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Dirksen, Everett McKinley (1896-1969).
Papers
Notebooks, 1932-69
4 Linear Shelf Feet
236 folders |
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 The
Notebooks, numbering over 12,500 pages, contain outlines
and texts
of remarks, reference materials, and other documents collected
by Dirksen
and kept in a set of personal notebooks. According to his staff
and family,
Dirksen referred to these records frequently in composing speeches,
preparing
radio and television programs for constituents, and developing
his thinking
on issues.
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For
the most part, the Notebooks consist of speech outlines of
varying
detail. Many are preliminary drafts of remarks that may be
found in more
complete form in the Remarks and Releases file. There are numberous
remarks,
however, that have been preserved only in the Notebook series,
particularly
those prepared before 1952. |
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Topic
coverage varies widely from campaigns and politics to legislation
and foreign policy. Notebook Sixteen, for example, contains
Dirksen's trip
diary documenting impressions gained during his 1945 world
trip. |
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The
Notebooks are arranged in two major divisions. The Notebook
Documents section (f. 1-25) contains material that was filed
with the
Notebooks but not actually stored in ring binders. Much of
this information
was completely unsorted, and the processing staff arranged
it in chronological
order. |
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The
numbered Notebook series (f . 26-236) comprises the bulk of
the
record group. Apparently, Dirksen did not keep the notebooks
in a particular
order, nor were the individual contents organized in a systematic
fashion.
Processors arranged the notebooks in chronological order by
the earliest
date in a notebook and assigned each an arbitrary number to
distinquish it
from the others. In order to preserve the notebooks as Dirksen
collected
and used them, the contents were not rearranged despite the
lack of organization.
A detailed finding aid listing each item in every notebook
attempts to
compensate for this weakness in organization. |
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The
Notebooks provide a unique opportunity to explore Dirksen's
thoughts
and actions. Of all the collection's record groups, this series
is most
directly Dirksen's own creation. The early documents also compensate
partially
for the loss of Dirksen's House of Representatives records
in 1949. |
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| Index to the two major
divisions of the Notebook documents:
Section (f. 1-25) - material that was filed with the
Notebooks but not actually stored in ring binders
f. 1-4: Notebook
Documents (no date), 177 pages
f. 5-8: Notebook Documents (1932-50), 170 pages
f. 5-8 continued:
Notebook Documents (1932-50), 170 pages
f. 9-12: Notebook Documents (1951-55), 191 pages
f. 9-12 continued:
Notebook Documents (1951-55), 191 pages
f. 13-15: Notebook Documents (1956-59), 171 pages
f. 13-15 continued:
Notebook Documents (1956-59), 171 pages
f. 16-18: Notebook Documents (1960-62), 155 pages
f. 16-18 continued:
Notebook Documents (1960-62), 155 pages
f. 19-25: Notebook Documents (1963-69), 260 pages
f. 19-25 continued:
Notebook Documents (1963-69), 260 pages
f. 25a - 25b: Notebook Documents, "A Senator's Notebook" (1968-69),
73 pages
Section f. 26-236 - the numbered series comprised
of the record group
f. 26: Notebook
One (no date), 97 pages
f. 26a: Notebook One-A (1937-39), 447 pages
f. 26a continued:
Notebook One-A (1937-39), 447 pages
f. 26b: Notebook One-B (1937-41), 377 pages
f. 26b continued:
Notebook One-B (1937-41), 377 pages
f. 27-30: Notebook Two (1939-41), 237 pages
f. 31-33: Notebook
Three (1940-42), 212 pages
f. 34-35: Notebook Four (1940-51), 137 pages
f. 36-39: Notebook Five (1941, 1945), 192 pages
f. 40-42: Notebook
Six (1941-49), 106 pages
f. 43-45: Notebook Seven (1942-43), 190 pages
f. 46-47: Notebook
Eight (1942-43), 145 pages
f. 48-50: Notebook Nine (1943-44), 186 pages
f. 51-54: Notebook Ten (1943-44), 234 pages
f. 51-54 continued:
Notebook Ten (1943-44), 234 pages
