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Dirksen,
Everett McKinley (1896-1969), Papers
Form Letters, 1951-69 |
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 In order to reply to constituents, the Dirksen office created a library of responses arranged alphabetically by subject within each year. Having these online will give viewers a quick snapshot of the legislative workload and, in a sense, Dirksen's style of representation and constituent service. The folder numbers in the list below designate the folders of the Chicago Office File in which the originals are located.
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CO (9) |
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(2116-2165)
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Form Letters (1951-69). Introductory Note. Form letters expressing
Dirksen's views on various topics, apparently written by
Dirksen and other members of his Washington staff . Arranged
chronologically by year and alphabetically by subject within
each year. |
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| 2116-2118 |
Form Letters (n.d.). Subjects: Birthday Congratulations;
Patronage.
Form Letters (1951). Subjects: Reserve Policies; Vatican and
Universal Military Training.
Form Letters (1952). Subjects: Accident Prevention; Blind
Children; Chicago Rent; Compulsory Military Training; Controls;
Defense Production Act; Epileptics; Fair Trade; Federal Employees;
Federal Leave; Forand Bill; Foreign Aid; H.R. 5850; Immigration;
Impeachment; Indecent Literature; Internal Revenue Bureau Reform; Japanese Treaty; Johnson-Case Bill; Korea; McGuire Bill; Milk Industry; Moody-Dingell
Bill; Mutual Security; Parochial Schools; Preferential Primaries;
Productivity Wage Increase; Public Housing; Reorganization;
Rifle Practice; S. 2639; S. 2968; S. J. Res. 130; Saint Lawrence
Seaway; Social Security; Special Thanks; Steel; Synthetic Fuel
Plant; Tax, Waste, and Spending; Television Broadcast with
Senator Robert Kerr; Third Party; Tidelands; Universal
Military Training; Veterans; Western Union. |
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| 2119-2122 |
Form Letters (1953). Subjects: Administration; Alcoholic
Beverages on Military Posts; American Bar Association Amendment;
Bohlen, Charles H.; Bonded Alcoholic Beverages; Bricker;
Capitol Hill Club; Civil Aeronautics Transfer; Commodity Credit
Surpluses; Contractor Bill (S. 848); Controls; Co-ops; Draft
Extension; Equal Rights; Excess Profits Tax; Excise Tax on Appliances; Excise Tax;
Extension of Excess Profits; Fairdale Post Office; Federal
Construction Contracts Bill; Fifth Amendment; Foreign Aid; Fur Industry Relief;
General Tax Letter; Hawaii; Holder Post Office; Household
Tax Letter; Housing; Immigration; Irritation; Janesville Post
Office; Lyons, Thomas; Mason Bill; McCarran Act; McCarthy,
Joseph; Military Reduced Budget; Murray Dingle (H.R. 2510);
Neurological Disease and Muscular Dystrophy; New Tax Letter;
New Zealand Beef; Parcel Post; Postal Letter; Postal Rates;
Reciprocal Trade; Rent Controls; Rock River; Saint
Lawrence Seaway; School Lunch Program; Taft-Hartley; Taxes; Tax Proposal (Anti-);
Teacher's Pension; Tidelands; Trip Lease; Trowbridge Rural
Route Mail; Twenty-Five Percent Tax Limit; Unemployment
Compensation; United Nations and Red China; Veterans Administration; White, Harry Dexter. |
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CO (10) |
| 2123-2124 |
Form Letters (1954). Subjects: Bicycles; Bricker; Coffee;
Commemorative Stamp for Mary; Consolidation of Rural Routes;
Dairy Support; Excise Tax; Farm Program; Federal Construction
Act; Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Flourspar; General Excise
Tax; Manufacturers' Excise Tax; Mason Bill; McCarthy; McCarthy
Foreign Aid Issue; McCarthy-Stevens; National Parks; Pleasant
