Jamie L. Whitten Collection Series 21: Special Letters Scrapbooks

This series consists of letters and other documents set aside in scrapbooks because Representative Jamie Whitten or his office staff determined them to be “special.” They are a mix of commendations, reports on Whitten, letters from prominent individuals and congressional colleagues, and postal cachets. As a result this series documents highlights of Whitten’s career between 1932 and 1994. Archivists removed the contents from scrapbooks to improve preservation and access since the adhesive and plastic covers on the album pages prevented review of multi-page documents. Documents are described at the item-level. BOX 1 Folder: Contents of “Special Letters Scrapbook 1932-1956” Typed manuscript “Special Letters and Other Items Compiled by Jamie L. Whitten, D. Miss. U.S. House of Representatives, 1932-1956 CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX” re: names of individuals indexed to page numbers in scrapbook; two pages. Carbon typed letter dated 3 February 1932 from Greek L. Rice, Mississippi Attorney General, to Tom Clark of Jackson, re: recommendation of Whitten to Mississippi Bar. Handwritten letter dated 3 January 1942 from Olin C. Taylor of Senatobia, Mississippi to Whitten, re: reminiscing on work together in the Mississippi 17th District and current news of district. Typed letter dated 19 June 1942 from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Whitten, re: construction of Enid Reservoir, war effort, and flood control in Mississippi. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed memorandum dated 10 April 1943 from Rear Admiral E.G. Allen, U.S. Navy Director of Budge and Reports to Whitten, re: case files of Thomas Buford Rowland and “Upchurch.” Typed letter dated 28 October 1943 from W.I. Stone in Coffeeville, Mississippi to Whitten, re: jury by Eminent Domain trials. Copy typed manuscript “Mississippi Whittler” by Sally Steele of Washington, DC dated circa 1946, re: Whitten saving a billion dollars in wasted naval appropriations on the Elk Hills oil reserve and naval air facilities; 11 pages. Two copies. Carbon typed letter dated 23 August 1948 from Whitten to Red A. Virkus, Chair of Conference of American Small Business Organizations, re: attached letter. Attached: typed letter dated 20 August 1948 from Virkus to Whitten, re: Whitten’s vote on Senate Concurrent Resolution 14 recognizing small business as an economic entity on par with labor and agriculture; and Whitten’s stance on spending and taxes. Typed letter dated 6 November 1948 from Chancellor J.D. Williams of the University of Mississippi to “Friends of the University of Mississippi” re: university’s centennial; attached envelope with cachet of

Lyceum. Envelope postmarked 6 November 1948 addressed to Whitten with cachet “University of Mississippi Centennial.” Typed letter dated 16 February 1949 from U.S. Representative Clarence Cannon of Missouri to Whitten, re: appreciation for Whitten’s work on deficiency bill. Typed letter dated 14 April 1949 from Edward A. O’Neal of Florence, Alabama to Whitten, re: Whitten in debate on Agricultural Appropriations bill. Typed letter dated 19 May 1951 from U.S. Representative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts to Whitten, re: Whitten’s leadership on the Agricultural Appropriations bill. Carbon typed letter dated 23 May 1951 from U.S. Representative Frank E. Smith of Mississippi to W.W. Gresham of Indianola, Mississippi, re: reduction of Agricultural Department employees due to Whitten’s efforts. Typed letter dated 23 May 1951 from U.S. Representative Clifford R. Hope of Kansas to Whitten, re: Whitten’s work on the Agricultural Appropriations bill. Copy newspaper clipping “John M. Kunkendall Claimed by Health; Had Served as Circuit Judge Since 1913” dated 1951 with handwritten note to Whitten. Typed letter dated 14 March 1952 from J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, to Whitten, re: amendment to Public Law 253 as it applies to the FBI. Carbon typed letter dated 20 March 1952 from U.S. Representative Clarence Cannon of Missouri to Walter Sillers, Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, re: Whitten and congressional redistricting in Mississippi, Whitten as chair of Agricultural Appropriations subcommittee, and federal savings; two pages. Typed letter dated 28 March 1952 from Walter Sillers, Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, to Cannon, re: above letter; Whitten. Typed letter dated 30 March 1952 from U.S. Representative Clarence Cannon of Missouri to Whitten, re: letter to Sillers. Typed letter dated 28 June 1952 from Mississippi Governor Hugh White to Whitten, re: receipt of hearing copy. Typed letter dated 31 October 1952 from University of Mississippi Professor of History Jim Silver to Whitten, re: appreciation for Whitten’s participation in history and political science classes. Typed letter dated 31 October 1952 from University of Mississippi Professor of Political Science H.B. Howerton, re: appreciation for Whitten’s series of lectures and informal discussions on campus. Attached: typed memorandum dated 22 October 1952 from Howerton to “Faculty and Staff,” re: Whitten’s schedule on campus 27-30 October 1952.

Carbon typed letter dated 3 November 1952 from Whitten to University of Mississippi Professor of History Jim Silver, re: Whitten’s opinion on history and the checks and balances system of government; two pages. Carbon typed letter dated 3 November 1952 from Whitten to University of Mississippi Professor of Political Science H.B. Howerton, re: the applied end of political science. Reverse negative copy of newspaper article “Appointment Viewed as Honor to Church” Salt Lake News and Telegram (2 December 1952), p. 8A, re: Ezra Taft Benson’s appointment as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Typed letter [circa February 1953] from John Baker “Farmers Union” to Whitten, re: Whitten’s speech to Women’s National Press Club. Typed letter dated 13 January 1953 from U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary Clarence J. McCormick to Whitten, re: appreciation for Whitten’s cooperation with department. Reprint “Speech of Hon. Jamie L. Whitten, of Mississippi, Women’s National Press Club, Washington, D.C., February 24, 1953” Congressional Record, re: agricultural appropriations. Telegram dated 21 May 1953 from Jim Patton, President of National Farmers Union, to Whitten, re: appreciation for Whitten’s fight to preserve farm program appropriations. Carbon typed letter dated 12 October 1953 from Whitten to Ezra Taft Benson, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, re: cotton acreage, embargo on cotton exports, cotton production for national security, and Cattle Loan law; four pages. Attached: carbon typed manuscript dated 20 October 1953 “Congressman Whitten, of Mississippi, has been assured that when the special advisory committee from the cotton industry meets…,” re: recommendations on cotton foreign exports; stockpiling cotton for national security; 2 pages. Attached: carbon typed manuscript “Statement of Congressman Jamie L. Whitten, filed with the Cotton Advisory Committee and Under Secretary of Agriculture Davis. Charleston, Miss., October 22, 1953,” re: above topics; four pages. Typed letter dated 11 November 1953 from M.P. Moore of Senatobia, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s speech to Clerks Convention. Typed letter dated 10 November 1953 from W.C. Neill, Vice President of Leflore Bank and Trust Company of Greenwood, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s speech to chancery clerks, cotton exports, and government spending on industry and labor. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 20 November 1953 from Whitten to Neill, re: cotton acreage and upcoming meeting with Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Typed letter dated 12 June 1954 from H.E. Mauldin Jr., Mississippi State Director of Vocational Education, to Whitten, re: increase in vocational education in George-Barden Act. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 15 June 1954 from Whitten to Mauldin, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 22 March 1955 from J.H. McCormick, U.S. Department of Agriculture Assistant Director of Information, to Ross Pope of House Appropriations Committee, re: attached speech. Attached: copy typed manuscript “Department of Agriculture, Statement by John H. Davis, Assistant

Secretary of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture, before the Thirteenth Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee, Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 14, 1954,” re: international trade in cotton; 10 pages. Typed letter dated 6 July 1954 from Roy F. Hendrickson, Executive Secretary of National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s address on farm issue in Congressional Record. Typed letter dated 1 July 1954 from Ivan L. Hand, Office Manager of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee of Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: revised census figures for cotton history of Marshall County for 1951 and 1952. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 6 July 1954 from Whitten to Hand, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 10 July 1954 from U.S. Representative Clarence Cannon of Missouri to Whitten, re: Whitten amendment. Carbon typed letter dated 27 July 1954 from Whitten to Claude L. Dawson in Washington, DC, re: Dawon’s representation of veteran and “Whitten Rider” relationship to Veterans’ Preference Law. Attached: newspaper clipping “The Federal Spotlight: Court to Rule in September on Challenge to Whitten Rider” by Joseph Young [Washington Star], re: above topic. Typed letter dated 29 July 1954 from Claude L. Dawson, National Judge Advocate of Federal Employees Veterans Association, to Whitten, re: appreciation for assistance to organization. Carbon typed letter dated 27 January 1955 from Frank Ahlgren, editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, to U.S. Senator John Stennis of Mississippi, re: agricultural research appropriations. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 31 January 1955 from Whitten to Ahlgren, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 7 April 1955 from L.H. Moseley of Stoneville, Mississippi and district agent of Mississippi Cooperative Extension Work, to Whitten, re: Agricultural Appropriation bill and Agricultural Extension Service. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 19 April 1955 from Whitten to Moseley, re: above letter; Ezra Taft Benson. Typed letter dated 23 July 1955 from U.S. Senator Milton R. Young of North Dakota to Whitten, re: Whitten’s interrogation of agricultural officials in appropriation hearings. Typed letter dated 26 July 1955 from Walton T. Garner, Mississippi State Supervisor of Occupational Information and Guidance in Division of Vocational Education, to Whitten, re: vocation education appropriation. Typed letter dated 12 July 1955 from W.M. Garrard, General Manager of Staple Cotton Cooperative Association of Greenwood, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten, cotton trade, visit to Far East, cotton surplus; two pages. Typed letter dated 29 July 1955 from Stephen Pace in Americus, Georgia to Whitten, re: appreciation of material Whitten sent. Typed letter dated 2 September 1955 from J.T. Haynes, President of Tennessee Agricultural Council, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s address at meeting.

Typed letter dated 9 November 1955 from Lloyd Godley of Democratic National Committee’s Advisory Committee on Agriculture, to Whitten, re: farm programs, cotton acreage, and Advisory Committee. Typed letter dated 23 November 1955 from Fred J. Hurst, Director of Information for the Farm Credit Administration of New Orleans, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s address at National Grange Convention, cotton surpluses, and farm prices. Carbon typed letter dated 23 March 1956 from Whitten to U.S. Senator Stuart Symington, re: procurement in Defense Department. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 28 March 1956 from Symington to Whitten, re: above letter. Clipping from Congressional Record (11 April 1956), pp. 5434-5437, re: Whitten position on agricultural trade and cotton exports. Clipping “Reexamination of Our Farm Policies” Congressional Record. Attached: newspaper clipping “County Placed in the 1st District: Legislature Passed Bill Which Placed Calhoun in First Congressional District” Calhoun City Monitor-Herald (26 April 1956), p. 1. Handwritten letter dated 14 May 1956 from Herman E. Kennedy, Mississippi Representative from Calhoun County, to Whitten, re: legislation changing Calhoun County’s congressional district. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 17 May 1956 from Whitten to Kennedy, re: above topic. Typed memorandum dated 14 May 1956 from Charles G. Haynes, Director of Surveys and Investigations of House Appropriations Committee, to “The Chairman,” re: results of Commodity Stabilization Service inquiry. Typed letter dated 18 May 1956 from U.S. Senator Lister Hill of Alabama to Whitten, re: John Sevier Plant, Tennessee Valley Authority. Attached: carbon letter dated 21 May 1956 from Whitten to Hill, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 4 August 1956 from W.M. Garrard, General Manager of Staple Cotton Cooperative Association of Greenwood, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten speech at Greenwood Court House. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 6 August 1956 from Whitten to Garrard, re: cotton business. Typed letter dated 22 September 1956 from U.S. Representative Clarence Cannon of Missouri to Whitten, re: Whitten speech at Lincoln, Nebraska; recent speeches by President Dwight D. Einsenhower and Adlai Stevenson speeches in Iowa; and farm vote; two pages. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 27 September 1956 from Ann T. Watson, secretary in Whitten’s office, to Cannon, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 19 October 1956 from U.S. Representative H. Carl Anderson of Minnesota to Whitten, re: Anderson’s remarks and acceptance on behalf of Whitten at meeting of Soil Conservation Society of America in Tulsa. Attached: carbon typed manuscript “Address by Congressman H. Carl Anderson (Rep.) of Minnesota Accepting Award of Degree of Honorary Member from the Soil Conservation Society of America at Its National Convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 16, 1956”; six pages.

Typed letter [November 1956] from John C. Lynn, Legislative Director of American Farm Bureau Federation, to Whitten, re: American Farm Bureau’s legislative recommendations. Typed letter dated 21 November 1956 from Boswell Stevens, President of Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, to Whitten, re: elimination of acreage for surplus crops within certain governmental reservations. Carbon typed letter dated 21 November 1956 from Boswell Stevens, President of Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation to John C. Lynn, Legislative Director of American Farm Bureau Federation, re: leasing of government land to farmers producing surplus crops; leased land around Mississippi reservoirs. Carbon typed letter dated 1 December 1956 from Whitten to John C. Lynn, Legislative Director of American Farm Bureau Federation, re: received booklet. Attached: carbon typed letter undated from Lynn to Whitten, re: agriculture. Committee Print. Inspection Tour of Representative Jamie L. Whitten to Russia, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Western Europe in September and October 1956: Report to the Committee on Appropriations by Mr. Whitten from the Subcommittee on Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Eighty-Fifth Congress, First Session, February 12, 1957 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1957). Typed manuscript “4-H Alumni Recognition Program.” Attached: folder “4-H Club Member’s Record” with handwritten label “Mr. Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston, Mississippi, Tallahatchie; contents include typed letter dated 23 September 1955 from Whitten to Pate E. Brown of Charleston, Mississippi, re: Whitten’s membership in 4-H and his chairmanship of Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee which covers 4-H programs; typed manuscript “My 4-H Record Alumni Recognition”; black-and-white photograph portrait of Whitten by Harris & Ewing; completed form “Nomination Ford for National 4-H Alumni Recognition Program”; typed manuscript “I was a member of the 4-H Club in 1935 and 1925…” Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1957-1958 Typed manuscript “Special Letters and Other Items Compiled by Jamie L. Whitten, D. Miss. U.S. House of Representatives”; re: names of individuals indexed to page numbers in scrapbook; five pages. Typed letter dated 25 February 1957 from E.O. Spencer of Mississippi Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon to Whitten, re: consolidation of Carroll County Post Office. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 20 February 1957 from Director of Division of Postmasters in Post Office Department to Spencer, re: above topic. Carbon copies of both letters above. Newspaper clipping “Cotton Comment: Cotton Producers Agree on Cotton Program Involving Domestic Subsidy Payments – Soil Bank Death Appears to Have Blocked Chance of More Acres” by Gerald L. Dearing [1957], re: Whitten. Attached: newspaper clipping “Cotton Comment: Unhappiness May Be Lot of Cotton Farmer This Fall Because of Charges Made against Classing Service; Why Not Make Acreage Allotments Negotiable?” by Charles Dearing [1957]. Typed letter dated 14 March 1957 from J.A. Baker, Coordinator of Legislative Services of National Farmers Union, to Whitten, re: farm income-improving feed grain bill. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 15 March 1957 from Whitten to Baker, re: above letter.

Carbon typed letter dated 15 March 1957 from Lamar Fleming Jr. to U.S. Representatives E.C. Gathings of Arkansas, re: gins owned by Anderson, Clayton & Co. and national export system; two pages. Attached: clipping of printed table “Property, Plant and Equipment by Location and Type of Activity.” Attached: carbon typed letter dated 18 March 1957 from Gathings to Fleming, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 13 March 1957 from Fletcher N. Farrington, County Agent for Alabama Cooperative Extension Work, to Whitten, re: recent conference with Whitten. Attached carbon typed letter dated 19 March 1957 from Whitten to Farrington, re: above letter. Business card for Lamar Fleming Jr., Chairman of the Board of Anderson, Clayton, & Co. Inc. of Houston, Texas. Attached: press release dated 27 March 1957 “Lamar Fleming Jr. Talk before Agriculture Committee, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Houston, Texas, March 27, 1957: Cotton Programs and Problems”; eleven pages. Carbon typed letter dated 24 May 1957 from Whitten to E.H. White of Grenada, Mississippi, re: controversy over proposed Department of Agriculture sedimentation laboratory in Mississippi, research in Yazoo and Little Tallahatchie watersheds, competition between the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University over the project; three pages. Carbon typed letter dated 29 March 1957 from E.L. Peterson, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, to Dean Clay Lyle of Mississippi State University, re: proposed sedimentation laboratory at Oxford, Mississippi; two pages. Carbon typed letter dated 1 April 1957 from Whitten to Ben Hilbun, President of Mississippi State College, re: proposed Aerophysics Institute at Mississippi State College. Typed letter dated 5 April 1957 from Ben Hilbun, President of Mississippi State College, to Whitten, re: proposed Aerophysics Institute. Typed letter dated 29 April 1957 from Tippah County Citizens Council in Ripley, Mississippi to Whitten, re: appreciation for Whitten’s recent testimony. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 1 May 1957 from Whitten to J.L. Pipkin, Chairman of Tippah County Citizens Council, re: above letter. Newsletter Washington Farm Reporter (11 May 1957), re: Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee and Department of Agriculture budget recommendations; four pages. Typed letter dated 13 May 1957 from U.S. Representatives Clarence Cannon of Missouri to Whitten, re: congratulations on Whitten’s handling of agricultural appropriations bill. Attached: newspaper clipping “Legislative Prospects VI…Both Benson and His Proposals Are in Difficulty” by Carroll Kilpatrick Washington Post and Times Herald (11 May 1957), re: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 16 May 1957 from Whitten to Cannon, re: above topics. Carbon typed letter dated 21 May 1957 from W.C. Neill in Greenwood, Mississippi to Editor of the Cotton Digest, re: congressmen Bob Poage and Whitten, re: cotton industry. Typed letter dated 31 May 1957 from Robert M. Koch, President & General Manager of National Agricultural Limestone Institute, Inc., to “Persons Interested in Conservation and National Farm

Programs,” re: agricultural appropriations, Whitten, and conservation programs. Attached: handwritten letter [May 1957] from Koch to Whitten, re: above letter. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 3 June 1957 from Whitten to Koch, re: above letter. Carbon typed letter dated 3 June 1957 from Whitten to U.S. Senator John Stennis of Mississippi, re: controversy over proposed Department of Agriculture sedimentation laboratory at Oxford and Yazee and Little Tallahatchie watersheds; two pages. Copy typed manuscript “A Resolution” dated 9 July 1957, re: American Legion’s Department of Mississippi commending work of state congressional delegation on behalf of veterans. Typed letter dated 16 July 1957 from Carlton K. Sturms to Whitten, re: waste in Defense appropriations; two pages. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 18 July 1957 from Whitten to Sturms, re: above letter and closure of two military hospitals. Typed letter dated 25 July 1957 from F.W. Reams, Past President of North Carolina County Agricultural Agents’ Association, to Whitten, re: agricultural appropriations and Extension Service. Carbon typed letter dated 29 July 1957 from Whitten to Earl L. Butz, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, re: agriculture. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 26 July 1957 from Butz to Whitten: Butz’s departure. Typed letter dated 22 November 1957 from Boswell Stevens, President of Mississippi Farm Bureau, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s speech to Mississippi Farm Bureau. Typed letter dated 26 July 1957 from Earl L. Butz, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: Butz leaving office. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 29 July 1957 from Whitten to Butz, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 27 November 1957 from Dorothy H. Darnell, Secretary of Okolona Chamber of Commerce, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s speech at Okolona Annual Dinner. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 9 December 1957 from Whitten to Darnell, re: above topic. Newspaper clipping “America Is Still in a Position of Strength, Whitten Tells Rotarians” Oxford Eagle (28 November 1957). Typed letter dated 3 December 1957 from H.L. Wingate of Georgia Farm Bureau Federation to Whitten, re: Wingate’s retirement as president of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 10 December 1957 from Whitten to Wingate, re: above topic. Copy typed manuscript on Library of Congress, Legislative Reference Service letterhead dated 22 November 1957 entitled “John Chapman,” re: Johnny Appleseed; two pages. Newspaper clipping “Whitten Will Address Forest Broiler Festival” Jackson Clarion Ledger (31 March 1958). Typed letter dated 28 March 1958 from Clyde T. Ellis, General Manager of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, to Whitten, re: Rural Electrification Administration appropriation hearings. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 2 April 1958 from Whitten to Ellis, re: above letter.

Newspaper clipping “Cotton Comment: Jamie Whitten Vindicated in Stand on Export Programs as House-Senate Conferees Agree on Views Expressed in Earlier Report” by Gerald L. Dearing, re: Commodity Credit Corporation and export sales. Clipping “The Secretary of Agriculture” Congressional Record (3 April 1958), re: Whitten’s remarks on Ezra Taft Benson. Copy typed manuscript “U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary, Highlights of Address by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson before the America-Israel Society, Washington, D.C., April 17, 1958, 7:00 p.m. EST”; nine pages. Typed letter dated 17 April 1958 from U.S. Representative John L. McMillan of South Carolina to Whitten, re: Whitten’s authority on farm legislation and boll weevil research. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 22 April 1958 from Whitten to McMillan, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 29 April 1958 from U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota to Whitten, re: reprint of Whitten’s speech in Congressional Record on Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and Agricultural Appropriations Subcommitee hearings. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 1 May 1958 from Haynes E. Elliott, Assistant to Regional Operations Director of Mississippi Regional Post Office Department, to Whitten, re: appointment of Benjamin F. Johnston as temporary rural carrier at Carrollton, Mississippi. Attached: carbon copy of above letter. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 2 May 1958 from Whitten to Elliott, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 14 May 1958 from Boyd Campbell of Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s statements in Congressional Record and government spending; two pages. Typed letter dated 15 May 1958 from M.S. Shaw, Associate Director of Mississippi Cooperative Extension Work, to Whitten, re: U.S. Agricultural Extension Service. Typed letter dated 27 May 1958 from Chancellor J.D. Williams of the University of Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s appearance at Civil Aeronautics Board hearing on behalf of petition by city of Oxford and the university. Typed letter dated 14 June 1958 from Mississippi Governor J.P. Coleman to Whitten, re: Whitten’s speech at Forest. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 18 June 1958 from Whitten to Coleman, re: Tombigbee project. Typed letter dated 16 June 1958 from Heber Ladner, Mississippi Secretary of State, to Whitten, re: Mississippi Corrupt Practices Act forms and Whitten’s speech at Broiler Festival. Typed letter dated 18 July 1958 from Chancellor J.D. Williams of the University of Mississippi to Whitten, re: University-Oxford Airport approval. Typed letter dated 21 July 1958 from U.S. Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia to Whitten, re: States’ Rights bill H.R. 3 and state laws, communist Steve Nelson case, and civil rights laws. Attached:

clipping of printed quote on states rights by Smith. Attached: carbon typed letter undated from Whitten to Smith, re: above letter. Newspaper clipping “Hopes for States’ Rights Action by Congress Dim But Not Hopeless” Jackson Clarion-Ledger (22 July 1958), p. 6 with typed notation regarding Arthur Winstead speech written by Whitten. Typed letter dated 7 August 1958 from Boyd Campbell of Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: government spending, John Bell Williams’ candidacy for governor. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 13 August 1958 from Whitten to Campbell, re: above topics. Newspaper clipping “Legislative Report: A Victory for Integration Foes,” re: Whitten’s work on legislation; annotation. Attached: newspaper clipping “Whitten to Talk at Paris Parley: U.S. Agricultural Attaches Will Meet In France to Discuss Marketing.” Attached: newspaper clipping “Whitten Praised for Action upon Campbell Ruling,” re: Rural Electrification Administration. Attached: envelope dated 29 September 1958 addressed to Whitten and postmarked Arcata, California. Printed card, re: announcing death of William Mountjoy Garrard, General Manager of Staple Cotton Cooperative Association in Greenwood, Mississippi. Attached: typed letter dated 6 September 1958 from Garrard to Whitten, re: Whitten’s trip to Paris. Attached: clipping “William Mountjoy Garrard: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Frank E. Smith of Mississippi in the House of Representatives, Monday, January 12, 1959” Congressional Record. Typed letter dated 13 October 1958 from C.A. Cannon, President of Cannon Mills Company in Kannapolis, North Carolina, to Whitten, re: Cotton Advisory Committee and cotton trade. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 15 October 1958 from Ann T. Watson, Whitten’s secretary, to Cannon, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 23 December 1958 from Ezra T. Benson, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: food purchase program for school lunches, meeting with Whitten and Senator James O. Eastland to discuss cotton export program, and Whitten’s address to Staple Cotton Cooperative Association. Attached: carbon copy of above letter. Typed letter dated 23 December 1958 from Robert B. Patterson, Secretary of the Association of Citizens’ Councils of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: printing Whitten’s North Carolina speech in pamphlet. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1959 Typed manuscript “Special Letters and Other Items Compiled by Jamie L. Whitten, D. Miss. U.S. House of Representatives, INDEX 1959” re: names of individuals indexed to page numbers in scrapbook; five pages. Newspaper clipping “Jamie Whitten Now Checking on Cotton Futures” North Mississippi Herald (1 January 1959). Typed letter dated 19 January 1959 from U.S. Senator Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota to Whitten, re: Whitten speech at Gastonia, North Carolina; congressional coalition of conservatives.

Typed letter dated 19 January 1959 from U.S. Representative Melvin R. Laird of Wisconsin to Whitten, re: Whitten speech [at Gastonia, North Carolina] and party realignment. Handwritten manuscript, re: Whitten amendment vote count for fiscal year 1960. Attached: handwritten and typed manuscript, re: above note from George Christopher and Christopher’s death. Typed letter dated 4 February 1959 from U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia to Whitten, re: Whitten’s article in Staple Cotton Review and Talmadge’s farm bill. Typed letter dated 5 February 1959 from Walter C. Berger, Administrator of the Commodity Stabilization Service in the Department of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: enclosed press release. Attached: United States Department of Agriculture press release dated 5 February 1959 “USDA Clarifies Original Announcement on Cotton Export Program.” Attached: carbon copy of above press release. Typed letter dated 9 February 1959 from U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota to Whitten, re: Whitten’s article in Staple Cotton Review and farm bill. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 9 February 1959 from U.S. Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois to Whitten, re: Whitten’s speech. Typed letter dated 4 March 1959 from M.P. Moore of Senatobia, Mississippi to Whitten, re: [Ezra Taft] Benson. Carbon typed letter dated 5 March 1959 from Whitten to U.S. Senator Stuart Symington, re: Whitten’s speech on the record of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Newspaper clipping “A Mile High” Wall Street Journal (5 March 1959), re: Whitten, Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, agricultural policies. Copy typed letter dated 6 March 1959 from Whitten to “Bob,” re: cotton export trade, Senator James O. Eastland, and Department of Agriculture; three pages. Typed letter dated 10 March 1959 from Joe L. McKenzie, Secretary-Treasurer of Benton County Farm Bureau in Ashland, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: cotton export program. Typed letter dated 7 March 1959 from Frank H. Jonas, Professor of Political Science at University of Utah, to Whitten, re: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Typed letter dated 12 March 1959 from Russell Kennedy, Executive Vice President of Calcot, Ltd. In Bakersfield, California, re: Agricultural Appropriations for 1960. Typed letter dated 14 March 1959 from J.E. Bobo, President of Bolivar County Farm Bureau in Cleveland, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: cotton export program. Typed letter dated 19 March 1959 from Stephen Pace in Americus, Georgia, to Whitten, re: Whitten speech and hearings.

Typed letter dated 27 March 1959 from Ben H. Walley, Executive Assistant to Mississippi Governor J.P. Coleman, to Whitten, re: Coleman appearance before House Judiciary Committee hearing on civil rights. Typed note “INDEX International Cotton Advisory Committee.” Attached: carbon typed manuscript dated 14 May 1959 “Mr. Mann, State Department, called to advise he has written…” Attached: typed letter dated 12 May 1959 from Robert M. Carr, Director of Office of International Resources, Department of State, to Whitten, re: United Nations International Cotton Advisory Committee. Attached: carbon of above letter. Attached: carbon typed manuscript “Statement for the U.S. Delegate to the Eighteenth Plenary Meeting of ICAC”; seven pages. Typed letter dated 31 March 1959 from Jack Hackethorn, Public Relations Director of Missouri Farmers Association Inc., to U.S. Representative Clarence Cannon, re: Whitten speech. Typed letter dated 25 May 1959 from U.S. Representative Frank E. Smith to Whitten, re: agriculture price support program. Typed letter dated 28 May 1959 from N.J. Brantley, Mayor of Olive Branch, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Olive Branch inclusion in Tennessee Valley Authority power area. Carbon typed letter dated 30 May 1959 from B.F. Smith, Executive Vice President of Delta Council to Whitten, re: agriculture, loans, Mississippi Delta. Typed letter dated 9 June 1959 from U.S. Representative George Mahon to Whitten, re: Defense bill, Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations. Typed letter dated 26 June 1959 from Ben Hilbun, President of Mississippi State University, to Whitten, re: boll weevil research laboratory at Mississippi State University. Typed letter dated 30 June 1959 from U.S. Representative E.C. Gathings to Whitten, re: limitation provisions in Agriculture appropriations bill. Typed letter dated 30 June 1959 from M.S. Shaw, Associate Director of Cooperative Extension Work at Mississippi State University, to Whitten, re: boll weevil research laboratory at Mississippi State University. Carbon typed letter from U.S. Representative Frank E. Smith to Whitten, re: amendment in committee. Telegram dated 2 July 1959 from Harvey Adams, Agricultural Council of Arkansas, to Whitten, re: Commodity Credit Corporation loans. Attached: telegram dated 1 July 1959 from J.R. Flautt, Vice President of Staple Cotton Cooperative Association, to Whitten, re: Agriculture Appropriations bill. Typed letter dated 2 July 1959 from T.E. Berry, County Agent and President of Mississippi Association of County Agricultural Agents, to Whitten, re: boll weevil research laboratory at Mississippi State University. Typed note “INDEX GREAT STONE FACE. Attached: copy “The Great Stone Face Retold from Nathaniel Hawthorne” in Famous Stories and Verse; three pages.

Typed letter dated 2 July 1959 from Rhea Black, Executive Vice President of the National Cotton Council of America, to Whitten, re: commodity price support limitations, cotton research appropriations. Typed letter dated 3 July 1959 from George W. Pfeiffenberger, Executive Vice President of Plains Cotton Growers Inc., to Whitten, re: Agriculture Appropriations bill. Typed letter dated 4 August 1959 from Boyd Campbell in Jackson, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: school segregation. Typed letter dated 18 August 1959 from James B. Carey, President of International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, to “Dear Congressman,” re: Landrum-Griffin bill, labor unions. Attached: envelope. Typed manuscript “Public Works Appropriation Bill – Vetoed by Mr. Eisenhower,” re: roll call vote. Copy Congressional Record (8 September 1959), pages 17051-17060, re: Public Works Appropriations bill. Copy Congressional Record (8 September 1959), pages 18603-18604, re: Public Works Appropriation bill. Congressional Record (8 September 1959), pages 17048-17050, re: Public Works Appropriation bill. Typed note “See Page 196, re action on President Eisenhower’s veto of Public Works Appropriations Bill…” Attached: typed manuscript, re: reactions of various members of Congress regarding above topic. Copy typed letter dated 7 September 1959 from W.C. Neill in North Carrollton, Mississippi, to Florence Sillers Ogden, re: comments on Whitten; annotated note to Whitten. Attached: handwritten letter dated 22 September 1959 from Mrs. Harry C. Ogden to “Mr. Neill,” re: Whitten Typed letter dated 11 September 1959 from E.W. Haining, President of the Rivers and Harbors Association of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: overriding presidential veto of Public Works bill. Clipping “Deadlock Bond Interest Imperiled” Washington Daily News (11 September 1959), page 7, re: authorization of higher interest rates on government savings bonds. Typed letter dated 12 September 1959 from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher to Whitten, re: Public Works appropriations bill. Typed letter dated 11 September 1959 from U.S. Representative Michael J. Kirwan to “Dear Colleague,” re: overriding the presidential veto of the Public Works Appropriation bill. Carbon typed letter dated 14 September 1959 from Whitten to U.S. Representative Michael J. Kirwan, re: Public Works Appropriation bill. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 15 September 1959 from Whitten to Kirwan, re: above topic. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 15 September 1959 from Whitten to Editor of the Youngstown Vindicator, re: enclosed letter. Attached: typed letter dated 15 October 1959 from Kirwan to “Dear Fellow Democrat,” re: major legislative accomplishments of the

First Session of the 86th Congress. Attached: typed manuscript “86th Congress, First Session Index of Legislative Summaries in the Congressional Record”; four pages. Typed letter dated 14 September 1959 from U.S. Representative John J. Riley to Whitten, re: Public Works Appropriation bill. Typed letter dated 15 September 1959 from U.S. Representative Ben F. Jensen to Whitten, re: Public Works Appropriation bill. Typed letter dated 18 September 1959 from U.S. Representative Keith Thomson to Whitten, re: Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, Public Works Appropriation bill; two pages. Typed letter dated 25 September 1959 from U.S. Representative Clarence Cannon to Whitten, re: Whitten, Symington investigation. Clipping “Veto Barrier Broken” Missouri Delta Farmer (September 1959), re: Public Works Appropriation bill. Attached: copy of above clipping. Clipping “Rep. Whitten’s Report Indicates Flaws in Cotton Export System” Jackson Clarion Ledger (22 October [1959]). Clipping “House Acts to Slash Unnecessary Spending” Winona Times (1959), re: Whitten and Defense appropriation bill. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1960-1963 Typed manuscript “Special Letters and Other Items Compiled by Jamie L. Whitten, D. Miss. U.S. House of Representatives, INDEX” re: names of individuals indexed to page numbers in scrapbook; four pages. Typed letter dated 11 February 1960 from President Dwight D. Eisenhower to Whitten, re: fiscal responsibilities in military appropriations, 1961 Budget. Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Copy typed letter dated 19 May 1960 from Mississippi State Representative Talmadge D. Littlejohn to Whitten, re: declining to work in Washington, DC. Attached: copy of above letter. Copy typed letter dated 9 June 1960 from Mississippi State Representative Phillip D. Bryant to Whitten, re: congressional redistricting. Clipping “Eastland, Whitten on Bar List,” re: speakers at Mississippi Bar Association. Attached: telegram dated 15 June 1960 from Ben Hilbun, President Mississippi State University to Whitten, re: Poultry Disease Research Laboratory at Mississippi State University. Typed letter dated 5 April 1962 from Hugh L. Elsbree, Director of Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service, to Whitten, re: Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearings with complimentary remarks for Whitten. Attached: typed manuscript “References to Complimentary Remarks Directed to the Honorable Jamie L. Whitten, Chairman, Subcommittee on Agriculture Department Appropriations, 1947-1960”; six pages.

Typed letter dated 11 July 1960 from Ida Crite of Los Angeles, California to Whitten, re: recollections from African American woman originally from Charleston, Mississippi, race relations, politics; two pages. Attached: carbon typed transcript of above letter; three pages. Typed letter dated 15 August 1960 from J. Wayne Griggs, President of Tennessee Agricultural Council to Whitten, re: apologies for publicity surrounding Whitten automobile accident. Typed letter dated 18 August 1960 from Frank Ahlgren, Editor of Memphis Commercial Appeal, to Whitten, re: Jackson incident. Typed letter signed dated 7 November 1960 from Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett to Whitten, re: November 1st letter. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 1 November 1960 from Whitten to Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, re: states’ rights, Democratic National Convention; two pages; two copies. Press release from U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd dated 3 December 1960, re: transcript of Byrd letter to U.S. Senator Joseph S. Clark on remarks made suggesting that Democrat senators who did not endorse the national ticket should be denied attendance at caucuses; four pages. Congressional Record (20 February 1901), pages 2702-2703, re: Private John Allen Fish Hatchery; two pages. Typed letter dated 8 February 1961 from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman to Whitten, re: Whitten’s speech “Chemicals and the Food Supply.” Typed letter dated 13 February 1961 from U.S. Representative Howard W. Smith to Whitten, re: Smith’s birthday party. Typed letter dated 15 February 1961 from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman to Whitten, re: cotton exports, budget; two pages. Typed letter dated 20 February 1961 from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman to Whitten, re: agriculture appropriations. Typed note “First black applicant from North Mississippi.” Attached: typed letter dated 21 February 1961 from Alton Edwards in Coldwater, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: nomination to Air Force Academy. Attached: typed note “Extracurricular Activities.” Clipping “How Kennedy Gets What He Wants: You Can Look for More Use of These Methods to Sway Congress in Future” Nation’s Business (September 1961); three pages. Typed letter dated 28 February 1961 from Edward P. Russell in Memphis, Tennessee, to Whitten, re: cotton exports. Typed letter dated 19 April 1961 from U.S. Representative Carl Vinson to Whitten, re: textile imports. Typed letter dated 9 May 1961 from William L. Giles, Vice President of Mississippi State University to Whitten, re: cotton mechanization research, cotton ginning research.

Typed letter dated 15 May 1961 from Bruce Aultman of Hattiesburg, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Mississippi State Chamber of Commerce. Handwritten letter dated 13 June 1961 from Stephen Pace of Americus, Georgia, to Whitten, re: National Cotton Advisory Committee, cotton. Typed letter dated 19 September 1961 from U.S. Representative Clarence Cannon to Mississippi Speaker Walter Sillers, re: Whitten on Appropriations Committee, Mississippi redistricting; two pages. Attached: printed version of above letter. Attached: typed draft of above letter with handwritten notations; two pages. Typed letter dated 20 September 1961 from Jack Steele of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance to Whitten, re: Whitten. Typed letter dated 21 September 1961 from B.U. Jones, Manager of Mississippi Rural Electric Association, to Whitten, re: power, Upper Colorado River Storage Project. Carbon typed letter dated 25 September 1961 from Mississippi Speaker Walter Sillers to U.S. Representative Clarence Cannon, re: September 19th letter on Whitten. Typed letter dated 25 September 1961 from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman to Whitten, re: Cotton Council. Handwritten letter dated 19 October 1961 from H.F Kreuzburg of Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Whitten’s health. Typed letter dated 21 February 1962 from Major General William F. Cassidy of Corps of Engineers to Whitten, re: water resource development in Mississippi; two pages. Whitten press release dated 5 February 1962, re: voting rights, civil rights, United Nations, foreign aid, redistricting, Whitten’s seniority. Affidavit dated 27 May 1962, re: meeting between Yalobusha County, Mississippi Board of Supervisors and U.S. Representative Frank Smith on the subject of a poultry processing business, federal funds, and the upcoming congressional election; two pages. Typed letter dated 5 March 1962 from J. Drue Lundy of Belzoni, Mississippi to Sale Lilly of Charleston, Mississippi, re: redistricting. Campaign brochure “Keep Jamie Whitten in Congress – Election June 5th”; four copies. Attached: handwritten manuscript “Television Program Campaign of 1962”; three pages. Typed letter dated 30 March 1962 from LeRoy Percy and Sidney Levingston to “Dear Fellow Deltan,” re: redistricting. Offprint “The REA, Key to Our High Standard of Living – Address by Jamie Whitten” Congressional Record (15 March 1962); two copoies.

Typed letter dated 12 March 1962 from Will M. Whittington of Greenwood, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Tractor Driver Case. Copy Congressional Record (16 July 1962), page 13682, re: erroneous report on poor relations between U.S. Representatives Clarence Cannon and Carl Hayden. Telegram dated 27 September 1962 from U.S. Representatives Thomas G. Abernethy, Whitten, John Bell Williams, Arthur Winstead, and William M. Colmer to U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, re: integration of University of Mississippi by James Meredith; two pages. Telegram dated 28 September 1962 from U.S. Representatives Thomas G. Abernethy, Whitten, John Bell Williams, Arthur Winstead, and William M. Colmer and U.S. Senators James O. Eastland and John C. Stennis to President John F. Kennedy, re: integration of University of Mississippi by James Meredith. Typed letter dated 26 October 1962 from President John F. Kennedy to “Dear Congressman,” re: integration of University of Mississippi; two pages. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Carbon typed letter dated 5 November 1962 from Whitten to President John F. Kennedy, re: Supreme Court rulings, integration of University of Mississippi; two copies. Typed letter dated 8 February 1963 from Frank Soraci, Director of New Jersey Department of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: plant pest control programs. Typed letter dated 11 March 1963 from U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to Whitten, re: occupation of University of Mississippi campus by federal troops. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Attached: carbon copy of above letter. Attached: carbon copy typed letter from Kennedy to Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, re: above topic; two pages. Typed letter dated 25 April 1963 from Roscoe Turner of Indianapolis, Indiana, to Whitten, re: integration of the University of Mississippi. Typed letter dated 23 May 1963 from Frank E. Smith, Director of Tennessee Valley Authority Board, to Whitten, re: basin planning cooperation. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 28 May 1963 from Whitten to Smith, re: river development surveys. Typed letter dated 5 June 1963 from R. Baxter Wilson, President of Mississippi Power & Light Company, to Whitten, re: Rural Electrification Administration cooperatives. Typed letter dated 28 June 1963 from Clyde T. Ellis, General Manager of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, to Whitten, re: Rural Electrification Administration. Copy typed letter dated 22 August 1963 from Wm. G. Collins of New Albany, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Collins’ support for Frank Smith in election campaign, postmaster position; two pages. Typed letter dated 7 October 1963 from Frank O. Crosthwait Jr., Chairman of Legislative Affairs Committee of Indianola Chamber of Commerce, to Whitten, re: foreign aid, civil rights, fiscal policy. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 11 October 1963 from Whitten to Crosthwait Jr., re: above letter.

Typed letter dated 17 November 1963 from Newman Bolls, Chief Engineer of Mississippi Levee Commissioners, to Whitten, re: Mississippi Delta. Copy typed letter dated 27 November 1963 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to B.F. Smith, Executive Vice President of Delta Council, re: Mississippi River Commission, Corps of Engineer unit in Greenville. Telegram dated 26 December 1963 from Robert R. Coker, President of National Cotton Council, to Whitten, re: cotton research. Carbon typed letter dated 27 December 1963 from George S. Buck Jr. to Whitten, re: agriculture research, cotton, Commodity Credit Corporation. Typed manuscript “Resolution,” re: River and Harbors Association commending Whitten for work on water resource development. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1960-1976 Copy typed letter dated 21 September 1971 from George Irving of Chevy Chase, Maryland to Whitten, re: agricultural research. Copy typed manuscript dated 5 March 1971 “To Congressman Jamie L. Whitten for Outstanding Service to Agriculture and Leadership in Conservation and Resource Use Development”; two pages. Handwritten letter dated 3 January 1971 from Mr. and Mrs. Rickey White to “Dear Sir,” re: thank you for bride packet. Press release from American for Constitutional Action undated, re: Whitten receiving Distinguished Service Award. Attached: carbon typed manuscript dated 1 December 1969, re: list of names and addresses; three pages. Attached: typed manuscript, re: draft of above letter. Attached: typed manuscript with annotations, re: draft of above letter. Attached: typed letter dated 3 September 1969 from Ben Moreell, Chairman of Board of Trustees of Americans for Constitutional Action, re: above award. Washington Farmletter (6 May 1966), re: farm price control program. [Washington Farmletter] (April 1966), re: agricultural appopriations. Page from unknown typed manuscript of publication “When worrying too much about today…,” re: comparison of contemporary conditions today with one hundred years earlier. Congressional Record (4 March 1964), pages 4145-4146, re: redistricting. Congressional Record (19 February 1964), pages 3049-3050, re: eligibility of representatives in Congress. Congressional Record (24 February 1964), pages 3251, re: eligibility of representatives in Congress. Handwritten note “See Page 69…” Attached: U.S. News & World Report (27 March 1967).

Copy typed letter dated 25 March 1976 from U.S. Senator James O. Eastland to Whitten, re: Whitten’s remarks at University of Mississippi dinner. Copy typed letter dated 16 November 1976 from President Jerry Ford to Whitten, re: Whitten’s reelection. Typed letter dated 13 October 1960 from “Ruth” to Whitten, re: leaving Whitten’s office staff. Carbon typed letter dated 1 November 1960 from Whitten to Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, re: states’ rights, Democratic National Convention; two pages. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1964-1967 Typed manuscript “Special Letters and Other Items Compiled by Jamie L. Whitten, D. Miss. U.S. House of Representatives, 1964-1967 CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX” re: names of individuals indexed to page numbers in scrapbook; seven pages. Typed letter dated 13 January 1964 from William L. Giles, Vice President of Mississippi State University, to Whitten, re: agricultural extension and research appropriations, Cotton Production-Mechanization meeting. Typed letter dated 3 March 1964 from Leon L. Porter Jr. of the Coahoma County Bar to Whitten, re: Civil Rights Act of 1963. Typed letter dated 9 March 1964 from A.V. Henry, Chairman of the Bolivar County Farm Bureau Inc. Legislative Committee, to Whitten, re: cotton research. Typed letter dated 9 March 1964 from Speaker of the House John W. McCormack to Whitten, re: Whitten remarks. Carbon typed letter dated 11 June 1964 from Whitten to David Lawrence of U.S. News & World Report, re: article on agriculture. Attached: clipping “As Farming Goes, So Goes the Country – Still True?” U.S. News & World Report (15 June 1974), page 94. Attached: typed letter dated 17 June 1964 from David Lawrence, Editor U.S. News & World Report, to Whitten, re: above letter. Copy typed letter dated 22 July 1964 from Charles C. Collins in Myrtle, Mississippi to Whitten, re: appointment of nephew as postmaster; two pages. Typed note “See letter to Howard Langfitt…” Attached: typed manuscript dated 22 August 1964 “Resolution,” re: commending Whitten for efforts in protecting the Rural Electrification program. Copy typed letter dated 18 February 1965 from Whitten to “Dear Friend,” re: lawyers and recent election contest; two pages. Congressional Record (21 June 1965), page. 13660-13663, re: “Law on Mississippi Contested Election Cases.” The Dan Smoot Report (30 August 1965), re: conservative ratings of roll call votes in Congress.

Americans for Constitutional Action press release dated 26 May 1965, re: Distinguished Service Awards list includes Whitten; four pages. Offprint “The Vardaman Idea: How the Governor of Mississippi Would Solve the Race Question” Saturday Evening Post (27 April 1907). Press release dated 17 March 1965 “Speech of Congressman Jamie L. Whitten (During the Annual Meeting of the Washington Section, Society of American Foresters, on March 17, 1965…”; six pages. Attached: typed note undated from Don Larch in Washington, DC, re: above press release. Handwritten note undated, re: Indonesia, Poland, and Yugoslavia [food exports]. Attached: copy of printed document “Foreign Assistance Appropriations 1965” with typed note regarding amendment suggested by Whitten. Newspaper clipping “Pity the Poor Delta” Greenville Delta Democrat-Times (30 November 1965), re: redistricting. Telegram dated 3 February 1965 from Thomas G. Abernethy to Whitten, re: deposition in Charleston. Telegram dated 6 February 1965 from U.S. Representative George Mahon, re: Commodity Credit Bill. Attached: telegram dated 6 February 1965 from Speaker of the House John W. McCormack to Whitten, re: legislative vote. Carbon typed letter dated 26 March 1965 from Whitten to Ben Moreell, Chairman of Americans for Constitutional Action, re: decline invitation. Attached: typed note, re: Americans for Constitutional Action award history. Attached: typed letter dated 18 March 1965 from Moreell to Whitten, re: above topics. Typed letter dated 13 April 1965 from William L. Taylor, Staff Director of US Commission on Civil Rights, to Whitten, re: US Department of Agriculture report “Equal Opportunity in Farm Programs.” Typed letter dated 21 April 1965 from Orville L. Freeman, US Secretary of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: pesticides, That We May Live. Typed letter dated 17 May 1965 from U.S. Representative Teno Roncalio to U.S. Representative Michael J. Kirwan, re: Whitten. Typed letter dated 29 May 1965 from George C. Cortright, President of National Cotton Council of America to Whitten, re: cotton. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 1 June 1965 from Whitten to Cortright, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 1 June 1965 from John H. Todd, Executive Vice President of National Cotton Compress & Cotton Warehouse Association, re: agricultural appropriations bill. Typed letter dated 17 June 1965 from Newman Bolls, Chief Engineer of Mississippi Levee Commissioners, to Whitten, re: appropriations bill, Yazoo River Basin, flood control; two pages.

Typed letter dated 17 June 1965 from N.C. Brady, Director of Science and Education at US Department of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: Whitten speech, pesticides. Telegram dated 17 June 1965 from Newman Bolls, Chief Engineer of Mississippi Levee Commissioners, to Whitten, re: flood control appropriations. Typed letter dated 17 June 1965 from J.D. Lundy, President of Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners, to Whitten, re: flood control appropriations, Corps of Engineers in Greenville. Typed letter dated 21 June 1965 from R. Baxter Wilson, President of Mississippi Power & Light Company, to Whitten, re: Public Works Appropriations Bill, Southwestern Power Administration, Bonneville Power Administration. Typed letter dated 13 July 1965 from Robert M. Koch, President of National Limestone Institute Inc., to Whitten, re: agriculture. Typed letter dated 24 August 1965 from T.E. Veitch, Manager of Oktibbeha County Chamber of Commerce, to Whitten, re: Farm Bill. Typed letter dated 14 September 1965 from Gerhard Klaassen, Pastor of Fairfield Mennonite Church in Fairfield, Pennsylvania, to Whitten, re: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenge of Whitten seat, Mississippi election contest. Telegram dated 15 September 1965 from Ann F. Johnson in Tougaloo, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenge of Whitten seat, Mississippi election contest. Typed manuscript dated 15 October 1965 “Resolution,” re: commendation of Whitten by Rivers and Harbors Association of Mississippi. Typed note dated October 1965, re: designation of University of Mississippi as a Government Documents depository. Attached: typed manuscript “Designation as a Depository for United States Government Publications.” Typed letter dated 4 November 1965 from Judge J.P. Coleman, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, to Whitten, re: Coleman’s representation of four Members of Congress in Mississippi Election Contest. Carbon typed letter dated 22 November 1965 from Frank T. Brumfield, President of Delta Council, to Whitten, re: enclosed resolution. Attached: carbon typed manuscript undated “Resolution Appreciation to Congressman Whiten and Senator Stennis,” re: Delta Council, appropriations for Mississippi River and Yazoo River projects. Typed letter dated 20 December 1965 from Judge J.P. Coleman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, to Whitten, re: Christmas greetings. Typed letter dated 20 December 1965 from President Lyndon B. Johnson to Whitten, re: Christmas greetings.

Newspaper clipping Jackson Clarion-Ledger (16 February 1966), re: Mississippi congressional redistricting. Typed letter dated 9 March 1966 from John A. Schnittker, US Under Secretary of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: cotton price supports. Newspaper clipping “Delta Negroes Threaten Whitten’s Seat in House” New York Times (3 April 1966), re: congressional redistricting. Typed letter dated 4 April 1966 from Heber Ladner, Mississippi Secretary of State, to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection campaign affidavits and fees. Attached: receipt dated 2 April 1966, re: filing fee for candidacy. Attached: typed letter dated 2 April 1966 from B.P. Mauldin, Secretary of Mississippi State Democratic Executive Committee, to Whitten, re: above receipt. Carbon typed letter dated 25 April 1966 from Whitten to Frank E. Smith, Director of Tennessee Valley Authority, re: appropriations, George Mahon. Attached: typed letter dated 20 April 1966 from Smith to Whitten, re: above topics. Carbon typed manuscript dated 28 April 1966 “Radio Remarks Concerning Congressman Jamie L. Whitten,” re: Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture; two pages. Copy typed manuscript dated April 1966 “Wayne Darrow Farm Reports,” re: farm appropriations; two pages. Copy clipping dated 29 April 1966, re: agricultural appropriations; two pages. Typed letter dated 29 April 1966 from Lawrence A. Chatto, Maine State Executive Director of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, re: agricultural appropriations. Copy typed letter dated 9 May 1966 from George D. Gettinger, Director of State of Indiana District of Columbia Office, to B.F. Smith, Executive Secretary of Delta Council, re: Whitten. Typed letter dated 10 May 1966 from Earl L. Butz, Dean of Purdue University, to Whitten, re: agricultural appropriations, agricultural research. Carbon typed letter dated 11 May 1966 from E.C. Wittmeyer, Secretary of Ohio Vegetable and Potato Growers Association, to Editor of Wall Street Journal, re: nematode threat to potato crops, Whitten. Carbon typed letter dated 1 June 1966 from Whitten to Arlon G. Hazen, Director of Agricultural Experiment Station at North Dakota State University, re: agricultural appropriations bill. Attached: typed letter dated 19 May 1966 from Hazen to Whitten, re: Agricultural Experiment Stations, agricultural appropriations; two pages. Folder “Golden Anniversary of the Federal Land Bank System 1917-1967.” Enclosed: documents, re: commemorative medal for Federal Land Bank System. Typed letter dated 1 June 1966 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: Tennessee Valley Authority bonds.

Typed letter dated 3 June 1966 from John Brewer, President of North Mississippi Great Lakes Council, to Whitten, re: user-fees at lakes. Typed letter dated 15 August 1966 from Mississippi Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr. to Whitten, re: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Public Works Subcommittee. Typed letter dated 24 August 1966 from John T. Carlton, Executive Director of Reserve Officers Association of the United States, to Whitten, re: Whitten in association’s magazine. Typed letter dated 29 August 1966 from Earle N. Billings, Secretary and General Manager of Southern Cotton Association, to Whitten, re: agricultural appropriations. Typed letter dated 19 September 1966 from Bruce Tucker, Executive Vice President of Lower Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association, to Whitten, re: appropriations. Typed letter dated 11 October 1966 from Thomas W. Dowe, Chairman of Northeastern Agricultural Experiment Station Directors, to Whitten, re: resolution commending Whitten for efforts to fund agricultural research. Typed letter dated 11 October 1966 from Thomas W. Dowe, Chairman of Northeastern Agricultural Experiment Station Directors, to Whitten, re: appropriations for state agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension service. Typed letter dated 25 October 1966 from Sam H. Coker, President of Board of Levee Commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, to Whitten, re: appropriations for Lower Mississippi Valley and tributaries, Sunflower River. Typed letter dated 14 December 1966 from Hunter Whitten in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: pesticides. Typed letter dated 26 January 1967 from De Witt Wallace, Co-Chairman of Reader’s Digest, to Whitten, re: That We May Live. Typed letter dated 2 February 1967 from William A. Sutherland in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Whitten representing Coffeeville Consolidated School District at administrative hearing, Title Vi of Civil Rights Act. Engraved invitation to White House luncheon on 20 February 1967. Attached: envelope. Attached: sheet with following White House Luncheon menu, “The President’s House” matchbook, and envelope. Typed letter dated 13 March 1967 from Judge J.P. Coleman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, to Whitten, re: Whitten letter and book. Typed letter dated 14 March 1967 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: West Tallahatchie School District hearings. Typed note, re: Whitten at White House meeting in March 1967, re: school integration and Vietnam.

Typed letter dated 14 April 1967 from F.G. Smith, Vice President of Mississippi Power & Light Company, to Whitten, re: Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr., Whitten. Typed letter dated 19 April 1967 from M.B. Swayze of Mississippi Economic Council to Whitten, re: Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr., Whitten. Sheet with White House Luncheon menu dated 28 April 1967 and envelope. Typed letter dated 4 May 1967 from Mississippi Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr. to Whitten, re: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority. Copy telegram dated 14 May 1967 from John V. Lindsay to Whitten, re: invitation to dedication ceremony of New York City terminal market. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 16 May 1967 from U.S. Representatives Whitten, Robert H. Michel, and Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture Staff Assistant Ross F. Pope to Major John V. Lindsay of New York, re: regret for above invitation. Typed letter dated 22 May 1967 from William L. Giles, President of Mississippi State University, to Whitten, re: Forest-Plant Sciences Building and Forest Products Utilization Building. Handwritten letter dated 26 May 1967 from Jane [illegible] William of Jacksonville, Florida, to Whitten, re: infant care package. Copy newspaper clipping “Initials of History in a Fiery Stump” Memphis Commercial Appeal (14 July 1967), re: Ross Collins. Typed letter dated 14 June 1967 from [U.S. Representative Julia Butler Hansen to Whitten, re: enclosed letter. Attached: copy typed letter dated 14 June 1967 from Hensen to U.S. Senator John Stennis, re: Hardwoods Laboratory at Stoneville, Mississippi. Typed letter dated 27 June 1967 from U.S. Representative Julia Butler Hensen to Whitten, re: Whitten. Typed letter dated 26 August 1967 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: conference committee, military spending. Typed letter dated 30 August 1967 from Marquinte Lamb in Mineral Wells, Mississippi to Whitten, re: That We May Live. Typed letter dated 1 November 1967 from Carper W. Buckley, Superintendent of Documents at U.S. Government Printing Office, to Whitten, re: University of Mississippi as Government Documents depository. Typed letter dated 3 November 1965 from President Lyndon B. Johnson to Whitten, re: coinage legislation. Attached: freshly minted quarter. Attached: sheet with envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Telegram dated 4 November 1967 from U.S. Representative Bob Sikes to Whitten, re: Whitten receiving Minute Man Hall of Fame award, national security.

In the House of Representatives of the United States of Congress 1. In the Matter of the Election of Thomas G. Abernethy, Member of the First District of Mississippi. 2. In the Matter of the Election of Jamie L. Whitten, Members of the Second District of Mississippi… Copy typed manuscript “In re: Mississippi Congressional Contest,” re: Mississippi election contest; eight pages. House Report No. 1008 dated 15 September 1965 “Dismissing the Five Mississippi Election Contests and Declaring the Returned Members Are Duly Entitled to Their Seats in the House of Representatives.” Attached: print “H.Res. 585” dated 15 September 1965, re: above topic. Attached: carbon typed manuscript undated “The lawyers and contestants in our seating problem…,” re: above topic; two pages. Attached: typed note “Informal Brief re Contest of Election of the Mississippi Delegation U.S. Congress 1965.” Attached: copy typed manuscript, re: above brief; twenty-seven pages. Congressional Record (17 September 1965), re: Mississippi Contested Election. Copy typed manuscript “The Sales & Use Tax, Its Origin and Background in Mississippi through 1965” by V.B. Wheeless, Chief of Sales & Use Tax Division of Mississippi State Tax Commission; thirty-one pages. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1968-1971 Typed manuscript “Special Letters and Other Items Compiled by Jamie L. Whitten, D. Miss. U.S. House of Representatives, 1968-1971 CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX” re: names of individuals indexed to page numbers in scrapbook; ten pages. Handwritten letter undated from Mrs. Harper Johnson in Senatobia, Mississippi to Whitten, re: black candidates, Richard Nixon. Attached: copy of typed poem “The Black Spangled Banner.” Handwritten note “Note: Mr. Hazen quotes you on Page 5.” Attached: typed letter dated 11 March 1968 from Arlon G. Hazen, Director Agricultural Experiment Station at North Dakota State University, to U.S. Senator Milton R. Young, U.S. Senator Quentin N. Burdick, U.S. Representative Mark Andrews, and U.S. Representative Tom Kleppe, re: agricultural research; two pages. Attached: typed manuscript dated 11 March 1968 “Statement Concerning State Agricultural Experiment Station”; twelve pages. Typed letter dated 8 May 1968 from Robert M. Koch, President of National Limestone Institute Inc., to “Persons Interested in the Conservation of Our Basic Soil and Water Conservation,” re: Whitten, Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture. Attached: committee print dated 30 April 1968 “Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 1969.” Typed letter dated 9 May 1968 from H.D. Godfrey, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Administrator, to Whitten, re: Cotton Sales mission, agriculture appropriations. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 13 May 1968 from Whitten to Godfrey, re: vote on agriculture appropriations. Typed letter undated from James M. Ethridge, Editorial Director of Contemporary Authors, to “Miss Whitten,” re: biographical entry. Copy typed letter dated 5 June 1968 from Orville F. Freeman, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: Whitten article in Sperryscope.

Copy typed letter dated 19 June 1968 from G.L. Hickman, President of First National Bank of Oxford, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: agriculture article. Copy typed letter dated 20 June 1968 from W. Liddon McPeters, President of Security Bank in Corinth, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten article in Sperryscope, agriculture, tax legislation. Handwritten letter dated 10 June 1968 from Warren Brown of Newport, Maine to Whitten, re: conservation, Whitten; two pages. Typed letter dated 10 June 1968 from A.C. Mowery Jr., Arkansas State Director of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, to Whitten, re: Agriculture Appropriations Bill. U.S. Department of Agriculture Experiment Station Letter No. 956, re: includes text on Whitten article in Sperryscope. Handwritten letter dated 17 June 1968 from Bill Guyton of Oxford, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten note, Guyton’s health. Typed letter dated 24 June 1968 from John W. Haynes in Corinth, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Services, civil service. Copy typed letter dated 3 July 1968 from Jimmye S. Hillman, Head of Department of Agricultural Economics at University of Arizona, to Whitten, re: Whitten article in Sperryscope. Copy typed letter dated 8 July 1968 from Harold E. Myers, Dean of College of Agriculture at University of Arizona, to Whitten, re: Whitten article in Sperryscope. Copy typed manuscript, re: UPI story on intelligence services by Defense Appropriations Subcommittee; two pages. Typed letter dated 18 September 1968 from M.A. Rowzee, Mississippi Extension 4-H Specialist, to Whitten, re: Whitten National 4-H Alumni Recognition winter; two pages. Telegram dated 18 September 1968 from Speaker of the House John W. McCormack to Whitten, re: invitation to meeting with Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey on 18 September. Copy typed letter dated 3 October 1968 from Wilbur J. Cohen, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, to U.S. Representative Jeffery Cohelan, re: Whitten rider on Labor-Health, Education, and Welfare appropriations bill, integration of schools, Civil Rights Act of 1964; two page. Copy typed manuscript dated 7 October 1968 “Yazoo Navigation Project Authorized by PL 90-483 90th Congress S. 3710 August 13, 1968.” Copy typed manuscript dated 24 October 1968 “Background Data on Contributions to Agriculture and Forestry and to the Country Generally by the Honorable Jamie L. Whitten of Mississippi”; three pages.

