Brock Adams was a liberal Democrat whose record of public service
spanned almost 40 years. He served in both houses of the U.S. Congress and as
Secretary of Transportation under President Jimmy Carter.
Brockman Adams was born on January 13, 1927, in Atlanta, Georgia, but
grew up in Portland and Seattle. Upon graduation from Seattle’s Broadway
High School in 1944, he enrolled in the University of Washington. He
interrupted his studies to enlist in the U.S. Navy, where he served for two
years. He returned to the University in 1946 and graduated summa cum laude in
1949 with a degree in economics. During his senior year he served as President
of the Associated Students of the University of Washington and was the first
student to both serve in that post and receive the President’s Medal of
Excellence as the University’s top scholar. After receiving a law degree
from Harvard University in 1952, Adams entered private practice in Seattle.
Adams entered electoral politics in 1958 with an unsuccessful
challenge of King County Prosecutor Charles O. Carroll. He was an early
organizer for John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and eventually
chaired Kennedy’s Western Washington organization. In 1961, President
Kennedy appointed Adams U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington.
Adams resigned this position in March 1964 to run for Congress. In November he
was elected to represent Washington’s Seventh Congressional District,
the south side of Seattle and its southern suburbs, Renton and Kent. In this
area are the major Boeing manufacturing plants. He was reelected six times by
ever-increasing margins and served on the following committees: Interstate and
Foreign Commerce; District of Columbia; Revenue and Financial Affairs; Banking
and Currency; and Agriculture.
Adams' record on social issues was solidly liberal. He was an advocate
of civil rights, the 18 year old vote and the Equal Rights Amendment.
In 1967 Adams broke with President Lyndon Johnson over his escalation
of the Vietnam war. In 1969 he urged President Richard Nixon to speed up the
withdrawal of U.S. troops. He condemned the bombings of North Vietnam and was
one of the 85 Congressmen who supported the October 15th 1969 Vietnam War
Moratorium march. In 1971 he called for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops by
the end of the year.
The two issues with which Adams was primarily concerned during his
tenure in the U.S. House were transportation and economic policy. As chairman
of the subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics, Congressman Adams worked
to strengthen the nation’s railroad system. In 1973 he sponsored the
Shoup-Adams bill which saved Northeastern railroads and restructured them into
a viable system. In 1966, with Senator Magnuson, he sponsored legislation to
relieve a national box car shortage and in 1974 introduced the Rail Freight
Transportation Improvement Act to make available more rail equipment. Adams was
also a proponent of rapid transit and introduced legislation to provide federal
assistance to cities for design and construction of mass transportation
facilities. Along with other members of the Washington State delegation, he
pushed unsuccessfully for a government loan to Boeing for development of the
Supersonic Transport (SST). During the energy crisis in 1974, Adams introduced
legislation to ration fuel.
Adams was outspoken in issues involving the economy and the federal
budget. He was an advocate of tax reform and proposed a minimum tax on wealthy
individuals and corporations. As a member of the Steering and Policy Committee
of the House Majority in 1974, he helped develop the Democratic position on the
economy.
Adams was involved in a bitter battle to reform the House District of
Columbia Committee, which was the governing body for the District. The
Committee had for years been controlled by a conservative Southern faction.
Motivated by concern for the problems of urban decay in the nation’s
capitol, Adams succeeded, in 1973, in guiding through Congress a bill that gave
the District a measure of home rule.
Adams helped to craft the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control
Act of 1974. The law called for the creation of a Budget Committee in both the
Senate and the House of Representatives and required that Congress create an
overall budget before passing spending or revenue legislation. Although the law
did not require the new process to be inaugurated until 1976 for the 1977
fiscal year, Congress chose to write non-binding budget resolutions in 1975 to
guide spending for the 1976 fiscal year.
Adams ran as the liberal caucus’ candidate for chairman of the
new House Budget Committee in the spring of 1974, but he was defeated by Al
Ullman of Oregon. Ulmann, however, soon resigned to take over as chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee, and Adams won the race to succeed him. In
implementing the new budget process, the new chairman had to contend with a
sharply divided House. Republicans were unhappy with high levels of spending on
non-military programs while liberal Democrats were upset over cuts in spending
on social programs. After a series of contentious battles, Adams was able to
push the first budget resolutions through the House with the very slimmest of
margins.
Adams worked on behalf of Governor Jimmy Carter in his bid for the
presidency in 1976 and served as executive director of Carter’s
Washington State campaign. President Carter subsequently appointed Adams, who
had developed an expertise in many transportation issues in the House,
Secretary of Transportation in his new administration. Adams resigned his House
seat in January 1977.
Adams’ tenure as Secretary of Transportation was marked by
several well-publicized policy disagreements with the White House. President
Carter came out early and enthusiastically for airline deregulation. Adams, who
had spoken out against deregulation while in Congress, advocated a much more
cautious approach to what he would call “regulatory reform.”
Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman and pro-deregulation economist Alfred Kahn,
rather than Adams, would be the architect of the Administration’s
airline strategy. However, Adams, with his legislative experience and personal
connections on Capitol Hill, would play an important role in the eventual
passage of the landmark Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, legislation that
spurred subsequent efforts to deregulate a host of other industries.
There were also policy differences in the area of energy, another top
Carter Administration priority. Adams advocated that transportation initiatives
that reduced the use of energy, including increased automobile fuel efficiency
and improved mass transit, be an integral part of the Administration’s
energy strategy. Such measures were largely absent from the proposal Carter
presented Congress in March 1977 and continued to be overlooked as primacy on
energy policy was given to the newly created Department of Energy.
