Handwritten letter from a constituent in Brownsboro, Texas to Rep. John Dowdy on the topic of reforming Social Security disability penions with a questionnaire and a reply from Dowdy; In his letter, the constituent explains his current financial…

Letter from a constituent in Brownwood, Texas to Rep. O. C. Fisher on the Medicare bill, the Elderly Bill, Social Security, and the Voting Rights Bill; The constituents requests that Fisher vote against the Voting Rights Bill and the Medicare Bill,…

Letter by Carol Tucker Foreman, Director of Research and Publications for the DNC, with an enclosure outlining talking points for debates on the Great Society Legislation.

Letter from Congressman Donald Rumsfeld to Congressman Bob Dole offering excerpts from freedom of information speech he made recently.

This letter is part of a series of correspondence between New Haven Mayor Richard C. Lee and Congressman Robert Giaimo, in which Lee and Giaimo discuss appropriations for the Demonstration Cities Program. These letters highlight the importance of…

As the events of the Selma to Montgomery marches were unfolding, concerned constituents wrote to Senator Williams urging him to vote for passage of the Voting Rights bill and to end the violent actions occurring in Alabama.

The images of attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, roused the American public. Many constituents wrote to Senator Williams expressing their concerns over the attacks and urged him and other Members of Congress to stop the police…

Senator Williams was often quoted as saying that he believed in giving every citizen the right to vote regardless of race; however, he was against the federal government interfering with state and local elections.

Although many constituents lauded Senator Williams for his work on the "Clean Elections" amendment to the Voting Rights Act, not everyone was in favor of passage of the bill as a whole and found it to be unconstitutional.

Many constituents wrote to Senator Williams expressing their concerns with the Voting Rights bill. While many were for the passage of the bill to ensure equal voting rights to all American citizens and end discriminatory election practices, others…