Copy typed letter dated 25 October 1968 from Ann T. Watson to Mrs. Peyton Hawes Dunn, Secretary of Executive Committee WARDS, re: research animals. Attached: WARDS newsletter; above topic. Typed letter dated 27 November 1968 from L.W. Eberhardt Jr., Director of George Cooperative Extension Service, to Whitten, re: Whitten address at National County Agents Association meeting, agriculture. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access. Copy “Going Hungry in America: Government’s Failure” Atlantic Monthly (28 November 1968) with typed note from editor. Typed letter dated 17 January 1969 from President Lyndon B. Johnson to Whitten, re: Johnson’s retirement. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access. Invitation to Presidential Inauguration on 20 January 1969. Program “Inauguration Ceremonies Program January Nineteen-Hundred Sixty-Nine.” Carbon typed letter dated 3 February from U.S. Representative William M. Colmer to Michael J. Kirwan, Chairman of Democratic National Congressional Committee, re: Whitten designated as Mississippi representative to Democratic National Congressional Committee. Attached: copy typed letter dated 3 February 1969 from Krwan to Colmer, re: meeting on frundraising. Typed letter dated February 1969 from Norman C. Mindrum, National 4-H Service Committee, to Whitten, re: Whitten recipient of 4-H Alumni Recognition Program; two pages. Attached: press release dated 6 March 1969 “1969 National 4-H Alumni Recognition Program.” Copy typed letter dated 4 April 1969 from Emil M. Mrak, Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, to Thomas W. Campbell, Director of Public Relations at Geigy Chemical Corporation, re: That We May Live. Typed letter dated 27 May 1969 from Horace D. Godfrey of American Sugar Cane League and the Florida Sugar Cane League, to Whitten, re: agricultural appropriations. Carbon typed letter dated 4 June 1969 from Whitten to James Hanson, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Southern Mississippi, re: request for Whitten’s papers. Attached: typed letter dated 14 May 1969 from Hanson to Whitten, re: above topic. Handwritten letter undated from U.S. Senator Birch Bayh to Whitten with attached typed note, re: Democratic meeting. Copy typed letter 5 June 1969 from Clifford M. Hardin, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, to U.S. Senator Spessard L. Holland, re: Agriculture Appropriations Bill; two pages. Program “Mississippi 4-H Club Convention August 18-21 1969” with mention of Whitten address.

Copy typed letter dated 25 August 1969 from A.F. Summer, Mississippi Attorney General to Whitten, re: Appropriation Bill, school integration. Typed letter dated 9 September 1969 from President Richard Nixon, re: First Man on the Moon stamp. Attached: philatelic memento of above stamp. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 15 August 1969 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: conference committee, Whitten amendment. Typed letter dated 21 August 1969 from James H. Anderson, Director of Agricultural Experiment Station at Mississippi State University, to Whitten, re: agriculture, state experiment stations. Carbon typed letter dated 11 September 1969 from Whitten to Porter L. Fortune, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, re: Whitten papers at the university; two pages. Attached: carbon typed manuscript undated “A Listing of Some of the Historic Events in which Congressman Whitten Has Participated”; seven pages. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 14 August 1969 from Ann Watson, Secretary to Whitten, to Fortune, re: Whitten papers at the university. Attached: typed letter dated 8 August 1969 from Fortune to Whitten, re: above topic. Carbon typed letter dated 5 September 1969 from Whitten to Admiral Ben Moreell, Chairman of Board of Trustees for Americans for Constitutional Action, re: Distinguished Service Award. Typed letter dated 30 September 1969 from Cliff Finch in Batesville, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Farmers Home Administration approved lawyers. Typed letter dated 9 October 1969 from Glover Wilkins, Administrator Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority, to Whitten, re: Yellow Creek Port. Typed letter dated 13 October 1969 from Neal P. Gillen, Vice President of American Cotton Shippers Association, to Whitten, re: cotton industry. Americans for Constitutional Action press release undated, re: Whitten recipient of Distinguished Service Award. Attached: Americans for Constitutional Action press release dated 17 November 1969 “Tie-in with Separate List of Recipients of ACA’s Distinguished Service Award; three pages. Typed letter dated 22 December 1969 from U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke to Whitten, re: appropriations bill, New England weather ship. Christmas card from Vice President and Mrs. Hubert Humprhey. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Richard Nixon. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 23 December 1969 from U.S. Representative George Mahon to Whitten, re: Appropriations Committee.

Typed letter dated 29 December 1969 from Lowell H. Watts, Director for Cooperative Extension Service at Colorado State University, to Whitten, re: 4-H award, agricultural appropriations. Typed letter dated 29 December 1969 from President Lyndon B. Johnson to Whitten, re: thanks for letter. Typed letter dated 30 December 1969 from George C. Delp, Chairman of Sperry Rand Corporation, to Whitten, re: Whitten speech, agriculture. Typed letter dated 11 February 1970 from V.B. MacNaughton, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, to Whitten, re: national forests in Mississippi. Carbon typed letter dated 12 February 1970 from Whitten to E.F. Trapp in Gassville, Arkansas, re: education, civil rights; two pages. Handwritten letter dated 9 February 1970 from Trapp to Whitten, re: school integration. Typed letter dated 12 February 1970 from William E. Timmons, Assistant to President Nixon, to Whitten, re: enclosed statement. Attached: copy typed manuscript “Nixon Administration Statement,” re: voting rights legislation, school desegregation. Typed letter dated 19 February 1970 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: school desegregation, conference committee. Attached: copy typed manuscript undated “Senator Stennis’s Statements on School Desegregation in the North.” Copy typed letter dated 21 February 1970 from Whitten to U.S. Senator John Stennis, re: school desegregation in the north, amendment to Appropriations bill; three pages. Typed letter dated 24 February 1970 from James McCullough, President of Sardis Rotary Club, to Whitten, re: commend Whitten’s effort pointing out inequities in civil rights law. Typed letter dated 25 February 1970 from U.S. Senator Richard B. Russell to Whitten, re: school desegregation, amendment to Appropriations bill. Typed letter dated 26 February 1970 from U.S. Representative Edith Green to Whitten, re: enclosed letter. Attached: copy typed letter dated 26 February 1970 from Green to “Dear Democratic Colleague,” re: select committee to study effect of federal policies on the quality of education; two pages. Carbon typed letter dated 30 April 1970 from Whitten to C.R. Devine, Vice President of Reader’s Digest, to Whitten, re: farm subsidies; two pages. Attached: typed letter dated 22 April 1970 from Devine to Whitten, re: farm subsidies. Typed letter dated 19 May 1970 from Hobart Lewis, Editor-in-Chief Reader’s Digest, to Whitten, re: Whitten letter on agriculture. Copy typed letter dated 19 June 1970 from U.S. Representative Julia Butler Hansen to James L. Ballard, Major of Tupelo, Mississippi, re: Natchez Trace Parkway.

Typed letter dated 25 June 1970 from William S. Ritnour, Secretary and Treasurer of The Fertilizer Institute, to Whitten, re: That We May Live. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 19 June 1970 from Whitten to Ritnour, re: committee report. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 17 June 1970 from Whitten to Ritnour, re: That We May Live. House Report No. 91-1161 dated 4 June 1970 “Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 1971.” Congressional Record (8 June 1970), pages H5185, re: agricultural appropriations. Agri/Industry News (June 1970), with story “Putting Agriculture’s Budget in Perspective” by Whitten. Carbon typed letter undated [from Whitten] to “Gordon,” re: enclosed clipping. Attached: copy “Not All of That Tax Money Goes to Farmers” Kansas City Star (28 June 1970). Congressional Record (1 July 1970), page H6298, re: amendment to agricultural appropriations bill on school desegregation. Typed memorandum from Roderick Turnbull, Agricultural Editor of Kansas City Star, to Whitten, re: appropriation report. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 1 July 1970 from Whitten to Turnbull, re: agriculture. Typed letter dated 17 July 1970 from Tony T. Dechant, President of National Farmers Union, to Whitten, re: Whitten statement on agriculture budget. Typed letter dated 31 July 1970 from Robert E. Zollinhofer, Biology Instructor at Cornell University, to Whitten, re: permission to reproduce Whitten article on pesticides for class. Attached: reprint “Pest Control and Human Welfare by Whitten in Scientific Aspects of Pest Control (1966). Congressional Record (4 March 1923), pages 5606-5610, re: retirement of U.S. Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi. Copy printed document “Communist Rules for Revolution.” Typed letter dated 4 August 1970 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: Military Procurement Bill, amendment to Appropriations Bill. Typed letter dated 4 August 1970 from E.L. Boteler Jr., Directory of Mississippi State Highway Department, to Whitten, re: Boteler retirement from Mississippi House, Highway Trust Fund. Typed letter dated 5 August 1970 from James V. Smith, Administrator Farmers Home Administration, to Whitten, re: Farmers Home Administration. House Report dated 18 June 1970 “Public Works for Water, Pollution Control, and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Bill, 1971.” Typed letter dated 6 August 1970 from Harris Swayze, President of Delta Council, to Whitten, re: farm bill.

Typed letter dated 11 August 1970 from Roy B. Davis, General Manager Plains Cooperative Oil Mill in Lubbock, Texas, to Whitten, re: Extension Service appropriations. Copy typed letter dated 19 August 1970 from Ann T. Watson, Secretary to Whitten, to Patrick B. Healy, Secretary of National Milk Producers Federation, re: letter received. Attached: copy typed letter dated 13 August 1970 from Healy to Whitten, re: dairy, farm bill. Copy typed manuscript “Remarks by Vice Admiral H.G. Rickover, U.S. Navy on Occasion of the Dedication of the Submarine Overhaul Facility at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation Pascagoula, Mississippi, Saturday, August 22, 1970”; four pages. Copy typed letter dated 9 September 1970 from S. Womack Lee, Manager of Peanut Growers Cooperative Marketing Association, to Whitten, re: Whitten speech at Corn Refiners Association. Attached: clipping Whitten article “Putting Agriculture Budget in Perspective” Virginia-Carolina Peanut News (Fall 1970). Carbon typed letter dated 9 September 1970 from Frank A. Todd of American Veterinary Medical Association to Dr. H.F. McCrory, Executive Secretary of the Mississippi State Veterinary Medical Association, re: veterinary medical education, livestock. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 23 September 1970 from Whitten to Todd, re: above letter. Copy typed manuscript “Transcribed Program Dedication Ceremony – Submarine Overhaul Facility, The Ingalls Shipbuilding Division Litton Systems, Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi, Saturday – August 22, 1970,” re: Whitten as speaker; five pages. Typed letter dated 5 October 1970 from Frank E. Smith, Director of Tennessee Valley Authority, to Whitten, re: Yellow Creek appropriation. Typed letter dated 26 October 1970 from R.A. McLemore, Director of Mississippi Department of Archives and History, to Whitten, re: Historic Sites and Archaeology Survey in Mississippi. Handwritten letter dated 30 October 1970 from Will [A. Hickman] in Oxford, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten. Carbon typed letter dated 30 November 1970 from Whitten to Mississippi Governor John Bell Williams, re: commission to Congress. Attached: typed letter dated 17 November 1970 from Williams to Whitten, re: above topic. Carbon typed letter dated 11 December 1970 from Whitten to Elizabeth Davis, Executive Assistant to Dr. C.R. Sayre of Staple Cotton Cooperative Association, re: pesticides. Attached: typed letter dated 1 December 1970 from Davis to Whitten, re: above topic. Attached: copy typed manuscript “Agriculture and Environmental Quality,” re: speech by C.R. Sayre to Mississippi Association Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioners; thirteen pages. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Richard Nixon. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location.

Handwritten letter dated 29 January [1971] from Glover [Wilkins] to Whitten, re: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Carbon typed letter dated 2 February 1971 from Whitten to Rowland Geddis, President of McGaughy’s in Tupelo, Mississippi, re: Lee County, Mississippi. Attached: typed letter dated 29 January 1971 from Geddis to Whitten, re: Whitten. Typed letter dated 18 February 1971 from B.F. Smith, Vice President of Delta Council, to Whitten, re: Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture. Carbon typed letter dated 4 March 1971 from Whitten to L.C. Duke of Sardis, Mississippi, re: Oxford tornado. Attached: typed letter dated 24 February 1971 from Duke to Whitten, re: above topic. Carbon typed letter dated 3 March 1971 from Whitten to T.H. Naylor Jr., Executive Secretary of Mississippi State Educational Finance Commission, re: tornado. Attached: typed letter dated 26 February 1971 from Naylor to Whitten, re: tornado and schools. Carbon typed letter dated 4 March 1971 from Billy Ross Brown, Vice President of Mississippi Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, to Carl J. Johnson, Chairman of the Awards Committeee of the 18th National Watershed Congress, re: Whitten, flood prevention. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 10 March 1971 from Whitten to Brown, re: above letter. Attached: copy typed manuscript “Nomination of Congressman Jamie L. Whitten for Watershed Man of the Year”; eleven pages. Typed letter dated 8 March 1971 from B.F. Smith, Executive Vice President of Delta Council, to Whitten, re: soil and water conservation districts. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 17 March 1971 from Whitten to Smith, re: above topic. Typed manuscript dated 5 March 1971 “To Congressman Jamie L. Whitten for Outstanding Services to Agriculture and Leadership in Conservation and Resource Use Development,” re: Northwest Mississippi Resource Conservation and Development Project; two pages. Handwritten note “We should save this…” Attached: typed letter dated 23 April 1971 from Thomas L. Hart of Ball State University, to Whitten, re: library appropriations. Typed letter dated 13 May 1971 from James H. Anderson, Director of Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station at Mississippi State University, to Whitten, re: agriculture. Clipped envelope with Rawlins, Wyoming 13 May 1971 postmark. Attached: copy typed manuscript dated 20 February 1971 “Environment Action Bulletin,” re: Whitten, logging, water pollution. Typed letter dated 27 May 1971 from Billy Ross Brown, Vice President of Mississippi State Association of Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioners, to Whitten, re: National Watershed Congress. Typed letter dated 17 June 1971 from R.L. Drew, President of Board of Directors of Mound Bayou Community Hospital Inc., to Whitten, re: Mound Bayou Hospital. Typed letter dated 19 June 1971 from Kermit R. Cofer, Chancellor in Mississippi Third Chancery Court District, to Whitten, re: Whitten.

Copy typed manuscript dated 16 June 1971 “Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc., Carrington, North Dakota,” re: Rural Electrification Administration. Copy typed letter dated 30 June 1971 from U.S. Representative Romano L. Mazzoli, to Whitten, re: Agriculture Appropriation Bill. Typed letter dated 7 July 1971 from Mrs. Donald Clusen, Chairman of Environmental Projects and Program of the League of Women Voters of the United States, to Whitten, re: water pollution control program. Typed letter dated 19 July 1971 from William E. Timmons, Assistant to President Richard M. Nixon, to Whitten, re: That We May Live. Program “A Ceremony for the Unveiling of the Portraits of Chairman Clarence Cannon and Chairman John Taber, The Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives July 28, 1971, The United States Capitol.” Typed letter dated 9 August 1971 from Judge William C. Keady, U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi, to Whitten, re: federal building in Oxford, Mississippi, U.S. District Court. Typed letter dated 16 September 1971 from U.S. Representative 16 September 1971 from Charles H. Griffin to Whitten, re: Whitten’s son. Typed letter dated 20 September 1971 from Cliff Finch in Batesville, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s son, Finch campaign Typed letter dated 21 September 1971 from George Irving in Chevy Chase, Maryland to Whitten, re: agricultural research. Typed letter dated 30 September 1971 from Cecil Black, President Mississippi Association County Agricultural Agents, to Whiten, re: Rural Community Special Revenue Sharing Proposal. Typed letter dated 2 October 1971 from Frank M. Davis in Corinth, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Typed letter dated 4 October 1971 from President Richard Nixon to Whitten, re: federal pay increase, economy. Attached: envelope. Typed letter dated 5 October 1971 from William E. Timmons, Assistant to President Richard Nixon, to Whitten, re: school busing. Handwritten letter undated from Terry McBrayer in Charleston, Mississippi to Whitten, re: thanks for book, golf. Typed letter dated 15 October 1971 from M.P. Moore in Senatobia, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten.

Typed letter dated 16 November 1971 from Robert D. Partridge, General Manager of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, to Whitten, re: rural electrification program, agriculture. Typed letter undated from William Rip Collins, Postmaster in New Albany, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: thanks for calendar. Typed letter dated 14 December 1971 from Boswell Stevens, President Mississippi Farm Bureau, to Whitten, re: Whitten and agriculture. Typed letter dated 17 December 1971 from U.S. Representative George H. Mahon to Whitten, re: Appropriations Committee. Typed letter dated 21 December 1971 from Carl L. Shipley of Republican National Committee to Whitten, re: Environmental Protection Agency. Typed letter dated 27 December 1971 from Ben, Tallahatchie County Chancery Clerk’s Office, to Whitten, re: medical school recommendation, voter turnout, agricultural labor. Handwritten letter dated 30 December 1971 from Will A. Hickman to Whitten, re: Whitten. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1972-1973 Typed manuscript “Special Letters and Other Items Compiled by Jamie L. Whitten, D. Miss. U.S. House of Representatives, 1972-1973 CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX” re: names of individuals indexed to page numbers in scrapbook. Typed letter dated 2 February 1972 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: Jones’ reception. Handwritten letter dated 7 February 1972 from Caren Arseneault of Manhattan Beach, California, to Whitten, re: thank you for letter. Copy handwritten letter dated 4 February 1972 from Charlie Harris in Hernando, Mississippi to Whitten, re: farm labor. Typed letter dated 29 February 1972 from John S. Wilder, President of National Association of Conservation Districts, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s participation at organization’s convention. Typed letter dated 29 February 1972 from Gordon K. Zimmerman, Executive Secretary of National Association of Conservation Districts, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s participation at organization’s convention. Typed letter dated 10 March 1972 from Paul R. Googe in Charleston, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Charleston industrial project. Typed letter dated 24 April 1972 from President Richard Nixon to Whitten, re: Vietnam vote in Democratic Caucus. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location.

Typed letter dated 2 May 1972 from Edward H. Smith, Director of New York Cooperative Extension Service, to Whitten, re: agricultural extension, 4-H. Fortune (April 1972), pages 103-105, re: Environmental Protection Agency appropriations; three pages. Handwritten letter dated 3 May 1972 from Wayne R. Godwin to Whitten, re: Godwin’s experience as congressional page. Handwritten letter dated 8 May 1972 from Frank Bishop to Whitten, re: thank you for clubs. Typed letter dated 23 May 1972 from Col. James Lee Sandlin in Greenville, Texas to “Dear Congressman,” re: Sandlin’s youth in Mississippi. Typed letter dated 23 May 1972 from Col. James Lee Sandlin in Greenville, Texas to Whitten, re: That We May Live, Silent Spring, pesticides. Typed letter dated 5 June 1972 from Howard Langfitt, Executive Manager of Electric Power Associations of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: rural electrification; two pages. Printed page circa June 1972 “RESOLUTION – Jamie L. Whitten, Congressman,” re: commendation from NACD Northern Plains Area for support of conservation movement. Typed letter dated 3 August 1972 from Will A. Hickman in Oxford, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Hickmans in photograph. Copy typed letter dated 31 August 1972 from Whitten to Aaron E. Henry in Clarksdale, Mississippi, re: seniority in Congress, Democratic National Convention; two pages. Typed letter dated 5 September 1972 from Miles W. Kirkpatrick, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, to Whitten, re: appropriations bill and Federal Trade Commission; two pages. Typed letter dated 19 October 1972 from U.S. Representative Charles H. Griffin to Whitten, re: remarks in Congressional Record. Typed letter dated 26 October 1972 from U.S. Representative Thomas G. Abernethy to Whitten, re: Abernethy’s retirement. Handwritten letter dated 6 November 1972 from Alvin Moeller of Kiron, Iowa to Whitten, re: Whitten. Typed letter dated 16 November 1972 from Porter L. Fortune, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s reelection. Typed letter dated 21 December 1972 from Melvin R. Laird, U.S. Secretary of Defense, to Whitten, re: Department of Defense, national security. Typed letter dated 24 January 1973 from President Richard Nixon to Whitten, re: Vietnam. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location.