In spite of these setbacks, Adams had his successes. He reorganized
the department, another Carter Administration priority, and was regarded as a
good administrator. He disposed of several controversial issues left over from
the Ford Administration, most notably that of airbags in passenger cars. Early
in his tenure Adams scrapped the demonstration program devised by his
predecessor and ordered that by model year 1984 all passenger vehicles sold in
the U.S. must include passive restraints (motorized seat belts or airbags).
Congressional efforts to veto Adams’ order proved unsuccessful. Adams
also raised fuel efficiency standards and challenged American automakers to
reinvent the car to make it more socially responsible and environmentally
friendly.
Adams pushed the Department of Transportation in the area of
affirmative action by requiring grant recipients to include measures that
promoted minority businesses and by establishing the Minority Business Resource
Center. Adams also proposed regulations mandating that federally funded
transportation facilities and programs be accessible to all, regardless of
physical limitation.
Adams resigned his cabinet position in July 1979 as part of a Cabinet
shakeup by the Carter Administration. While Adams and the Administration had
policy differences, Adams and the White House were also in conflict over the
hiring of top departmental aides. In addition, Adams felt his access to the
President was unduly hampered by White House aides. After his resignation Adams
entered into private practice with the Washington office of a Seattle law firm
working on transportation and international trade issues.
In 1985 Adams signaled his interest in winning the U.S. Senate seat
held by Republican Slade Gorton in the 1986 election. (An earlier campaign for
the Senate in 1976 was aborted when Henry M. Jackson, whom Adams hoped to
succeed, pulled out of the Presidential race.) Although given little chance of
beating the incumbent after a long absence from public office and from
Washington State, he was able to keep other prominent Democratic challengers
out of the race. During the campaign he made issues of Gorton’s vote to
confirm Daniel Manion, a controversial Reagan Administration judicial nominee,
and the Reagan Administration’s decision to name the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation as one of three possible sites for a high-level nuclear waste dump.
Adams surprised political pundits with a strong showing in the September open
primary, which places both candidates together on the ballot. He went on to
upset Gorton in the general election.
As a freshman Senator Adams was appointed to the Senate’s
Committees on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Foreign Relations; Labor
and Human Relations; and Rules. In 1989, Adams took a seat on the
Appropriations Committee and left the Commerce and Foreign Relations
Committees. He maintained a consistently liberal record, opposing the Reagan
and Bush Administrations most notably in foreign policy, environmental and
social matters.
Adams fought to protect Congressional authority in the foreign policy
arena. He was a vocal critic of the Reagan Administration’s proposal to
provide U.S. naval escorts to Kuwaiti oil tankers sailing in the Persian Gulf,
where the tankers were the targets of attack in the Iran-Iraq conflict. He
argued that invoking the War Powers Act would provide the necessary debate over
the United States’ deepening involvement in the Persian Gulf region. He
sat on the special War Powers Subcommittee established by the Foreign Relations
Committee to consider the issue. A series of bills, resolutions and amendments
sponsored by Adams and his allies was ultimately unsuccessful in invoking the
War Powers Act. However, his skillful legislative maneuvering forced a
compromise and full debate of the policy. He continued to push for a greater
Congressional role when he urged President George Bush to seek “explicit
authorization” from Congress before launching an attack on Iraq in
retaliation for its invasion of Kuwait. Adams was also a consistent opponent of
aid to the Nicaraguan Contras and the Salvadoran military.
On environmental matters, Adams was closely aligned with
conservationists. The Hanford Nuclear Reservation was a central topic of
Adams’ Senate campaign, and it remained a focus of Adams’
activities in the Senate. He continued to fight the Department of
Energy’s consideration of the site as a nuclear waste repository, and he
opposed continued production of nuclear weapons at the Hanford site. He
advocated monies be spent on clean up and diversification of the Tri-Cities
economy.
In the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound
Adams introduced legislation that would ban single-hulled oil tankers from
Puget Sound and impose spill containment and contingency planning requirements.
In the heated debate over the Pacific Northwest’s old growth forests,
Adams was a leading advocate of forest preservation. He opposed exports of logs
from federal lands and encouraged economic diversification of timber-dependent
communities.
Adams used his position on the Senate Appropriate Committee to
support many Washington State projects. As Chairman of the Committee’s
Subcommittee on the District of Columbia, Adams drew on his experience as chair
of the House District Committee and continued to advocate for greater
self-determination for the District’s citizens.
Adams’s work on health care focused on issues related to women
and seniors. He was a staunch advocate of abortion rights and a leading
supporter of the Women’s Health Equity Act. As Chairman of the Aging
Subcommittee of the Labor and Human Relations Committee in 1991-92, Adams
highlighted the health problems of older Americans. He also used his seat on
the Appropriations Committee to fight for increased funding for research for
cancer and AIDS.
In March 1992, shortly after Adams launched his reelection campaign,
the Seattle Times published a front-page story in which several unnamed women
accused Adams of sexual misconduct over a period of twenty years. At an
emotional news conference that same day, Adams angrily denied the allegations,
but announced his decision to suspend his reelection campaign. At the
conclusion of his term, he retired from public life. After a long struggle with
Parkinson's disease, he died at his home in Stevensville, Maryland in September
2004.
Correspondence, legislative files, campaign files, minutes, speeches
and writings, press releases, clippings, case files, committee files, trip
files, subject files, audio recordings, video recordings, object, photographs,
microfilm.
