Scope and Contents The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Robert L. Doughton-NC; Earl Warren, Governor of California.

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Scope and Contents Cannon-Florida: "To provide every adult citizen in the United States with equal basic Federal insurance, permitting retirement with benefits at age sixty, and also covering total disability, from whatever cause, for certain citizens under sixty; to give protection to widows with children; to provide an ever-expanding market for goods and services through the payment and distribution of such benefits in ration to the Nation's steadily increasing ability to produce, with the cost of such benefits...

Scope and Contents Angell: "To provide every adult citizen in the United state with equal basic Federal insurance, permitting retirement with benefits at age sixty, and also covering total disability, from whatever cause, for certain citizens under sixty; to give protection to widows with children; to provide an ever-expanding market for goods and service through the payment and distribution of such benefits in ration the Nation's steadily increasing ability to produce, with the cost of such benefits to be...

Scope and Contents To provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal oil-age benefits, and by enabling the several states to make more adequate provision for aged person, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes.