Digitized Press Releases, 1961-1996 | Dole Archive 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.

All press releases listed here are available for direct download. Click "Detailed Description" to access the full inventory or search the full text of all scanned press releases here:

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],
[All]

Series 6: 1966

Box 13

Folder 9

Item 1: Elbert W. Smith Named 1st Superintendent Of Fort Larned National Historic Site, Kansas, 1/3/1966: Subject: Kansas - PDF available: 660103con.pdf
Item 2: Dole Endorsed Veteran's Educational Assistance Act Of 1966, 1/12/1966: Subject: Veterans - PDF available: 660112bob.pdf
Item 3: Comments On Presidents State Of The Union And Pledge To Continue And Expand Great Society (Johnson Administration), 1/13/1966: Subject: Public Welfare/Social Services - PDF available: 660113con.pdf
Item 4: Dole Opposed To Extending The Term Of House Of Representatives Members To Four Years, 1/14/1966: Subject: Congress (House) - PDF available: 660114rep.pdf
Item 5: Dole Introduced Legislation To Aid Some 29,000 Veterans With Pensions Reduced From Social Security Benefits, 1/18/1966: Subject: Veterans - PDF available: 660118rep.pdf
Item 6: Statement Of Bob Dole Freedom Of Information, 1/19/1966: Subject: Government Affairs - PDF available: 660119the.pdf
Item 7: Dole Speaker At American National Cattlemen's Association Called For Creation Of Bread And Butter Corps, 1/25/1966: Subject: Foreign Relations - PDF available: 660125con.pdf
Item 8: Dole At Kansas Veterans Republican Club Luncheon Said American People Should Be Given Truth About Great Society Legislation, 1/29/1966: Subject: General - PDF available: 660129rep.pdf
Item 9: Ida Mae Found Out The Eagle Had Jumped The Release Date, 1966-01: Subject: General - PDF available: 6601xxbob.pdf

Folder 10

Item 10: Naval Academy Appointees Named, 2/1/1966: Subject: Nominations/Government Offices - PDF available: 660201was.pdf
Item 11: Doles Administrative Assistant Bill Kats To Be In District, 2/3/1966: Subject: Staff Members - PDF available: 660203rep.pdf
Item 12: Dole Urged Passage Of Veterans Readjustment Act, 2/7/1966: Subject: Veterans - PDF available: 660207rep.pdf
Item 13: Statement By Congressman Dole In Support Of Veterans Readjustment Benefits Act, 2/7/1966: Subject: Veterans - PDF available: 660207the.pdf
Item 14: Doles Administrative Assistant Bill Kats To Be In District, 2/9/1966: Subject: Staff Members - PDF available: 660209bill.pdf
Item 15: Dole Will Visit Four States For Speeches, 2/9/1966: Subject: Schedules - PDF available: 660209rep.pdf
Item 16: USDA Supply-Management Program, 2/10/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660210bob.pdf
Item 17: Dole Speaking At Forty-Fifth Annual Stockholders Meeting Of The Central Livestock Association Warned About H.R. 11788 Amending Commodity Exchange Act, 2/10/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660210bobd.pdf
Item 18: USDA Supply-Management Program, 2/10/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660210con.pdf
Item 19: USDA Supply-Management Program, 2/10/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660210cong.pdf
Item 20: Dole Speaker At Republican Lincoln Day Dinner In Salt Lake City, Utah On The Constitution And Supreme Court, 2/11/1966: Subject: Courts - PDF available: 660211con.pdf
Item 21: Dole Speaker At Republican Lincoln Day Dinner In Bismarck, North Dakota Talks About Budget Deficit, 2/12/1966: Subject: Budget - PDF available: 660212bob.pdf
Item 22: Dole States Johnson Administration Pauperizing Elderly With Inflationary Policies, 2/13/1966: Subject: Economy - PDF available: 660213cong.pdf
Item 23: Hearings On Food For Peace Program Started In Committee On House Agriculture, 2/15/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660215was.pdf
Item 24: Doles Administrative Assistant Bill Kats To Be In District, 2/16/1966: Subject: Staff Members - PDF available: 660216bill.pdf
Item 25: Dole Activities Including Russell-Dodge City Basketball Game And Annual Pancake Day Race, 2/17/1966: Subject: Schedules - PDF available: 660217fir.pdf
Item 26: Dole Speaking At Kansas Bankers Agricultural School Stated Wheat Stocks No Longer Of Surplus Proportions, 2/18/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660218con.pdf
Item 27: Dole Speaking At Kansas Bankers Agricultural School Stated Wheat Stocks No Longer Of Surplus Proportions, 2/18/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660218rep.pdf
Item 28: Dole Asked Support From American Freedom From Hunger Foundation To Support His Bread And Butter Corps Proposal, 2/24/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660224con.pdf
Item 29: Bill To Establish Youth Temperance Education Week, 2/28/1966: Subject: Public Welfare/Social Services - PDF available: 660228con.pdf

Folder 11

Item 1: Dole Introduced Bill To Provide Permanent Special Milk Program For Children, 3/1/1966: Subject: Public Welfare/Social Services - PDF available: 660301con.pdf
Item 2: Dole Told Kansas Lawyers That Farm Laws Must Be Simplified, 3/2/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660302con.pdf
Item 3: Agriculture Act Of 1965 Permits Flexibility In Wheat Acreage Allotments, 3/2/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660302smi.pdf
Item 4: Unlimited Sugar Impost May Hurt Domestics, 3/9/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660309was.pdf
Item 5: U.S. Department Of Commerce Recommends Export Control On Hides And Skins, 3/16/1966: Subject: Business - PDF available: 660316con.pdf
Item 6: National Right To Work Committee Cited Dole For Fight To Retain Section 14B Of The Taft-Hartley Act, 3/18/1966: Subject: Awards/Honors - PDF available: 660318con.pdf
Item 7: Text Of Bread And Butter Corps Bill, 3/18/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660318not.pdf
Item 8: Dole Charged Johnson Administration Of Leading To Economic Absolutism, 3/19/1966: Subject: Budget - PDF available: 660319con.pdf
Item 9: National Right To Work Committee Cited Dole For Fight To Retain Section 14B Of The Taft-Hartley Act, 3/23/1966: Subject: Awards/Honors - PDF available: 660323con.pdf
Item 10: Members Of House Of Representatives Met With Department Of Commerce To Protest Controls On Exports Of Hides And Skins, 3/28/1966: Subject: Business - PDF available: 660328eig.pdf
Item 11: Ag Committee Requests Reconsideration, 3/30/1966: Subject: Business - PDF available: 660330wew.pdf

Folder 12

Item 1: Delegation Including Dole To London On Narcotics Addiction And Growing Use Of Hallucinatory Drugs, 4/8/1966: Subject: Drugs - PDF available: 660408upi.pdf
Item 2: Dole Stated Today That Questionnaires Have Been Mailed To Residents In Congressional District, 4/11/1966: Subject: Kansas - PDF available: 660411con.pdf
Item 3: Dole Discussed Food For Freedom Proposal And Bread And Butter Corps At Meeting Of Newspaper Farm Editors Of America, 4/18/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660418att.pdf
Item 4: Dole Indicated Students Differ With Parents On Issues In First District Opinion Poll, 4/19/1966: Subject: Voting/Position - PDF available: 660419con.pdf
Item 5: Statement Of Bob Dole On Export Quotas On Cattle Hides Before The Secretary Of Commerce, 4/19/1966: Subject: Business - PDF available: 660419mrc.pdf
Item 6: Dole Talks To Secretary Of Commerce John T Connor About Restrictions On Cattle Hide, 4/19/1966: Subject: Business - PDF available: 660419rep.pdf
Item 7: Dole Appeared Before Public Works Subcommittee On Appropriations In Support Of Budget Recommendations For 1967, 4/25/1966: Subject: Budget - PDF available: 660425bob.pdf
Item 8: Subcommittee Republicans Hit Boycott Charge On Packer-Feeder Bill, 4/26/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660426fou.pdf
Item 9: Dole Makes Official Airforce Academy Visit, 4/27/1966: Subject: Schedules - PDF available: 660427con.pdf
Item 10: House Committee On Agriculture Approved Dole's Technical Assistance Amendment To Food For Freedom Bill, 4/28/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660428the.pdf

Folder 13

Item 1: Dole Told Republican Women Attending Conference That There Is No Substitute For Effective Political Organization In Winning Elections, 5/6/1966: Subject: Elections - PDF available: 660506con.pdf
Item 2: The Fact That President Johnson Rather Than Secretary Of Agriculture Announced The Increase In 1967 Crop Wheat Acreage Allotment May Indicate Administration Is In Full Retreat, 5/7/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660507con.pdf
Item 3: Administration Discriminates Against Farmer, 5/9/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660509con.pdf
Item 4: Dole Continues Efforts To Approve Reapportionment Amendment, 5/16/1966: Subject: Government Affairs - PDF available: 660516rep.pdf
Item 5: Dole Introduced Bill To Provide Secretary Of Agriculture Authority To Make Early Payment Of Wheat Certificates, 5/17/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660517rep.pdf
Item 6: First District Opinion Poll Results Tabulated, 5/26/1966: Subject: Voting/Position - PDF available: 660526con.pdf
Item 7: Uneasiness And Uncertainty About The War In Vietnam, 5/28/1966: Subject: Vietnam War - PDF available: 660528con.pdf
Item 8: Young Republicans Collecting Filing Fee For Dole, 1966-05: Subject: Elections - PDF available: 660600you.pdf

Folder 14

Item 1: Bill Introduce By Dole To Provide Secretary Of Agriculture Authority To Make Early Payment On Wheat Certificates, 6/2/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660602abi.pdf
Item 2: Dole Appointed To Foreign Operations And Government Information Subcommittee, 6/3/1966: Subject: Congress (House) - PDF available: 660603rep.pdf
Item 3: Bill To Give Secretary Of Agriculture Authority To Make Early Payment Of Wheat Certificate Passed By Unanimous Consent, 6/6/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660606abi.pdf
Item 4: Young Republicans Raise Filing Fee, 6/6/1966: Subject: Elections - PDF available: 660606you.pdf
Item 5: Bail Reform Act Not In Best Interest Of Public, 6/7/1966: Subject: Crime - PDF available: 660607rep.pdf
Item 6: Disaster Areas Used For Emergency Grazing Program, 6/15/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660615rep.pdf
Item 7: Tribute To Disabled American Veterans, 6/16/1966: Subject: Veterans - PDF available: 660616con.pdf
Item 8: Dole And Skubitz Efforts To Have Portion Of Kansas Included In Water Study, 6/17/1966: Subject: Public Works - PDF available: 660617con.pdf
Item 9: Dole Predicted Easy Passage Of Freedom Of Information Bill, 6/17/1966: Subject: Government Affairs - PDF available: 660617cong.pdf
Item 10: Clerk Has Released Official Attendance And Voting Records Of House Members For Second Session Of 89Th Congress, 6/22/1966: Subject: Voting/Position - PDF available: 660622ral.pdf
Item 11: Dole Charged Johnson Administration With Killing Small Watershed Program, 6/23/1966: Subject: Environment - PDF available: 660623con.pdf
Item 12: Dole Urged Secretary Of Agriculture Orville Freeman To Increase The National Wheat Acreage Allotment For 1967, 6/30/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660630rep.pdf

Folder 15

Item 1: Drought Urges Prompt Action Of Approval Of Soil Bank Grazing, 7/6/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660706rep.pdf
Item 2: Dole Stated Today That Questionnaires Have Been Mailed To Residents In Congressional District, 7/11/1966: Subject: Kansas - PDF available: 660711con.pdf
Item 3: Dole Calls For President Johnson To Step Into Airline Strike, 7/14/1966: Subject: Transportation - PDF available: 660714rep.pdf
Item 4: Dole Announced Accepting Applications For Service Academies, 7/20/1966: Subject: Nominations/Government Offices - PDF available: 660720rep.pdf
Item 5: Dole Attacked Government Financing Of Hogs In Communist Romania For Export To The United States, 7/22/1966: Subject: Commerce/Trade - PDF available: 660722rep.pdf
Item 6: Johnson Administration Has Yielded To Congress Over Watershed Projects, 7/27/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660727con.pdf
Item 7: Amendment To Colorado River Basin Bill Proposed By Skubitz And Dole, 7/28/1966: Subject: Public Works - PDF available: 660728ana.pdf
Item 8: Dole Bill For Automatic Social Security Increases, 7/29/1966: Subject: Social Security - PDF available: 660729rep.pdf
Item 9: Dole Bill For Automatic Social Security Increases, 7/29/1966: Subject: Social Security - PDF available: 660729repb.pdf
Item 10: Strike Law Still Needed, 7/30/1966: Subject: Transportation - PDF available: 660730con.pdf

Folder 16

Item 1: Dole Accused Clive Duval Of Attempt To Deceive The People Of The Tenth District Of Virginia About Vietnam Junket, 8/1/1966: Subject: Campaigns - PDF available: 660801ina.pdf
Item 2: Agriculture Exports Help Offset Deficit Dole Says, 8/8/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660808con.pdf
Item 3: Dole Disappointed Agriculture Committee Disapproved Rea Financing Proposal, 8/18/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660818rep.pdf
Item 4: Wheat Producers Need Assurances, 8/20/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660820con.pdf
Item 5: Agriculture Committee Will Hold Hearings On Dole Bills To Modernize Federal Seed Act, 8/22/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660822con.pdf
Item 6: Food For Freedom Proposal By Dole And Quie, 8/24/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660824con.pdf
Item 7: New GOP Plan For Public Problem Solving, 8/25/1966: Subject: Public Welfare/Social Services - PDF available: 660825fro.pdf

