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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79010926
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Clinton Presba Anderson, U.S. senator and representative from New Mexico and secretary of agriculture, were deposited in the Library of Congress by Anderson in 1962-1972 and converted to a gift in 1975.
The Clinton Presba Anderson Papers were processed by J. Samuel Walker with the assistance of Susie Moody in 1976. The finding aid was revised in 2011.
Photographic prints, two books of engravings, and other print items have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of the Clinton Presba Anderson Papers. Patrons are encouraged to contact the Prints and Photographs Division in advance of a research visit.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Clinton Presba Anderson is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Clinton Presba Anderson are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Clinton Presba Anderson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Clinton P. Anderson (1895-1975) span the years 1938-1973, with the bulk of the material dating from 1948 to 1973. The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, speeches, hearing transcripts, reports, and other papers pertaining to Anderson's service in Congress, 1941-1973. Subjects include agriculture, civil rights, conservation and natural resources, education, health care, Indian affairs, nuclear energy, poverty, and the Vietnam War. Included also are Anderson's files as a member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy pertaining, in part, to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis L. Strauss, and the security investigation of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Other files relate to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, Atoms for Peace Awards proposed by Dwight D. Eisenhower to encourage international cooperation in the use of nuclear energy, the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, and the relief program following the Alaskan earthquake, 1964.
The collection is organized into eight series: General Correspondence, Administrative File, Legislative File, Joint Commission on Atomic Energy, Special Committees, Speeches and Writings, Appointment Books, and Miscellany.
Correspondents include Charles F. Brannan, Dennis Chavez, Wilbur J. Cohen, Gordon E. Dean, Carl A. Hatch, Hubert H. Humphrey, Henry M. Jackson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Warren G. Magnuson, Mike Mansfield, Joseph McCarthy, Brien McMahon, Joseph Manuel Montoya, James E. Murray, Richard B. Russell, Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Sargent Shriver, Lewis L. Strauss, Stuart Symington, Harry S. Truman, and Stewart L. Udall.
The collection is arranged in eight series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79010926
Incoming and outgoing correspondence with friends and acquaintances.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, articles, press releases, newsletters, printed matter.
Generally arranged by sessions of Congress, although some material predates or postdates the congressional session. The files are arranged by a decimal classification with numbers representing a particular subject. Administrative files for Anderson's Albuquerque, N.Mex., office are separate for the years 1952-72.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, government publications, excerpts from the
Arranged generally by sessions of Congress, although some material predates or postdates the session under which it is filed. The files are arranged alphabetically by committee for each session. Included are copies of pending bills and amendments and material relating to them, which are arranged numerically by the number of the proposed legislation files for the 77th -79th Congresses, when Anderson served in the House. They are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, news releases, transcripts of hearings, reports, and printed matter.
Arranged by sessions of Congress, although some material does not conform to the dates of the session under which it is filed. The individual files for each session are not arranged in any particular order.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, press releases, transcripts of hearings, reports, and printed matter relating to Anderson's service on a variety of special committees and commissions.
There is no particular arrangement of the files for individual committees.
Copies of Anderson's speeches, press interviews, radio broadcasts, and published articles together with related background information, correspondence, and rough drafts of writings.
Arranged chronologically.
Appointment books occasionally contain shorthand notes and memoranda relating to engagements.
Arranged chronologically.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, campaign literature, minutes of meetings, and printed matter.
Arranged by subject. Military service academy files, Containers 1013-1029, are administratively closed.