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| Accession No. 1096-001 |
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| Brock Adams papers, 1965-1976 |
| 145 cubic feet (145 boxes) |
|
| Scope and Content |
| Accession 1096-001 consists solely of papers created by Brock
Adams and his staff during his time in the U. S. House of Representatives
(1965-1976). The papers cover Adams’ work in the House and its
committees and subcommittees, as well as his interest in Washington State
issues. Unlike the Senate Papers, these papers do contain case files, both in a
“Case Files” series and within Washington State Correspondence
and Correspondence About Departmental Matters. Also in contrast to the Senate
papers, correspondence comprises a major part of this collection. |
| Correspondence, which comprises about a third of the accession,
has been placed at the beginning of the papers. In all correspondence series,
the majority of the letters come from constituents. Congressional colleagues
and interested parties from local corporations also have a presence in the
files. Common correspondents include the University of Washington, Boeing, and
Amtrak. The most prominent demographic groups were the elderly, generally
writing about Medicare, Social Security and veterans' pensions, and college
students concerned about the Vietnam War. |
| General Correspondence is broader in scope than in other series,
not limited to a specific bill, or falling within the jurisdiction of a certain
department. This series documents a mixture of regional and national issues,
and includes constituent and colleague correspondence. The files are arranged
chronologically by two-year session and within a session alphabetically by
heading. Outgoing Correspondence or “Robos” are form letters for
responding to constituent correspondence. The letters in this short series were
intended as masters that could be modified to fit different aspects of an issue
and could describe to constituents actions of the Congressman related to that
issue. |
| Correspondence About Departmental Matters relates to particular
government departments, for example the Internal Revenue Service, Immigration
and Naturalization Services, Selective Service Administration, etc. This series
consists mainly of constituent correspondence. Also common are letters from
fellow members of Congress, members of government departments, city and county
government officials and business associations outside the 7th District with an
interest in Adams’ sponsored legislation. A number of the constituent
letters are case files, personal complaints or situations in which a
constituent has asked the Congressman to intervene on his or her behalf. This
series has been restricted to protect constituent privacy. The files are
arranged chronologically by year and within the year alphabetically by
department. In keeping with the original order of Adams’ office, when
alphabetizing, words such as “department” and
“agency” were disregarded. Thus, the Agency for International
Development is filed under “I” not “A.” This series
and the Legislative Correspondence series show a large degree of overlap, and
many letters in the Departmental Correspondence series mention specific bills.
Researchers interested in legislation involving a particular department are
advised to check both series. |
| Washington State Matters Correspondence discusses issues specific
to Washington State (Hanford, the Lake Washington Bridge) as well as the
effects of federal policy on the region (vocational rehabilitation, energy
policy, welfare). This series has been arranged alphabetically by subject
heading. The “General” files, placed at the beginning of the
series, contain case files and have been restricted for privacy reasons. |
| Legislative Correspondence begins the Legislation superseries.
This first series contains constituent and colleague correspondence often
related to a particular bill or bills. Like the general correspondence, the
files are arranged by session, then alphabetically by heading. Unlike the
general correspondence, each session begins with a collection of files marked
“General,” correspondence about little discussed or relatively
minor issues. Adams’ Sponsored Bills is composed of bills and
resolutions sponsored or cosponsored by Brock Adams. In many cases, related
information such as correspondence, articles, drafts, similar bills and press
releases are interfiled with the legislation. This legislation is arranged
chronologically by year. Within the year, legislation is arranged by number;
bills are listed first (H. R.), then House Joint Resolutions (H. J. Res.),
House Concurrent Resolutions (H. Con. Res.) and finally House Resolutions (H.
Res.) |
| Adams’ Working Files document his interest in legislative
measures other than his own. The files contain bills and drafts of bills, as
well as correspondence, articles, speeches and notes. Occasionally, the
materials are annotated by Adams and his staff. The files are arranged in
alphabetical order. Roll Call Votes is the heading for Adams’ voting
record in the House of Representatives. For each measure, the record displays
the title of the measure, how Adams voted, and the result of the vote in the
House. This record also includes quorums and roll calls, in which Adams is
listed as either “Present” or “Absent.” Floor Files
are items that Brock Adams used on the House floor. Usually, these files
contain heavily annotated copies of bills, reports to accompany bills and other
government publications. Occasionally, the files also include releases from the
Democratic Study Group or other opinion pieces from Congressional interest
groups. These items are not related to Adams’ own bills, but rather
display his opinions on other representatives’ measures. Adams’
annotations may show how he intended to vote, points he wished to clarify, and
possible future effects if the bill was passed. Sometimes, Adams recorded the
result of the House vote on the bill. These files are arranged chronologically.
|
| Subject Series contain information on issues of particular
interest to Adams and his constituents. Subjects include the Vietnam War,
welfare, transportation (especially the proposed supersonic transport
aircraft), housing, and reform in the U. S. House of Representatives. File
content may include press clippings, correspondence with colleagues and
constituents, drafts of bills, legislation, notes, speeches, floor statements
and selections from the Congressional Record. The series are filed in
alphabetical order. Folders marked “General,” are filed at the
beginning of a series, and press clippings are filed at the end. |
| The General Series include a number of small series about a wide
variety of issues. All series are arranged in chronological order. Press
Releases contain, in addition to news releases, articles written by and about
Brock Adams, interviews for television and radio, speeches and floor
statements. In some cases, related items such as correspondence, articles and
brochures are filed with the releases. Authorship of articles, when known, is
listed in the file titles. Speeches, floor statements, interviews, and radio
and TV transcripts are by Brock Adams unless otherwise stated. The Newsletters
were sent to Adams’ constituents. Each newsletter gives information on a
variety of topics, including Adams’ recent voting record, bills that
Adams sponsored or co-sponsored, and legislation particularly relevant to the
Northwest. Events of particular importance resulted in the creation of a
“Dear Friend” letter or an issue-specific newsletter, entitled
“A Special Report from Brock Adams.” The tiny series Background
Information for Newsletters contains correspondence, press releases and
handwritten notes. |
| Speeches include speeches delivered inside and outside of
Congress. Common topics include the Vietnamese conflict, transportation
(especially railroads) and Congressional budget reform. There is also a special
series of Speeches and Writings Regarding the Vietnamese Conflict, which
includes articles as well as speeches. Writings contain drafts of a book
entitled Criminal Justice – Some Modest Proposals. Although there is no
evidence that Adams ever published the book, he did complete the manuscript and
submitted it for editing. The designations “Early,”
“Middle” and “Late” on the different drafts are
estimates on the part of the archival staff, as none of the drafts are dated.
