Signed letter from Vice President Hubert Humphrey thanking Carl Albert for his efforts in directing the passage of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Bill of 1965.

Press release describing Carl Albert's appeal to 2,400 U.S. Mayors to prevent the defeat of President Kennedy's Reorganization Plan to create the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs.

Form letter written to U.S. Mayors to prevent the opposition of the creation of the Department of Urban Affairs and Housing.

Summary of remarks made during hearings before the House Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Committee of Government Operations of the Senate on the establishment of the Department of Urban Affairs and Housing.

In his State of the Union address, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a National Foundation on the Arts, but he didn’t mention a similar foundation for the humanities. S. 1483 was an administration bill introduced by Senator Claiborne Pell…

The administration bill and S. 316 were referred to the Subcommittee on Arts and Humanities, chaired by Pell, which held a joint hearing on February 23, 1965 with the Special Subcommittee on Labor of the House Committee on Education and Labor. As…

In previous years, legislation providing federal support for the arts had failed in the House, but on July 14, 1965, the House Education and Labor Committee reported H.R. 9460 which was similar to the bill the Senate had approved. Supporters of the…

Two days after the resolution passed, for the first time the House passed by a voice vote legislation providing federal support for the arts and humanities. The clearest indication of the level of support for H.R. 9460, however, came prior to the…

On January 6, 1965, Senator Edmund S. Muskie (D-ME) introduced S. 4, an administration-backed bill, and in this press release on the same day, declared that the purpose of the bill “is to encourage prevention of pollution as well as to attack the…

In his State of the Union address, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for an expanded conservation program as part of his vision of the Great Society, and on February 8, 1965, he delivered this Natural Beauty Message declaring that “Every major river…