urn:taro:dalpub.08311 Bruce Alger Collection Finding aid prepared by Dr. John Geers. Texas/Dallas History & Archives, Dallas Public Library December 08, 2004
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 Alger, Bruce Bruce Alger Collection 1954-1979 46 boxes MA 83-11 The records are in English. Biographical Note

Occasionally in history a person emerges who stands apart, either by choice or chance. In 1954 such a man was elected by the Texas Fifth District as the first Republican U. S. Representative from Texas since the Civil War. Whether Bruce Alger stood apart by chance or by choice depends on the interpretation of the issues and circumstances.

Bruce Alger was born in Dallas, Texas, June 12, 1918, but was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. A recipient of a Blossum scholarship, Alger attended Princeton University, where he studied philosophy, art and music. After graduation his first career was television, the newest invention of the 1940s. Joining the RCA Corporation in their promotions department, Alger settled down to work in communications; however, his career was interrupted by WWII. Alger joined the Army as a flyer, holding the rank of Captain by war's end. On his return he found RCA would not hire him. He had been "gone too long" for the new fast-paced field.

In 1945 Alger moved to Dallas and formed Alger Development Co. As a real estate agent and land developer Alger soon found himself concerned with local issues and became the first president of the White Rock Chamber of Commerce. He settled back to enjoy his business and community.

However, in 1954 Alger's life would change. After being approached by associates, Alger became the Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives for the Fifth District. To his own surprise he was elected - the first and only Republican from Texas, setting him apart by circumstance. For the next ten years Alger would also be set apart by choice.

Alger's tenure in office (1954-1964) is included in Texas' Johnson-Rayburn era. Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn controlled the totally Democratic Texas delegation in Washington for many years. As a Republican Alger was an outsider. As an ultra-conservative Republican Alger was even further outside his state representative circle. As an individualist, a strict constitutionalist, and a man of extreme principles, or as some have said stubbornness, Alger stood separated from other Republicans as well.

Bruce Alger believed in the limited role of federal government during a time when the government was being asked toe expand. Alger stood fast to his principles. Compromise was not possible when the principle became the issue. Later, in his own words, Alger felt he had been too naïve to realize how Congress worked. People expected trade-offs and Alger could not trade. In an era of social movements, such as civil rights, his view of the federal role differed from most. He felt these changes belonged on local levels. The federal government should provide for the common defense and foreign affairs. Responsibility for social programs, or domestic controls, belonged to people closest to the problems. A good example of his unyielding belief concerned the funding for school lunch programs. In his view providing lunches, or other similar aid, should be controlled both financially and physically by local people. He stood firm on this point down to being the only member of the House to voice opposition to the lunch program.

Alger's steadfast determination increased his unpopularity with the Texas delegation as wall as members of the Fifth District back home in Dallas. It's possible that this fact, the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, in Dallas, and Texas' Democratic Party traditions all contributed to Alger's defeat by former Dallas mayor Earle Cabell in 1964.

After ten years of public service Alger picked up his private life. Continuing in real estate as a broker, he moved first to Florida and in 1976 back to Dallas. He remained out of political life, except for occasional public appearances. As of 1986 Bruce Alger is still living and working in the Dallas area.

 Scope and Contents

The Bruce Alger Collection begins with Alger's campaign and election in 1954, continues through his tenure in office and follows his political interests and activities up to 1979. Correspondence and U. S. House procedures are a a major portion of the collection contents.

1954 1964 - THE CONGRESSIONAL PAPERS

The congressional papers include speeches, letters, as well as House bills, resolutions, and voting records. An interesting aspect of this section deals with the Ways and Means Committee, on which Alger served. Reports on Urban Renewal, the Hoover Commission, Public Assistance, Tax Bills and Civil Rights issues are also well represented.

1967-1979

The remainder of the collection gives a more in-depth look at Bruce Alger. It reveals what issues he remained interested in including Civil Rights, Urban Renewal, the Kennedy Assassination, busing, school prayer, and the Vietnam War. The remainder of the collection consists of newspaper clippings, photographs, tapes and books, including three manuscripts written by Alger.

The collection is an excellent source for American politics, Texas politics, ultra conservatism in the 1850s, 60s, and 70s as well as a biography of Congressman Bruce Alger.

 Related Material

FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE ALSO:

Oral History of Bruce Alger, interviewed by Gerald Saxon, part of the Dallas Public Library's Oral History Project in the Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, 1984. (Tapes #256, 257, 258)

Bruce Alger: An Oral History Interview, interviewed by Alan Mason, East Texas State University and Dallas Public Library Oral History Project, 1983. (DPL #325.73092A 395YA)

Biographical vertical files, Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library.

 Index Terms

This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Persons: Alger, Bruce Places: Dallas, Texas Subjects: United States. Congress. House Occupations: Legislators -- United States Detailed Description of the Collection 1 1954 1 1 Biography - Bruce Reynolds Alger 1 2 Campaign speech kit 1 3 Booklets, pamphlets 1 4 Election clippings, pamphlets 1 5 Congratulatory letters 1 6 Congratulatory letters 1 7 Campaign lists 1 8 Wallace Savage news clippings 2 1955-1956 2 1 Americans for Democratic Action - ratings - clippings 2 2 Americans for Democratic Action - ratings - clippings 2 3 Congratulatory letters 2 4 Speeches - speech material 2 5 Speeches, radio address, newsletters 2 6 Voting record files - 84th Congress 2 7 Voting record 84th Congress 2 8 Lyndon Johnson, Senator, letters, speech 2 9 H. R. 7448 - Repeal of Gasoline Tax 2 10 H. R. 7304 - Depletion Allowance, Tax Code 2 11 H. R. 7052 - Repeal of Sec. 601, P. L. 155 2 12 H. R. 221 - American Law Student Week 2 13 H. R. 4510 - Veterans Regulations 2 14 Americans for Democratic Action, press releases 2 15 Facts Forum January 2 16 Facts Forum - radio program 2 17 Urban Renewal kit 2 18 Election campaign 2 19 Campaing contributions 2 20 Campaign contributor lists and summaries 2 21 Henry Wade vs. Alger, clippings, speeches 2 22 Henry Wade speeches, correspondence 2 23 Campaing speeches - Wade vs. Alger 2 24 Speeches 3 1956-1958 3 1 Congratulatory letters 3 2 National Republican Convention 3 3 H. R. 11153 - Davis-Bacon Amendment 3 4 Freda L. Sullivan Immigration - Private Law 563 3 5 Hoover Commission bills 1955 3 6 Americans for Democratic Action 3 7 Speech material - speeches 3 8 Speeches 3 9 Voting record 3 10 Lyndon Johnson - correspondence, pamphlets 3 11 Congratulatory letters 3 12 Oil imports, off-shore drilling 3 13 Investigation of Oil for Europe program 3 14 Statement to Committee on Education & Labor 3 15 Post Office Department & correspondence 3 16 H. R. 6478 - Natural gas bill 3 17 H. R. 6407 - Tax Relief for Small Business 3 18 H. J. Res. 261 - Proposed Amendment to the Constitution 3 19 S. J. Res. 36 - Balancing the Budget 3 20 H. R. 5790 - Supply & Service Division, Department of Defense 3 21 H. R. 5580 - Juanita Lewis Insurance 3 22 Alger bills - 85th Congress 3 23 Alger bills - correspondence 3 24 Adverse Effects of the Expanding Activities of hte National Government on the Private Economy and Federal System: The Case for Free Enterprise and Local Self-Government. Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress 3 25 Federal expenditures 3 26 Speeches, speech notes - campaign 3 27 Campaign statements - contributor lists 3 28 Speech file 4 1958 4 1 Report luncheon speech 4 2 Campaign speeches - news releases 4 3 Barefoot Sanders - clippings - campaign literature 4 4 B. F. Fisk debate - rebuttal 4 5 B. F. Fisk - clippings - Congressional Record 4 6 Americans for Democratic Action 4 7 Unemployment compensation - Washington newsletter, Congressman N. M. Mason 4 8 Correspondence, re: speeches 4 9 Fair trade, public hearing 4 10 Fair trade - bills, statements, correspondence 4 11 Voting record by roll call, 2nd session, 85th Congress 4 12 City of Dallas urban renewal program 4 13 City of Dallas urban renewal correspondence 4 14 Urban renewal reports - correspondence 4 15 Master file - urban renewal 4 16 Master file - urban renewal 5 1958-1959 5 1 Urban renewal - master file 5 2 Urban renewal - master file 5 3 Hoover Commission - progress reports, correspondence 5 4 Draft - Bill to Amend Internal Revenue Code 5 5 H. J. Res. 259 - Constitutional Amendment - tax limitation 5 6 H. R. 13328 - To provide additional District Judges 5 7 H. R. 12759 - Private bill, George Berberian 5 8 H. R. 7367 - Private bill, Lee McDonald 5 9 H. R. 6860 - Private bill, Lidji and Gattegno 5 10 Jobless pay benefits 5 11 Social Security, unemployment & medical coverage 5 12 Fair trade - bills, statements 5 13 Fair trade - reports, clippings 5 14 Fair trade, master file 5 15 Lyndon Johnson - correspondence, clippings 5 16 Johnson-Kennedy voting records 5 17 Walter Reuther - labor 5 18 Speech notes - material 5 19 "The Mainstream of Freedom" - Alger speech 5 20 Reading, PA speech 5 21 "The Republic at the Crossroads" - Alger 5 22 Report luncheon speech 5 23 "The R. E. A. in Transition" - Alger 5 24 Garland post ofice dedication speech 5 25 Labor legislation - Alger 5 26 Voting attendance record 6 1959 6 1 Oil depletion hearings - Senator Gore speech 6 2 Oil depletion literature 6 3 Oil Depletion issue 6 4 Depletion hearings - Ways & Means 6 5 Urban Renewal 6 6 Urban Renewal 6 7 Urban Renewal - speeches, statements 6 8 Urban Renewal - Congressional Record 6 9 Urban Renewal - correspondence 6 10 Urban Renewal, City of Dallas 6 11 Urban Renewal, Newark Conference 6 12 Renegotiation Act, Ways & Means Committee 6 13 Presidential State of the Union Address 6 14 Unemployment compensation, Ways & Means 6 15 Temporary employment Act - H. R. 10 6 16 H. R. 3607 - To Amend Internal Revenue Code 7 1959-1960 7 1 The 1958 Elections - A Summary Report 7 2 Alger platform material 7 3 Legislation introduced in 86th Congress 7 4 Alger bills, correspondence 7 5 Congressional Record 7 6 H. J. Resolutions 538 & 158 - Balanced Budget 7 7 H. R. 2319 - To provide additional Texas Judges 7 8 H. R. 5840 - Amendment to Agricultural Adjustment Act 7 9 H. R. 5164 - Amend 1954 Internal Revenue Code 7 10 H. R. 5655 & 5611. Defense Facilities protection - Fertilizer production survey 7 11 H. R. 8003 - Limiting Labor Activities, correspondence 7 12 H. R. 8090 - Tax Relief for Small Business 7 13 H. R. 7731 - Natural Gas Bill - correspondence 7 14 H. R. 8632 - For Relief of Walter W. Cook 7 15 H. R. 9470 - For Relief of E. W. Cornett Sr. and Jr. 7 16 Alger bills, 86th Congress, correspondence 7 17 H.R. 3607 - Tax Reform 7 18 H. R. 7716 - Cokas Children Immigration Relief 7 19 H. R. 643 - Treaty Limitations, Bricker-Connaly Amendment 7 20 H. R. 12654 - Congressional Expenditures 7 21 H. R. 10982 - For Relief of Roberto A. Lopez 7 22 Analysis of bills to amend Fair Labor Act of 1938 7 23 Voting record - The Free Citizens 7 24 Voting record - Civil Affairs Associates 7 25 Voting Record - AFL-CIO Committee 7 26 Voting Records - 86th Congress 7 27 Voting attendance records 7 28 Civil rights hearings - House Judiciary Committee 7 29 Civil rights - bills, amendments, speeches 7 30 Civil rights - booklets, reports, Congressional Record 8 1960 8 1 Invitations - January 8 2 Invitations - February 8 3 Invitations - March 8 4 Invitations - April 8 5 Invitations - May 8 6 Americans for Democratic Action - voting tallies 8 7 Americans for Constitutional Action 8 8 Eisenhower letter 8 9 Eisenhower Administration - military construction and defense appropriations 8 10 The President's Budget message 8 11 National platforms - Democratic & Republican 8 12 Campaign file - general 8 13 Press releases 8 14 Campaign statements, contributor lists 8 15 "Maintaining a Stable Dollar" - speech, 48th Annual Meetings, U.S. Chamber of Commerce 8 16 "The Washington Scene"- speech before Texas Medical Association 8 17 Speech to El Paso Republicans 8 18 Speech to Oklahoma Utilities Association 8 19 Keynote address - Dallas Republican Convention 8 20 Alger speeches 8 21 Press releases 8 22 Republican platform 8 23 Clerk, House of Representatives, correspondence 8 24 Newsweek January 25 and April 18 8 25 Grand Prairie airport 8 26 Lyndon Johnson, Senator - correspondence 8 27 Japan-Russia, World War II - correspondence 8 28 Fair trade - clippings, correspondence 8 29 Trade Agreement Act negotiations 8 30 Alger divorce clipping 9 1960-1961 9 1 H. R. 7924 - To Amend Estate Tax 9 2 Urban renewal - correspondence 9 3 Social Security, Medical Benefits Insurance Exhibits - correspondence 9 4 Social Security - Medical Assistance for the Aged - amendments 9 5 Social Security - Medical Benefits - booklets, magazine articles 9 6 Social Security - booklets, printed matter 9 7 Social Security, Medical Benefits - correspondence 9 8 Social Security Amendments - H. R. 12580 9 9 Public Assistance - Advisory Council Report 9 10 Unemployment compensation hearings 9 11 Unemployment compensation hearings 9 12 State & Federal Unemployment Law - booklets 9 13 Housing & Home Finance Agency Report 9 14 Action for the Aged and Aging - A Report 9 15 Federal Grants-in-aid - Report 9 16 Medical Care Under Public Assistance 9 17 Blue Print for Neighborhood Conservation 9 18 Revenue Act - Committee Report 9 19 Federal Highway Act - bills & amendments 9 20 Trade Agreements Report - President's report 9 21 Fair trade bill amendment - S. 1722 9 22 Washington Report - press releases 9 23 Speeches - press releases 9 24 Cuban plan hijack-Berlin crisis statements 9 25 Human events 9 26 Social Security Board annual report 10 1961 10 1 The John Birch Society - correspondence, bulletins, clippings 10 2 Americans for Democratic Action - LA Times reprints 10 3 Americans for Constitutional Action - tally of roll call votes, 87th Congress 10 4 Legislation summary 10 5 Interparliamentary Union - reports 10 6 Employment in the Dynamic American Economy - Republican Policy Committee 10 7 Operation Employment - Republican Policy Committee 10 8 Ways & Means Committee tax legislation 10 9 Ways & Means Committee Medicare legislation 10 10 Alger bills - correspondence 10 11 H. R. 8407 - To Place Unions Under Anti-Trust Laws 10 12 H. R. 8193 - Henry E.Sunderman Relief 10 13 H. J. Res. 448 - Anti-Communism 10 14 H. R. 2200 - Internal Revenue Code - correspondence 10 15 H. R. 2803 - Roberto A. Lopez Relief 10 16 The 1960 elections - A summary report 10 17 National Parking Association speech 10 18 California speeches & correspondence 10 19 Dallas Federal Building - committee lists, clippings 10 20 ADA-Communist Party reprints 10 21 Nation's Business April 10 22 Gonzales Burn Case - Sen. R. Yarborough 10 23 General Edwin Walker - correspondence and literature 10 24 Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President 10 25 Jack Ruby Letter - Enquirer 10 26 Congratulatory letters 11 1962 11 1 Urban renewal - speeches, articles 11 2 Urban renewal - Mrs. G. W. Goekin file 11 3 Urban renewal - correspondence 11 4 Urban renewal - In Operation 11 5 Urban renewal - statements, articles 11 6 Public housing, Dallas 11 7 Public housing, Dallas - Lyn Davis file 11 8 The Adverse Effects of Public Housing - Library of Congress Report 11 9 Public housing - Alger speech, Congressional Record 11 10 Public assistance legislation 11 11 Public assistance programs, preliminary study 11 12 Public assistance correspondence 11 13 Public assistance amendments 11 14 Trade Bill H. R. 9900 and amendments 11 15 Trade Bill H. R. 9900 - recommended changes 11 16 Trade Expansion Act - H. R. 11970 11 17 Trade Expansion Act - Committee 977 export-import policy 11 18 Import restrictions by E. E. C. countries 11 19 Export origins study - 5th District of Texas 11 20 Soviet oil as an economic weapon 11 21 Trade legislation 11 22 Trade legislation - expansion summaries 12 1962 12 1 Trade Expansion Act - H. R. 11970 12 2 Trade Expansion Act 12 3 Summary - welfare