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Scope and Contents From the Series: Senator Tower maintained a strong interest in defense matters throughout his Senate career, serving on the Joint Committee on Defense Production (1963-1977) and the Senate Armed Services Committee (1965-1985). He was chair of the latter from November 1980 until his retirement from the Senate in early 1985. Official committee materials remain in Washington, D.C., as part of the record of the committee; consequently Armed Services Committee materials are limited and most are copies. Defense...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The “Campaign/Political Series” of the John Tower Papers is a rich source for documenting Congressional campaigns of the late twentieth century. Senator Tower started his campaign career in the early 1960s with a personal effort and a small campaign staff that operated out of the Republican Party Headquarters in Houston. His later campaigns were increasingly sophisticated and well-organized, with professional campaign staff and paid consultants. Because the files span 20 years, they...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Tower papers, when received at Southwestern University, contained two large boxes labeled “General Files” that held folders related to the senator’s office administration, conferences, and a few other topics. The remaining items in this series are miscellaneous files and microfilm that were found scattered throughout the papers.The first folders in Box 1 contain biographical information about Senator Tower including photocopies of photographs from his high school yearbook....

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Tower papers, when received at Southwestern University, contained two large boxes labeled “General Files” that held folders related to the senator’s office administration, conferences, and a few other topics. The remaining items in this series are miscellaneous files and microfilm that were found scattered throughout the papers.The first folders in Box 1 contain biographical information about Senator Tower including photocopies of photographs from his high school yearbook....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: These miscellaneous files, generally related to the Senator's office and staff, contained biographical information, letters of thanks regarding gifts of art/prints, books, booklets/brochures, and other objects to Tower by colleagues, constituents, publishers and foreign dignitaries. The biographical files include photocopies of photographs from Tower's high school yearbook. Also found in this group are files such as clippings (one folder containes clippings related to the Senator's...

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