Index to Adams’ Speeches in the House of Representatives is the record
of Adams’ testimony and floor statements in the House. The date and
subject of each statement are listed, as well as the Congressional Record page
number where the statement can be found. |
| Trip Files include information on domestic and foreign business
trips. Included in the files are schedules, articles relating to Adams’
activities during the trip and correspondence before, during and following the
trip. Daily Schedules are actually weekly schedules detailing Adams’
engagements both on and off the House floor. Many of these schedules are
heavily annotated with last minute scheduling changes, notes and outlines for
speeches and quick facts about the people and institutions he would be dealing
with in the upcoming week. |
| Invitations Accepted come from local government and business
leaders as well as fellow Congressmen and other federal government officials.
Events include dedications, luncheons and dinners, forums, celebrations and
vigils. Adams’ favorable responses are often included with the
invitations. Thank You Letters are divided into two categories: Incoming and
Outgoing. Incoming Thank You Letters are often from fellow members of Congress
or from interest groups thanking him for cooperation on legislation. Also
included are letters from important constituents. Most of these letters have
Adams’ response attached. Outgoing Thank You Letters are often sent to
Congressional colleagues or to constituents who provided him with useful
articles or expert opinions. Thank you letters for gifts and for travel and
campaign arrangements together with constituent thank you letters for the most
part have been weeded and destroyed. |
| Clippings are found throughout the accession, and this single
folder is by no means a comprehensive collection. The clippings found within
this series come from the early part of Adams’ House career (1965-1969).
They generally discuss Adams’ background and his policies in general as
opposed to specific legislative measures. This series also contains a few
articles on Adams’ fellow Congressmen. |
| The next series after the General Series group is Case Files.
These are constituent requests of a deeply personal nature. Some requests
relate to the draft, for example conscientious objectors during the Vietnam
conflict. The bulk of the case files deal with immigration issues, generally
the efforts of aliens to gain entrance to, or remain in, the United States.
Also included in this subgroup are a few files containing general information
about the draft and the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), which
Adams and his aides may have used in responding to the requests. These files
have been restricted for privacy reasons. These files are arranged in
alphabetical order by topic. Individual case files are alphabetized by name.
|
| The Personal/Political Papers subgroup contains both Personal
Correspondence and Campaign Files. Personal Correspondence contains letters
from family and friends and some record of day-to-day activities such as
replacing lost articles, subscribing to newspapers, etc. Campaign Files are
mostly composed of correspondence such as letters of congratulations, thank-you
letters to office staff and contributors and interaction with Congressional
colleagues. The series also contains publicity materials, Adams’ notes
and a few articles and clippings. |
| Records generated by Adams’ committee work have been
subgrouped at the end of the papers. The largest subgroup by far is the Foreign
and Interstate Commerce Committee and its sub-subgroup Transportation and
Aeronautics Subcommittee. There is some overlap between the two sections, and
some records from the full committee may be found in the subcommittee and vice
versa. The Legislative Correspondence, found in the records of the full
committee, contains the correspondence for both the full committee and the
subcommittee. Significant topics within this subgroup include rail and air
transport, health, and environmental issues. The Legislative Correspondence
series within this subgroup is arranged chronologically by year and within each
year alphabetically by subject. All other series are arranged alphabetically by
subject. |
| The small Agriculture Committee subgroup is composed of
legislative files. The Banking and Currency Committee contains only two
folders, both Adams’ sponsored bills. The Budget Committee is completely
composed of correspondence. No separate Budget Committee subgroup existed in
the House Papers originally. Archivists removed correspondence regarding the
budget committee from other series such as Departmental Correspondence and
Legislative Correspondence to create this subgroup. A larger block of records
for the Budget Committee may be found in the Adams Senate Papers (Accession
Number 1096-16). Pursuant to House Rule VII, the records of the House Budget
Committee are closed until 2006. The District of Columbia Committee is the
largest committee subgroup after the IFCC. This subgroup contains a
correspondence series, including general and legislative correspondence,
legislation and subject series. As with the Budget Committee subgroup, some of
the correspondence in this series was originally part of Legislative
Correspondence and Correspondence About Departmental Matters. Nothing
documenting Adams’ work on the Revenue and Financial Affairs Committee
has come into the archives. Only three files of correspondence remain from his
work on the Science and Astronautics Committee, and these files have been
retained in the Legislative Correspondence series at the beginning of the
accession. |
| Adams worked on the National Transportation Policy Study
Commission before being appointed to Carter’s cabinet. The records from
this commission are sparse, containing correspondence, a few government reports
and one folder of clippings. |
| The final subgroup consists of papers of Adams’ aide,
Henry Seidel. Seidel began as Adams’ Administrative Assistant and
managed the Congressman’s Seattle office from 1968 until his retirement
in 1970. Unlike the Senate papers, with the exception of this subgroup, no
series or subgroups are devoted specifically to Adams’ aides.
