Digitized Press Releases, 1961-1996 | Robert and Elizabeth Dole Archive and Special Collections

Collection Overview

Title: Digitized Press Releases, 1961-1996

Predominant Dates:1961-1996

ID: 01/015

Primary Creator: Dole, Robert J. (1923-2021)

Arrangement: The physical documents are organized chronologically within the respective House and Senate collections, as well as individual press releases filed with pertinent subject files. This finding aid provides a chronological item level list for all digitized press releases, regardless of physical location.

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Robert J. Dole Press Releases were produced and accumulated by Robert J. Dole and his staff during Dole's 35 years as a United States Representative and Senator from Kansas. The releases document the constituent services provided by Dole and his handling of legislative issues in the House and Senate.

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The collection spans 1961-1996, and includes press releases issued by Dole's Congressional, Senate, and Republican Leadership offices. The releases include communications relating to all functions of the Dole offices on Capitol Hill: political events, legislative efforts, constituent relations, and press coverage. Although not a complete listing of all of the press releases to be found in various parts of the collections, this finding aid represents 9,704 press releases that have been digitized.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: 1961],
[Series 2: 1962],
[Series 3: 1963],
[Series 4: 1964],
[Series 5: 1965],
[Series 6: 1966],
[Series 7: 1967],
[Series 8: 1968],
[Series 9: 1969],
[Series 10: 1970],
[Series 11: 1971],
[Series 12: 1972],
[Series 13: 1973],
[Series 14: 1974],
[Series 15: 1975],
[Series 16: 1976],
[Series 17: 1977],
[Series 18: 1978],
[Series 19: 1979],
[Series 20: 1980],
[Series 21: 1981],
[Series 22: 1982],
[Series 23: 1983],
[Series 24: 1984],
[Series 25: 1985],
[Series 26: 1986],
[Series 27: 1987],
[Series 28: 1988],
[Series 29: 1989],
[Series 30: 1990],
[Series 31: 1991],
[Series 32: 1992],
[Series 33: 1993],
[Series 34: 1994],
[Series 35: 1995],
[Series 36: 1996],
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Series 1: 1961

Box 11

Folder 35

Item 1: Speaking at Regional Young Republican Meeting, 1/17/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_035_001.pdf
Item 2: Dole spoke at Regional Young Republican Conference, 1/21/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_035_002.pdf
Item 3: Dole Press Release: warning schemes of persons selling unused Army jeeps, 1/25/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_035_003.pdf
Item 4: Dole and other Kansas Republican Congressmen voted against motion to enlarge House Rules Committee, 1/31/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_035_004.pdf

Folder 36

Item 1: Dole introduces bill to extend the development period for water users in Bostwick Irrigation District, 2/6/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_036_001.pdf
Item 2: Congressman Dole has been advised by Acting Commissioner of Education Wayne O. Reed that an application of Bennington Common School District No. 3 for Financial Assistance under the provisions of Public Law 874 has been approved, 2/8/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_036_002.pdf
Item 3: Dole participating in Department of Air Force briefing for newly elected members of Congress, 2/16/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_036_003.pdf
Item 4: Dole advised by Air Force plans to continue work with the U.S. Weather Bureau to obtain meteorological data for severe weather warnings, 2/16/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_036_004.pdf
Item 5: Dole announces Agriculture Committee announces full committee will have an organizational meeting February 20th, 2/16/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_036_005.pdf
Item 6: Dole Announces completion of a preliminary investigation to have a soil moisture conservation laboratory in Western Kansas, 2/22/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_036_006.pdf
Item 7: Dole announces he has been analyzing various plans to extend and amend the present Sugar Act, 2/23/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_036_007.pdf
Item 8: House Agriculture Committee passes controversial feed grain bill, 2/27/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_036_008.pdf

Folder 37

Item 1: 7 University of Kansas Engineering School graduates that are working in the nation's atomic reactor program pictured with their respective Congressmen, 3/2/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_037_001.pdf
Item 2: Congressman Dole announces his subcommittee assignments on Agriculture Committee, 3/3/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_037_002.pdf
Item 3: Dole Accuses Kennedy of "Propagandizing" In Mailing of Veteran Insurance Dividends, 3/7/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_037_003.pdf
Item 4: Congressman Dole informed by the Community facilities administration that an advance of $600 for the City of Lorraine, Kansas in preliminary planning of sewerage facilities, 3/7/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_037_004.pdf
Item 5: Congressman Dole has written a letter of inquiry today to J. Edward Day, US Postmaster General concerning the status of acting Postmasters, 3/9/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_037_005.pdf
Item 6: Congressman Dole has been advise that an application of Wilson School District Joint No. 10 for financial assistance under the provisions of Public Law 874 has been approved, 3/11/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_037_006.pdf
Item 7: Congressman Dole announces he has written Congressmen J. Floyd Breeding and William Avery suggesting they join him in urging funds be included in any revision of the 1962 fiscal budget for construction of a $4 million Evapo-transpiration center lab, 3/13/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_037_007.pdf
Item 8: Congressman Dole compliments Democratic critics who label him reactionary because of his vote against Unemployment Compensation benefits, 3/15/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_037_008.pdf
Item 9: Congressman Dole states today he votes against approving the Conference Report on H.R. 4806, which would extend unemployment benefits, 3/22/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_037_009.pdf
Item 10: Congressman Dole has been advised by Commissioner of the Community Facilities Administration that an advance of $600 has been made to Lebanon, Kansas for preliminary planning of a sewer system, 3/27/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_037_010.pdf
Item 11: Congressman Dole was advised by the Post Office Department that a Contract has been signed for a New Post Office Building in Winona, Kansas, 3/31/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_037_011.pdf

