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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: 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 Collection: This series is comprised of awards, plaques, artifacts, books, political cartoons, scrapbooks and a multitude of other items that Senator Tower collected during his campaigns and his career in government service. A number of the items, especially many of the political cartoons, are on loan from the Tower family.The collection of art/prints includes political cartoons, portraits of the senator, maps, and Texas and Southwestern art. Among the works are an oil painting of...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This series is comprised of awards, plaques, artifacts, books, political cartoons, scrapbooks and a multitude of other items that Senator Tower collected during his campaigns and his career in government service. A number of the items, especially many of the political cartoons, are on loan from the Tower family.The collection of art/prints includes political cartoons, portraits of the senator, maps, and Texas and Southwestern art. Among the works are an oil painting of...

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Correspondence-Government Officials, Shipping Industry Background Information.

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: 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: 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: Speeches were found scattered throughout the papers in individual folders, in thick folders with labels such as "Speeches, 1963-1981," and in a separate subject series. This subseries now falls into two groups. The first(1961-1984) pulls together the first two categories, which are now arranged chronologically and individually refoldered and labeled by speech title or topic, event, and date. The earliest speech is a June 1961 address to the Young Republicans National Federation in which...

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Article on successful alumni of Beaumont High School including Senator Tower. Article titled "BHS Alumni Successful" by Richard Winter published in The Purple Press [Beaumont High School].