Folder 17

Item 1: French Announces Dollars For Dole Campaign, 9/8/1966: Subject: Elections - PDF available: 660908jim.pdf
Item 2: Voting Records Released For House 89Th Congress 2Nd Session, 9/8/1966: Subject: Voting/Position - PDF available: 660908ral.pdf
Item 3: Puzzled By Schnittker's Definition Of Adequate Size Commercial Farms, 9/9/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660909dod.pdf
Item 4: Voting Records Released For House 89Th Congress 2Nd Session, 9/12/1966: Subject: Voting/Position - PDF available: 660912ral.pdf
Item 5: After Dilly-Dallying Johnson Finally Recognizes Inflation, 9/17/1966: Subject: Economy - PDF available: 660917con.pdf
Item 6: Wheat Producers Will Plant Only One-Half Acreage Increases In 1967 Allotments, 9/19/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660919con.pdf
Item 7: Veterans Pension Act Of 1966, 9/20/1966: Subject: Veterans - PDF available: 660920con.pdf
Item 8: Orville Freeman May Be On His Way Out, 9/22/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 660922con.pdf
Item 9: Difference Between GOP And Democrats Is Way They Think About And Handle Money, 9/23/1966: Subject: Elections - PDF available: 660923con.pdf
Item 10: Dole Unsuccessful In Effort To Amend The Poverty Program, 9/29/1966: Subject: Public Welfare/Social Services - PDF available: 660929con.pdf

Folder 18

Item 1: Johnson Administration Engaged In Campaign To Depress Price Of Wheat (Johnson Administration), 10/1/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 661001con.pdf
Item 2: Federal Property And Administrative Services Act (Business), 10/3/1966: Subject: Business - PDF available: 661003con.pdf
Item 3: Dole Requests Freeman To Shore Up Declining Wheat Market (Agriculture), 10/5/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 661005con.pdf
Item 4: Dole Receives Watchdog Of The Treasury Award (Federal Budget), 10/6/1966: Subject: Awards/Honors - PDF available: 661006con.pdf
Item 5: Reasons For Drop In Wheat Prices, 10/11/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 661011con.pdf
Item 6: Increase Sugar Beet Production, 10/11/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 661011mem.pdf
Item 7: Statement On Merging Of Football Leagues, 10/13/1966: Subject: General - PDF available: 661013mrc.pdf
Item 8: Five Congressmen From Kansas Suggest Investigation Into Charges Made By Frank Leroux On USDA Officials, 10/14/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 661014the.pdf
Item 9: Dole Released Letter To Secretary Of Interior Stewart Udall Regarding Foreign Oil Imports, 10/17/1966: Subject: Energy - PDF available: 661017con.pdf
Item 10: Dole Released Letter To Secretary Of Interior Stewart Udall Regarding Foreign Oil Imports (Energy), 10/20/1966: Subject: Energy - PDF available: 661020con.pdf
Item 11: Changes In Proposed Tax Regulations Re. Deductions By Teachers, 10/22/1966: Subject: Taxes - PDF available: 661022con.pdf
Item 12: Dole Issued Report On Misuse Of Us Owned Foreign Currencies), 10/22/1966: Subject: Economy - PDF available: 661022cong.pdf
Item 13: Attendance And Voting Records Of House Members Released, 10/24/1966: Subject: Voting/Position - PDF available: 661024ral.pdf
Item 14: Dole Endorsed By Americans For Constitutional Action, 10/27/1966: Subject: Elections - PDF available: 661027was.pdf

Folder 19

Item 1: Congress Has Displayed Bipartisanship In Supporting Sound Soil And Water Conservation Development, 11/1/1966: Subject: Environment - PDF available: 661101con.pdf
Item 2: Food For Peace Means Wheat For Peace, 11/8/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 661108rep.pdf
Item 3: Veterans Day, 11/11/1966: Subject: Veterans - PDF available: 661111rep.pdf
Item 4: Dole To Visit Six Countries To Review Market Promotion Activities, 11/15/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 661115con.pdf
Item 5: Service Academy Appointments Interviews, 11/23/1966: Subject: Nominations/Government Offices - PDF available: 661123thi.pdf

Folder 20

Item 1: Dole Returns From Review Of Market Promotion Activities In Europe, 12/9/1966: Subject: Agriculture - PDF available: 661209con.pdf
Item 2: Special Mission To India, 12/11/1966: Subject: Foreign Relations - PDF available: 661211con.pdf
Item 3: Dole Speaks About 90Th Congress Legislation, 12/12/1966: Subject: Congress - PDF available: 661212con.pdf
Item 4: Dole Returns From India, 12/22/1966: Subject: Foreign Relations - PDF available: 661222con.pdf
Item 5: Coast And Geodetic Survey Field Party In 1St District, 12/29/1966: Subject: Kansas - PDF available: 661229con.pdf
Item 6: Us Military And Naval Academy Appointments, 12/30/1966: Subject: Nominations/Government Offices - PDF available: 661230con.pdf