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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...

Scope and Contents "Do You Lawmakers Expect To Return to Washnington When Your Term Expires" "Protocols Of The Learned Elders of Zion" "Human Events" [June 9, 1961] "The Little Red Hen - Sizzling Sixties Version" "The German News": Information Service with Additional Background [October 1961] Canco - "The American Achievement" [August 1961] "Next Stop the Moon" "Preserving Private Enterprise" "The Modern Freeholder" by Charles Meeks "How to Understand and Explain the Benefits of Our Free Economy" by Sidney J....

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...

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...

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: Few people know of John Tower’s early career as a radio disc jockey, but the country and western style lyrics that he wrote on the back of wire service reports while working at radio stations in either Beaumont or Taylor, Texas, can be found among the pre-Senate papers in this series. The papers, essentially maintained as received, generally fall into two chronological groups within the subseries, 1969-1979 and 1980-1984. Most correspondence between 1962 and 1979 was placed in a...

Scope and Contents Senator Tower’s aides and assistants often played key roles in enabling the senator to carry out the functions of his office. Although the work of aides and assistants is found throughout the papers, this series contains files that were clearly created or maintained by particular aides and staff members, including several of Tower’s administrative assistants in his Washington, D.C. office. The materials which concern politics, nominations, legislation, casework, projects and a broad range of...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The first five boxes in this subseries contain correspondence, memoranda, statements, and speeches, reports, a 1977 travel briefing book, hearings, bills, acts, amendments, press releases, telegrams, and clippings. Several legislative staff names appears throughout the files are Ron Smith, Jim Bayless, Carolyn Bacon, Win Skiles, and Gil Bray. The majority of the files deal with energy issues during the 1970s, especially as relate to oil and gas. Found here is report published in 1973 titles...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries includes typescripts and articles written by or attributed to Senator Tower and interviews that were published in national and Texas magazines, newspapers, and special interest publications. Occasionally correspondence accompanies the materials, and a few typescripts have editorial revisions, usually minor. A number of the publications are for conservative publication, such as New Guard, Forewarned, Battle...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries includes typescripts and articles written by or attributed to Senator Tower and interviews that were published in national and Texas magazines, newspapers, and special interest publications. Occasionally correspondence accompanies the materials, and a few typescripts have editorial revisions, usually minor. A number of the publications are for conservative publication, such as New Guard, Forewarned, Battle...