A. Congress, 1957-1980

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0 box(es) and (212 linear feet)
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The Congress files consist of constituent correspondence, news clippings, reports, and published materials. This subseries is divided by each congress and within each congress by its session. Each session consists of constituent correspondence along with a copy of the Senator's response to each letter. The correspondence contains information on a variety of legislation of local and national concern. Arrangement within each session is alphabetical by subject.

Along with each session, the 96th Congress contained files pertaining to the ethics controversy. This subsubseries contains financial statements, reports, transcripts used in Talmadge's ethics hearings before the Judiciary committee. Arrangement is by topic.

Also, research files of Legislative Assistant Randy Nuckolls are a part of the 95th and 94th Congress subsubseries. His files consisted of reports, correspondence, published materials and copies of legislation. These files were used to prepare for upcoming legislation of interest to Senator Talmadge. Topics included education, the Chattahoochee River, health care, labor, transportation, and welfare. Arrangement is alphabetical by topic. These are just a few files from Talmadge's Legislative Assistants because most of their files were woven into the main body of the legislation series.

The 93rd Congress subsubseries had both sessions together by subject. Also, there are several files pertaining to the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, more commonly referred to as the Watergate Committee. Other subsubseries contain information pertaining to energy and the armed forces.

During the 89th Congress, there were two different filing systems in existence. One system had files arranged alphabetically by committees that Talmadge served on as senator, the other was arranged alphabetically by subject.

The 85th Congress subseries had both sessions arranged by topic in chronological order. These files include speeches, news clippings and correspondence on civil rights, appropriations, and agriculture. There are also speeches and news clippings dated from 1957 to 1961.

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