bill H. R. 10032 12 4 Summary analysis - P. L. 87-792 Self-Employed Retirement Tax 12 5 Revenue Act 12 6 Foreign aid 12 7 Alger bills - 87th Congress 12 8 H. R. 11492 - Bill to Eliminate Withholding Tax From Wages & Salaries 12 9 H. R. 11492 - correspondence 12 10 H. R. 9905 - Revoke U. S. Membership in U. N. 12 11 Davis-Bacon Act Amendment hearings 12 12 H. R. 2030 - Herlong-Baker tax bill correspondence 12 13 H. R. 13411 - To Provide Alternative to Internal Revenue Code 12 14 H. Con. Res. 421 - Training Enemy Military Personnel 12 15 H. R. 9718 - Federal Dental Officers Association 12 16 H. R. 8407 - Anti-trust Labor Union Bill 12 17 H. R. 8407 - Anti-trust Labor Union Bill 12 18 Alger, Herlong & Baker Tax Reduction Bill 12 19 H. J. Res. 138 - Constitutional amendment, prohibiting government in business 12 20 H. R. 7845 - For Relief of J. A. and J. S. Nichols 12 21 H. R. 6075 - For Relief of Capt. H. A. Rowe 12 22 H. R. 4704 - For Relief of Nick Papadopolous 12 23 Voting record by roll call - 87th Congress 12 24 Alger bills - correspondence 12 25 Foreign affairs - correspondence 12 26 Campaign material 12 27 God In Our Government - Alger 13 1962 13 1 Ways and Means Committee legislative notices - correspondence 13 2 Ways and Means reports on Medicare-Social Security 13 3 Ways and Means Medicare legislation 13 4 Ways and Means - public assistance reports 13 5 Summary - record and accomplishments, Ways and Means Committee, 87th Congress 13 6 Health care legislation 13 7 Medicare - Congressional Record 13 8 Health care insurance, statement - Community Service Society of New York 13 9 Social Security data 13 10 American Medical Association assistance during 87th Congress 13 11 County Medical Officers Conference, Atlanta, GA 13 12 Alger speeches 13 13 Speeches, notes, press statements 13 14 Washington Report - speech material 13 15 Clippings, speech material 13 16 Americans for Constitutional Action index 13 17 Americans for Constitutional Action digest 13 18 The Conservative Society of America - voting index 13 19 Americans for Democratic Action 13 20 Conservative organizations - correspondence, pamphlets 13 21 A. C. A. index 13 22 Free Enterprise, Inc. 13 23 The Objectivist (newsletter) 13 24 Human Events - special supplement 13 25 God In Our Government - Alger 13 26 Are We Approaching Government by Dictatorship? 13 27 Dallas Morning News - correspondence, clippings 13 28 John Stemmons, Webb Cooley, Hugh Prather and S. J. Hay letter urging defeat of Cong. Alger 13 29 William Jones file - 1962 campaign 13 30 Campaign correspondence, clippings 13 31 Campaign clippings 13 32 Campaign correspondence 13 33 Campaign correspondence 14 1962 14 1 Campaign correspondence 14 2 Campaign correspondence 14 3 Election law guide book 14 4 Campaign statements 14 5 State Department correspondence and pamphlets 14 6 National AMA Legislative Conference speech, Chicago January 26 14 7 Speeches and speech material 14 8 Cuba - press releases 14 9 Invitations 14 10 Congratulatory letters 14 11 Congratulatory letters 14 12 Congratulatory letters 14 13 Congratulatory letters 14 14 Congratulatory letters 14 15 Congratulatory letters 14 16 Joint Committee on Republican Principles 14 17 National Republican Congressional Committee 14 18 National Republican Congressional Committee 14 19 Republican Political Policy Committee 14 20 Republican House Conference 14 21 Dallas County Republican Executive Committee 14 22 Dallas County Republican Executive Committee - Peter O'Donnell, Chariman 14 23 Congressional correspondence 14 24 Ways & Means tax legislation 14 25 National Indignation Convention 15 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD FILE 1955-1963 16 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD/OFFICE FILES 1961-1963 17 WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE 1963 17 1 Ways & Means Committee - income tax legislation 17 2 Ways & Means - tax legislation 17 3 Ways & Means - Medicare legislation 17 4 Ways & Means - Medicare legislation 17 5 Ways & Means - motor fuel tax - H. R. 3846 17 6 Ways & Means - international coffee agreement 17 7 Ways & Means - Report on Revenue Act - H. R. 8363 17 8 Ways & Means - oil depletion tax legislation 17 9 Ways & Means hearings on president's tax proposals - oil industry 17 10 Ways & Means hearings - tax proposals, mineral depletion 17 11 Ways & Means hearings - depletion allowance 17 12 Ways & Means - public testimony - hearings on president's tax recommendations March 26 17 13 Ways & Means hearings - president's tax recommendations March 13 17 14 Ways & Means hearings - president's tax recommendations March 11 17 15 Ways & Means hearings - president's tax recommendations March 6 17 16 Ways & Means hearings - president's tax recommendations February 26 17 17 Ways & Means hearings - president's tax reduction proposals February 25 17 18 Ways & Means hearings - tax recommendations, stock options February 21 17 19 Ways & Means tax hearings - schedule of witnesses 18 WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE AND TAX FILES 1963 18 1 Ways & Means hearings - president's tax recommendations - public witnesses 18 2 Ways & Means hearings - witness statements 18 3 Ways & Means hearings - witness statements 18 4 Director of Budget Bureau testimony before Ways & Means 18 5 Secretary of Labor statement to Ways & Means, re: president's tax programs 18 6 Ways & Means reports on Kennedy tax cuts 18 7 Kennedy tax cut correspondence - suggestions 18 8 Tax bill remarks - Congressional Record 18 9 Tax hearings - legislation 18 10 Tax hearings - legislation 18 11 Tax hearings - reports 18 12 John F. Kennedy message on tax reform 18 13 Ways & Means Committee legislation 18 14 Ways & Means Committee legislation 18 15 Ways & Means Committee legislation 18 16 Ways & Means Committee tax legislation 18 17 Ways & Means Committee legislative calendar 18 19 Tax file - views on tax legislation 18 20 Ways & Means Committee notices 19 1963 19 1 Tax hearings - all topics 19 2 President's tax proposal - public witness schedule 19 3 Tax legislation correspondence 19 4 Legislative correspondence 19 5 The Business Committee for Tax Reduction - Correspondence 19 6 Tax reduction bill - H. R. 8363 19 7 Excise tax repeal - correspondence 19 8 Tax clippings 19 9 "Liberty Amendment" - James B. Att (California) 19 10 Debt limit legislation 19 11 Debt limit legislation 19 12 Debt limit legislation 19 13 Foreign affairs legislation - correspondence 19 14 Gold legislation reports 19 15 Petroleum Study Committee report August 6 19 16 Trade Expansion Act 19 17 Medicare - statements before Ways & Means Committee 19 18 Medicare - statements 19 19 Hospital Act hearing November 8 19 20 Hospital Act hearing November 19 19 21 Hospital Act hearing November 20 19 22 Hospital Act hearing November 20 19 23 Social Security - medical coverage 19 24 American Medical Association statement before Ways & Means on H. R. 3920 20 1963 20 1 Arms Control and Disarmament Act hearings 20 2 Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee 20 3 Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee 20 4 Interior and Insular Affairs Committee 20 5 House Administrative Committee 20 6 Government Operations Committee - legislation and correspondence 20 7 Cuba and Cuban policy - special committee report 20 8 Cuba - correspondence 20 9 Veterans Administration - correspondence 20 10 Post Office Department - correspondence 20 11 Departmental correspondence 20 12 H. R. 4009 - Federal Dental Officers 20 13 Alger legislative record 20 14 Bill to Eliminate Withholding from Wages 20 15 Labor anit-trust laws 20 16 Tax Equalization Bill - H. R. 6908 20 17 Anti-Dumping Act amendment - H. R. 6322 20 18 To Amend 1954 Internal Revenue Code - H. R. 737-738 20 19 United Nations, Withdrawal of Membership - H. R. 263 20 20 Effects of Tax Liens and Levies - H. R. 4952-4953 20 21 House Resolutions - 6, 7, 26, 112 20 22 House Joint Resolutions - treaties and agreements 20 23 House Resolution 8 - Victory over Communism 20 24 Savings and loan tax exemption - clippings, correspondence 20 25 President's message on trade agreements 20 26 Indian rights - H. R. 980 20 27 To Amend Social Security Act 20 28 Mental retardation 20 29 Congressional correspondence 20 30 General correspondence 20 31 Clerk, House of Representatives - general 21 1963 21 1 State Department, investigation of 21 2 State Department correspondence - U. N. 21 3 State Department - arms control 21 4 State Department - Monroe Doctrine 21 5 State Department - pamphlets, correspondence 21 6 State Department - pamphlets, correspondence 21 7 State Department - pamphlets, correspondence 21 8 Urban renewal - reports, clippings 21 9 The Case Against Urban Renewal, human events 21 10 Rent control - New York City 21 11 The Challenge of Federal Control of Community Development - Alger 21 12 Congressional Record April 10 21 13 Urban renewal - correspondence, pamplets 21 14 Urban renewal - correspondence, pamplets 21 15 Urban renewal - correspondence 21 16 Urban renewal - correspondence 21 17 Growth in Dallas 37 Dallas Federal Building - press statement 38 Dallas Federal Center, General Services Administration 21 20 Dallas Federal Center - correspondence 21 21 Dallas Federal Center - pictures, prospectus, clippings 22 1963 22 1 Human Events - 5th Annual Political Action Conference 22 2 Human Events - 5th Annual Political Action Conference 22 3 Committee of Political Education - AFL-CIO 22 4 Americans for Constitutional Action 22 5 Truth in Elections, compiled by ACA 22 6 American Institute for Economic Research 22 7 The John Birch Society Bulletins 22 8 The Threat of Communism 22 9 Issue of the Day - newsletter 22 10 American Coalition of Patriotic Societies 22 11 Conservative organizations 22 12 Washington Report 22 13 Congressional Record May 20 22 14 Labor correspondence 22 15 Impending railway strike - correspondence 22 16 House Un-American Activities Committee 22 17 Financial report - Comptroller of Currency 22 18 The Federal Government and Education - Cong. Edith Green 22 19 Lyndon B. Johnson - Vice President file 22 20 Adlai Stevenson clippings 22 21 Electoral College reform 22 22 Alger legislative record 22 23 Analysis of Alger voting record January - December 22 24 Letters to the editor, Dallas Times-Herald 22 25 United Nations correspondence 22 26 Prescription for Freedom - Alger speech 22 27 Lincoln Day speeches - speech material 22 28 Summary of remarks - AMPAC Rally, Las Vegas 22 29 Water pollution - statement 22 30 Health Professions Education Act, speech 22 30 Speeches 22 31 State Executive Committee, Republican Party of Texas - speech September 14 22 32 General correspondence 22 33 Republican National Committee newsletter 22 34 Republican National Committee 22 35 Republicans - general 22 36 Republican Conference Study Committee 22 37 Republican Conference - Increased Minority Staffing 22 38 Republican organizations - In House of Representatives 23 1963 23 1 H. R. 8276 - For Relief of Adel Natrawi 23 2 Alger bills - correspondence 23 3 White House correspondence 23 4 Republican principles 23 5 Republican policy suggestions 23 6 Republican