Herman E. Talmadge Collection, Subgroup C,
V. Administration, 1957-1970
This series consists of those activities that are not directly associated with "legislating" or providing constituent services but are nevertheless part of the routine of every officeholder. Also included are visitor cards, guest books, the Senator's appointment books, telephone records, and White House tour requests. These files include correspondence between Georgia constituents and Senator Talmadge with some newsclippings and printed materials also included. The Administration office was responsible for answering constituent mail until 1970, when it became the responsibility of the Press office. Items of interest are letters concerning the desegregation of the University of Mississippi in 1962; the civil action suit between Ivan Allen, Jr., Mayor of Atlanta, and Rev. Robert Hunter, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1967; Vietnam; reaction to the Gulf of Tonkin and Mansfield Resolutions in 1967; the Pueblo incident; and the Whitten Amendment of 1969 which proposed the freedom of choice as an acceptable desegregation plan.
Herman E. Talmadge Collection, Subgroup C,
II. Press Office files, 1970-1980
The Press Office files include constituent correspondence, grant information, speeches, working files, legislative files, radio and television scripts, news releases, newsletters mailed to Georgia constituents, columns written by Talmadge, and newspaper clippings. The majority of the materials date from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Constituent correspondence contains information on pending legislation and other issues of local or national concern. Topics include the Vietnam Conflict, the Watergate investigation, and the ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty. The constituent correspondence appears as a topical heading in each year of the press series from 1980 moving backwards through time to 1970 when this office first assumed responsibility for answering constituent letters. SEE ALSO more consitituent letters in Series IX Flexy's below.
Herman E. Talmadge Collection, Subgroup C,
Series IX FLEXYs Series
This series includes hard copies of issue mail submitted to Senator Herman Talmadge by his constituents from 1968-1980. The terms FLEXYs applied to these letters refers to the correspondence management system the office used to track letters and responses. Topics of interest include tax reform, Vietnam, school desegregation, busing, gun control, social services and the Panama Canal Treaty.
Herman E. Talmadge Collection, Subgroup C,
Series III: Civil Rights
Herman E. Talmadge Collection, Subgroup C, Series III: Civil Rights files document aspects of the federal government's expansion over state authority in this area, and Talmadge's efforts against such infringement. Included is constituent correspondence, mainly for the year 1968, dealing with the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, social unrest, freedom marches, and the Poor People's Campaign. Legislative files contain correspondence, printed materials, and legal opinions pertaining to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, 1964, and 1966, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and busing.
Herman E. Talmadge Collection, Subgroup C, Series
VIII: Legislation
Herman E. Talmadge Collection, Subgroup C, Series VIII contains subject matter pertaining to legislation being considered by Congress including civil rights–related legislation.
