Box 71
Container
Contains 3 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence
Item — Box: 71, Folder: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_71_2_1
Scope and Contents
Helen Gahagan Douglas's support of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt against Representative John E. Rankin
Proceedings, May 17, 1947
Item — Box: 71, Folder: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_71_2_2
Scope and Contents
Presentation of Mementos of President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Fala to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library by Charl Ormand Williams and Howard A. Dawson
Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D
File — Box: 71, Folder: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_71_2_0000
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...