1 Dirksen, Everett McKinley (1896-1969), Papers Form Letters, 1951-69
In order to reply to constituents, the Dirksen office created a library of responses arranged alphabetically by subject within each year. Having these online will give viewers a quick snapshot of the legislative workload and, in a sense, Dirksen’s style of representation and constituent service. The folder numbers designate the folders of the Chicago Office File in which the originals are located.
Folder numbers 2116-2165: Form Letters (1951-69). Introductory Note. Form letters expressing Dirksen’s views on various topics, apparently written by Dirksen and other members of his Washington staff . Arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically by subject within each year.
Folders 2116-2118
Form Letters (n.d.)
Subjects: Birthday Congratulations; Patronage.
Form Letters (1951)
Subjects: Reserve Policies; Vatican and Universal Military Training.
Form Letters (1952)
Subjects: Accident Prevention; Blind Children; Chicago Rent; Compulsory Military Training; Controls; Defense Production Act; Epileptics; Fair Trade; Federal Employees; Federal Leave; Forand Bill; Foreign Aid; H.R. 5850; Immigration; Impeachment; Indecent Literature; Internal Revenue Bureau Reform; Japanese Treaty; Johnson-Case Bill; Korea; McGuire Bill; Milk Industry; Moody-Dingell Bill; Mutual Security; Parochial Schools; Preferential Primaries; Productivity Wage Increase; Public Housing; Reorganization; Rifle Practice; S. 2639; S. 2968; S. J. Res. 130; Saint Lawrence Seaway; Social Security; Special Thanks; Steel; Synthetic Fuel Plant; Tax, Waste, and Spending; Television Broadcast withSe nator Robert Kerr; Third Party; Tidelands; Universal Military Training; Veterans; Western Union.
Folders 2119-2122
Form Letters (1953)
Subjects: Administration; Alcoholic Beverages on Military Posts; American Bar Association Amendment; Bohlen, Charles H.; Bonded Alcoholic Beverages; Bricker; Capitol Hill Club; Civil Aeronautics Transfer; Commodity Credit Surpluses; Contractor Bill (S. 848); Controls; Co-ops; Draft Extension; Equal Rights; Excess Profits Tax; Excise Tax on Appliances; Excise Tax; Extension of Excess Profits; Fairdale Post Office; Federal Construction Contracts Bill; Fifth Amendment; Foreign Aid; Fur Industry Relief; General Tax Letter; Hawaii; Holder Post Office; Household Tax Letter; Housing; Immigration; Irritation; Janesville Post Office; Lyons, Thomas; Mason Bill; McCarran Act; McCarthy, Joseph; Military Reduced Budget; Murray Dingle (H.R. 2510); Neurological Disease and Muscular Dystrophy; New Tax Letter; New Zealand Beef; Parcel Post; Postal Letter; Postal Rates; Reciprocal Trade; Rent Controls; Rock River; Saint Lawrence Seaway; School Lunch Program; Taft-Hartley; Taxes; Tax Proposal (Anti-); Teacher’s Pension; Tidelands; Trip Lease; Trowbridge Rural Route Mail; Twenty-Five Percent Tax Limit; Unemployment Compensation; United Nations and Red China; Veterans Administration; White, Harry Dexter.
Folders 2123-2124
Form Letters (1954)
Subjects: Bicycles; Bricker; Coffee; Commemorative Stamp for Mary; Consolidation of Rural Routes; Dairy Support; Excise Tax; Farm Program; Federal Construction Act; Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Flourspar; General Excise Tax; Manufacturers’ Excise Tax; Mason Bill; McCarthy; McCarthy Foreign Aid Issue; McCarthy-Stevens; National Parks; Pleasant Mound Post Office; Postage-First Class; Postal and Civil Service; Postal and Federal Pay Increase; Saint Lawrence Seaway; Saudi Arabia; Screw Bolt Fasteners; Social Security; Social Security Revised; Taft-Hartley; Tariff Revision; Tax Exemptions; Time Lag Bill; S. 3111.
Folder 2125
Form Letters (1955)
Subjects: Miscellaneous Legislation; Opposition to Various Bills.
Folders 2126-2128
Form Letters (1956)
Subjects: Alcoholic Beverages on Air Planes; Amusement Tax; Atlantic Exploratory Convention; Auto Franchise; Bradley Commission Report; Bricker Aamendment; Carlson Amendment; Civil Rights; Davis-Bacon Amendment; Defense Appropriations; Dental Research; Depressed Areas; D ‘Ewart Nomination; Echo Park Dam; Farm; Federal Aid to Education; Federal Aid to Public Schools; Federal Housing; Foreign Aid; Gasoline Tax; Government Competition with Private Enterprise; Highway Construction Bill; Hoffman, Paul; Hoover Commission; Humane Slaughter; Hungary; Israel; Lake Michigan Water Diversion; Langer Bill; Makarios, Archbishop; Marion, Illinois, Veterans Hospital; Miscellaneous Legislation; Narcotics; Natural Gas; Organization for Trade Cooperation; Parcel Post; Postal Matters; Postal Retirement; Prayer for Peace; Railroad Retirement; Robinson-Patman Act; S. 1269; S. 2875; Saudi Arabia; School Aid (Anti-); Social Security Taxes; Tax Reduction; Transportation; Transportation Tax; Truck Fee; Veterans; War Veterans Pension Security Bill; Witchita Wildlife Refuge.
Folder 2129
Form Letters (1957)
Subjects: Douglas, Paul.
Folders 2130-2133
Form Letters (1959)
Subjects: Albatross Problem; Alcoholic Beverage Advertising Petitions; Alma Postmastership in Behalf of John Barksdale; Alternate Candidate Naval Reserve Program; Berlin Budget; Cache River Drainage District; California Irrigation; Congressional and Presidential Elections; Des Plaines; Des Plaines Wildlife Area; Development Loan fund; Divested Stock; Dividend Tax; Draft; Edinburg Rural Service; Fair Trade; Farm; Fellowship Congratulations; Financing of Federal Highway Program; Forand Bill; Foreign Aid ; G.I. Bill; Gasoline Tax; General Veterans Letter; Hawaiian Statehood; Indiana Dunes; Inflation; Joliet Arsenal Land; Kennedy-Erwin Bill; Kruschchev Visit; Labor; Louisville, Illinois, Rural Carrier Vacancy; McCellan Labor Bill; Minimum Wage; Minimum Wage Pro; Murray-Metcalf Bill; New Boston Rural Service; New Citizens; New Highway; Non-Resident Taxation; Oil Depletion; O’Kelly Program (Irish President); Pre-Price; Principal Candidate Naval Reserve Program; Public Law 199; Questionnaire; Radio and Television; Railroad Retirements; Robinson-Patman; Rock Island Arsenal; Scholarship; School Lunch Program; S. 11; Senate Rule 22; Shelbyville Dam; Simpson-Keough bill; Smith Act; Standard Time; Star Route, Batchtown to Winfield, Missouri; Star Route, Burlington, Iowa; Tawney, James A.; Tax Insurance Companies; Tax Non-Resident Corporations; Tax Reduction; Telephone Tax; Unemployment Compensation; Veterans Committee; Veterans Pensions; Veterans of World War I; Women in Reserves; Yearbook.
Folders 2134-2137
Form Letters (1960)
Subjects: Aid to Education; American War Claims; Bingo; Boggs Bill; Cabaret Tax; Civil Rights; Common Situs Picketing; Congo; Connally Amendment; Delegates and Alternates; Dividend Tax; Eastern Time Zone; Electoral College; Excise Tax on Telephones; Farm; Federal Aid to Education; Federal Aviation Administration; Federal Water Pollution Bill; Forand Bill; Foreign Policy; Frear Amendment to H. R. 5547; Freight Car; Gasoline Tax Increase; H.R. 5054; H.R. 7123; H.R. 11045; H.R. 11318; H.R. 12595; Health Insurance; Illinois-Missouri Taxation; Illinois Recount; Immigration; Keating, Charles H.; Kinzua Dam; Labor Legislation; Loyalty Oath; Loyalty Oath and Connally Combination; Medical Qualification for Civilian Pilots; Medicare; Minimum Wage; Murray-Metcalf; Mutual Security; National Science Foundation Fellowship Program; Nurse’s Training; Obscene Materials Through Mail; Optometry; Pay Raise (postal and federal); Postal Pay Raise; Postal Rates; Private Schools; Radio and Television Programs; Radio Station WLS; Railroad; Railroad Passenger Train Service; Route 64; Route 80; S. 3548; S. 3570; Sandoval Rural Mail Carrier; Scholarship Awards; Sea Conventions; Secondary Boycotts; Senate Internal Security Committee; Simpson-Keough Bill; Situs Picketing; Social Security; Social Security for Doctors; Social Security Earnings Limitation; Standard Time; Status Letter; Summit Conference; Vermilion River Bridge; Veterans Pension; Vivisection; Wheat; Wilderness Bill; Wolf Creek Reservoir.
Folders 2138-2142
Form Letters (1961)
Subjects: Academies; Agriculture Committee; Alien Property; Animals in Medical Research Experiments; Ballot; Berlin; Billboards; Birch Society; Bricker Amendment; Budget and Economy; Cape Canaveral; Capital Gains Tax; Catholic and Public Schools; Communist Party; Congress; Connally Amendment; Cropland Adjustment Bill; Cuba; Currie, Lauchlin B.; Depressed Areas; Disarmament; Disarmament Agency; Dividend Taxes; Drug and Patent Legislation; Eastern Orthodoxy; Education, Federal Aid; Election Results; Electoral College; Entertainment Allowances; Farm Bill; Foreign Aid; Foreign Trade Competition; Freedom Academy; Fulbright Memo; G.I. Bill of Rights; Gasoline Tax; General Motors; Glen Park; Hearing Examiners; Highways; House Committee on Un-American Activities; Illinois; Inflation; Interior Committee; Interstate Commerce Act; Kaskaskia Project; Katanga; Kennedy Administration; Kennedy, Robert; Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Laos; Leadership Meetings; Loyalty Oath; Loyola; Medicare; Migratory Labor Legislation; Milk; Minimum Wage; Miscellaneous; Miscellaneous 2; Mundt Labor Bill; Mutuals and Savings; National Defense Education Act; National School Lunch Program; Nippersink Creek; Nuclear Test; Oakley Reservoir Obscene Literature; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Orphan Adoption Law; Paar, Jack; Piggyback; Post Office; Post Office and Civil Service Committee; Postal Rates; Railroads; Red Bud, Illinois; Reorganization Plan No. 5 (National Labor Relations Board); Reserves; Rule 22; Rural Electrification Administration; Satellite Communications; Situs Picketing; Small Business Tax; Social Security; Supreme Court Justices; Tax Legislation; Telephone Tax; Television Stations; Truck Tax; United Nations; UNESCO; Veterans Legislation; Vivisection; Warren, Earl; Water Pollution; Wilderness Bill; Withholding Tax; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; Youth Conservation Corps.; Youth Peace Corps; Yugoslavia.
Folders 2143-2146
Form Letters (1962)
Subjects: Academies; Advertising; Barium Carbonate; Berlin Mobilization; Boat Tax; Capitol Garage; Chicago and North Western Telegraphers; Chinese Refugees Program; Chiropractors; Club Dues; Communist Propaganda; Co-ops; Cuba; Davis-Bacon Act; Daytime Broadcasters; Defense Supply Agency; Diesel Fuel Tax; Drug Bills; Dupont; Education; Equal Pay;“Ev and Charlie Show”; Executive Power; Farm Bill; Federal Communications Commission; Food Supplement; Foreign Aid Amendment; Foreign Earnings; Foreign Excess Property; G.I. Life Insurance; Glen Park; Goldberg, Arthur; Greek letter; Herlong-Baker Bills; Indiana Dunes; Judicial Referendum; Katanga; Liquor; Loyola University; McClellan Bill; Medicare; Migratory Labor; Military; Miscellaneous; Mutual Banks; Nuclear Testing; Oil Industry; Packers and Stockyards Act; Postal Pay Raise; Postal Rates; Prairie National Park; Prayer in School; Quality Stabilization Act; Railroad Mergers; Railroad Retirement Legislation; Red China; Reserves; Retired Teachers; Revenue Bill; Rostow; Sheet Glass; Small Business; Social Security; State Department; Steel; Tariff; Tax Reform Bill; Tax Relief Bill; Thanks; Transportation; Tshombe, Moise; U.N. Bonds; UNESCO Convention; Urban Affairs; Veterans’ Children Scholarship Act; Wheat; Wiretapping;Withholding; Youth Conservation Corps.
Folders 2147-2148
Form Letters (1963)
Subjects: Alcoholic Beverage Advertising; Animal Experiments; Budget and Taxes; Byrd Resolution; Cheating Congressman; Civil Rights; Cuba; Dividend Taxes; Electoral College; Excise Tax on Musical Instruments; Expense Account; Farm; Federal Aid to Education; Federal Pay; Financial Disclosure; Firearms; Foreign Aid; Highways; Illinois Glove Company; Katanga; Krebiozen; Mass Transit; Medicare; Migratory Labor; Military Pay; National Medication Board; Newspaper Distributors Association of Chicago; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Obscene Literature; Packaging; Prayer Amendment; Railroad Mergers; Railroad Strike; Revenue Act of 1963; S. 684; S. 1061 and S. 1062; S. 2068; State; State Route 53; Supreme Court; Tax Cut; Tax Dividend; Tito’s Visit; Transportation; Wheat; Work Measurement.
Folders 2149-2151
Form Letters (1964)
Subjects: Beef Imports; Capital Gains and Dividends; Charitable Deductions; Civil Rights; Cloture; Copyrighted Material; Cyprus; Data Processing Center; Davis-Bacon Fringe Benefits Act; Discharge Petition; Dividends; Electronics; Excise Taxes; Expense Account; Farm; Federal Tax Lien Amendment; Filibuster; Firearms; God in Government; Goldwater for President; H.R. 8009; McCarran-Walter Act; McCarthy Amendment; Medical Care; Nomination; Obscene Literature; Pay Raise; Political; Prayer Amendment; Quality Stabilization; Reapportionment; Referendum; Reserve; Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Vitalization Act; Revenue Act of 1963; Rural Electrification Administration; School Lunches; Social Security; Tax Legislation; Veterans.
Folders 2152-2154
Form Letters (1965)
Subjects: Animal Experiments; Armed Services Reserve; “Baby”; Billboard; Certified Public Accountants; Chicago Courthouse; Coin Bill; Communist Registration; Consular Treaty; Copyright; County Chairman; Cyprus; Disarmament Agency Appropriations; Education; Excise Tax; Farm Bill; Farm Program; Firearms Bill; Foreign Aid; Foreign Cement; Fortas, Abe; Fraternities; Fulton Floodwall; Glenarm Mail Route; Indian Grave Drainage District; Inflation; Interstate Route 53; John Birch Society; Labor Laws; McCarran, Walter; Medicare; Military Pay Raise; Minimum Wage; Miscellaneous; Morrisey; Musicians’ Union ; Nasser, Gamel; National Merit Scholarship; National Science Foundation; Otepka, Otto; Packaging and Labeling; Planning for Peace Resolution; Postal Bills; Reapportionment; Rural Mail Carriers; S. 1098; Social Security; Soil Conservation; Sonic Booms; Star Senior Nominee; State Bill; Sunday Voting; Taft-Hartley; Tax Bills; Taylor Ridge, Illinois, Rural Mail Carrier; Tourist Tax; Tuition; Vending Machine; Veteran Compensation ; Veterans Hospitals; Voting Rights Act; Water Conservation; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; Youth Temperance Week; Zip Code.
Folders 2155-2156
Form Letters (1966)
Subjects: Animal Experimentation; Civil Rights; Demonstration Cities Act; Douglas, Paul; Education; Everglades; Excise Tax; Firearms; Food and Drug Administration; Grand Canyon; Greek Letter; H.R. 10457; Hart Bill; Inflation; Investment Credit; Kyles, Gladys; Marble Gorge and Bridge Canyon Dams; Medical Restraint; Military Medicare; Minimum Wage; Miscellaneous; National Defense Education Act; Obscene Literature; Parcel Post; Prouty Bill; Prayer; Reapportionment; Rhodesia; Riots; Rural Electric Cooperatives; School Lunch; Situs Picketing; Social Security; Supreme Court; Taft-Hartley; Tax Bill; Treaties; Tuition; Unemployment Compensation; Vietnam; Vitamins; Water Pollution; West Front of Capitol; Youth Temperance.