Typed letter dated 5 April 1973 from W.M. Bost, Director of Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service, to Whitten, re: agricultural appropriations. Typed letter dated 11 May 1973 from U.S. Senator John C. Stennis to Whitten, re: budget control. Typed letter dated 4 May 1973 from U.S. Senator Bill Brock to Whitten, re: budget control. Typed letter dated 14 May 1973 from Robert F. Froehlke, U.S. Secretary of the Army, to Whitten, re: national security. Typed letter dated 1 June 1973 from William E. Timmons, Assistant to President Richard Nixon, to Whitten, re: defense budget. Attached: copy typed manuscript “Facts about Defense Spending”; two pages. Typed letter dated 5 June 1973 from Edwin F. Gulick, Chairman of John Marshall Soil and Water Conservation District in Virginia, to Whitten, re: pollution. Typed letter dated 5 June 1973 from John A. Cleland, Secretary of National Press Club, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s resignation from National Press Club. Typed letter dated 14 June 1973 from William E. Timmons, Assistant to President Richard Nixon, to Whitten, re: protection of natural resources. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 12 June 1973 from Whitten to Timmons, re: defense budget, protection of natural resources; two pages. Attached: typed letter dated 5 June 1973 from Edwin F. Gulick, Chairman of John Marshall Soil and Water Conservation District in Virginia, to Whitten, re: pollution. Attached: printed page from unnamed Appropriations Committee report, re: Soil Conservation Service. Typed letter dated 20 June 1973 from R.D. Morrison, President of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, to Whitten, re: federal funds and land-grant institutions. Copy typed and handwritten manuscript dated 21 June 1972 “Resolution offered by Mr. Whitten,” re: continuing appropriations resolution. Attached: U.S. House Report No. 93-328 “Continuing Appropriations, 1974.” Attached: print “H.J. Res. 636” (25 June 1973). Typed letter dated 22 June 1973 from U.S. Senator John C. Stennis to Jamie and Rebecca Whitten, re: thanks for flowers. Typed letter dated 22 June 1973 from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher to Whitten, re: clipping, Whitten. Typed letter dated 26 June 1973 from William L. Giles, President of Mississippi State University, to Whitten, re: Agriculture Environmental and Consumer Protection Bill. Typed letter dated 28 June 1973 from G.H. Johnson, Mississippi State Superintendent of Education, to Whitten, re: federal funding for education. Typed letter dated 30 June 1973 from U.S. Representative George H. Mahon to Whitten, re: handling of legislative bills.

Typed letter dated 27 June 1973 from H.H. Kramer, Director of Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, to Whitten, re: agricultural research budget. Typed letter dated 11 September 1973 from U.S. Representative Julia Butler Hansen to Whitten, re: Natchez Trace Parkway, Office of Management and Budget. Typed letter dated 18 September 1973 from President Richard Nixon to Whitten, re: State Department Authorization Bill, foreign policy and Congress. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 24 September 1973 from Thomas H. Jukes of Berkeley, California to Whitten, re: Agriculture Environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriations for 1974, pesticides, Environmental Protection Agency; 5 pages. Copy newspaper clipping “D.C. Wins Home Rule in House 343 to 74” Washington Post (11 October 1973), page A23. Typed letter dated 16 October 1973 from U.S. Representative Lindy Boggs to Whitten, re: tribute to Hale Boggs. Typed letter dated 23 October 1973 from Charles A. McManus, President of Americans for Constitutional Action, to Whitten, re: Whitten and Distinguished Service Award for 1973. Typed letter dated 27 November 1973 from William D. Ruckelshaus in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Environmental Protection Agency. Typed letter dated 4 December 1973 from U.S. Representative L.C. Arends to Whitten, re: Arends’ retirement. Typed letter dated 7 December 1973 from Vice President Gerald R. Ford to Whitten, re: confirmation as Vice President. Attached: print “H.Res. 738” (5 December 1973). Attached: U.S. House Report “Providing for the Consideration of House Resolution 735” (5 December 1973). Attached: print “H.Res. 735” (4 December 1973). Limestone (Spring 1973); table of contents lists Whitten article but pages with article are missing. Carbon typed letter dated 11 April 1973 from Whitten to Donald Whitten in Charleston, Mississippi, re: President Richard Nixon, flood control, Watergate. Attached: typed letter dated 4 April 1973 from Donald Whitten to Whitten, re: above topics. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1974 Typed manuscript “Special Letters and Other Items Compiled by Jamie L. Whitten, D. Miss. U.S. House of Representatives, 1974 CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX” re: names of individuals indexed to page numbers in scrapbook. Typed letter dated 12 February 1974 from U.S. Representative William L. Hungate to Whitten, re: justice, Rules of Evidence.

Typed letter dated 7 February 1974 from Speaker of the House Carl Albert to Whitten, re: breakfast. Typed letter dated 15 February 1974 from U.S. Representative Julia Butler Hansen to Whitten, re: trip to Mississippi, Whitten. Typed letter dated 19 February 1974 from Ray Thornton, Member Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority to Whitten, re: Whitten. Typed letter dated 26 February 1974 from U.S. Representative Mike McCormack to Whitten, re: energy crisis. Typed letter dated 6 March 1974 from U.S. Representative Julia Butler Hansen to Whitten, re: Hansen tribute. Typed letter dated 7 March 1974 from U.S. Representative Guy Vander Jagt to Whitten, re: Mississippi trip. Copy typed letter undated from Earl L. Butz, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, to Russell E. Train, Administrator Environmental Protection Agency, re: pesticide use for tussock moth epidemic, Forest Service, research; two pages. Typed letter dated 21 March 1974 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: Tennessee Valley Authority. Attached: copy typed letter dated 21 March 1974 from Jones to “Dear”, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 28 March 1974 from U.S. Representative Carl D. Perkins to Whitten, re: education funds. Copy Whitten press release dated 15 April 1974 “Congressman Jamie L. Whitten Remarks in Honor of W.L. “Bill” Heard, State Conservationist Oxford, Mississippi.” Typed letter dated 6 June 1974 from U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink to Whitten, re: Sugar Act, agriculture. Typed letter dated 12 June 1974 from U.S. Representative Sam Steiger to Whitten, re: land use bill. Typed letter dated 12 June 1974 from U.S. Representative John Breaux to Whitten, re: deepwater ports bill. Typed letter dated 20 June 1974 from U.S. Representative Bob Sikes to Whitten, re: Fleming Key Quarantine Station in Florida. Typed letter dated 13 June 1974 from U.S. Representative William D. Hathaway to Whitten, re: Dickey-Lincoln School Hydroelectric project in Maine. Typed letter dated 19 June 1974 from U.S. Representative B.F. Sisk to Whitten, re: bilingual education. Typed letter dated 25 June 1974 from Admiral E.R. Zumwalt Jr., U.S. Navy, to Whitten, re: Navy.

Typed letter dated 28 June 1974 from U.S. Representative David R. Obey to Whitten, re: public service job program. Typed letter dated 3 July 1974 from U.S. Representative Bella S. Abzug to Whitten, re: Health, Education, and Welfare appropriation bill. Typed letter dated 1 July 1974 from U.S. Representative Howard W. Robison to Whitten, re: Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations bill, Office of Management and Budget. Typed letter dated 11 July 1974 from U.S. Representative Thad Cochran to Whitten, re: Ken Gray resolution. Typed letter dated 25 July 1974 from U.S. Representative Julia Butler Hansen to Whitten, re: Appropriations Committee, Mississippi trip. Copy typed letter dated 29 July 1974 from U.S. Representative Olin E. Trague to Whitten, re: Whitten on Committee on the Budget. Attached: copy typed letter dated 26 July 1974 from U.S. Representative George Mahon to Teague, re: above topic. Handwritten letter dated 13 August 1974 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: Budget Committee; two pages. Carbon typed letter dated 13 August 1974 from Whitten to William E. Timmons, Assistant to President Richard Nixon, re: President Richard Nixon’s national address and final days in office. Attached: typed letter dated 9 August 1974 from Timmons to Whitten, re: above topic. Attached: White House press release dated 8 August 1974 “Add by the President to the American People”; five pages. Typed letter dated 21 August 1974 from U.S. Representative George Mahon to Whitten, re: energy. Typed letter dated 16 September 1974 from Janusz Krzyzanowski, National Commander of Polish Veterans of World War II-S.P.K. Inc., to Whitten, re: medical care for Polish Armed Forces of World War II. Program “The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Continental Congress 1774-1974, September Twenty-fifth Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Four.” Typed letter dated 18 October U.S. Representative George Mahon to Whitten, re: Appropriations Committee, Whitten. Typed letter dated 21 October 1974 from J. Dukes Wooters Jr., President of Cotton Incorporated, to Whitten, re: Cotton industry, appropriations. Typed letter dated 8 October 1974 from Gordon L. Berg, Editor of Farm Chemicals, to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 3 October 1974 from Whitten to Berg, re: above topic; two pages. Attached: typed letter dated 3 October 1974 from Berg to Whitten, re: Whitten article. Attached: copy clipping “Jamie L. Whitten Watchdog for Agriculture” Farm Chemicals.

Typed letter dated 8 November 1974 from Speaker of the House Carl Albert to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 7 November 1974 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 8 November 1974 from U.S. Representative Sidney R. Yates to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 8 November 1974 from U.S. Representative Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 8 November 1974 from U.S. Representative Richard H. Fulton to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 8 November 1974 from William M. Miller, Doorkeeper U.S. House of Representatives, to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 8 November 1974 from U.S. Representative Stewart B. McKinney to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Telegram dated 7 November 1974 from U.S. Representative Al Ullman to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Telegram dated 7 November 1974 from Speaker of the House Carl Albert and U.S. Representative Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 6 November 1974 from U.S. Representative Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 8 November 1974 from Ambassador Pyong-choon Hahm of Korea to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Telegram dated 11 November 1974 from Ambassador Pyong-choon Hahm of Korea to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 11 November 1974 from U.S. Representative Carl D. Perkins to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 12 November 1974 from U.S. Representative Ray Roberts to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 12 November 1974 from Clarence Kelley, Director Federal Bureau of Investigations, to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 14 November 1974 from U.S. Representative William E. Minshall to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection.

Typed letter dated 19 November 1974 from U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 21 November 1974 from U.S. Representative Dante B. Fascell to Whitten, re: private claim bill for journalists Doug Kennedy and Al Burt, Dominican Republic. Typed letter dated 26 November 1974 from R.D. Morrison, President Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, re: Whitten reelection, cooperative extension service. Carbon typed letter dated 9 December 1974 from E. Harvey Evans Jr., Cotton Incoporated, to J. Dukes Wooters Jr., re: Wooter’s employment; three pages. Typed letter dated 9 December 1974 from Mary Alice to Whitten, re: working for Whitten. Typed letter dated 10 December 1974 from U.S. Representative Julia Butler Hansen to Whitten, re: Hansen retirement, Appropriations Committee. Typed letter dated 11 December 1974 from U.S. Representative John H. Ware to Whitten, re: Ware retirement. Typed letter dated 12 December 1974 from U.S. Representative Ed Jones to Whitten, re: Surface Transportation Act. Typed letter dated 18 December 1974 from U.S. Representative Edith Green to Whitten, re: Green retirement. Typed letter dated 19 December 1974 from Robert S. Strauss, Chairman Democratic National Committee, to Whitten, re: Mid-Term Conference. Typed letter dated 20 December 1974 from U.S. Representative George Mahon to Whitten, re: Mahon portrait unveiling. Carbon typed letter dated 23 December 1974 from Whitten to Aaron Henry in Clarksdale, Mississippi, re: Democratic Mid-Term Conference. Attached: copy typed letter from Henry to “My Fellow Democrats,” re: above topic. An Environmental Bibliography (Washington, DC: Environmental Protection Agency, 1974), re: lists Whitten’s That We May Live. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Gerald Ford. Attached: envelope postmarked 12 December 1974. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1975 Typed manuscript “Special Letters and Other Items Compiled by Jamie L. Whitten, D. Miss. U.S. House of Representatives, CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX 1975” re: names of individuals indexed to page numbers in scrapbook; two pages.

Congressional Record (10 January 1975), page E7458, re: Doorkeeper of the House William M. “Fishbait” Miller. Handwritten letter dated 11 January 1975 from U.S. Representative Richard L. Ottinger to Whitten, re: appreciation from freshmen members of the House. Typed letter dated 30 January 1975 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: Jones’ reception. Typed letter dated 21 January 1975 from Whitten to “Dear Colleague,” re: Whitten seeking support to continue as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture; handwritten response from U.S. Representative Henry Golzalez. Typed letter dated 21 January 1975 from Whitten to “Dear Colleague,” re: Whitten seeking support to continue as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture; handwritten response from U.S. Representative Joseph Addabbo. Typed letter dated 21 January 1975 from U.S. Representative Charles Wilson to Whitten, re: support for Whitten as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture. Typed letter dated 22 January 1975 from U.S. Representative Toby Moffett to Whitten, re: opposition to Whitten as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture; two pages. Typed letter dated 22 January 1975 from U.S. Representative Edward P. Beard to Whitten, re: Whitten as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture. Typed letter dated 23 January 1975 from U.S. Representative Antonio B. Won Pat to Whitten, re: Whitten’s reelection as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture. Typed letter dated 23 January 1975 from U.S. Representative Harold T. Johnson to Whitten, re: Whitten’s reelection as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture. Typed letter dated 23 January 1975 from U.S. Representative James R. Jones to Whitten, re: Whitten’s reelection as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture. Typed letter dated 23 January 1975 from Porter L. Fortune Jr., Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s reelection as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture. Attached: newspaper clipping “Whitten Is Retained in Committee Post by Heavy Vote” Memphis Commercial Appeal (23 January 1975). Attached: newspaper clipping “Whitten Keeps Post, Patman Out.” Typed letter dated 24 January 1975 from Parham Williams, Dean of Law School at the University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s reelection as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture. Typed letter dated 31 January 1975 from U.S. Representative Carl D. Perkins to Whitten, re: Perkins’ chairmanship of Committee on Education and Labor.

Typed letter dated 31 January 1975 from U.S. Representative Butler Derrick to Whitten, re: soliciting support for membership on Budget Committee. Typed letter dated 31 January 1975 from Lewis A. Engman, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, to Whitten, re: removal of Federal Trade Commission appropriations from Whitten’s subcommittee. Typed letter dated 1 February 1975 from U.S. Senator Henry M. Jackson to Whitten, re: announcement of candidacy for president. Handwritten letter [1975] from Neal Smith to Whitten, re: chairmanship of the Budget Committee. Typed letter dated 5 February 1975 from U.S. Representative Leonor K. Sullivan to Whitten, re: chairmanship of Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Typed letter dated 5 February 1975 from U.S. Representative Brock Adams to Whitten, re: budget process. Typed letter dated 6 February 1975 from U.S. Representative Antonio B. Won Pat to Whitten, re: Guam. Attached: offprint of “Boom Times Come to U.S. Island Outpost” U.S. News and World Report (8 May 1972). Typed letter dated 7 February 1975 from U.S. Representative Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson to Whitten, re: Agriculture Appropriation subcommittee. Typed letter dated 8 February 1975 from U.S. Senator John C. Stennis to Whitten, re: Whitten’s reelection as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture. Typed letter dated 7 February 1975 from U.S. Representative Thomas Ludlow Ashley to Whitten, re: thanks for support. Typed letter dated 17 February 1975 from U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink to Whitten, re: Budget Committee. Typed letter dated 24 February 1975 from Whitten to “Dear Colleague,” re: Whitten’s reelection as chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture. Typed letter dated 10 March 1975 from U.S. Representative Charles Wilson to Whitten, re: oil and gas industry. Typed letter dated 21 March 1975 from U.S. Representative Thomas S. Foley to Whitten, re: Emergency Farm legislation. Typed letter dated 25 March 1975 from U.S. Representative Ray J. Midden to Whitten, re: House Rules Committee, domestic travel. Typed letter dated 26 March 1975 from U.S. Representative Bill Goodling to Whitten, re: National School Lunch bill.

Typed letter dated 8 April 1975 from U.S. Representative John Brademas to Whitten, re: Older Americans Act Amendments. Typed letter dated 6 May 1975 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: public works in Alabama. Typed letter dated 14 May 1975 from U.S. Representative Thomas S. Foley to Whitten, re: emergency farm bill. Typed letter dated 21 May 1975 from President Gerald Ford to Whitten, re: surface mining bill, employment, energy. Copy typed letter dated 15 May 1975 from Whitten to William J. Beardsley, Marketing Director of Dow Jones Books, re: book This Abundant Land, Subcommittee on Agricultural Appropriations; two pages. Typed letter dated 21 May 1975 from Frederick Taylor, Managing Editor of Wall Street Journal, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 9 June 1975 from U.S. Representative William C. Wampler to Whitten, re: Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Typed letter dated 9 June 1975 from U.S. Representative Mario Biaggi to Whitten, re: Voting Rights Act. Typed letter dated 9 June 1975 from U.S. Representative Clarence J. Brown to Whitten, re: Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, oil production. Typed letter dated 11 June 1975 from U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink to Whitten, re: strip mining bill. Typed letter dated 12 June 1975 from U.S. Representative Fortney H. Stark Jr. to Whitten, re: gasoline tax, energy bill. Typed letter dated 13 June 1975 from U.S. Representative Tennyson Guyer to Whitten, re: excise tax on radial tires. Typed letter dated 20 June 1975 from U.S. Representative David C. Treen to Whitten, re: Voting Rights Act. Typed letter dated 23 June 1975 from U.S. Representative Al Ullman to Whitten, re: Energy Bill. Typed letter dated 23 June 1975 from U.S. Representative Henry J. Nowak to Whitten, re: appropriation for Buffalo Metropolitan Urban Study. Typed letter dated 23 June 1975 from U.S. Representative William L. Hungate to Whitten, re: Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Amendments Act. Typed letter dated 26 June 1975 from President Gerald Ford to Whitten, re: housing bill, economy. Attached: envelope.

Copy “Revision Copy for a new cumulated, updated edition of Contemporary Authors,” re: Whitten entry. Carbon typed letter dated 19 June 1975 from Whitten to Dr. Aaron E. Henry, President of Mississippi State Conference NAACP, re: Voting Rights bill; two pages. Attached: typed letter dated 12 June 1975 from Henry to Whitten, re: Voting Rights bill, white supremacy. Democratic National Committee mailing dated 30 June 1975, re: U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan on Congress. Typed letter dated 8 July 1975 from U.S. Representative Jim Wright to Whitten, re: Trinity River study in Texas, Public Works bill. Typed letter dated 8 July 1975 from U.S. Representative Charles Wilson to Whitten, re: Public Works bill, Trinity Canal study. Typed letter dated 9 July 1975 from U.S. Representative Bob Casey to Whitten, re: pictures. Typed letter dated 8 July 1975 from U.S. Representative Mike McCormack to Whitten, re: energy, nuclear breeder program. Typed letter dated 10 July 1975 from U.S. Representatives Gene Snyder and Glenn M. Anderson to Whitten, re: supersonic transport airplanes. Carbon typed letter dated 15 July 1975 from Whitten to Kenneth R. Harding, Sergeant at Arms in the U.S. House of Representatives, re: Congressional Identification Pin. Attached: typed letter dated 14 July 1975 from Harding to Whitten, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 18 July 1975 from U.S. Representative Herbert E. Harris II to Whitten, re: White House staffing limitations. Typed letter dated 25 July 1975 from President Gerald R. Ford to Whitten, re: arms to Turkey. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Carbon typed letter dated 31 July 1975 from Whitten to William E. Miller, re: Democratic Caucus plaque honoring Miller. Attached: typed manuscript, re: description and text of above plaque. Carbon typed letter dated 1 August 1975 from Whitten to B.F. Worsham in Corinth, Mississippi, re: General Robert E. Lee. Attached: handwritten letter dated 30 July 1974[sic] from Worsham to Whitten, re: resolution to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 11 July 1975 from Whitten to Worsham, re: above topic. Attached: handwritten letter dated 7 July 1975 from Worsham to Whitten, re: above topic. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 10 June 1975 from Whitten to Worsham, re: above topic. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 2 June 1975 from Whitten to Worsham, re: above topic. Attached: typed letter dated 27 May 1975 from Worsham to Whitten, re: above topic. Attached: Congressional Record (22 July 1975), page. H7191, re: inclusion of letter from Worsham on above topic. Attached: bill S.J. Res. 23 (24 June 1975).