Annotations, correspondence and other traces of Adams’ aides’
activities may be found scattered throughout many series. |
| Physical/Technical Access |
| The papers are stored offsite; advance notice is required for
use. |
| Restrictions on Access |
| Boxes marked with a red "R" may contain case files regarding
individuals. Researchers who request these boxes must sign a statement agreeing
not to disclose the identities of individuals whose cases are documented in the
papers (during the likely lifespan of the individuals). Series likely to
contain case files are: Correspondence About Departmental Matters (boxes 25-40)
and Washington State Matters (Boxes 40-43) as well as the Case Files series
(boxes 107 and 108) |
| Restrictions on Use |
| Literary rights of Adams and his staff members have been
transferred to the University of Washington Libraries. |
| Acquisition Info |
| Donated by Brock Adams in 1981. |
| Processing Info |
| This accession is a merger of accession numbers 1096-1, 1096-2,
1096-3 and 1096-4. Processing was completed in 2004. |
| This accession is slightly smaller than the
Senate papers (Accession Number 1096-016). An effort has been made to retain
the original folder headings in all series, but some headings have been
modified for clarity. The original order of folders within each series has
remained intact for the most part, although in some cases the archivist removed
folders that were obviously misfiled. The one exception to this rule is the
Subject Series subgroup, described below. |
| The order of the series has been shifted
somewhat. A Legislation cluster of series was created, and all series
corresponding to legislation, including Correspondence, Sponsored Bills,
Working Files, Floor Files and Roll Call Votes were placed in sequence.
Likewise, a General Series grouping was created to house all of the smaller
series that dealt with publicity issues, such as press releases and speeches,
and day-to-day records like schedules and invitations. |
| The organization and location of the
committee-related subgroups at the end of the collection are a part of the
original order, save for the creation of a small Budget Committee subgroup,
made up of correspondence extracted from other series. Likewise, the District
of Columbia Committee has been enlarged by the inclusion of correspondence from
other series. The most significant instances of file extraction and
rearrangement occur within the Subject Series. Originally, the Washington State
Matters Correspondence was a part of this subgroup. However, since these files
were already distinct from the rest of the subgroup and they contained
exclusively correspondence, the archivist moved this series next to the other
correspondence series. The archivists processing the collection also felt that
a number of the files in Subject Series contained enough legislation to merit
their removal to Legislation. Specifically, those series which focused on the
creation of a bill or bills were removed and placed in Legislation –
Adams’ Working Files. If a file contained no legislation, or contained
legislation but was focused on a broad topic instead of a specific bill, the
file was retained in Subject Series. For example the SST files contain a good
deal of information about Defense Appropriations bills, but the focus of the
information is the aircraft, not defense appropriations. Finally, the U. S.
House of Representatives – House Reform Correspondence was originally
part of Correspondence about Departmental Matters. |
| Sampling and reduction has occurred in the Outgoing Letters
(Robos), the pruning of Thank-You Letters and the removal of duplicates and
bulky published materials from all series. Furthermore, some items containing
social security numbers, including most of the IRS correspondence in
Correspondence About Departmental Matters, were removed and shredded for
privacy reasons. |
| Other Finding Aids |
| Further information about the visual materials collection is
available in the repository. |
| Box/Folder |
Date
|
| | United States House of Representatives
Papers | |
| 1/1 | | Accession Inventory | |
| 1/2 | | Biographical Features | |
| | General Correspondence | |
| 1/3-6 | | Agriculture | 1965-1966 |
| 1/7 | | Banking | 1965-1966 |
| 1/8-9 | | Boeing Company | 1965-1966 |
| 1/10 | | Captive Nation Organizations | 1965-1966 |
| 1/11 | | Civil Rights | 1965-1966 |
| 1/12 | | Collegiate Athletics (NCAA vs. AAU) | 1965-1966 |
| 1/13 | | Communist Activities | 1965-1966 |
| 1/14-18 | | Congratulations | 1965-1966 |
