Box 28
Container
Contains 31 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, Commerce, Hostile Corporate Takeovers, 1985
File — Box: 28, Folder: 13
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_28_13_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include Mesa takeover attempt of Phillips Petroleum, moratorium on hostile takeovers (HR 998), HR 1100, T. Boone Pickens, Carl Icahn takeover attempt of Phillips Petroleum, greenmail, and Carl Icahn takeover attempt of TWA. Correspondents include Stephen P. Matthews.
Correspondence, Commerce, Trade, 1985
File — Box: 28, Folder: 14
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_28_14_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include trade deficit, protectionism, automobile imports, agricultural exports, oil import tax, trade policy, fair trade, Bliley-Collins amendment (HR 2248), and trade with Japan.
Correspondence, Communications, 1985
File — Box: 28, Folder: 15
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_28_15_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include taxes on blank tapes, Home Audio Recording Act (HR 2911), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), music performing rights on syndicated television programming (HR 3521), religious programming, and Fairness in Alcohol Advertising Act (HR 2526). Correspondents include James B. Townsend.
Correspondence, Communications, Satellite Television, 1985
File — Box: 28, Folder: 16
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_28_16_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include scrambling TV satellite signals (HR 1769), Satellite TV Viewing Rights Act (HR 1840), and home satellite earth stations.
Correspondence, Communications, Telephones, 1985
File — Box: 28, Folder: 17
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_28_17_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include AT&T separate subsidiary requirements, breakup of the Bell System, service costs, private line tariffs, and library telephone line use. Correspondents include Robert L. Clark Jr.
Correspondence, Congress, 1985
File — Box: 28, Folder: 18
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_28_18_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include refusal to seat Rep. Rick McIntyre of Indiana and congressional travel and junkets. Correspondents include Don Nickles.
Correspondence, Defense, 1985
File — Box: 28, Folder: 19
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_28_19_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include funding for reconstruction at Tinker Air Force Base, wasteful spending, national defense, National Guard technicians, defense spending, contract with Beretta, defense procurement (HR 1552), and civil defense. Correspondents include Norris Price.
Correspondence, Defense, Arms Control and Nuclear Weapons, 1985
File — Box: 28, Folder: 20
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_28_20_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include weapons freeze and nuclear test ban (HJ Res. 3).
Correspondence, Defense, Military Retirees, 1985
File — Box: 28, Folder: 21
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_28_21_0000
Scope and Contents
Topics include widows, comments of David Stockman, pensions, and cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs).
Correspondence, Defense, MX Missile, 1985
File — Box: 28, Folder: 22
Identifier: CAC_CC_016_1_28_22_0000
Scope and Contents
The Edwards Collections is approximately 126 linear feet, plus 8 maps and 50 photographs. The Correspondence and Legislative series represent the majority of the materials in the collection and include constituent correspondence, issue surveys and opinion ballots, voting records, issue folders, memos, notes, and legislation. Topics of note include cable and satellite television, the break-up of AT&T, civil rights legislation, foreign affairs, energy policy, Contra Aid, Tallgrass Prairie...