Folders 2157-2160
Form Letters (1967)
Subject: Air Pollution; Album, “Gallant Men”; Alcoholic Beverage Advertising; Animal Welfare; Budget; Campaign Funds; Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad; Chiropratic; Citizenship; Civil Rights; Classical Language; Compulsory Arbitration; Congo; Constitutional Convention; Consular Treaty; Copyright; Crime; Dodd, Thomas; Draft; Electronics; Federal Communications Commission; Firearms; George Rogers Clark Recreation Way; Get Well; Golden Eagle Post Office; Greece; Head Start Program; Holidays; Import; Inflation; Interstate Commerce Commission; Investments; Israel; Judicial Review; Marshall, Thurgood; McHugh; McIntire; Meat Inspection; Medical Restraint; Military Museum; Military Retirement; Minimum Wage; Miscellaneous (Illinois); Miscellaneous (out of state); Office of Economic Opportunity; Oil Pollution; Panama Canal; Patent Reform; Peace Corps; Peace Demonstrations; Podiatry; Postcard; Postal Pay; Postal Rate Increase; Powell, Adam Clayton; Presidential Candidate; Prisoners of War; Railroad Hours; Railroad Merger; Railroad Retirement; Redwood Park; Rent Subsidy; Republican State of the Union; Rhodesia; Riots ; Robinson-Patman Act; Rural Electrification Administration; S. 109; Schiller Park; Selective Service; Situs Picketing; Social Security; Sonic Boom; Space; State of the Union; Supreme Court; Taxes; Trade With Communists; Transportation Service Contract Act of 1965; Truck and Rail Strike; Tuition Tax Credit; Veterans’ Pension; Vietnam; Warrenville, Illinois, School; West Chicago High School; Whiskey Barrel.
Folders 2161-2163
Form Letters (1968)
Subjects: Advertising Tax; Allerton Park; Animal Experimentation; Biafra; Birthday; Budget; Business and Professional Women’s Stamp; Census; Citizenship; Civil Rights; Communists in Defense Plant; Copper; Crane Lake; Crime and Firearms; Czech. Commemorative Stamp; Daylight Savings Time; Democrat Convention; Dirksen for President; Electoral College; Elementary and Secondary Education Act; Federal Savings Institution; Firearms; Food Supplement; Fortas, Abe; Franchise; Goodard, James L.; Gold; Goodell Bill; H. R. 2158; Head Start Program; Highway; Holiday; Hunger; Import Quotas; Industrial Revenue Bonds; Interstate Taxation; Irish Immigration; Iron and Steel; Italian Refugees; Japanese Beetle; Kerner Report; March on Washington; Military Expenditures; Miscellaneous; Mutual Funds; Negative income Tax; Nonpro-liferati:on Treaty; Oakley Dam; Occupational Safety and Health Act; Open Housing; Panama Canal; Patoka Service Center; Pay Increase; Post Office Service; Postal Workers; Poverty; Prayer; Railroad Retirement; Redwood Park; Republican Presidential Candidate; S. 2202 and S. Res. 152; School District Funds; Selective Service; Shawneetown, Illinois; Single-Person Tax Reform; Small Corporation Tax Proposal; Social Ssecurity; Spending; Subversive Activities Control Board; Supreme Court; Taxes; Travel Tax; Veterans; Vietnam; Washington Television Program; Water and Air Pollution.
Folders 2164-2165
Form Letters (1969)
Subjects: Agnew Dresses; Air Pollution; Air Traffic Control; Allerton Park; Anti-ballistic Missile; Bank Holding Company; California Zephyr; Chemical and Biological Warfare; Cigarette Advertising; College Benefit System of America; Desegregation Guidelines; Draft System; Everglades; Farm; Farm Taxes; Greece; Gun Control; Illinois Income Tax; Inflation; Kennedy, Robert – Gravesite; Knowles Nomination; Labor; Licensed Practical Nurses Association; Longshoremen’s Strike; Lusk Creek; Medicare and Medicaid; MIRV; Miscellaneous, Illinois; Municipal Bonds; Mutual Funds; National Defense Education Act; National Science Foundation; Oakley Dam and Reservoir Project; Oil Depletion; Otepka, Otto; Pay Raise; Pay Television; Pornographic Literature; Shoe Imports; Social Security; Surtax; Taxexempt Municipal Bonds; Tax Reform; Trade; Vietnam; Voting Rights.