| 1/19-22 | | Conservation | 1965-1966 |
| 1/23 | | Crime | 1965-1966 |
| 1/24 | | Crown-Zellerbach Co. | 1965-1966 |
| 1/25-28 | | Democratic Party, Washington State
Committee | 1965-1966 |
| 1/29 | | Dominican Republic | 1965-1966 |
| 1/30 | | Economy (U.S.) | 1965-1966 |
| 1/31-35 | | Education | 1965-1966 |
| 1/36-38 | | Fishing Industry | 1965-1966 |
| 1/39 | | Fluoridation | 1965-1966 |
| 1/40-41 | | Foreign Affairs | 1965-1966 |
| 1/42 | | Foreign Trade | 1965-1966 |
| 1/43-45 | | Green River (WA) - Industrial
Development | 1965-1966 |
| 1/46-48 | | Green River (WA) - Watershed | 1965-1966 |
| 2/1 | | Hospital Construction | 1965-1966 |
| 2/2 | | Inflation | 1965-1966 |
| 2/3 | | Libraries | 1965-1966 |
| 2/4 | | Lockheed Shipbuilding & Construction
Co. | 1965-1966 |
| 2/5-6 | | Lumber | 1965-1966 |
| 2/7 | | Maritime | 1965-1966 |
| 2/8 | | Mason (Virginia) Research Center | 1965-1966 |
| 2/9 | | Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle | 1965-1966 |
| 2/10 | | Narcotics | 1965-1966 |
| 2/11-13 | | Media | 1965-1966 |
| 2/14 | | National Safety Council | 1965-1966 |
| 2/15 | | Nutritional Science | 1965-1966 |
| 2/16 | | Paris Air Show | 1965-1966 |
| 2/17 | | Pollution Control | 1965-1966 |
| 2/18 | | Poverty | 1965-1966 |
| 2/19 | | Railroad Mergers | 1965-1966 |
| 2/20 | | Scandinavian Airlines | 1965-1966 |
| 2/21 | | Seattle | 1965-1966 |
| 2/22-25 | | Seattle, Port | 1965-1966 |
| 2/26 | | Student Financial Assistance | 1965-1966 |
| 2/27-28 | | Supporters | 1965-1966 |
| 2/29 | | United Nations | 1965-1966 |
| 2/30-31 | | Urban Mass Transit | 1965-1966 |
| 2/32-46 | | Vietnam | 1965-1966 |
| 2/47 | | Water Resources | 1965-1966 |
| 3/1-39 | | Miscellaneous | 1965-1968 |
| 4/1 | | Boeing Company | 1967-1968 |
| 4/2 | | Captive Nations | 1967-1968 |
| 4/3 | | Civil Rights | 1967-1968 |
| 4/4 | | Columbia River | 1967-1968 |
| 4/5 | | Communist Activities | 1967-1968 |
| 4/6 | | Conservation | 1967-1968 |
| 4/7 | | Crime | 1967-1968 |
| 4/8 | | Democratic Party, National Committee | 1967-1968 |
| 4/9-10 | | Democratic Party, National Committee,
Convention | 1967-1968 |
| 4/11 | | Democratic Party, Platform Committee | 1967-1968 |
| 4/12 | | Democratic Party, WA State Central
Committee | 1967-1968 |
| 4/13-16 | | Education | 1967-1968 |
| 4/17-19 | | Fisheries | 1967-1968 |
| 4/20-25 | | Foreign Affairs | 1967-1968 |
| 4/26-28 | | Foriegn Trade | 1967-1968 |
| 4/29 | | Green River (WA) | 1967-1968 |
| 4/30-32 | | Highway Programs | 1967-1968 |
| 4/33-34 | | Housing | 1967-1968 |
| 4/35 | | Inflation | 1967-1968 |
| 4/36-37 | | Kennedy, Robert | 1967-1968 |
| 4/38-46 | | Labor | 1967-1968 |
| 4/47-49 | | Fort Lawton, WA | 1967-1968 |
| 5/1-5 | | Logging Exports | 1967-1968 |
| 5/6-8 | | Lumber | 1967-1968 |
| 5/9 | | Maritime | 1967-1968 |
| 5/10 | | Mental Retardation | 1967-1968 |
| 5/11 | | Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle | 1967-1968 |
| 5/12 | | Newsletter Responses | 1967-1968 |
| 5/13 | | News Media | 1967-1968 |
| 5/14-15 | | Pollution Control | 1967-1968 |
| 5/16-17 | | Poverty | 1967-1968 |
| 5/18-21 | | Powell (Adam Clayton) Controversy | 1967-1968 |
| 5/22 | | Public Power | 1967-1968 |
| 5/23-27 | | Railroads | 1967-1968 |
| 5/28 | | Riots | 1967-1968 |
| 5/29-30 | | Seattle, WA | 1967-68 |
| 5/31-32 | | Seattle. Port | 1967-68 |
| 5/33 | | Student Financial Aid | 1967-68 |
| 5/34 | | Supersonic Transport | 1967-68 |
| 5/35 | | United Nations | 1967-68 |
| 5/36-37 | | Vashon, WA | 1967-68 |
| 5/38-43 | | Vietnam | 1967-68 |
| 6/1-25 | | Vietnam | 1967-68 |
| 6/26 | | WA State Medical Association - Drafting of
Physicians | 1967-68 |
| 6/27 | | Water Districts | 1967-68 |
| 6/28 | | Water Resources | 1967-68 |
| 6/29-38 | | Miscellaneous | 1967-68 |
| 7/1 | | Arts and Humanities | 1969-70 |
| 7/2 | | Arts - Burien Center (proposed) | 1966-67 |
| 7/3 | | Baldwin, Bernard T. | 1967 |
| 7/4 | | Banking Matters | 1967-68 |
| 7/5 | | Berman, Louis | 1967 |
| 7/6-7 | | Biafra | 1969 |
| 7/8 | | Boeing Airplane Company | 1969-70 |
| 7/9 | | Breitenberg, Donald | 1967-70 |
| 7/10 | | Cafeteria Workers | 1969-70 |
| 7/11 | | Cambodia no. 2 | 1970 |
| 7/12 | | Cambodia - Opposition Robo Reply no. 1 | 1970 |
| 7/13 | | Cambodia - Opposition Robo Reply no, 2 | 1970 |
| 7/14 | | Cambodia no. 1 | 1970 |
| 7/15 | | Cambodia - Opposition Robo Reply no. 4 | 1970 |
| 7/16 | | Cambodia - Opposition Robo Reply no. 3 | 1970 |
| 7/17 | | Cambodia (answers with Robo Replies) | 1970 |
| 7/18 | | Cambodia (telegrams sent) | 1970 |
| 7/19 | | Cambodia - Nixon Supporters vol. 2 | 1970 |