Mound Post Office; Postage-First Class; Postal and Civil
Service; Postal and Federal Pay Increase; Saint Lawrence
Seaway; Saudi Arabia; Screw Bolt Fasteners; Social Security; Social Security Revised;
Taft-Hartley; Tariff Revision; Tax Exemptions; Time Lag Bill;
S. 3111. |
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| 2125 |
Form Letters (1955). Subjects: Miscellaneous Legislation; Opposition to Various Bills. |
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| 2126-2128 |
Form Letters (1956). Subjects: Alcoholic Beverages on Air
Planes; Amusement Tax; Atlantic Exploratory Convention; Auto
Franchise; Bradley Commission Report; Bricker Aamendment;
Carlson Amendment; Civil Rights; Davis-Bacon Amendment;
Defense Appropriations; Dental Research; Depressed Areas;
D 'Ewart Nomination; Echo Park Dam; Farm; Federal Aid to Education; Federal Aid to Public Schools; Federal
Housing; Foreign Aid; Gasoline Tax; Government Competition
with Private Enterprise; Highway Construction Bill; Hoffman, Paul; Hoover
Commission; Humane Slaughter; Hungary; Israel; Lake Michigan
Water Diversion; Langer Bill; Makarios, Archbishop; Marion,
Illinois, Veterans Hospital; Miscellaneous Legislation;
Narcotics; Natural Gas; Organization for Trade Cooperation;
Parcel Post; Postal Matters; Postal Retirement; Prayer for
Peace; Railroad Retirement; Robinson-Patman Act; S. 1269;
S. 2875; Saudi Arabia; School Aid (Anti-); Social Security Taxes; Tax Reduction; Transportation; Transportation Tax; Truck Fee;
Veterans; War Veterans Pension Security Bill; Witchita Wildlife Refuge. |
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| 2129 |
Form Letters (1957). Subjects: Douglas, Paul. |
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| 2130-2133 |
Form Letters (1959). Subjects: Albatross Problem; Alcoholic
Beverage Advertising Petitions; Alma Postmastership in Behalf
of John Barksdale; Alternate Candidate Naval Reserve Program;
Berlin Budget; Cache River Drainage District; California
Irrigation; Congressional and Presidential Elections; Des
Plaines; Des Plaines Wildlife Area; Development Loan fund;
Divested Stock; Dividend Tax; Draft; Edinburg Rural Service;
Fair Trade; Farm; Fellowship Congratulations; Financing of
Federal Highway Program; Forand Bill; Foreign Aid ; G.I. Bill;
Gasoline Tax; General Veterans Letter; Hawaiian Statehood;
Indiana Dunes; Inflation; Joliet Arsenal Land; Kennedy-Erwin
Bill; Kruschchev Visit; Labor; Louisville, Illinois, Rural
Carrier Vacancy; McCellan Labor Bill; Minimum Wage; Minimum Wage Pro; Murray-Metcalf Bill; New Boston Rural Service; New Citizens; New
Highway; Non-Resident Taxation; Oil Depletion; O'Kelly Program
(Irish President); Pre-Price; Principal Candidate Naval Reserve
Program; Public Law 199; Questionnaire; Radio and Television;
Railroad Retirements; Robinson-Patman; Rock Island Arsenal;
Scholarship; School Lunch Program; S. 11; Senate Rule 22;
Shelbyville Dam; Simpson-Keough bill; Smith Act; Standard Time; |
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CO (11) |
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Star Route, Batchtown to Winfield, Missouri; Star Route,
Burlington, Iowa; Tawney, James A.; Tax Insurance Companies;
Tax Non-Resident Corporations; Tax Reduction; Telephone Tax;
Unemployment Compensation; Veterans Committee; Veterans
Pensions; Veterans of World War I; Women in Reserves; Yearbook. |
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| 2134-2137 |
Form Letters (1960). Subjects: Aid to Education; American
War Claims; Bingo; Boggs Bill; Cabaret Tax; Civil Rights;
Common Situs Picketing; Congo; Connally Amendment; Delegates
and Alternates; Dividend Tax; Eastern Time Zone; Electoral
College; Excise Tax on Telephones; Farm; Federal Aid to
Education; Federal Aviation Administration; Federal Water
Pollution Bill; Forand Bill; Foreign Policy; Frear Amendment