Handwritten letter dated 7 June 1975 from B.F. Worsham in Corinth, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Worsham’s father, Mississippi Bar honoring Worsham and Bob Farley as outstanding lawyers and citizens. Attached: copy of handwritten manuscript “I am a Confederate Veteran…” by L.W. Worsham; three pages. Typed letter dated 7 July 1975 from Charles R. Sayre, President of Staple Cotton Cooperative Association, to Whitten, re: Cotton Producers Institute, cotton research; three pages. Typed letter dated 29 July 1975 from Thurman L. Boykin, President of Washington Area University of Mississippi Alumni, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s attendance at organization’s “Evening with Faulkner.” Certificate, re: Whitten selected to appear in 1975-76 Bicentennial Memorial Edition of Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 11 August 1975 from Whitten to Janet Vickers, Director of American Biographical Institute, re: above. Attached: typed letter dated 14 July 1975 from Vickers to Whitten, re: above. Attached: pamphlet, re: above. Copy Presidential Vetoes: Record of Bills Vetoed and Action Taken Thereon by the Senate and House of Representatives, First Congress through the Ninetieth Congress, 1789-1968, title page and page 196, re: Civil Functions Appropriations Bill of 1959. Post office cachet “Launching of the Nuclear-Powered Guided-Missile Cruiser (CGN-39)/August 9, 1975.” Attached: printed note, re: above item sent by Admiral Rickover. Attached: image of USS Texas CGN-39. Typed letter dated 2 October 1975 from U.S. Senator Trent Lott to Whitten, re: Navy, Spellman Amendment. Typed letter dated 18 February 1975 from Joe Browder, Environmental Policy Center; Peter Harnick, Environmental Action; Ann Roosevelt, Friends of the Earth; Nancy Matesoff, League of Conservation Voters; Brock Evans, Sierra Club; Lee Lane, Urban Environment Conference; Spencer M. Smith Jr., Citizens Committee on Natural Resources; and Robert Dennis, Zero Population Growth to “Dear Member of Congress,” re: environment. Typed letter dated 11 December 1975 from U.S. Representative Carl D. Perkins to Whitten, re: Public Works Appropriation report, Kehoe Lake Flood Control Project. Typed letter dated 11 December 1975 from U.S. Representative Mike McCormack to Whitten, re: energy production. Copy The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-1972 by William Manchester, title page and pages 48-49, re: Mississippi caucus at 1932 Democratic National Convention; handwritten notes on Whitten’s role. Certificate dated 10 August 1975, re: Whitten’s participation in Mississippi State – USDA Golf Tournament in Biloxi, Mississippi. Copy typed manuscript “The Eleventh Commandment,” re: conservation of natural resources.

Typed letter dated 30 September 1975 from Jerry R. Lyman, Senior Vice President and General Manager of WGMS in Washington, DC, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s participation in Bicentennial salute. Typed letter dated 6 October 1975 from President Gerald R. Ford to Whitten, re: arms embargo on Turkey, NATO. Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Handwritten letter dated 15 October 1975 from Wayland L. Hayes Jr. of Vanderbilt University to Whitten, re: That We May Live, pesticides. Typed letter dated 20 October 1975 from Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to Whitten, re: Public Forum on Domestic Policy. Copy typed letter dated 4 November 1975 from Speaker of the House Carl Albert to “Dear Colleague,” re: Congressional Joint Meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Typed letter dated 16 October 1975 from Dr. Emmett C. Burns, Mississippi Field Director for NAACP, and Aaron E. Henry, President of Mississippi State Conference NAACP, to Whitten, re: National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Act Amendments. Typed letter dated 12 December 1975 from U.S. Representatives Berkley Bedell to Whitten, re: Appropriations Bill, Big Sioux River Flood Control Project. Typed letter dated 5 November 1975 from Richard H. Fulton, Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, to Whitten, re: election day, Cliff Finch. Typed letter dated 10 November 1975 from U.S. Senator John C. Stennis to Whitten, re: thanks for flowers. Typed letter dated 9 December 1975 from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher to Whitten, re: Natcher’s voting record. Typed letter dated 19 November 1975 from U.S. Representative Al Ullman to Whitten, re: Hells Canyon and the Middle Snake River. Typed letter dated 9 December 1975 from U.S. Representative James R. Jones to Whitten, re: Tax Reform Act. Typed letter dated 12 December 1975 from U.S. Senator William Proxmire to Whitten, re: Public Works bill, La Farge Project. Typed letter dated 12 December 1975 from U.S. Representative Kika De La Garza to Whitten, re: thanks for message on De La Garza Day. Typed letter dated 15 December 1975 from U.S. Representative Joseph M. McDade to Whitten, re: Route 209. Typed letter dated 15 December 1975 from U.S. Representative Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson to Whitten, re: Public Works Appropriation, Trinity River Action Program.

Typed letter dated 18 December 1975 from U.S. Representative Robert H. Michel to Whitten, re: tax bill. Typed letter dated 20 December 1975 from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher to Whitten, re: Public Works Appropriation Bill 1960, Clarence Cannon. Typed letter dated 10 December 1975 from U.S. Senator John C. Stennis to Whitten, re: Stennis’ health. Typed letter dated 11 December 1975 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: Public Works Appropriations, Lower Elk River village project. Typed letter dated 9 December 1975 from President Gerald R. Ford to Whitten, re: tax bill, federal spending. Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 20 December 1975 from President Gerald R. Ford to Whitten, re: Revenue Adjustment Act, taxes, federal spending. Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Outdoor America (February 1975), re: “New Congress Elects New Leaders” discussing environmental legislation, Whitten, and Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1976 Certificate, re: Whitten as charter member of the DeSoto Rebel Club (1976). Typed letter dated 8 January 1976 from U.S. Representative Bob Casey to Whitten, re: Whitten’s tribute to Casey. Typed letter dated 16 January 1976 from U.S. Senator Patrick J. Leahy to Whitten, re: agriculture. Typed letter dated 26 January 1976 from U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink to Whitten, re: Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act, energy. Typed letter dated 4 February 1976 from B.F. Smith, Executive Vice President of Delta Council, to Whitten, re: cotton industry. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 11 February 1976 from Whitten to Smith, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 5 February 1976 from Albert R. Russell of the National Cotton Council of America to Whitten, re: cotton industry. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 9 February 1976 from Whitten to Russell, re: above topic, House Budget Committee, Appropriations Committee; two pages. Typed letter dated 6 February 1976 from C.L. Denton Jr., President of the National Cotton Council of America, to Whitten, re: cotton industry. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 24 February 1976 from Whitten to Denton, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 13 February 1976 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: Jones not seeking reelection. Attached: typed letter dated 10 February 1976 from Whitten to Jones, re: above topic, Public Works and Transportation Committee.

Typed letter dated 14 February 1976 from Charles R. Sayre, President of the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association, to Whitten, re: cotton. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 24 February 1976 from Whitten to Sayre, re: agriculture. Typed letter dated 17 February 1976 from U.S. Representative Michael T. Blouin to Whitten, re: Emergency Employment Projects Amendments. Typed letter dated 17 February 1976 from Albert R. Russell of the National Cotton Council of America to Whitten, re: Memphis Commercial Appeal. Typed letter dated 18 February 1976 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: Public Works Employment Act. Carbon typed letter dated 19 February 1976 from Whitten to U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones, re: enclosed. Attached: copy of clipping “Added Burden on Our Delegation” Tupelo Daily Journal (12 February 1976), re: retirement of Jones, Public Works Committee. Whitten press release dated 8 March 1976 “Remarks of Congressman Jamie L. Whitten at Dinner Honoring United States Senator James O. Eastland, President Pro Tem, United States Senate”; two pages. Attached: copy of above document but with handwritten annotations. Attached: program “Dinner Honoring United States Senator James Oliver Eastland. Typed letter dated 10 March 1976 from Ed Meek, Director of Public Relations at the University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: James O. Eastland Dinner. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 15 March 1976 from Whitten to Meek, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 11 March 1976 from Judge William C. Keady, U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi, to Whitten, re: James O. Eastland Dinner. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 15 March 1976 from Whitten to Keady, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 16 March 1976 from Porter L. Fortune, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: James O. Eastland Dinner. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 22 March 1976 from Whitten to Fortune, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 25 March 1976 from U.S. Senator James O. Eastland to Whitten, re: James O. Eastland Dinner. Typed letter dated 30 March 1976 from Judge James P. Coleman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, to Whitten, re: James O. Eastland Dinner; Whitten’s Bicentennial speech, contemporary Mississippi compared to the civil rights era; two pages. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 6 April 1976 from Whitten to Coleman, re: above topics; two pages. Handwritten note “Note: JLW and in longhand.” Attached: handwritten letter dated 6 April 1976 from U.S. Representative Phillip Burton to Whitten, re: Whitten’s reelection. Typed letter dated 12 April 1976 from U.S. Representative Ed Jones to Whitten, re: Whitten’s letter.

Copy telegram dated 17 April 1976 from President Gerald R. Ford to Morris Pritchard, Mayor of Charleston, Mississippi, re: Whitten tribute. Program “Jamie Whitten Day and Bicentennial Arts Festival,” re: Charleston Mississippi on 17 April 1976. Attached: newspaper “The Sun-Sentinel Jamie Whitten Edition.” Attached: Charleston Sun Sentinel (22 April 1976). Typed letter dated 3 May 1976 from Mississippi Governor Cliff Finch to Whitten, re: thanks for book. Typed letter dated 30 June 1976 from Earl L. Butz, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: 1976 Yearbook of Agriculture. Typed letter dated 19 May 1976 from Jim Buck Ross, Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, to Whitten, re: That We May Live. Typed letter dated 20 May 1976 from U.S. Representative Fred Richmond to Whitten, re: rural and urban America. Carbon typed letter dated 19 May 1976 from Whitten to Richmond, re: Richmond’s testimony before Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture. Typed letter dated 7 July 1976 from Judge J.P. Coleman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, to Whitten, re: Whitten Bicentennial speech. Typed letter dated 4 August 1976 from Whitten to Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton, re: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway; two pages. Attached: typed letter dated 12 July 1976 from Blanton to Whitten, re: above topic; two pages. Typed letter dated 3 August 1976 from Arthur F. Burns, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, to Whitten, re: Government in the Sunshine bill, government operations in closed meetings. Handwritten letter undated from U.S. Representative Lou Frey Jr. to Whitten, re: golf clubs, election. Handwritten letter undated from U.S. Representative John P. Murtha to Whitten, re: support for vote. Typed letter dated 13 September 1976 from U.S. Representatives Bob Sikes to Whitten, re: Sikes’s reelection. Typed letter dated 23 September 1976 from Robert E. Losch of Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Whitten’s tribute to Bob Jones. Typed letter dated 23 July 1976 from President Gerald R. Ford to Whitten, re: Military Construction Authorization Act, Defense Department. Copy typed manuscript undated “Whither, America?” re: Bicentennial, budget deficit; four pages. Typed letter dated 23 September 1976 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: unveiling of Jones’s portrait. Attached: program “A Ceremony for the Unveiling of the Portrait of Chairman Robert E. Jones,” re: U.S. Capitol on 21 September 1976.

Typed letter dated 1 October 1976 from U.S. Representative Joe L. Evans to Whitten, re: Whitten’s tribute to Evans. Copy, re: tickets for Kennedy Center performance of the Australian Ballet with quote from President Gerald R. Ford. Typed letter dated 7 October 1976 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: Whitten’s remarks on Jones’s service in Congressional Record. Typed letter dated 7 October 1976 from U.S. Representative Ray J. Madden to Whitten, re: Whitten’s tribute to Madden. Typed letter dated 19 October 1976 from Edward J. Hekman in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Food and Nutrition Service. Postal cachet “Keel Laying of the First Trident Submarine April 10, 1976 USS Ohio…” postmarked 10 April 1976. Attached: printed note “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Postal cachet “Keel Laying May 8, 1976 USS Bremerton…” postmarked 8 May 1976. Attached: printed note “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Postal cachet “Launching of the Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarine (SSN 691) Memphis April 3, 1976” postmarked 3 April 1976. Attached: printed note “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Attached: printed card “The Memphis and the Los Angeles Class.” Program “Memorial Service for the Honorable Allen Cox, Senior Judge” (1976). Typed letter dated 3 November 1976 from U.S. Representative Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 3 November 1976 from Mississippi Governor Cliff Finch to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Handwritten letter dated 3 November 1976 from U.S. Representative Richard Bolling to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 3 November 1976 from U.S. Representative Ed Jones to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 3 November 1976 from U.S. Representative Phillip Burton to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 10 November 1976 from U.S. Representative George H. Mahon to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection, Appropriations Committee.

Typed letter dated 16 November 1976 from President Gerald R. Ford to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Attached: envelope. Attached: copy handwritten letter dated 22 November 1976 from Whitten to Ford, re: above letter, Ford. Typed letter dated 17 November 1976 from Max L. Friedersdorf, Assistant to President Gerald R. Ford, to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Attached: copy typed letter dated 24 November 1976 from Whitten to Friedersdorf, re: above letter, press coverage on rescission. Typed letter dated 3 December 1976 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: National Appreciation Dinner in Alabama. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 9 December 1976 from Whitten to Jones, re: above dinner. Typed letter dated 14 December 1976 from Max L. Friedersdorf, Assistant to President Gerald R. Ford, to Whitten, re: invitation to White House Christmas decoration viewing. Typed letter dated 20 December 1976 from U.S. Representative Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: Whitten comments in Bob Jones Appreciation Dinner book. Postal cachet “Launching of the Nuclear-Powered Guided-Missile Cruiser CGN40 Mississippi July 31, 1976” postmarked 31 July 1976. . Attached: printed note “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Attached: printed card “The Nuclear-Powered Guided Missile Cruiser Mississippi CGN 40.” Postal cachet “Launching February 21, 1976 USS Omaha SSN 692” postmarked 21 February 1976. Attached: printed note “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Postal cachet “Keel-Laying February 21, 1976 USS Jacksonville SSN 699” postmarked 21 February 1976. . Attached: printed note “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Ticket, re: U.S. Capitol presentation ceremony “Magna Carta.” Attached: program “Magna Carta Presentation Ceremony…Order of Proceedings, June 3, 1976”; two copies. Attached: program “Magna Carta Presentation Ceremony” (1976); two copies. Attached: name plate “Jamie Whitten.” Attached: copy typed manuscript “Magna Carta Ceremony, the Great Rotunda,” re: tickets and procession. Attached: engraved invitation to buffet luncheon with members of Parliament on 3 June 1976. Attached: engraved menu for buffet luncheon with members of Parliament on 3 June 1976; two copies. Attached: engraved invitation to ceremony to accept Magna Carta on 3 June 1976. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1977 Typed letter dated 19 January 1977 from J. William Middendorf II, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, to Whitten, re: Middendorf’s retirement. Carbon typed letter dated 9 February 1977 from Whitten to Middendorf, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 2 March 1977 from Cecil D. Andrus, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, to Whitten, re: That We May Live. Copy typed letter dated 25 January 1977 from Whitten to Russell E. Train in Washington, DC, re: swine flu vaccine, National Science Foundation. Attached: typed letter dated 18 January 1977 from Train to Whitten, re: Environmental Protection Agency.

Typed letter dated 12 March 1977 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: sugar, US International Trade Commission. Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 22 March 1977 from U.S. Representative Hamilton Fish Hr. to Whitten, re: Hamilton Fish Sr. Typed letter dated 29 March 1977 from U.S. Representative Jack Brooks to Whitten, re: Select Committee on Congressional Operations. Typed letter dated 31 March 1977 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, public works projects. Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 1 April 1977 from U.S. Representative Louis Stokes to Whitten, re: Select Committee on Assassinations. Typed letter dated 4 April 1977 from U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Reorganization Act of 1977. Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 7 April 1977 from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher to Whitten, re: presidential veto override. Typed letter dated 11 May 1977 from U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Subcommittee on Public Works, water projects, government spending, budget. Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Attached: copy typed letter dated 13 May 1977 from Whitten to Carter, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 20 May 1977 from Frank Moore, Assistant to President Jimmy Carter, to Whitten, re: Public Works Appropriation. Attached: copy typed letter dated 13 May 1977 from Whitten to Moore, re: above topic, Pascagoula Harbor Project; four pages with enclosures. Typed letter dated 26 May 1977 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Public Works Jobs Bill, Economic Stimulus Appropriations Bill. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 7 June 1977 from Whitten to Carter, re: above letter. Attached: copy of photograph mentioned in above letter. Original removed to Whitten Photographs. Newspaper clipping “American Values” Preservation News (May 1977), re: Whitten and revitalization of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. Program “Ceremony to mark the Return of Magna Carta to the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” (1977). Carbon typed letter dated 21 June 1977 from Whitten to James C. Corman, Chairman of the Democratic National Congressional Committee, re: Congressional Dinner. Attached: typed letter dated 17 June 1977 from Corman to “Dear Democratic Colleague,” re: above topic, fundraising. Attached: program “The 1977 Democratic Congressional Dinner.”

Typed letter dated 29 June 1977 from Speaker of the House Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. to Whitten, re: legislative record, Congressional pay. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 1 July 1977 from Whitten to O’Neill, re: above topics. Handwritten letter dated 9 July 1977 from U.S. Senator John C. Stennis to Whitten, re: Appropriations Committee chairmanship. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 13 July 1977 from Whitten to Stennis, re: above letter. Copy typed letter dated 11 July 1977 from Whitten to Speaker of the House Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., re: O’Neill’s endorsement of Whitten at news conference. Typed letter dated 21 July 1977 from Robert E. Losch in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Public Works Appropriation Bill. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 26 July 1977 from Whitten to Losch, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 22 July 1977 from U.S. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton to Whitten, re: Eagleton as Appropriations Subcommittee chairman. Carbon typed letter dated 5 August 1977 from Whitten to David Elmore in Oxford, Mississippi, re: Whitten’s career, media, Budget Control Act, Appropriations Committee. Attached: typed letter dated 2 August 1977 from Elmore to Whitten, re: Whitten’s record. Typed letter dated 19 September 1977 from U.S. Representative Bill Alexander to Whitten, re: Alexander fundraiser. Typed letter dated 23 September 1977 from U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski to Whitten, re: golf, trip to Idaho. Typed letter dated 20 October 1977 from Benjamin G. Bailar, Postmaster General, to Whitten, re: energy, enclosed stamped envelopes. Attached: first day issue envelope with “Energy Conservation” stamps postmarked 20 October 1977. Carbon typed letter dated 17 October 1977 from Whitten to U.S. Representative John J. Rhodes, re: President Gerald R. Ford. Carbon typed letter dated 27 October 1977 from Whitten to Sarah Williams of Coffeeville Courier, re: Williams’ article. Attached: newspaper clipping “Sarah Williams…Memories…Congressman Whitten” Coffeeville Courier (20 October 1977). Handwritten note “Invitation Regretted…” Attached: Engraved card, re: passage through White House gate on 17 November 1977. Attached: card with calligraphy “In recognition of the 10th Anniversary of the American Film Institute.” Attached: engraved card “Please send response to the Social Secretary…” Attached: engraved invitation to White House reception on 17 November 1977. Attached: envelope. Originals removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 3 August 1977 from Speaker of the House Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. to Whitten, re: price deregulation of natural gas, energy bill.

Typed letter dated 19 October 1977 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Food and Agriculture Act. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 2 November 1977 from Whitten to Carter, re: above letter. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Copy typed letter dated 17 November 1977 from Benjamin R. Civiletti, Assistant Attorney General of Criminal Division, to Jamie L. Whitten, Assistant US Attorney, re: prosecution of Carl Heiser and Lutz Weischenberg. Printed invitation to White House Christmas Party for Members of Congress on 13 December 1977. Attached: printed card “Due to limited space Parking…” Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Carter. Attached: envelope postmarked 14 December 1977. Typed letter dated 14 November 1977 from James I. Spainhower, Missouri State Treasurer, to Whitten, re: tribute to U.S. Representative Richard H. Ichord. Typed letter dated 16 November 1977 from U.S. Representative Richard H. Ichord to Whitten, re: tribute to U.S. Representative Richard H. Ichord. Attached: program “Welcome to an Evening with Congressman and Mrs. Richard H. Ichord November 12, 1977…”; two copies. Typed letter dated 14 November 1977 from William W. Hoertel of Rolla, Missouri to Whitten, re: tribute to U.S. Representative Richard H. Ichord. Typed memorandum dated 20 December 1977 from John Martin Meek, President of Edelman International Cooperation, to Whitten, re: supersonic Concorde air service between Paris and London to New York. Attached: postal cachet “Concorde First Commercial Service from JFK, N.Y., to Paris, France, November 23, 1977” postmarked 23 November 1977. Handwritten letter dated 24 December 1977 from Will A. Hickman of Oxford, Mississippi to Whitten, re: friendship with Whitten. Postal cachet “Launching July 30, 1977 USS Indianapolis” postmarked 30 July 1977. Attached: printed note “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Postal cachet “Keel Laying July 30, 1977 USS Phoenix” postmarked 30 July 1977. Attached: printed note “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Postal cachet “Launching June 18, 1977 USS New York City” postmarked 18 July 1977. Attached: printed note “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Postal cachet “Commissioning USS Dwight D. Eisenhower” postmarked 18 October 1977. Attached: printed note “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Postal cachet “USS Texas Commissioning” postmarked 10 September 1977. Attached: typed manuscript “This first day commissioning momento is provided compliments of Admiral H.G. Rickover, USN.”