| 7/20 | | Cambodia - Nixon Supporters vol. 1 | 1970 |
| 7/21 | | Cambodia - Letters against war | 1970 |
| 7/22-27 | | Cambodia - Letters against war with
replies | 1970 |
| 7/28 | | Cambodia - Petitions | 1970 |
| 7/29-31 | | Cambodia - Petitions unanswered | 1970 |
| 7/32 | | Cambodia - Student Protests | 1970 |
| 7/33 | | Campanella, Felix | 1966-67 |
| 7/34 | | CAPI (Central Committee for Peace and
Improvement) | 1968 |
| 7/35 | | Captive Nations | 1969 |
| 7/36 | | Chamber of Commerce | 1969-70 |
| 7/37 | | Checkley, David - AIA | 1969-70 |
| 7/38 | | Civil Rights | 1968 |
| 7/39 | | Civil Defense | 1969 |
| 7/40 | | Columbia River | 1969-70 |
| 7/41-42 | | Conservation | 1969-70 |
| 7/43 | | Consumer Affairs | 1970 |
| 7/44 | | Core, Cecelia | 1969-70 |
| 7/45 | | Crime - Seattle | 1967, 1970 |
| 7/46 | | Crime and Violence | 1967-70 |
| 8/1 | | Crystal Mountain | 1967-69 |
| 8/2 | | Decker, Half, Architects | 1965-68 |
| 8/3 | | Democratic Party. King County Central
Committee | 1969-70 |
| 8/4 | | Democratic Party. WA State Central
Committee | 1970 |
| 8/5 | | Democratic Party. National Committee | 1969-70 |
| 8/6 | | Democratic Party. National Committee. Freedom to Run
Task Force (Campaign Financing) | |
| 8/7-8 | | Democratic Study Group | 1969-70 |
| 8/9 | | Democratic Party. Young Democrats | 1970 |
| 8/10 | | District Office Forests Correspondence | 1969 |
| 8/11 | | Drugs | 1967-70 |
| 8/12 | | Economy no. 2 | 1970 |
| 8/13 | | Economy no. 1 | 1969-70 |
| 8/14-15 | | Education | 1968-70 |
| 8/16 | | Eighty-Ninth Club | 1968-69 |
| 8/17 | | El Paso Natural Gas | 1970 |
| 8/18 | | Fishing Matters | 1969-70 |
| 8/19 | | Foreign Affairs - General | 1969-70 |
| 8/20-26 | | Foreign Affairs - Middle East | 1970 |
| 8/27 | | Foreign Trade | 1968-70 |
| 8/28 | | Fortas, Abe | 1969 |
| 8/29 | | Gallery Visitors | 1970 |
| 8/30 | | Garfield Students | 1968-69 |
| 8/31 | | Government Printing Office -
Discrimination | 1968 |
| 8/32 | | Green River Watersheds | 1969-70 |
| 8/33 | | Health General | undated, 1969-70 |
| 8/34 | | Hightower, Ann - General | undated, 1969-70 |
| 8/35 | | Imports | 1969 |
| 8/36 | | Inauguration | 1969 |
| 8/37 | | Jail, King County | 1969 |
| 8/38 | | Kennedy, Senator Ted | 1966-67, 69 |
| 8/39 | | Kent, City of | 1968 |
| 8/40 | | King County Charter and Executive | 1968 |
| 8/41 | | Korea | 1968-69 |
| 8/42-44 | | Labor Matters | 1969-70 |
| 9/1-2 | | Lawton,Fort | 1968, 1969-70 |
| 9/3 | | Lawton, Fort - Correspondence | 1965-67 |
| 9/4 | | Log Exports | 1969-70 |
| 9/5 | | Luke (Wing) Memorial Museum | 1966 |
| 9/6 | | Lumber Standards | 1969-70 |
| 9/7 | | Maritime | 1969-70 |
| 9/8 | | McGirr, H. Don | 1965 |
| 9/9 | | McGovern Commission | 1969 |
| 9/10-12 | | Members of Congress for Peace Through
Law | 1969 |
| 9/13 | | METRO | 1967-70 |
| 9/14 | | Military Cutbacks | 1970 |
| 9/15-17 | | Muckleshoot Indians | 1970 |
| 9/18 | | Peace Groups | 1966-70 |
| 9/19 | | Pearson, Drew | 1968 |
| 9/20 | | Pelly File | 1967 |
| 9/21 | | Planned Parenthood | 1969-70 |
| 9/22-24 | | Pollution | 1970 |
| 9/25 | | Pollution - Oil | 1970 |
| 9/26 | | Poor of Washington State | 1967-68 |
| 9/27 | | Poverty | 1969-70 |
| 9/28 | | Powell, Adam Clayton | 1969 |
| 9/29 | | Public Power | 1969-70 |
| 9/30 | | Public Relations | 1969-70 |
| 9/31 | | Railroad Merger | 1969-70 |
| 9/32 | | Seattle | 1969-70 |
| 9/33 | | Seattle - Blackfront Stores | 1969 |
| 9/34 | | Seattle - Black Radio Station | 1970 |
| 9/35 | | United Black Community Foundation Inc. | 1970 |
| 10/1 | | Seattle Central Area | 1968-70 |
| 10/2-3 | | Seattle - Central Area Cooperative | 1969 |
| 10/4 | | Seattle - Checkmate Project Proposal | 1970 |
| 10/5 | | Seattle Mental Health Institute | 1969 |
| 10/6 | | Seattle Port Matters | 1969-70 |
| 10/7 | | Service Matters - General | 1969-70 |
| 10/8 | | Skolar, Dan (Professional Resume) | 1968 |
| 10/9 | | Snoqualmie River | 1970 |
| 10/10-11 | | Student Disorders | 1969-70 |
| 10/12 | | Student Loans | 1969 |
| 10/13 | | Supporters | 1969-70 |
| 10/14 | | Travel - Northwest Association of Private Colleges
and Universities (NAPCU) | 1968 |
| 10/15 | | United Innercity Development Foundation | 1970 |
| 10/16 | | United Nations | 1969-70 |
| 10/17 | | Washington. University | 1969-70 |
| 10/18 | | W.U. School of Communications | 1966-67 |
| 10/19-20 | | Vietnam - Against, Moratorium of October | 1969 |
| 10/21 | | Vietnam - Against, Adams' Stand November | 1969 |
| 10/22-28 | | Vietnam | 1969-70 |
| 10/29 | | Vocational Education | 1967, 1969 |
