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Article - Nola Smith {Hearle Gee}- April 26, 1970

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 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: During his 24 years in office, Senator Tower received thousands of letters from Texans and other citizens that revealed their concerns with the issues of the day: Communism, social welfare programs, Vietnam, environmental issues, women’s rights, foreign policy—and the price of wool in the Texas Hill Country and the closing of the local post office. By far the most correspondence is with constituents, but congressional colleagues, foreign dignitaries, government officials, representatives of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: During his 24 years in office, Senator Tower received thousands of letters from Texans and other citizens that revealed their concerns with the issues of the day: Communism, social welfare programs, Vietnam, environmental issues, women’s rights, foreign policy—and the price of wool in the Texas Hill Country and the closing of the local post office. By far the most correspondence is with constituents, but congressional colleagues, foreign dignitaries, government officials, representatives of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: During his 24 years in office, Senator Tower received thousands of letters from Texans and other citizens that revealed their concerns with the issues of the day: Communism, social welfare programs, Vietnam, environmental issues, women’s rights, foreign policy—and the price of wool in the Texas Hill Country and the closing of the local post office. By far the most correspondence is with constituents, but congressional colleagues, foreign dignitaries, government officials, representatives of...

Scope and Contents Committee materials remain in Washington as part of the permanent record of Congress. Consequently, there are relatively few files associated with committees and commissions on which Senator Tower served, and the papers in the files are generally copies. Materials concerning the Senate Armed Services Committee are located in the preceding series. Most files dealing with Senator Tower’s work on legislation and matters related to the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee are found among...

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....