to H. R. 5547; Freight Car; Gasoline Tax Increase; H.R. 5054;
H.R. 7123; H.R. 11045; H.R. 11318; H.R. 12595; Health Insurance;
Illinois-Missouri Taxation; Illinois Recount; Immigration;
Keating, Charles H.; Kinzua Dam; Labor Legislation; Loyalty
Oath; Loyalty Oath and Connally Combination; Medical Qualification
for Civilian Pilots; Medicare; Minimum Wage; Murray-Metcalf;
Mutual Security; National Science Foundation Fellowship
Program; Nurse's Training; Obscene Materials Through Mail;
Optometry; Pay Raise (postal and federal); Postal Pay Raise;
Postal Rates; Private Schools; Radio and Television Programs;
Radio Station WLS; Railroad; Railroad Passenger Train Service;
Route 64; Route 80; S. 3548; S. 3570; Sandoval Rural Mail
Carrier; Scholarship Awards; Sea Conventions; Secondary
Boycotts; Senate Internal Security Committee; Simpson-Keough
Bill; Situs Picketing; Social Security; Social Security for
Doctors; Social Security Earnings Limitation; Standard Time;
Status Letter; Summit Conference; Vermilion River Bridge;
Veterans Pension; Vivisection; Wheat; Wilderness Bill; Wolf
Creek Reservoir. |
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| 2138-2142 |
Form Letters (1961) Subjects: Academies; Agriculture Committee;
Alien Property; Animals in Medical Research Experiments; Ballot;
Berlin; Billboards; Birch Society; Bricker Amendment; Budget and
Economy; Cape Canaveral; Capital Gains Tax; Catholic and Public
Schools; Communist Party; Congress; Connally Amendment; Cropland
Adjustment Bill; Cuba; Currie, Lauchlin B.; Depressed
Areas; Disarmament; Disarmament Agency; Dividend Taxes; Drug and Patent Legislation;
Eastern Orthodoxy; Education, Federal Aid; Election Results;
Electoral College; Entertainment Allowances; Farm Bill;
Foreign Aid; Foreign Trade Competition; Freedom Academy;
Fulbright Memo; G.I. Bill of Rights; Gasoline Tax; General
Motors; Glen Park; Hearing Examiners; Highways; House Committee
on Un-American Activities; Illinois; Inflation; Interior
Committee; Interstate Commerce Act; Kaskaskia Project;
Katanga; Kennedy Administration; Kennedy, Robert; Labor and
Public Welfare Committee; Laos; Leadership Meetings; Loyalty
Oath; Loyola; Medicare; Migratory Labor Legislation; Milk;
Minimum Wage; Miscellaneous; Miscellaneous 2; Mundt Labor Bill; Mutuals and
Savings; National Defense Education Act; National School
Lunch Program; Nippersink Creek; Nuclear Test; Oakley Reservoir
Obscene Literature; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Orphan Adoption Law; Paar, Jack; Piggyback; |
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Post Office; Post Office and Civil Service Committee;
Postal Rates; Railroads; Red Bud, Illinois; Reorganization
Plan No. 5 (National Labor Relations Board); Reserves;
Rule 22; Rural Electrification Administration; Satellite
Communications; Situs Picketing; Small Business Tax; Social
Security; Supreme Court Justices; Tax Legislation; Telephone
Tax; Television Stations; Truck Tax; United Nations; UNESCO;
Veterans Legislation; Vivisection; Warren, Earl; Water
Pollution; Wilderness Bill; Withholding Tax; Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship; Youth Conservation Corps.; Youth Peace Corps;
Yugoslavia. |
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| 2143-2146 |
Form Letters (1962) Subjects: Academies; Advertising;
Barium Carbonate; Berlin Mobilization; Boat Tax; Capitol
Garage; Chicago and North Western Telegraphers; Chinese
Refugees Program; Chiropractors; Club Dues; Communist Propaganda; Co-ops; Cuba; Davis-
Bacon Act; Daytime Broadcasters; Defense Supply Agency;
Diesel Fuel Tax; Drug Bills; Dupont; Education; Equal Pay;"Ev and Charlie Show"; Executive Power; Farm Bill; Federal
Communications Commission; Food Supplement; Foreign Aid
Amendment; Foreign Earnings; Foreign Excess Property; G.I.