| 10/30 | | Water Resources | 1969-70 |
| 10/31 | | Welfare Matters - General | 1969-70 |
| 10/32 | | Youth Today | 1969-70 |
| 11/1-4 | | Miscellaneous | 1970 |
| 11/5-11 | | Miscellaneous | 1968-69 |
| 11/12 | | Aging - Senior Citizens | 1970-71 |
| 11/13-15 | | Agriculture | 1971-72 |
| 11/16 | | Alaska Airlines | 1971 |
| 11/17 | | Arts and Humanities | 1971-72 |
| 11/18 | | Arts and Humanities - Seattle Opera
Festivals | 1971-72 |
| 11/19 | | Banking Matters | 1971-72 |
| 11/20 | | Birch (John) Society and other extremist
groups | 1966-70 |
| 11/21 | | Boeing Airplane Company | 1971-72 |
| 11/22 | | Boeing - Supersonic Transport | 1965-69, 1971 |
| 11/23 | | Bombings - Seattle | 1970 |
| 11/24 | | Cambodia | 1971-72 |
| 11/25 | | Capital Extension | 1966-67 |
| 11/26 | | Captive Nations - Russia-occupied
Lithuania | 1971-72 |
| 11/27 | | Civil Rights | 1971-72 |
| 11/28 | | Columbia River | 1971-72 |
| 12/1 | | Computerized Interference Elimination | 1971 |
| 12/2-4 | | Conservation | 1971-72 |
| 12/5 | | Consumer Affairs | 1971-72 |
| 12/6 | | Criminal Violence | 1971-72 |
| 12/7 | | DDT | 1969-70 |
| 12/8 | | Democratic Party. King County Central
Committee | 1971 |
| 12/9 | | Democratic Party. WA State Central
Committee | 1971 |
| 12/10 | | Eighty-Ninth Club | 1972 |
| 12/11 | | Democratic Party. National Committee | 1971-73 |
| 12/12 | | Democratic Party. Young Democrats | 1971-72 |
| 12/13 | | Democratic Study Group | 1971-72 |
| 12/14 | | Drugs | 1971-72 |
| 12/15-17 | | Education | 1971-72 |
| 12/18 | | Education - Coloring Books | 1971-72 |
| 12/19 | | Fishing Matters | 1971 |
| 12/20-21 | | Foreign Affairs | 1971-72 |
| 12/22 | | Foreign Affairs - Middle East | 1971-72 |
| 12/23 | | Foreign Trade | 1971-73 |
| 12/24-25 | | Health | 1971-72 |
| 12/26 | | Highway Mattters | 1971-72 |
| 12/27-28 | | Indian Fishing Rights | 1971-72 |
| 12/29-30 | | Indian Matters - Talent Search | 1971-72 |
| 12/31 | | Indians of the North Slope | 1971-72 |
| 12/32 | | Inflation | 1971-72 |
| 12/33 | | Kingston Village no. 2 | 1971 |
| 13/1 | | Kingston Village no. 1 | 1971 |
| 13/2-3 | | Labor Matters | 1970-72 |
| 13/4 | | Labor Matters - Service Employment Redevelopment
(SER Program) | 1972 |
| 13/5-6 | | Lawton, Fort | 1970,72 |
| 13/7 | | Lawton, Fort - Newspaper Clippings | 1969-70 |
| 13/8 | | Leadership | 1971 |
| 13/9 | | Lumber | 1971-72 |
| 13/10 | | Maritime | 1971-72 |
| 13/11 | | Members of Congress For Peace Through
Law | 1971-72 |
| 13/12 | | METRO - Seattle | 1972 |
| 13/13 | | Muckleshoot Overall Economic Development
Plan | 1970 |
| 13/14-15 | | Muckleshoot Indians | 1971-72 |
| 13/16 | | Neighbors in Need | 1972 |
| 13/17-18 | | New Economic Plan | 1971-72 |
| 13/19 | | New Economic Plan - Payboard | 1971 |
| 13/20 | | Peace Groups | 1971 |
| 13/21-22 | | Pike Place Market | 1970-71 |
| 13/23 | | Planned Parenthood | 1971-72 |
| 13/24-25 | | Pollution | 1971-72 |
| 13/26-27 | | Pollution - Oil | 1971 |
| 13/28 | | Poverty | 1971 |
| 13/29 | | Prison Reform | 1971 |
| 13/30 | | Public Power | 1971 |
| 13/31 | | Railroads | 1971-82 |
| 13/32 | | Russo, Mrs. Fred | 1969 |
| 13/33-35 | | Seattle | 1971-72 |
| 14/1 | | Seattle | 1971-72 |
| 14/2-3 | | Seattle - Busing | 1972 |
| 14/4 | | Seattle - Busing (telegram reply) | 1972 |
| 14/5 | | Seattle - Active Mexicanos | 1971-72 |
| 14/6 | | Seattle - Port Matters | 1971-72 |
| 14/7 | | Seattle - Central Area | 1970-72 |
| 14/8 | | Seattle Central Contractors Assciation (plus model
city plan) | 1971-72 |
| 14/9-11 | | Seattle Economy | 1971-72 |
| 14/12 | | Seattle - Seattle King County Equal Opportunity
Board (SKEOB) | 1971-72 |
| 14/13 | | Student Disorders | 1971-72 |
| 14/14-15 | | Subsidized Housing | 1971-72 |
| 14/16 | | Subsidized Housing - Seattle | 1970-71 |
| 14/17 | | Transportation - Aerospace | 1970-72 |
| 14/18 | | Transportation - Urban Mass | 1971-72 |
| 14/19 | | United Innercity Development Foundation | 1971-72 |
| 14/20-21 | | United Nations | 1971-72 |
| 14/22 | | Vietnam - Telegram Responses | 1972 |
| 14/23-25 | | Vietnam | 1971-72 |
| 15/1-11 | | Vietnam | 1971-72 |
| 15/12 | | Water Resources | 1971-72 |
| 15/13 | | Welfare Matters | 1971-72 |
| 15/14 | | White House Fellows Program | 1966 |
| 15/15 | | Wisconsin Corporation | 1969-70 |
| 15/16-22 | | Miscellaneous | 1971-72 |
| 15/23-24 | | Aging/ Senior Citizens | 1973-74 |
| 15/25-27 | | Agriculture | 1973-74 |
| 16/1-2 | | Agriculture | 1972-73 |
| 16/3 | | American Council of Young Political
Leaders | 1969 |
| 16/4 | | Arts and Humanities | 1973-74 |
