NATIONAL INFORMATION FILES,, 1952 - 1975.

NATIONAL INFORMATION FILES consists of subject reference files on a broad range of topics of national impact with legislative and regulatory implications. The type of material across the series is highly diverse, and includes trade association position statements and correspondence, government and policy research institute publications and reports, Congressional Research Service reports, draft bills, copies of laws, staff notes, hearing statements, HAW remarks and speeches, press releases from HAW and others, correspondence from senators, Democratic Study Group Fact Sheets, clippings, etc.

As can be inferred from the above description, although NATIONAL INFORMATION FILES seem intended primarily as background materials (and that is the bulk of the series), there is some original, working material on legislative matters in the series. Subjects with particular strengths include:

· aging, including some material concerning the Special Committee on Aging (e.g., hearings, releases, statements, legislative drafts);

· agriculture, including legislative correspondence and Committee on Small Business documents regarding dairy issues, meat imports, and other matters of interest to NJ;

· civil rights, including many "Bipartisan Civil Rights Newsletters" used to communicate among senators supporting the civil rights bill (HR 7152) of 1964, as well as other correspondence and notes related to the '64 Act;

· education, including rich material regarding HAW's 1968 initiative in running a "workshop" on the "Negro and Higher Education" and regarding a HAW tuition assistance bill;

· labor, including much background material from interest groups on right to work laws;

· migratory labor, including HAW's recommendations on migratory labor and other issues to the Democratic Party Platform Committee (1968);

· NATO, including a lengthy draft report (1964) on "The State of the Alliance" prepared by the Congressional Research Service at HAW's instruction;

· open spaces, including HAW remarks, speeches, and staff notes;

· Polish Children's Hospital, including good background material on this initiative aimed at building a hospital in Poland under auspices of the Mutual Security Act. HAW is on the Committee for this effort and additional material in other series can be found on the subject;

· politics, including useful reference material from the Democratic National Committee regarding the 1968 Presidential campaign and candidates;

· Woodrow Wilson Memorial, including materials on the Commission and correspondence related to the resignation of Francis B. Sayre, Jr. as Chairman of the Commission. Included here is a file of documentation that appears to have belonged originally to Sayre and was likely turned over to Vice-Chairman HAW when Sayre resigned;

· Vietnamese children, including draft bills and amendments, staff notes, correspondence, remarks, and other material related to HAW legislative work to provide humanitarian assistance to Vietnamese children, including orphans, and to facilitate adoptions.