Committee on Committees 23 7 Republican Policy Committee 23 8 Republican National Committee 23 9 Republican National Committee newsletter 23 10 Republican Party - State of Texas 23 11 Republican Party - Texas 23 12 Young Republicans of Texas 23 13 Young Republicans - out of state 23 14 George Romney - Governor - Michigan - correspondence 23 15 Newsletter correspondence 23 16 Newsletter correspondence 23 17 Williams, James D. Attorney - corresondence 23 18 Chamber of Commerce 23 19 City of Irving, Texas - correspondence 23 20 Why Gold - American Institute for Economic Research 23 21 Fact Forum - Alger speech to Junior Bar, Florida Bar Convention 23 22 Human Events - Facts Forum 24 1963 24 1 Invitations January-February 24 2 Invitations March 24 3 Invitations April 24 4 Invitations May 24 5 Invitations June-July 24 6 Invitations August-December 24 7 Congratulatory letters 24 8 Congratulatory letters 24 9 Congratulatory letters 24 10 Thank you letters 24 11 Speaking engagements 24 12 Charles Edison dinner 24 13 United Nations 25 1964 25 1 National platforms, Dem. & G. O. P. 25 2 State of the Union - comments, clippings 25 3 Lyndon B. Johnson - president 25 4 Lyndon B. Johnson - research 25 5 Lyndon B. Johnson - clippings - news releases 25 6 H. R. 10839 - Anti-Dumping Act 25 7 Wheat and cotton legislation 25 8 Food Stamp Act 25 9 Arkansas River project 25 10 Military construction - Defense appropriations 25 11 King-Anderson bill - Medicare benefits 25 12 Grand Prairie airport legislation 25 13 Firearms legislation - correspondence 25 14 Economic Opportunity Act 25 15 Foreign aid 25 16 Ways and Means Committee - Revenue Act 25 17 Ways and Means legislation - legislative reports 25 18 Internal Revenue Act 25 19 Grand Prairie airport 25 20 Redistricting legislation 25 21 Alger bills 84th to 88th Congresses 25 22 Alger bills 88th Congress 25 23 Alger bills 88th Congress 26 1964 26 1 Ways and Means hearings, tax and debt callings 26 2 Ways and Means legislation 26 3 Ways and Means cattle and beef import restrictions 26 4 Import duties - correspondence 26 5 Interstate income taxation 26 6 Ways and Means bills and resolutions 26 7 Tariff legislation correspondence 26 8 Tax legislation correspondence 26 9 Tax legislation correspondence 26 10 Tax legislation correspondence 26 11 Internal Revenue Act extension 26 12 Internal revenue correspondence 26 13 Trade Agreement Act 26 14 Debt limit legislation 26 15 Excise tax repeal - correspondence 26 16 Oil import program 26 17 H. R. 9082 - Keogh Bill - Renegotiation Act 26 18 Internal revenue - Income tax forms 26 19 Urban renewal - Rockford, Illinois correspondence 26 20 Urban renewal - correspondence 26 21 Urban renewal - correspondence and reports 26 22 Urban renewal - Congressional Record excerpts 26 23 Congressional Record September 29 26 24 Office of House Clerk - memos and letters 26 25 United Nations - correspondence 27 1964 27 1 Social Security - Medicare legislation 27 2 Medical care for the aged - charts, table 27 3 Old-age and disability insurance system 27 4 O. A. S. D. I. staff papers - discussion drafts 27 5 Social Security - Medicare correspondence 27 6 Blue Cross and private health insurance - subcommittee report 27 7 Statements before Ways and Means Committee - H. R. 3920, Medicare 27 8 Statements before Ways and Means Committee - Medicare 27 9 Statements before Ways and Means Committee - Medicare 27 10 Ways and Means Committee - Medicare correspondence 27 11 Ways and Means Committee - Medicare correspondence 27 12 Ways and Means Committee - Medicare correspondence 27 13 Ways and Means Committee - Medicare correspondence 27 14 Summary of remarks, by Alger, to AFL-CIO - re: Medicare - New York March 27 15 Healing the Body Politic - Medicare speech to Texas Association of Physicians and Surgeons 27 16 Social Security speech notes - correspondence 27 17 Voting records, 88th Congress 27 18 Voting records, roll call votes, 88th Congress 27 19 Voting records, roll call votes, 88th Congress 27 20 Digest and tally of roll call votes - 88th Congress 27 21 Americans for Constitutional Action Voting Index, 1st Session, 88th Congress 27 22 ACA Consistence Index - news releases 27 23 ACA Supplementary Index - Analysis of Lyndon B. Johnson's Senate voting record 27 24 Americans for Democratic Action - speeches, pamphlets, news releases 27 25 Conservative Society of America - voting index 27 26 AVA - Human Events and ADA World 28 1964 28 1 Americans for Constitutional Action 28 2 Civil Rights clippings, memos, correspondence 28 3 The John Birch Society, bulletings, correspondence 28 4 Miscellaneous file 28 5 Invitations to speak 28 6 Cuba - State Department publications - correspondence 28 7 General Edwin Walker file 28 8 Republican platform 28 9 Goldwater file 28 10 Goldwater file 28 11 National campaign, correspondence 28 12 Camden, New Jersey convention speech 28 13 National campaign - Goldwater 28 14 Goldwater visit to Dallas County September 23 28 16 Republican Policy Committee 28 17 Presidential candidates 28 18 Campaign file, general 28 19 Campaign forms, statements re: contributions 28 20 S. O. S. membership lists 28 21 Republican women 28 22 Campaign cases - persons aided by Alger 28 23 Alger questionnaire 28 24 Dallas County 28 25 Battle Line - Republicans, Dallas County 28 26 "Today's Challenge to America's Constitutional Concepts" - King College July 28 27 Speeches, news releases 28 28 Speeches, clippings, speech material 28 29 News clippings, campaign September 28 30 News clippings - post election 28 31 City of Dallas news clippings 29 