs

1963-1969

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This series contains material concerning political matters of national, state, and local interest. Included in the series are correspondence with various senators, congressmen, and political strategists such as Thomas Corcoran and Averell Harriman, as well as memorandums from President Lyndon B. Johnson's staff concerning political campaign strategy, political activities, and analyses of the 1964 and 1968 presidential campaigns and of the 1964, 1966 and 1968 congressional elections. These memorandums also contain plans for meetings between the President and various political groups, plans for the 1964 and 1968 Democratic National Conventions; platforms of both the Democratic and Republican parties for these elections; material on the seating of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at the 1964 Democratic National Convention; some reports on Democratic National Committee meetings; and information concerning fund raising and campaign finance, including plans for a White House conference on campaign finance to continue the work of the Kennedy administration's Commission on Campaign Costs. The series also contains materials related to the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and information from the Democratic National Committee on voter registration drives with an emphasis on registering African Americans, although materials related to the voting rights of African Americans is primarily located in the series "White House Subject Files on Human Rights, 1963-1969" (ARC Identifier 591577). The series also includes letters from the general public in support of or against potential vice presidential or presidential candidates Hubert Humphrey, Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Robert McNamara, Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, George Wallace and others. There are also letters from President Lyndon B. Johnson congratulating senators and congressmen on their elections and letters thanking individuals for their support. This series contains letters, memorandums, telegrams, press releases, messages, speech drafts, reports, clippings, invitations, lists, and publications.

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