f. 55: Notebook Eleven (1943-44), 43 pages
f. 56-58: Notebook Twelve (1943-45), 153 pages
f. 56-58 continued:
Notebook Twelve (1943-45), 153 pages
f. 59-61: Notebook Thirteen (1943, 1946), 138 pages
f. 62-63: Notebook Fourteen (1943-48), 122 pages
f. 64-65: Notebook Fifteen (1944-46), 71 pages
f. 66-69: Notebook
Sixteen (1945), 258 pages
f. 70-71: Notebook Seventeen (1945), 83 pages
f. 72: Notebook Eighteen (1945), 75 pages
f. 73: Notebook Nineteen (1945), 48 pages
f. 74-75: Notebook Twenty (1945-46), 116 pages
f. 76: Notebook
Twenty-One (1945-48), 55 pages
f. 77-78: Notebook Twenty-Two (ca. 1946-47), 151 pages
f. 79-80: Notebook Twenty-Three (1946-47), 106 pages
f. 81-82: Notebook Twenty-Four (1946-47), 86 pages
f. 83-86: Notebook
Twenty-Five (1947), 162 pages
f. 87-89: Notebook Twenty-Six (1947), 160 pages
f. 90-91: Notebook Twenty-Seven (1947), 72 pages
f. 92-93: Notebook Twenty-Eight (1947-48), 64 pages
f. 94: Notebook
Twenty-Nine (1947-49), 49 pages
f. 94a-94d: Notebook Twenty-Nine- A (1948-51), 152 pages
f. 95-100: Notebook Thirty (1949-51), 283 pages
f. 95-100 continued:
Notebook Thirty (1949-51), 283 pages
f. 95-100 continued:
Notebook Thirty (1949-51), 283 pages
f. 101-106: Notebook Thirty-One (1949-51), 335 pages
f. 101-106 continued:
Notebook Thirty-One (1949-51), 335 pages
f. 107-111: Notebook Thirty-Two (1949-52), 244 pages
f. 107-111 continued:
Notebook Thirty-Two (1949-52), 244 pages
f. 112-119: Notebook Thirty-Three (1949-52), 370 pages
f. 112-119 continued:
Notebook Thirty-Three (1949-52), 370 pages
f. 120-125: Notebook Thirty-Four (1949-52), 387 pages
f. 120-125 continued:
Notebook Thirty-Four (1949-52), 387 pages
f. 120-125 continued:
Notebook Thirty-Four (1949-52), 387 pages
f. 126-130: Notebook Thirty-Five (1949-56), 343 pages
f. 126-130 continued:
Notebook Thirty-Five (1949-56), 343 pages
f. 126-130 continued:
Notebook Thirty-Five (1949-56), 343 pages
f. 131-136: Notebook Thirty-Six (1949-56), 256 pages
f. 131-136 continued:
Notebook Thirty-Six (1949-56), 256 pages
f. 137-143: Notebook Thirty-Seven (1949-58), 330 pages
f. 137-143 continued:
Notebook Thirty-Seven (1949-58), 330 pages
f. 144-147: Notebook Thirty-Eight (1949-62), 175 pages
f. 144-147 continued:
Notebook Thirty-Eight (1949-62), 175 pages
f. 148-151: Notebook Thirty-Nine (1949-62), 171 pages
f. 148-151 continued:
Notebook Thirty-Nine (1949-62), 171 pages
f. 152-156: Notebook Forty (1950-59), 208 pages
f. 157-161: Notebook
Forty-One (1950-62), 241 pages
f. 157-161 continued:
Notebook Forty-One (1950-62), 241 pages
f. 162-166: Notebook Forty-Two (1950-65), 199 pages
f. 162-166 continued:
Notebook Forty-Two (1950-65), 199 pages
f. 167-170: Notebook Forty-Three (1950-63), 163 pages
f. 171-177: Notebook Forty-Four (1952-61), 335 pages
f. 171-177 continued:
Notebook Forty-Four (1952-61), 335 pages
f. 171-177 continued:
Notebook Forty-Four (1952-61), 335 pages
f. 178-180: Notebook Forty-Five (1952-62), 129 pages
f. 181-184: Notebook
Forty-Six (1953-56), 273 pages
f. 181-184 continued:
Notebook Forty-Six (1953-56), 273 pages
f. 185-187: Notebook Forty-Seven (1958-59), 127 pages
f. 188-190: Notebook Forty-Eight (1961-62), 74 pages
f. 191-193: Notebook
Forty-Nine (1961-64), 166 pages
f. 194-197: Notebook Fifty (1961-67), 183 pages
f. 194-197 continued:
Notebook Fifty (1961-67), 183 pages
f. 198-201: Notebook Fifty-One (1962-66), 175 pages
f. 198-201 continued:
Notebook Fifty-One (1962-66), 175 pages
f. 202-204: Notebook Fifty-Two (1963-64), 120 pages
f. 205-207: Notebook Fifty-Three (1964-65), 165 pages
f. 205-207 continued:
Notebook Fifty-Three (1964-65), 165 pages
f. 208-210: Notebook Fifty-Four (1965), 120 pages
f. 211-213: Notebook
Fifty-Five (1965-66), 126 pages
f. 214-216: Notebook Fifty-Six (1965-67), 95 pages
f. 214-216 continued:
Notebook Fifty-Six (1965-67), 95 pages
f. 217-220: Notebook Fifty-Seven (1965-68), 229 pages
f. 217-220 continued:
Notebook Fifty-Seven (1965-68), 229 pages
f. 221-225: Notebook Fifty-Eight (1965-68), 148 pages
f. 226-229: Notebook
Fifty-Nine (1965-69), 181 pages
f. 230-232: Notebook
Sixty (ca. 1968), 126 pages
f. 233-236: Notebook Sixty-One (1968-69), 164 pages
* A special thanks to Irfan Asrar of IntellaDOC Document
Solutions for his assistance on the PDF documents. |
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