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 Price controls; rent controls; emergency housing; sugar rationing; hospital bed cut back; veterans hospital construction program; closing of VA hospitals

Scope and Contents Helen Gahagan Douglas: "Veterans Emergency Housing Bill"

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 Hoover Commission Veterans' Affairs Recommendations

Scope and Contents AVC National Chairman Michael Straight in Regard to Recommendations of the Hoover Commission Dealing With Veterans

Scope and Contents Cicero F. Hogan: Closing of Military Hospitals

Scope and Contents Helen Gahagan Douglas: Veterans' Hospitals in California.