Life Iinsurance; Glen Park; Goldberg, Arthur; Greek letter;
Herlong-Baker Bills; Indiana Dunes; Judicial Referendum;
Katanga; Liquor; Loyola University; McClellan Bill; Medicare;
Migratory Labor; Military; Miscellaneous; Mutual Banks;
Nuclear
Testing; Oil Industry; Packers and Stockyards Act;
Postal Pay Raise; Postal Rates; Prairie National Park;
Prayer in School; Quality Stabilization Act; Railroad
Mergers; Railroad Retirement Legislation; Red China; Reserves;
Retired Teachers; Revenue Bill; Rostow; Sheet Glass; Small
Business; Social Security; State Department; Steel; Tariff;
Tax Reform Bill; Tax Relief Bill; Thanks; Transportation;
Tshombe, Moise; U.N. Bonds; UNESCO Convention; Urban Affairs;
Veterans' Children Scholarship Act; Wheat; Wiretapping;Withholding; Youth Conservation Corps. |
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| 2147-2148 |
Form Letters (1963). Subjects: Alcoholic Beverage Advertising;
Animal Experiments; Budget and Taxes; Byrd Resolution;
Cheating Congressman; Civil Rights; Cuba; Dividend Taxes;
Electoral College; Excise Tax on Musical Instruments; Expense
Account; Farm; Federal Aid to Education; Federal Pay; Financial
Disclosure; Firearms; Foreign Aid; Highways; Illinois Glove
Company; Katanga; Krebiozen; Mass Transit; Medicare; Migratory
Labor; Military Pay; National Medication Board; Newspaper
Distributors Association of Chicago; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty;
Obscene Literature; Packaging; Prayer Amendment; Railroad
Mergers; Railroad Strike; Revenue Act of 1963; S. 684;
S. 1061 and S. 1062; S. 2068; State; State Route 53; Supreme
Court; Tax Cut; Tax Dividend; Tito's Visit; Transportation;
Wheat; Work Measurement. |
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CO (13) |
| 2149-2151 |
Form Letters (1964). Subjects: Beef Imports; Capital
Gains and Dividends; Charitable Deductions; Civil Rights;
Cloture; Copyrighted Material; Cyprus; Data Processing
Center; Davis-Bacon Fringe Benefits Act; Discharge Petition;
Dividends; Electronics; Excise Taxes; Expense Account; Farm;
Federal Tax Lien Amendment; Filibuster; Firearms; God in
Government; Goldwater for President; H.R. 8009; McCarran-
Walter Act; McCarthy Amendment; Medical Care; Nomination;
Obscene Literature; Pay Raise; Political; Prayer Amendment;
Quality Stabilization; Reapportionment; Referendum; Reserve;
Reserve Officers' Training Corps Vitalization Act; Revenue
Act of 1963; Rural Electrification Administration; School
Lunches; Social Security; Tax Legislation; Veterans. |
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| 2152-2154 |
Form Letters (1965). Subjects: Animal Experiments; Armed
Services Reserve; "Baby"; Billboard; Certified Public
Accountants; Chicago Courthouse; Coin Bill; Communist Registration; Consular Treaty; Copyright; County Chairman; Cyprus;
Disarmament Agency Appropriations; Education; Excise Tax; Farm Bill;
Farm Program; Firearms Bill; Foreign Aid; Foreign Cement;
Fortas, Abe; Fraternities; Fulton Floodwall; Glenarm Mail
Route; Indian Grave Drainage District; Inflation; Interstate
Route 53; John Birch Society; Labor Laws; McCarran, Walter;
Medicare; Military Pay Raise; Minimum Wage; Miscellaneous;
Morrisey; Musicians' Union ; Nasser, Gamel; National Merit
Scholarship; National Science Foundation; Otepka, Otto;
Packaging and Labeling; Planning for Peace Resolution;
Postal Bills; Reapportionment; Rural Mail Carriers; S. 1098;
Social Security; Soil Conservation; Sonic Booms; Star Senior
Nominee; State Bill; Sunday Voting; Taft-Hartley; Tax Bills;
Taylor Ridge, Illinois, Rural Mail Carrier; Tourist Tax;
Tuition; Vending Machine; Veteran Compensation ; Veterans
Hospitals; Voting Rights Act; Water Conservation; Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship; Youth Temperance Week; Zip Code. |
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| 2155-2156 |
Form Letters (1966). Subjects: Animal Experimentation;
Civil Rights; Demonstration Cities Act; Douglas, Paul;
Education; Everglades; Excise Tax; Firearms; Food and Drug
Administration; Grand Canyon; Greek Letter; H.R. 10457;
Hart Bill; Inflation; Investment Credit; Kyles, Gladys;
Marble Gorge and Bridge Canyon Dams; Medical Restraint;
Military Medicare; Minimum Wage; Miscellaneous; National
Defense Education Act; Obscene Literature; Parcel Post;
Prouty Bill; Prayer; Reapportionment; Rhodesia; Riots; Rural Electric Cooperatives; School Lunch; Situs
Picketing; Social Security; Supreme Court; Taft-Hartley;
Tax Bill; Treaties; Tuition; Unemployment Compensation;
Vietnam; Vitamins; Water Pollution; West Front of Capitol;
Youth Temperance. |
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| 2157-2160 |
Form Letters (1967). Subject: Air Pollution; Album, "Gallant
Men"; Alcoholic Beverage Advertising; Animal Welfare; Budget;
Campaign Funds; Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad;
Chiropratic; Citizenship; Civil Rights; Classical Language;
Compulsory Arbitration; Congo; Constitutional Convention;
Consular Treaty; Copyright; Crime; Dodd, Thomas; Draft;
Electronics; Federal Communications Commission; Firearms;
George Rogers Clark Recreation Way; Get Well; Golden Eagle
Post Office; Greece; Head Start Program; Holidays; Import;
Inflation; Interstate Commerce Commission; Investments;
Israel; Judicial Review; Marshall, Thurgood ; McHugh; McIntire;
Meat Inspection; Medical Restraint; Military Museum; Military
Retirement; Minimum Wage; Miscellaneous (Illinois); Miscellaneous
(out of state); Office of Economic Opportunity; Oil Pollution;
Panama Canal; Patent Reform; Peace Corps; Peace Demonstrations;
Podiatry; Postcard; Postal Pay; Postal Rate Increase; Powell,
Adam Clayton; Presidential Candidate; Prisoners of War;
Railroad Hours; Railroad Merger; Railroad Retirement;
Redwood Park; Rent Subsidy; Republican State of the Union;
Rhodesia; Riots ; Robinson-Patman Act; Rural Electrification
Administration; S. 109; Schiller Park; Selective Service;
Situs Picketing; Social Security; Sonic Boom; Space; State
of the Union; Supreme Court; Taxes; Trade With Communists;
Transportation Service Contract Act of 1965; Truck and
Rail Strike; Tuition Tax Credit; Veterans' Pension; Vietnam;
Warrenville, Illinois, School; West Chicago High School;
Whiskey Barrel. |
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| 2161-2163 |
Form Letters (1968). Subjects: Advertising Tax; Allerton Park; Animal Experimentation; Biafra; Birthday; Budget; Business and Professional
Women's Stamp; Census; Citizenship; Civil Rights; Communists
in Defense Plant; Copper; Crane Lake; Crime and Firearms;
Czech. Commemorative Stamp; Daylight Savings Time; Democrat
Convention; Dirksen for President; Electoral College; Elementary
and Secondary Education Act; Federal Savings Institution;
Firearms; Food Supplement; Fortas, Abe; Franchise; Goodard,
James L.; Gold; Goodell Bill; H. R. 2158; Head
Start Program; Highway; Holiday; Hunger; Import Quotas;
Industrial Revenue Bonds; Interstate Taxation; Irish Immigration; Iron and Steel; Italian Refugees; Japanese Beetle;
Kerner Report; March on Washington; Military Expenditures;
Miscellaneous; Mutual Funds; Negative income Tax; Nonpro-liferati:on Treaty; Oakley Dam; Occupational Safety and
Health Act; Open Housing; Panama Canal; Patoka Service
Center; Pay Increase; Post Office Service; Postal Workers;
Poverty; Prayer; Railroad Retirement; Redwood Park; Republican
Presidential Candidate; S. 2202 and S. Res. 152; School
District Funds; Selective Service; Shawneetown, Illinois; Single-Person Tax Reform; Small Corporation Tax Proposal; Social Ssecurity;
Spending; Subversive Activities Control Board; Supreme Court; Taxes; Travel Tax; Veterans; Vietnam; Washington Television
Program; Water and Air Pollution. |
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| 2164-2165 |
Form Letters (1969). Subjects: Agnew Dresses; Air Pollution;
Air Traffic Control; Allerton Park; Anti-ballistic Missile;
Bank Holding Company; California Zephyr; Chemical and
Biological Warfare; Cigarette Advertising; College Benefit
System of America; Desegregation Guidelines; Draft System;
Everglades; Farm; Farm Taxes; Greece; Gun Control; Illinois
Income Tax; Inflation; Kennedy, Robert - Gravesite; Knowles
Nomination; Labor; Licensed Practical Nurses Association;
Longshoremen's Strike; Lusk Creek; Medicare and Medicaid;
MIRV; Miscellaneous, Illinois; Municipal Bonds; Mutual
Funds; National Defense Education Act; National Science
Foundation; Oakley Dam and Reservoir Project; Oil Depletion;
Otepka, Otto; Pay Raise; Pay Television; Pornographic
Literature; Shoe Imports; Social Security; Surtax; Taxexempt
Municipal Bonds; Tax Reform; Trade; Vietnam; Voting
Rights. |
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