Postal cachet “Launching of the Nuclear Powered Attack Submarine Birmingham” postmarked 29 October 1977. Attached: card “Birmingham and the Los Angeles Class.” Attached: printed note “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Typed letter dated 1 August 1977 from Admiral H.G. Ricover of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower to Whitten, re: trials of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, Navy, Soviet Union; three pages. Attached: postal cachet “Builder’s Sea Trials USS Dwight D. Eisenhower 30 July – 1 August 1977” postmarked 1 August 1977. Clipping “Tenn-Tom and Senator Stennis” New York Times Magazine (8 May 1977), page 46, re: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Typed letter dated 21 December 1977 from U.S. Representative W.R. Poage to Whitten, re: dinner program in Brownwood. BOX 2 Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1978 Engraved invitation to Vice President’s House reception on 16 January 1978. Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 14 January 1978 from W.C. Neill, President of People’s Bank & Trust Co. in North Carrollton, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: H.R. 9608. Handwritten letter undated from Robert Freeland in Oxford, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection campaign. Typed letter dated 8 March 1978 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Humphrey-Hawkins Bill. Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Program “In Tribute to…Mr. Agriculture,” re: U.S. Representative W.R. Poage. Typed letter dated 27 March 1978 from U.S. Representative George Mahon to Whitten, re: Mahon clipping. Typed letter dated 28 March 1978 from General Louis H. Wilson, Commandant of the Marine Corps, to Whitten, re: thanks for book. Typed letter dated 30 March 1978 from General Louis H. Wilson, Commandant of the Marine Corps to Whitten, re: enclosed photographs from dinner. Typed letter dated 4 April 1978 from U.S. Representative Olin E. Teague to Whitten, re: thanks. Typed letter dated 16 April 1978 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: birthday wishes. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 27 April 1978 from Whitten to Carter, re: above letter, visit to Blair House.

Business card for Sherwin “Zero” Gardner, Acting Commissioner Food and Drug Administration. Attached: typed letter dated 28 April 1978 from Gardner to Whitten, re: definition of “zero.” Attached: copy typed manuscript “Nothing Is ‘Zero,’” re: speech on packaging material; 10 pages. Typed letter dated 9 June 1978 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: budget for basic research, technology, national security. Attached: envelope. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 13 June 1978 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 21 June 1978 from Edward L. Koch, Mayor of New York, to Whitten, re: thank you for note. Typed letter dated 29 June 1978 from U.S. Representative George Mahon to Whitten, re: inflation, appropriations bills Handwritten letter undated from U.S. Representative Marilyn Lloyd to Whitten, re: Public Works Subcommittee, Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project, energy. Typed letter dated 19 June 1978 from Charles O. Moody, Music Educators National Conference, to Robert E. Shambaugh of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, re: Whitten invitation as general speaker at convention; two pages. Typed letter dated 21 June 1978 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: urban policy. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 2 August 1978 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: arms embargo on Turkey. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 14 August 1978 from U.S. Representative Al Ullman to Whitten, re: Revenue Act of 1978. Typed letter dated 30 August 1978 from William G. Simpson, Administrative Assistant to U.S. Senator James O. Eastland, to Whitten, re: Simpson Dinner on Gulf Coast. Typed letter dated 6 September 1978 from U.S. Representative John B. Breckinridge to Whitten, re: thanks for note. Typed letter dated 14 September 1978 from U.S. Representative Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson to Whitten, re: public works appropriation legislation. Typed letter dated 18 September 1978 from U.S. Representative Tom Bevill to Whitten, re: Whitten support on conference report. Typed letter dated 29 September 1978 from Ray Fitzgerald, Administrator of Agriculture and Stabilization Service, to Whitten, re: Agriculture and Stabilization Service National Conference.

Handwritten letter dated 5 October 1978 from President Jimmy Carter to “Members of Congress,” re: inflation, public works bill. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 11 October 1978 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: national energy plan, natural gas, Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Copy typed letter dated 25 November 1978 from Whitten to U.S. Representative George H. Mahon, re: Mahon’s retirement. Attached: typed letter dated 17 October 1978 from Mahon to Whitten, re: Whitten as chairman of subcommittee, Appropriations Committee. Typed letter dated 8 November 1978 from Henry A. Dudley in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection, Whitten’s son. Typed letter dated 22 November 1978 from Frank A. Riley in Tupelo, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection and campaign. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 29 November 1978 from Whitten to Riley, re: above topics. Postal cachet “Launching July 22, 1978 USS Bremerton” postmarked 22 July 1978. Attached: printed note from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 13 October 1978 from Speaker of the House Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. to Whitten, re: energy conference reports, national energy policy. Typed letter dated 13 October 1978 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: National Energy Act. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 16 November 1978 from U.S. Representative Claude Pepper to Whitten, re: tribute to Pepper. Postal cachet “Launching November 18, 1978 USS Jacksonville” postmarked 18 November 1978. Attached: printed note from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Engraved invitation to memorial service in Washington DC for Golda Meir. Attached: typed letter dated 8 December 1978 from Embassy of Israel, re: death of Meir. Attached: envelope. Typed letter dated 12 December 1978 from U.S. Representative George Mahon to Whitten, re: Marion Whitten. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Carter. Attached: envelope postmarked 16 December 1978. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Gerald Ford. Attached: envelope postmarked 13 December 1978. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Print “You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift…” (Kansas City, KA: Robert R. McDonald Jr.). Attached: print “Athenian Oath” (Kansas City, KA: Robert R. McDonald Jr.). Attached: print “A Short Course in Human Relations” (Kansas City, KA: Robert R. McDonald Jr.).

Typed letter dated 9 January 1978 from Leonard Saffir, Editor-in-Chief of The Trib, re: first edition of The Trib. Attached: The Trib (9 January 1978). Washington Star Home/Life (23 April 1978), re: cover story on Marine Corps Commandant General Lewis Wilson. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1978 Typed letter dated 18 January 1979 from U.S. Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. to Whitten, re: Whitten’s message to Fish Sr. Copy typed manuscript “Program for Opening Day of the Ninety-Sixth Congress”; two pages. Copy Typed and handwritten manuscript, re: Speaker’s Oath of Office. Typed letter dated 24 January 1979 from Gerald W. Chatham, Mississippi District Attorney, to Whitten, re: Whitten chairmanship of Appropriations Committee. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 30 January 1979 from Whitten to Chatham, re: above letter. Printed invitation from United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Laborers’ International Union of North America, and The International Union of Operating Engineers to welcome to new members of Congress on 1 February 1979. Typed letter dated 15 February 1979 from U.S. Representative Gillespie V. Montgomery to Whitten, re: Whitten chairmanship of Appropriations Committee. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 22 February 1979 from Whitten to Montgomery, re: above topic. Copy State of Mississippi House Concurrent Resolution No. 62 dated 7 February 1979, re: Whitten chairmanship of Appropriations Committee. Typed letter dated 20 February 1979 from U.S. Representative Ronnie G. Flippo to Whitten, re: Ways and Means Committee. National Center on Black Aged press release dated 23 February 1979, re: White House reception honoring Outstanding Black Citizens of America who are elderly, Aaron Henry; six pages. Typed letter dated 20 March 1979 from U.S. Representative Gillespie V. Montgomery to Whitten, re: Whitten receiving American Legion’s Distinguished Service Award. Telegram dated 22 March 1979 from White House, re: invitation to dinner celebrating signing of the Egyptian-Israel Peace Treaty. Attached: engraved table seating chart for above occasion. Attached: printed menu and program for above occasion. Attached: publication “The White House March 26, 1979,” re: President Carter’s remarks before Egyptian People’s Assembly and Israeli Knesset Chamber. Copy of printed act in 1862 to establish a Department of Agriculture. Typed letter dated 2 April 1979 from U.S. Senator John C. Stennis to Whitten, re: Coy Stennis.

Typed letter dated 13 May 1979 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Alaska lands bill, natural resources, federal lands. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 26 April 1979 from Paul E. Waggoner, Director of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, to Whitten, re: enclosed resolution on Whitten and agricultural research appropriations. Attached: Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy resolution on above topic; two pages. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 4 May 1979 from Whitten to Waggoner, re: above resolution. Postal cachet “Keel Laying April 7, 1979 USS Georgia” postmarked 7 April 1979. Attached: printed note from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Postal cachet “Launching of the First Trident Submarine USS Ohio” postmarked 7 April 1979. Attached: printed note from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Postal cachet “Launching April 28, 1979 USS Dallas” postmarked 29 April 1979. Attached: printed note from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Copy handwritten letter dated 18 June [1979] from Whitten to U.S. Representative Virginia Smith, re: Smith’s project. Attached: handwritten letter dated 11 June 1979 from Smith to Whitten, re: Whitten’s leadership. Handwritten letter dated 29 June 1979 from U.S. Representative Virginia Smith to Whitten, re: Whitten letter. Typed letter dated 11 June 1979 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Department of Education creation. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 9 July 1979 from Aaron Henry, President of Mississippi State Conference of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to “Branch Presidents,” re: Whitten vote on Mottl amendment. Handwritten letter undated from U.S. Representative Virginia Smith to Whitten, re: thank you. Mailgram dated 26 July 1979 from Aaron Henry, President Mississippi State Conference National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to Whitten, re: Mottl amendment, Department of Justice, Voter Rights Act. Congressional Record (27 June 1979), page H5274, re: cattle relief. Typed letter dated 15 July 1979 from Aaron Henry, President Mississippi State Conference National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to “Dear Friend,” re: Whitten photograph. Typed letter dated 26 July 1979 from Mississippi Governor Cliff Finch to Whitten, re: flood relief. Certificate “Honorary Airline Pilot,” re: Federal Aviation Administration age rule for pilots.

Handwritten letter U.S. Representative Marilyn Lloyd to Whitten, re: Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project, energy. Typed letter dated 17 July 1979 from Judge Orma R. Smith, U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi, to Whitten, re: thanks for message. Handwritten letter dated 12 July 1979 from U.S. Senator John C. Stennis to Whitten, re: supplemental budget. Typed letter dated 20 July 1979 from Mississippi Governor Cliff Finch to Whitten, re: Amtrak. Typed letter dated 24 July 1979 from U.S. Representative Paul Simon to Whitten, re: thanks for attending brunch. Handwritten letter dated 3 August 1979 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: budget. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 23 August 1979 from James R. Schlesinger, U.S. Secretary of Energy, to Whitten, re: Appropriations Committee, energy. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 18 September 1979 from Whitten to Schlesinger, re: above letter. Handwritten letter dated 12 September 1979 from Edward A. Khayat in Moss Point, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Jackson County, Mississippi. Attached: newspaper clipping “Whitten Has Grip on Issue,” re: excessive regulations. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 25 September 1979 from Whitten to Khayat, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 25 September 1979 from Vice President Walter F. Mondale to Whitten, re: Department of Education creation. Typed letter dated 28 September 1979 from U.S. Representative Norman Y. Mineta to Whitten, re: Second Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 1980. Program re: Secretary of Defense dinner in honor of United Kingdom Secretary of Defense on 16 July 1979. Typed letter dated 21 September 1979 from Red Wertheimer, Senior Vice President of Common Cause, and David Cohn, President of Common Cause, to Whitten, re: pay increase for federal officials. Typed letter dated 25 September 1979 from U.S. Representative Earl Hutto to Whitten, re: Defense Appropriation bill. Engraved invitation to White House reception on 6 October 1979. Attached: engraved card “Please respond…” Attached: envelope. Typed letter dated 2 October 1979 from U.S. Representative Robert N. Giaimo to Whitten, re: Second Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 1980.

Typed letter dated 28 September 1979 from U.S. Representative Earl Hutto to Whitten, re: Defense Appropriations bill, Navy Undergraduate Helicopter Pilot Training. Typed letter dated 12 October 1979 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: recent legislative votes. Typed letter dated 24 October 1979 from J. Edgar Chenoweth in Trinidad, Colorado to Whitten, re: Whitten as chair of Appropriations Committee, Whitten’s first speech in House. Attached: program “Honored Guest Judge J. Edgar Chenowith.” Typed memorandum dated 24 October 1979 from Robert B. Foster, Staff Assistant on House Appropriations Committee, re: attached bill with Whitten’s language for Agriculture Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 1980. Attached: typed and handwritten manuscript “Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Rural Clean Water Program.” Handwritten letter dated 18 October 1979 from U.S. Representative John P. Murtha to Whitten, re: continuing resolution. Certificate dated 1980, re: member United States Civil Defense Council member. Typed letter dated 13 November 1979 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Hospital Cost Containment bill; two pages. Typed letter dated 16 November 1979 from U.S. Representative Ed Jones to Whitten, re: Millington Naval Air Station. Typed letter dated 27 November 1979 from U.S. Representative Marty Russo to Whitten, re: Federal Trade Commission funeral rule. Typed letter dated 27 November 1979 from U.S. Representative Guy Vander Jagt to Whitten, re: Department of Interior Appropriations, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Engraved seating information for Boston College O’Neill Chair dinner on 9 December 1979; two copies. Invitation from Mississippi Delegation, University of Mississippi, and National Endowment for the Humanities for reception honoring film “William Faulkner: A Life on Paper” on 3 December 1979. Postal cachet “Launching December 8, 1979 USS Phoenix” postmarked 8 December 1979. Attached: printed note from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 5 December 1979 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Domestic Violence Prevention and Services Act. Typed letter dated 14 December 1979 from Sherwin Gardner, Deputy Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to Whitten, re: Gardner’s farewell dinner. Handwritten letter dated 20 December 1979 from U.S. Representative John P. Murtha to Whitten, re: thanks.

Handwritten letter dated 20 December 1979 from U.S. Representative George M. O’Brien to Whitten, re: Appropriations Committee. Typed letter dated 21 December 1979 from U.S. Representative Tom Bevill to Whitten, re: Appropriations Committee. Folder: Contents of “Special Letters Scrapbook 1980” Copy U.S. News & World Report (14 January 1980), page 41, re: inset box including Whitten on list of most effective committee chairmen. Typed letter dated 5 February 1980 from U.S. Representative Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson to Whitten, re: water resources legislation. Handwritten letter dated 18 February 1980 from Sally R. [illegible] of Alcorn-Prentiss Human Resource Agency, to Whitten, re: Whitten visit to senior citizens. Typed letter dated 18 February 1980 from Mississippi Governor William F. Winter to Whitten, re: 1932 Mississippi legislature. Typed letter dated 20 February 1980 from Mississippi Lieutenant Governor Brad Dye to Whitten, re: Dye’s father in legislature. Typed letter dated 27 February 1980 from Gerald W. Chatham, Mississippi District Attorney, to Whitten, re: tax and spending cuts. Attached: copy typed memorandum from Citizen’s Choice to “Members of Congress,” re: above topics. Attached: copy typed letter dated 7 March 1980 from Whitten to Chatham, re: above topics. Typed letter dated 3 March 1980 from U.S. Representative Richard H. Ichord to Whitten, re: Ichord retirement from House, reform of committee system. Attached: copy typed letter dated 29 February 1980 from Ichord to Speaker of the House Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., re: above topics; two pages. Attached: typed letter dated 18 January 1980 from Ichord, re: Ichord retirement from House; two pages. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 6 March 1980 from Whitten to Ichord, re: Ichord retirement. Program and menu “In Honor of His Excellency the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and Mrs. Schmidt, The White House, Wednesday, March 5, 1980.” Attached: name place label for Whitten. Attached: printed card “Please send response to Social Secretary…” Typed letter dated 14 March 1980 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: economy. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Postal cachet “Launching of the Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier USS Carl Vinson” postmarked 15 March 1980. Attached: printed card “USS Carl Vinson (CVN70), Third of the Nimitz Class.” Attached: printed card “Admiral Rickover has requested that this cachet be sent to you.” Program “The President and Mrs. Carter welcome you to celebrate the First Anniversary of the Signing of the Treaty of Peace between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel, The White House, March 23, 1980.”

Typed letter dated 15 April 1980 from Bob Lewis at Clarkdale Press Register to Whitten, re: Whitten campaign, T.K. Moffett. Attached: copy typed letter dated 21 April 1980 from Whitten to Lewis, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 18 April 1980 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: birthday greeting. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 21 April 1980 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: selective service registration. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Typed letter dated 23 April 1980 from U.S. Representative Tom Steed to Whitten, re: Steed retirement. Postal cachet “Launching April 19, 1980 USS Boston” postmarked 19 April 1980. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics on above cachet. Typed letter dated 25 April 1980 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Selective Service registration. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Postal cachet “Launching April 26, 1980 USS Michigan” postmarked 26 April 1980. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics on above cachet. Typed letter dated 9 May 1980 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Civil Service Reform Act. Original removed to VIP Restricted Access location. Program “The Honorable Jamie L. Whitten Appreciation Day May 24, 1980 and Oxford/Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce 1980 Annual Meeting”; two copies. Program “Dedication of the National Herb Garden U.S. National Arboretum Washington, D.C. June 12, 1980,” re: remarks by Whitten. Typed letter dated 17 June 1980 from U.S. Representative Richard A. Gephardt to Whitten, re: budget. Typed letter dated 13 June 1980 from Edmund J. Rusinek, President Rockwell Space Systems Group Stamp Club, to Whitten, re: postal cachet. Attached: clipping Astronautics & Aeronautics, re: Navstar satellite. Attached: postal cachet “NAVSTAR-VI” postmarked 26 April 1980. Attached: printed card “NAVSTAR VI.” Attached: sticker “NAVSTAR-VI.” Handwritten letter dated 20 June 1980 from John A. Baker in Arlington, Virginia to Whitten, re: New York Times article on Whitten, Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Agriculture; two pages. Typed letter dated 25 June 1980 from John L. Creech, US Department of Agriculture Science and Education Administration Director, to Whitten, re: national Herb Garden, National Arboretum. Typed letter dated 27 June 1980 from U.S. Representative Tom Bevill to Whitten, re: subcommittee bill.

Engraved invitation to ceremony honoring assumption of duties of Charles W. Snodgrass as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Financial Management. Attached: engraved card, re: oath of office administered by Whitten. Typed letter dated 6 August 1980 from U.S. Representative David R. Bowen to Whitten, re: Whitten message to parents. Typed letter dated 19 September 1980 from U.S. Representative Julian C. Dixon to Whitten, re: Whitten as honorary sponsor at fundraiser. Typed letter dated 26 September 1980 from U.S. Representative Charles H. Wilson to Whitten, re: retirement from House. Typed letter dated 12 November 1980 from U.S. Representative Robert B. Duncan to Whitten, re: thanks. Typed letter dated 24 November 1980 from Speaker of the House Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. to Whitten, re: thanks for message. Handwritten letter dated 24 November 1980 from U.S. Representative Jerome A. Ambro to Whitten, re: Whitten’s comment in Congressional Record. Typed letter dated 24 November 1980 from Donald Whitten, Prosecuting Attorney Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten. Typed letter dated 4 December 1980 from U.S. Representative Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson to Whitten, re: Whitten comments on floor. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 9 December 1980 from Whitten to Johnson, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 4 December 1980 from U.S. Representative Morgan F. Murphy to Whitten, re: Murphy retirement from House. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 18 December 1980 from Whitten, to Murphy, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 5 December 1980 from U.S. Representative Robert N. Giaimo to Whitten, re: Giaimo retirement from House. Attached: copy typed letter dated 11 December 1980 from Whitten to Giaimo, re: above letter. Engraved invitation to Speaker’s Dinner in honor of new members of Congress on 7 December 1980. Attached: engraved pass to above event. Engraved invitation to White House reception on 7 December 1980. Attached: printed card “Please send response to …” Attached: White House pass to above event. Attached: card “A Celebration of the Performing Arts on the Occasion of the Kennedy Center Honors.” Postal cachet “Launching December 13, 1980 USS Baltimore” postmarked 13 December 1980. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics on above cachet. Copy black-and-white photograph of “Pecan Horse” appearing in the Mississippi exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition in September 1904. Original photograph removed to Whitten Photographs.