1964 29 1 Letters to W. R. Haughton, campaign manager, RE: Bruce Alger 29 2 Campaign correspondence 29 3 Campaign correspondence 29 4 Campaign correspondence 29 5 Campaign contributions 29 6 Campaign clippings 29 7 W. R. Haughton, campaign manager 29 8 Campaign workers correspondence 29 9 Campaign committee 29 10 Campaign thank you notes 29 11 Television spots - cost break down 29 12 Texas Republican candidates - clippings 29 13 Dallas Times Herald - correspondence, clippings 29 14 Texas Democratic candidates - clippings 29 15 Our Strategy for 1964 - Adm. Ben Moreel 29 16 Bobby Baker 29 17 Congressional correspondence 29 18 Congressional Record correspondence 29 19 General correspondence - "F" and "H" 29 20 Letters of congratulations 29 21 Congressman Joe Pool - clippings 29 22 Mayor Earl Cabell 29 23 "Cabell Lies" 29 24 General correspondence - invitations 29 25 Invitations June 29 26 Invitations July 29 27 Invitations August 29 28 Invitations September 29 29 Invitations October 29 30 Invitations turned down 29 31 Compilation of business statistics - Dallas - Dallas County 30 1964-1965 30 1 Campaign correspondence 30 2 Campaign correspondence 30 3 Campaign contributions 30 4 Campaign Advisory Committee 30 5 Questionnaire results - correspondence 30 6 Republican National Convention 30 7 Americans for Constitutional Action Index 30 8 Newsletters 30 9 Departmental correspondence 30 10 State Department correspondence 30 11 Post Office Department correspondence 30 12 Medicare correspondence, unions 30 13 H. R. 4926 - "Get Government Out of Business" 30 14 H. R. 10839 - Amend Anti-Dumping Act 30 15 Internal revenue - joint committee 30 16 Government Operations Committee 30 17 Interior and Insular Affairs Committee 30 18 Joint Economic Committee - publications 30 19 Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee 30 20 Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee 30 21 Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee 30 22 Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee 30 23 Foreign aid 30 24 A. C. A. news releases, reports - correspondence 30 25 Constitution Party newsletter 30 26 Pilots for the American Republic Fly June 26 30 27 Congressional Record vote tally, 1st Session, 89th Congress 30 28 Invitations to speak 31 1966-1967 31 1 Congressional Record - Civil Rights Act August 3 - 4 31 2 Congressional Record - Civil Rights Act August 5 - 8 31 3 Congressional Record - Civil Rights Act August 9 31 4 Civil rights legislation 31 5 Republican political literature 31 6 A. C. A. Digest of roll call votes 31 7 A. C. A. correspondence - meeting reports 31 8 Mama Went to War - Gina Manion 31 9 Alger speeches 31 10 Speech material 31 11 Correspondence 31 12 Congratulatory letters 31 13 News clippings 31 14 Reading material - miscellaneous 31 15 A. C. A. Trustees meeting minutes June 8 31 16 A. C. A. Study - National Committee for an Effective Congress 31 17 A. C. A. Digest and Tally, roll call votes, 1st Session, 90th Congress 31 18 John Birch Society bulletins 31 19 Manion Forum October - December 31 20 National Education Association 31 21 Texas Committee for the Constitution, Inc. 31 22 Urban renewal 31 23 News clippings - reprints 32 1967-1968 32 1 Correspondence 32 2 Speeches 32 3 Speeches 32 4 Speech - Chamber of Commerce, Boca Raton, FL 32 5 Return to Real Estate - announcements 32 6 Civil Rights legislation 32 7 Civil Rights - Congressional Record 32 8 Vietnam - communism 32 9 U. S. News and World Report July 32 10 Manion Forum July - August 32 11 National Rifle Association literature 32 12 Judiciary Committee Hearings - Abe Fortas, Homer Thornberry 32 13 Confirmation of Fortas and Thornberry - Congressional Record July 1 32 14 George Wallace 32 15 Citizens for Reagan 32 16 Speech material file 32 17 Speech material file 32 18 News clippings 33 1968-1970 33 1 Sppeches 33 2 Facts Finders Forum 33 3 Liberty Lobby - L. B. J. biography 33 4 World Constitutional Convention in Europe 33 5 National Dividend Plan - Thurston Morton 33 6 Dan Smoot Report 33 7 Manion Forum 33 8 National Right to Work Newsletter 33 9 A. C. A. Index, 1st Session, 91st Congress 33 10 Digest and Tally of roll call votes - Senate 91st Congress 33 11 Gold Coast Conservative Club 33 12 Conservative organizations 33 13 Rhodesian Viewpoint 33 14 The Black Manifesto - Cong. John Ashbrook 33 15 Conservative organizations 33 16 Manion Forum - Objectivist newsletter 33 17 Manion Forum 33 18 Correspondence - political and governmental 33 19 Federal Reserve Board 33 20 Health - clippings, pamphlets 33 21 Crime - clippings 33 22 Layman's Leadership Institute 33 23 Archibold Roberts (Lt. Col. Aus. Ret.) speech 33 24 Alger Creed 33 25 Speeches 33 26 Public housing - speech and clippings 33 27 Anti-Semitic pamphlets 33 28 Politics 34 1971 34 1 Civil Rights clippings 34 2 Middle East clippings 34 3 Taxes - clippings, pamphlets 34 4 Revenue sharing - clippings 34 5 Russia - clippings 34 6 Political correspondence, clippings 34 7 News media - clippings 34 8 Military trials, Vietnam - clippings 34 9 Inflation control - clippings 34 10 Economic controls - clippings 34 11 China and the United States - clippings 34 12 The Panama Canal 34 13 Jews - clippings, newsletters, pamphlets 34 14 Communism 34 15 Foreign aid 34 16 To Restore American Independence Now 34 17 "Open Space" Law - Boca Raton, Florida 34 18 American Challenge 34 19 Pentagon Papers, Vietnam - clippings 34 20 Gulf of Tonkin - clippings 34 21 United Nations - Foreign Affairs - clippings 34 22 Women for Constitutional Government 34 23 Government