Folder 38

Item 1: Dole announces he will participate with members of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Equipment, Supplies and Manpower in a Committee inquiry, 4/19/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_038_001.pdf
Item 2: Congressman Dole Announces hearings were commenced by the House Committee on Agriculture of which he is a Member, on the Kennedy Administration Farm Bill, 4/25/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_038_002.pdf

Folder 39

Item 2: Congressman Dole has been informed by Bureau of Reclamation officials they are prepared to send to Congress, an administration-authored bill to extend the development period of the Bostwick Irrigation District., 5/4/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_039_002.pdf
Item 3: Congressman Dole speaks in his hometown of Russell, KS to members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Auxilliary at their 15th Anniversary Celebration, 5/7/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_039_003.pdf
Item 4: Harold Purdy of Deerfield, KS and Harry L. Lightcup of Hugoton, KS appeared before the full committee of the House Committee on Agriculture, 5/18/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_039_004.pdf
Item 1: Congressman Dole presented statement to House Appropriations Committee supporting a soil moisture research center, 5/21/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_039_001.pdf
Item 5: Congressman Dole made a major address at the Oklahoma State Convention where he charged the Kennedy Administration's Farm Bill is a step in the wrong direction, 5/26/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_039_005.pdf

Folder 40

Item 1: Corps of Engineers - Wilson Reservoir, 6/1/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_040_001.pdf
Item 2: Omnibus Farm Bill Title III Section 314, 6/6/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_040_002.pdf
Item 3: Farm bill prices, 6/6/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_040_003.pdf
Item 4: Omnibus III-314, 6/7/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_040_004.pdf
Item 5: Freeman reply on wheat price, 6/9/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_040_005.pdf
Item 6: 12th Biennial Convention of the Young Republican National Federation, attendance notice, 6/17/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_040_006.pdf
Item 7: Omnibus Bill Amendment, 6/29/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_040_007.pdf
Item 8: Criticism of Kennedy Dividend Removal, 6/30/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_040_008.pdf

Folder 41

Item 1: Aerial Grave Photos, 7/5/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_041_001.pdf
Item 2: Omnibus III 314, 7/18/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_041_002.pdf
Item 3: Voting against Omnibus, 7/20/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_041_003.pdf
Item 4: Letter about Farm bill, 7/28/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_041_004.pdf

Folder 42

Item 1: Inquiry request about Ag funding, 8/7/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_042_001.pdf
Item 2: Freshmen Ag Reps Volunteering for Sugar Sub, 8/9/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_042_002.pdf
Item 3: Russian Foreign Aid, 8/14/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_042_003.pdf
Item 4: Raw Wheat Moving is Ridiculous, 8/16/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_042_004.pdf
Item 5: Winter Barley Substitution Appeal, 8/18/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_042_005.pdf
Item 6: Courtland Sewer System, 8/23/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_042_006.pdf
Item 7: Special Sugar Hearing, 8/24/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_042_007.pdf
Item 8: Non-Strategic Exports, 8/28/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_042_008.pdf
Item 9: Permit Winter Barley, 8/31/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_042_009.pdf

Folder 43

Item 1: Flaw in 1962 Wheat Program, 9/11/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_043_001.pdf
Item 2: Yugoslavia Foreign Aid, 9/11/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_043_002.pdf
Item 3: The Freeman Lunch, 9/15/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_043_003.pdf
Item 4: Winona Sewage advance, 9/19/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_043_004.pdf
Item 5: U.S. Arms Control Agency Bill is Weakness, 9/20/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_043_005.pdf
Item 6: Arms Control Act is Weakness, 9/25/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_043_006.pdf
Item 7: Will Make Nominations to Military Academies, 9/27/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_043_007.pdf

Folder 44

Item 3: Lack of Democratic Leadership, 10/17/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_044_003.pdf
Item 4: Paul Revere Panel, 10/19/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_044_004.pdf
Item 5: Whole Fish Flour, 10/23/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_044_005.pdf
Item 6: Don't Muzzle the Military, 10/24/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_044_006.pdf
Item 1: Steeples on Breeding Statement, 1961-10: PDF available: s-press_011_044_001.pdf
Item 2: Steeples on Montgomery Farm Bill statement, 1961-10: PDF available: s-press_011_044_002.pdf

Folder 45

Item 1: FDA and Whole Fish Flour, 11/9/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_045_001.pdf
Item 2: Schilling Missile Complex terracing, 11/17/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_045_002.pdf
Item 3: Air Force Oks Terracing, 11/30/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_045_003.pdf

Folder 46

Item 1: Air Force Schilling Terracing, 12/1/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_046_001.pdf
Item 2: Coast Guard Competitive Exams, 12/9/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_046_002.pdf
Item 3: Academy Screening Board Appointed, 12/18/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_046_003.pdf
Item 4: Plans for Academy Screening, 12/20/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_046_004.pdf
Item 5: Young GOP Meeting Attendance, 12/28/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_046_005.pdf
Item 6: Goldwater Associate to Attend New First District GOP Meet, 12/30/1961: PDF available: s-press_011_046_006.pdf