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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 “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...

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Seperate Flat File Nelson Rockefeller, The Nixon Nominator

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of this collection is correspondence between Quirk and other organizers and members for the YR. These provide valuable insight into how the group was run and what they were doing. Much of it pertains to money management. There is also quite a bit of material circulated for the YRs and the Republican party, such as newspapers, pamphlets, informational flyers, etc. There are also several different iterations and revisions of the Young Republican National Federation and Texas...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection begins with a minute book ranging in dates from 1924-1931. In addition to minutes, the book also contains documents on the society’s founding and correspondence. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence, financial and business papers, the society newsletter (Alpha Chi Recorder), manuals, sponsor handbooks, constitution revisions, meeting minutes, recent conference T-shirts, audio cassettes, pins and pinning ribbon, a framed charter, and wood and metal printer’s...