and Christianity 34 24 Judge William Taylor desegregation order 34 25 Speeches 34 26 Commentary on speeches 35 1971-1973 35 1 Congressional Record June 14 35 2 Congressional Record June 17 35 3 Congressional Record June 18 35 4 Congressional Record June 21 35 5 Congressional Record July 7 35 6 Foreign policy 35 7 National debt 35 8 United Nations 35 9 War on crime 35 10 Schools - busing, prayer, federal aid 35 11 Attack on the Family - newsletter 35 12 Cuba 35 13 Council on Foreign Relations - clippings 35 15 Federal Reserve Board - clippings 35 16 Trade - clippings 35 17 Political correspondence - clippings 35 18 The Patriot 35 19 News clippings 35 20 Ted Kennedy - clippings 35 21 Richard Nixon - reprints, articles 35 22 News clippings 35 23 Vietnam clippings 35 24 Kennedy assassination 10 years later - clippings 35 25 Politics and crime 35 26 Don Bell Reports 35 27 Official List of Standing Committees, House of Representatives, 93rd Congress 36 1974 36 1 News clippings 36 2 News clippings 36 3 News clippings 36 4 News clippings 36 5 News clippings 36 6 News clippings 36 7 News clippings 37 1974-1979 37 1 Issues - political 37 2 Issues - federal government 37 3 Issues - foreign 34 4 Issues - state and local 34 5 Issues - federal government 34 6 Issues - foreign 34 7 Taxes - clippings 37 8 Economics - clippings 37 9 Energy - clippings 37 10 Political - clippings 37 11 JFK Assassination clippings 34 12 Politics 34 13 Phyllis Schlafly Report 37 14 Liberty Lobby letter 37 15 Our God, Our Country, Our Flag - Joseph V. Machugh 37 16 Clippings 37 17 Correspondence 37 18 Don Bell Reports 38 38 1 Congressional Record Office Files 1959-1962 38 2 Free T. V. legislation notebook 1958 38 3 Personal notebook 1958-1965 39 NEWSCLIPPINGS 1965-1976 40 BOOKS 40 Crew Book, Bruce Alger manuscript 40 Crew Book, Bruce Alger manuscript 40 Where Have You Been? Bruce Alger manuscript 40 Victory Through Freedom, Bruce Alger manuscript 40 Scrapbook (Original Cartoons) Bruce Alger 41 PAPERBACK BOOKS, MAGAZINES, PAMPHLETS, UNDATED MATERIAL 42 TAPE RECORDINGS 42 TAPE RECORDINGS 42 William F. Buckley, Jr. - Bruce Alger 42 Alger speech to A. C. A. 1968 42 Joe Jorden interview 42 Alger address to Fact Finders Forum 1961 42 Alger Orange County Lincoln Day 1964 42 Alger - Case Linda Lodge 1956 42 Arch E. Roberts, Dan Smoot, Walter Kiernan 1971 42 Alger - Christian Crusade Library 42 Alger - Christian Crusade Library 42 Alger - radio program 42 Alger - Wade Debate September 11, 1956 42 Alger - James Zott 1963 42 Chamber of Commerce copy by AP 1971 42 Alger - The Federal Government in our Future 1955 42 Grace's shower preparations 42 Alger spots 42 Alger spots - campaign 1962 42 Alger speech 42 Alger speech August 8, 1963 42 Alger spots - campaign 1964 42 Alger, Ralph, Louis, Willis May 3, 1963 42 Alger May 31, 1962 42 Alger Realtor 42 Alger speech 42 Alger spots 42 Interview - [cassette] 42 Alger - founders and patriots, Clewiston, Florida 42 Unidentified tapes, blank tapes and reels 43 BOOKS 43 Texas Heritage - Adair 43 Texas Heritage - Adair 43 Gettysburg - Human Interest Stories 43 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Doyle 43 The Crisis - W. Churchill 43 The Herbert Hoover Story - Lyons 43 A History of Italian Painting - Mather 43 Six Crises - R. Nixon 43 Count Luckner, The Sea Devil - L. Thomas 43 Anything That's Peaceful - Read 43 The American Tradition - Carson 43 Hans Brinker - Dodge 43 Tarzan of the Apes - Burroughs 43 Tarzan the Untamed - Burroughs 43 Blind Trails - Ernest 43 The Waverly Novels - W. Scott 43 The Prince and the Discourses - Machiavelli 43 David Goes Voyaging - Putnam 43 Vagabond House - Blanding 43 Seven Came Through - E. Rickenbauer 43 Bending the Twig - Rudd 43 The Art of Living - Peterson 43 "Technology and Economic Development" - Scientific American 43 Blood on the Old Well - Emery 43 Communist America ... Must It Be - Hargis 43 National Highway Program 1955 44 BOOKS 44 Tennyson's Poems - 10 volumes 44 Through a Looking Glass - Carroll 44 Jessica the Heiress - Raymond 44 Beautiful Joe - Saunders 44 The Essays of Elia - Lamb 44 Jed, the Poorhouse Boy - H. Alger 44 The Shakespeare Birthday Book 44 The Elements of Style - Strunk-White 44 Assassination of J.F.K. By Coincidence or Conspiracy - Fenstenwald 44 War Cyclopedia - Government Printing Office 44 Yankee From Olympus - Bowen 44 Slow and Sure - H. Alger 44 Andy Grants - H. Alger 44 American Selection - Reader Noah Webster 44 Union Question Book - American Sunday School Union 44 Try and Trust - H. Alger 44 Arithmetic - Adams 44 The Orphans of Normandy - (Unknown) 44 National Reader - Pierpont 44 Poems - Wm. Bryant 44 Abe Lincoln Grows Up - C. Sandburg 44 American Business Law - Frey 44 The Cruise of the Cachalot - Bullen 44 The Geographic Pattern of Mankind - Pomfret 44 American Government and Its Problems - Phillips 44 Yankee Lawyer - Tutt 44 The Uncommon Man in American Business - Johnson 44 The Sea and the Stars - Wilder 44 From Pioneer Home to White House - Thayer 45 CITATIONS, PLAQUES, CAMPAIGN BUTTONS AND HERC FICKLEN DRAWINGS 46 PHOTOGRAPHS 46 1 Bruce Alger 46 2 Alger family 46 3 Congressman Ralph F. Beerman and Bruce Alger 46 4 Congressman Bill Stinson and Bruce Alger 46 5 Various portfolio 8X10's of Congressmen 46 6 Sherman Adams and Bruce Alger 1956 46 7 Group, unidentified 46 8 Swearing in Ceremony - entire House 46 9 President Dwight D. Eisenhower, autographed 46 10 Bob Wilson 46 11 Congressman Louis C. Wyman and Bruce Alger 46 12 President Eisenhower and Bruce Alger 46 13 Bruce Alger and 2 soldiers, unidentfied