White House Central Files (Eisenhower Administration). 1953 - 1961. Bulk Mail Files

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White House Central Files (Eisenhower Administration). 1953 - 1961. Bulk Mail Files

1953-1961

This series of the White House Central Files consists of correspondence including letters, telegrams, greeting cards, and postcards from the general public commenting on various issues which arose during the Eisenhower administration. The subseries subject headings are: Sherman Adams; Alcoholic Beverages at 1957 Inaugural Ball; Birth Control; Birthday Greetings; Bricker Amendment; Brownell-Truman and Harry Dexter White 1953; Reducing Budget and Reducing Taxes 1957; President's Speech on the Budget, 1957; 1956 Campaign Referred to Republican National Committee (Campaigns); Carbons of letters addressed to other than the president, 1960; Christmas Greetings (Christmas 1959 & 1960); Civil Rights Bill to Establish a Commission; Requests for Special Session of Congress, 1958; Removal of Edward J. Corsi; Con John Foster Dulles; Death of Arthur Eisenhower; Veto of 1956 Farm Bill; Flag Suggestions; Formosa; Petitions and Scrolls re: William Girard Case; Letters Protesting Intervention in Indochina, 1954; Copies of Telegrams Protesting Proposed Sanctions by U.N., 1957 (Israel); Mail Service Stoppage on 4/13/57; Senator Joseph R. McCarthy 1953-1957; Clinton Melton's Murder in Mississippi; Middle East, 1958; Minimum Wage Bill, 1955; Open Letters to the President by Frank Kirkpatrick on U.S. Missile Program; Newport, Rhode Island; Richard Nixon, 1956; Pro and Con Nixon Speech for Republican Party;1954 Postal Pay Bill and 1954 Federal Pay Bill; 1958 Postal Pay Bill; Government Employee Pay Raise, 1960; Prayer for Peace and Peace Efforts at Geneva in 1955; Peace Research Society; Quemoy and Far East, 1958; Robert Eastman's Plan to End the Recession, 1958; Admiral H. G. Rickover; Russian Satellites (artificial satellites); Little Rock School and Governor Faubus' Action; Segregation and Integration; Acknowledged Letters re: Little Rock School; Supreme Court Ruling on Segregation; Little Rock and Other Schools: Segregation; Shooting in House of Representatives, 1954; Requests for Space Reports, Sent but not Acknowledged; President's Speech November 7 and November 13, 1957; President's Speeding Incident; Bulk Mail Reacting to President Eisenhower's Stand on the Paris Summit Meeting, May 15-18, 1960; Support Letters; Supreme Court Decision on Communists and FBI Files; Secretary Harold E. Talbott, Jr.; Proposed California Tax on Schools, 1958; Tide Lands Oil Bill, 1953; Letters Requesting that Administrator of the Veterans Administration be Raised to Cabinet Rank; White House Office Budget, 1960; Squirrels on White House Lawn; President's Appearance Before World Council of Churches.

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