Printed invitation to reception and dinner in honor of Whitten in Washington, DC, re: reelection campaign fundraiser. Attached: card and envelope, re: RSVP and contribution to above event. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1981 (1 of 2) Typed letter dated 15 January 1981 from Stuart E. Eizenstat, Assistant to President Jimmy Carter, to Whitten, re: thanks. Attached: copy typed letter dated 30 January 1981 from Whitten to Eizenstat, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 15 January 1981 from Carol Tucker Foreman, Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, to Whitten, re: Foreman leaving office. Attached: copy typed letter dated 21 January 1981 from Whitten to Foreman, re: above topic. Handwritten letter on White House stationary from Jim Free to Whitten, re: work in past administration. Attached: typed letter dated 28 January 1981 from Whitten to Free, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 19 January 1981 from Frank Moore, Assistant to President Jimmy Carter, to Whitten, re: leaving White House. Attached: copy typed letter dated 29 January 1981 from Whitten to Moore, re: above topic. Congressional Record (20 January 1981). Program “Inaugural Ceremonies Program January 20, 1981.” Engraved invitation to inaugural ceremonies with attached images of Ronald Reagan and Al Gore. Engraved invitation from Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies to luncheon. Program “Inauguration Ceremonies Program January Twentieth Nineteen Hundred-eighty-one. Typed letter dated 26 January 1981 from Max L. Friedersdorf, Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, to Whitten, re: invitation to White House for ceremony honoring freed Iranian hostages. Attached: White House pass dated 27 January 1981. Typed letter dated 4 February 1981 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: debt ceiling, economy. Attached: copy typed letter dated 28 January 1981 from Donald T. Regan, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowsky, re: above topics; two pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Pin “America is Beautiful” with yellow ribbon. Typed letter dated 6 February 1981 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: debt ceiling, economy. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 12 March 1981 from U.S. Representative Martin Frost to Whitten, re: thanks for recording program.

Handwritten letter dated 14 March 1981 from U.S. Representative Clarence Long to Whitten, re: Appropriations Committee. Typed letter dated 30 March 1981 from Alexander Haig, U.S. Secretary of State, to Whitten, re: El Salvador. Attached: copy typed letter dated 8 April 1981 from Whitten to Haig, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 31 March 1981 from U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield to Whitten, re: military spending. Attached: copy typed letter dated 8 April 1981 from Whitten to Hatfield, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 9 April 1981 from U.S. Representative Lindy Boggs to Whitten, re: alcohol fuels feasibility studies in Louisiana. Typed letter stamped 30 April 1981 from U.S. Representative Raymond F. Lederer to Whitten, re: Lederer retirement. Engraved invitation to White House dinner on 7 May 1981. Attached: printed cared “Please respond to the Social Secretary…” Attached: printed card “On the occasion of the visit of His Excellency the Prime Minister of Japan and Mrs. Suzuki.” Attached: Whitten name card. Attached: table number card. Attached: dinner menu. Attached: program “In Honor of His Excellency the Prime Minister of Japan and Mrs. Suzuki, The White House, Thursday, May 7, 1981.” Invitation from Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to a reception on 18 May 1981. Attached: envelope. Typed letter dated 18 May 1981 from First Lady Nancy Reagan to Whitten, re: thanks for contribution to White House Easter Egg Roll. Handwritten letter undated from “Andy Hutch?” to Whitten, re: missed visit. Attached: newspaper clipping “Muted Opening at Wolf Trap.” Copy typed letter dated 9 June 1981 from Whitten to U.S. Representative Lindy Boggs, re: Congressional Record insert on Whitten. Attached: copy Congressional Record (4 June 1981), re: “Jamie Whitten: Lives and Times.” Typed letter dated 23 June 1981 from Admiral T.B. Hayward, U.S. Navy, to Whitten, re: Trident submarine Ohio. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 24 June 1981 from Whitten to Hayward, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 24 July 1981 from John T. Dolan, National Chairman National Conservative Political Action Committee, to Whitten, re: tax cut program, media coverage of Whitten stance. Copy newspaper clipping “House Panel Resists Bid to Erode Its Budget Power” New York Times (15 September 1981), page D29, re: Appropriations Committee. Typed letter dated 23 September 1981 from Polly Dunn, President of Columbus TV Cable Corporation in Columbus, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: thanks for visit.

Typed letter dated 5 October 1981 from Edgar B. Saunders in River Ridge, Louisiana to Whitten, re: That We May Live. Typed letter dated 7 October 1981 from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher to Whitten, re: Department of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriation Bill. Typed letter dated 26 October 1981 from U.S. Representative Clarence D. Long to Whitten, re: thanks for note. Typed letter dated 26 October 1981 from Tony Coelho, Chairman of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, to Whitten, re: thanks for fundraising. Typed letter dated 2 November 1981 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: air defense sale to Saudi Arabia, Middle East. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 3 November 1981 from Cark M. Clifford in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: McIlwain party. Typed letter dated 13 November 1981 from U.S. Representative Sidney R. Yates to Whitten, re: thanks. Postal cachet “Launching November 14, 1981 USS Florida” postmarked 14 November 1981. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 16 November 1981 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: Whitten reception. Typed letter dated 20 November 1981 from U.S. Representative Don Albosta to Whitten, re: Agriculture Committee. Typed letter dated 8 December 1981 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: foreign assistance; two pages. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. Attached: envelope postmarked 10 December 1981. Christmas card from Speaker of the House and Mrs. Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Newspaper clipping “Conner’s Sales Tax Proposal Unpopular” Jackson Clarion-Ledger (6 December 1981), page 3G, re: 1932 protest of tax proposal in Mississippi. Handwritten letter dated 18 December 1981 from Bob Ainsworth to Buddy [Bishop], re: attached letter. Attached: copy typed letter dated October 1981 from Jim Geesey, Willeen Hough, Hugh Taylor, Leroy Anderson, Charlie Mason, Bob Ainsworth, Dale Jones, Hunter Kemmet, Townes Holland, Mitchell Parks, Leonard Curfman, Jack Ockey, and Carlton White to Whitten, re: Economic Development Administration. Attached: envelope Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1981 (2 of 2)

Copy newspaper clipping “A 40th Anniversary” New York Times (3 November 1981), re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from U.S. Representative Ed Jones to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from U.S. Representative Vic Fazio to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from U.S. Representative Peter W. Rodino Jr., re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 3 November 1981 from U.S. Representative Martin Olav Sabo to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 5 November 1981 from M.P. Moore in Senatobia, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 5 November 1981 from Fred M. Witty in Greenwood, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 5 November 1981 from Fred B. Smith in Ripley, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 8 November 1981 from Annie Louise Moore in Senatobia, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 5 November 1981 from Harvey G. Ferguson Jr. to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter undated from Emma and Cy Wingate to Whitten, re: re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Attached: envelope postmarked Memphis, Tennessee. Typed letter dated 5 November 1981 from Ross R. Barnett in Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 5 November 1981 from Alfred A. Bryant in Coffeeville, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 6 November 1981 from Aven Whittington in Greenwood, Mississippi, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 3 November 1981 from Carroll Kemp in Hazelhurst, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from Frank M. Mitchener in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress.

Handwritten letter dated 5 November 1981 from J.D. Brauscome to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Attached: envelope postmarked Grenada, Mississippi. Telegram dated 4 November 1981 from Porter L. Fortune, Chancellor University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Copy newspaper clipping “House Pays Tribute to Veteran Whitten,” re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Telegram dated 3 November 1981 from George Street, Director of University Relations University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from Read P. Dunn Jr., Commissioner Commodity Futures Trading Corporation, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Anniversary card from Ray Lett, Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. Attached: envelope. Typed letter dated 5 November 1981 from Judge Charles Clark, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter stamped 4 November 1981 from Major General Guy L. Hecker Jr., U.S. Air Force Director Legislative Liaison, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 4 November 1981 from Deputy Secretary of Commerce to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 3 November 1981 from Everett Rank, Administrator Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 4 November 1981 from Dick Ly?, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Telegram dated 4 November 1981 from Bob Partridge to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from C.H. Dean Jr., Chairman of the Board of Directors Tennessee Valley Authority, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Telegram dated 3 November 1981 from Charles W. Shuman, Administrator Farmers Home Administration, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from Arthur Hull Hayes Jr, Commissioner Food and Drugs, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter undated from William G. Lesher, Assistant Secretary of Economics, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from Seeley G. Lodwick, Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress.

Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from Frank W. Naylor, Jr., Undersecretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from Edward I. Koch, Mayor of New York, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 5 November 1981 from Don Wallace in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Congratulations card from Al Ladka in Hempstead, New York. Business card Harold F. Eberle, Director of Government Affairs Independent Insurance Agents of America, re: sent strawberry pie for Whitten’s forty years in Congress. News Futures (30 October 1981), re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress; handwritten note from Joe Howell. Attached: envelope postmarked Washington, DC. News Futures (30 October 1981), re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress; handwritten note from Robert B. Duncan in Washington, DC; with attached business card of Duncan. Congratulations card from Robert C. Cherry. Attached: envelope addressed from Paducah, Kentucky. Telegram dated 6 November 1981 from Martin Passaglia Jr., Executive Director American Human Society, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 2 November 1981 from Marshall J. Mantler, Executive Director Bureau of Wholesale Sales Representatives, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Telegram dated 4 November 1981 from Independent Insurance Agent of Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Telegram dated 5 November 1981 from Dr. Jack D. Early, National Agricultural Chemicals Association, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from Frank E. Everett Jr. in Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter stamped 6 November 1981 from Norman A. Berg, Chief of Soil Conservation Service, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 6 November 1981 from Malcolm Baldridge, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from John T. Kelly, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge State of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress.

Typed letter dated 8 November 1981 from A.L. Feuer in Gastonia, North Carolina to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Florist card and envelope from Bub and Jean Henson. Handwritten note on U.S. Senate stationary from U.S. Senator Tom Eagleton, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Card with typed message from Porter L. Fortune, Chancellor University of Mississippi, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Enclosed: newspaper clipping “Jamie Whitten marks 40 years in Congress” Jackson Daily News (4 November 1981), page B1. Copy newspaper clipping “Whitten’s Extraordinary Milestone” Jackson Clarion-Ledger (4 November 1981), page 2B. Attached: envelope letterhead from Clerk, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi. Typed letter stamped 2 November 1981 from Dr. Shelley R. Gaines in Metairie, Louisiana to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten note dated 4 November 1981 from Carson M. Hughes in Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Attached: copy newspaper clipping “Whitten’s Extraordinary Milestone.” Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from John W. Brennan in Boston, Massachusetts to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Attached: newspaper clipping “A 40th Anniversary” New York Times (3 October 1981). Attached: business card John W. Brennan. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from U.S. Representative (Kika) de la Garza to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from Jack D. Tucker in Tunica, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from Mary Lou Gamlen in Clarksdale, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Attached: newspaper clipping “40-Year Tenure Makes Whitten Toast of House.” Handwritten note dated 4 November 1981 from Tommy Munro to Buddy [Bishop], re: enclosed. Attached: newspaper clipping “Whitten Sets House Record for Service” The Sun (3 November 1981). Attached: envelope postmarked Biloxi, Mississippi. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from Herbert G. Rogers III in New Albany, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Attached: newspaper clipping “Whitten Celebrates Anniversary.” Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from Hamric Henry, Mayor of Water Valley, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Attached: newspaper clipping “40-Year Tenure Makes Whitten Toast of House” Memphis Commercial Appeal (4 November 1981). Attached: “House Pays Tribute to Veteran Whitten” Memphis Commercial Appeal (5 November 1981).

Typed letter dated 5 November 1981 from U.S. Representative J.J. Pickle to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 5 November 1981 from B.F. Smith, Executive Vice President Delta Council, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 5 November 1981 from Kenneth Y. Millian in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 10 November 1981 from Douglas C. Stone in Columbus, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 5 November 1981 from Helen Lee in Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 6 November 1981 from John E. Schrote, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration Department of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 6 November 1981 from William B. Campbell in Philadelphia, Tennessee to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 6 November [1981] from Nancy Pennington Temple to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress; two pages. Attached: newspaper clipping “House Salutes ‘Dean’ Whitten” Tampa Tribune (5 November 1981). Typed letter dated 6 November 1981 from Hugh N. Clayton in New Albany, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 6 November 1981 from P.O. Beard in Iuka, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress, Tennessee Valley Authority, Natchez Trace Parkway; two pages. Typed letter dated 6 November 1981 from Mr. and Mrs. L.H. Stubblefield to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 6 November 1981 from George C. Wallace to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Attached: envelope addressed from Montgomery, Alabama. Congratulations card from Mamie Owen. Attached: envelope addressed from New Albany, Mississippi. Handwritten letter dated 7 November 1981 from Bruce Lareasty? In Alexandria, Virginia to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 9 November 1981 from C.C. Smith in Memphis, Tennessee to Whitten, re: re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress, appropriations. Attached: newspaper clipping “Peers Join in Tributes to Whitten.”

Typed letter dated 9 November 1981 from John M. Kuykendall Jr. to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress, football tickets. Typed letter dated 9 November 1981 from Lillian Jones Steadman in Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 9 November 1981 from Fred W. Klyce Jr. in Sardis, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 11 November 1981 from H. Thorkilsen in Plymouth, Massachusetts to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 11 November 1981 from Nolan Fortenberry in Auburn, Alabama to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 11 November 1981 from Hubert Kinsley in Memphis, Tennessee to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 12 November 1981 from Janie Lee Toole in Enid, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 13 November 1981 from Mary Jean and Tom Culenhan in Lafayette, Indiana to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 16 November 1981 from Julia in Memphis, Tennessee, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 16 November 1981 from H.G. Rickover, U.S. Department of Energy, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 19 November 1981 from Gordon E. Guyer, Director of Extension at Michigan State University, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 20 November 1981 from Robert E. Crunk in Olive Branch, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Attached: newspaper clipping “Peers Join in Tributes to Whitten.” Typed letter dated 24 November 1981 from Lloyd C. Faulkner, Director Veterinary Research Oklahoma State University, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 24 November 1981 from Keith Harkins, Executive Vice President Pearl River Basin Development District, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Attached: newspaper clipping “Jamie Whitten Marks 40 Years in Congress.” Typed letter dated 25 November 1981 from R.O. Buckley, Executive Vice President Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress.

Handwritten letter dated 27 November 1981 from Betty Rea in McLean, Virginia to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Attached: copy newspaper clipping “A 40th Anniversary.” Typed letter dated 27 November 1981 from Betty Santangelo in Bronx, New York to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Typed letter dated 1 December 1981 from James C. Cleveland in Concord, New Hampshire to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Handwritten letter dated 7 December 1981 from U.S. Representative Berkley Bedell to Whitten, re: Whitten’s forty years in Congress. Newspaper clipping “Whitten Observes 40th Anniversary, then on to Business” Jackson Clarion-Ledger (5 November 1981). Attached: newspaper clipping “Whitten’s Extraordinary Milestone” Jackson Clarion-Ledger (4 November 1981). Attached: newspaper clipping “Jamie Whitten Marks 40 Years in Congress” Jackson Daily News (4 November 1981). Attached: newspaper clipping “The Honorable Jamie L. Whitten” Congressional Record. Attached: envelope postmarked Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Copy “Fortieth Anniversary of the Election of the Honorable Jamie L. Whitten” Congressional Record (4 November, 1981); five pages. Attached: Congressional Record (6 November 1981), page E5193. Attached: Congressional Record (12 November 1981), page H8211. Typed letter dated 4 November 1981 from William H. Webster, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation, to Whitten, Attached: Congressional Record (12 November 1981), page 8211. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1982 Newspaper clipping. “Eastland Mum on Year’s Political Races” Jackson Clarion-Ledger (5 September 1982). Program “The Nation’s Capital Chapter of the Air Force Association Distinguished American Award Dinner honoring Representative Jamie L. Whitten…January 28, 1982”; 2 copies. Typed letter dated 8 January 1982 from Joe K. Cochran in Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten, agriculture. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 20 January 1982 from Whitten to Cochran, re: above letter. Attached: typed office note on needlepoint magnolia. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 8 February 1982 from Whitten to Cochran, re: budget, agriculture. Typed letter dated 10 February 1982 from U.S. Representative Patricia Schroeder to Whitten, re: Whitten on National Public Radio, President Ronald Reagan. Attached: copy clipping Schroeder’s “The Hollow Ringing of Reaganomics” Rocky Mountain News (5 January 1982); two pages. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 12 February 1982 from Whitten to Schroeder, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 30 January 1982 from H.G. Rickover, U.S. Department of Energy, to Whitten, re: Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. Typed letter dated 8 February 1982 from Maurice L. Arel, Mayor of Nashua, New Hampshire, to Whitten, re: Whitten’s Distinguished American Award from Air Force Association. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 18 February 1982 from Whitten to Arel, re: above letter.

Postal cachet “March 13, 1982 Launching USS Albuquerque” postmarked 13 March 1982. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Postal cachet “USS Carl Vinson CVN 70” postmarked 25 January 1982. Typed letter dated 17 April 1982 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: birthday greetings. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Handwritten letter dated 21 April 1982 from U.S. Representative Bo Ginn to Whitten, re: breakfast, Whitten. Typed letter dated 22 April 1982 from Kenneth M. Duberstein, Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, to Whitten, re: farm loans. Typed letter dated 28 April 1982 from Mississippi First Lady Elise Winter to Whitten, re: thanks for sympathies. U.S. House of Representatives pass to Visitor’s Gallery, re: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. Typed letter dated 10 June 1982 from U.S. Representative Bob Shamansky to Whitten, re: motion to instruct appropriations, taxes. Handwritten letter dated 14 July 1982 from U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield to Whitten, re: supplemental appropriations. Typed letter dated 15 July 1982 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: national security, Soviet Union, Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty; two pages. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Handwritten letter dated 16 July 1982 from Samuel D. McIlwain in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: lunch. Typed letter dated 16 July 1982 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: defense budget, Congressionally Mandated Mobility Study, aircraft; two pages. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 21 July 1982 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, Soviet Union. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 23 July 1982 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: Soviet Union, Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 18 August 1982 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: tax reform conference, economy, budget. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Postal cachet “General Dynamics USS Portsmouth SSN 707 Launching” postmarked 18 September 1982. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet.

Handwritten letter stamped 16 October 1982 from John R. Block, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: Block quotation. Typed letter dated 3 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Bill Alexander to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 3 November 1982 from L. Glenn Fant Jr., Chancellor Mississippi Chancery Court Eighteenth District, to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Attached: copy typed letter dated 15 November 1982 from Whitten to Fant, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 4 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Clarence D. Long to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 5 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Lawrence Coughlin to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 8 November 1982 from U.S. Representative William H. Gray III to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 5 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Martin Olav Sabo to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 9 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Eldon Rudd to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 9 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Bill Chappell to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 17 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Tom Bevill to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 19 November 1982 from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher to Whitten, re: Natcher and Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 19 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Carroll A. Campbell Jr. to Whitten, re: Campbell and Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 25 October 1982 from Walter F. Mondale to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection, President Ronald Reagan. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 4 November 1982 from Walter F. Mondale to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 15 November 1982 from Whitten to Mondale, re: above letter. Postal cachet “Challenger Deliver” postmarked 1 July 1982. Attached: stamp “Challenger Delivery.” Attached: stamp “Our Spaceship Landed on Earth…” Attached: postal cachet “Our Spaceship Landed on Earth.”

Typed letter dated 8 October 1982 from Robert E. Jones to Whitten, re: Whitten tribute to Jones. Postal cachet “Launching November 6, 1982 USS Georgia” postmarked 6 November 1982. Attached: printed page from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 17 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Jack Edwards to Whitten, re: Edwards and Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 18 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Louis Stokes to Whitten, re: Stokes reelection. Typed letter dated 22 November 1982 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: defense, Soviet Union, arms control; two pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 22 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Lindy Boggs to Whitten, re: Boggs reelection. Typed letter dated 19 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Silvio O. Conte to Whitten, re: Conte reelection. Typed letter dated 1 December 1982 from U.S. Representative Joseph P. Addabbo to Whitten, re: Addabbo reelection. Typed letter dated 30 November 1982 from U.S. Representative Neal Smith to Whitten, re: Smith reelection. Typed letter dated 6 December 1982 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: defense budget, Appropriations Committee, missiles. Typed letter dated 7 December 1982 from U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield to Whitten, re: Agriculture Conference. Typed letter dated 7 December 1982 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection, Senate Appropriations Committee, gasoline tax. Typed letter dated 13 December 1982 from Arthur Ar[illegilble], Federal Bureau of Investigation, to Whitten, re: Federal Bureau of Investigation. Typed letter dated 16 December 1982 from U.S. Representative George M. O’Brien to Whitten, re: O’Brien reelection. Typed letter dated 16 December 1982 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: Caribbean Basin Initiative, trade, foreign policy. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 8 December 1982 from U.S. Representative Bo Ginn to Whitten, re: Ginn retirement.

Christmas card from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1983 Card “Congratulations from Ole Miss” with handwritten note from Porter L. Fortune, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: clipping. Attached: clipping “98th Congress, Ailing Economy Takes Priority in New Session” Jackson Daily News (4 January 1983), page 3A. Handwritten note “February 1, 1983.” Attached: publication 1982 A Year in Progress: Preparing for the 21st Century (U.S. Department of Interior) with inscription “Mr. Chairman – Sorry to have missed you. We will be able to take care of the Natchez Trace – Jim Watt.” Typed letter dated 17 February 1983 from Byron G. Rogers to Whitten, re: Whitten’s letter. Handwritten letter dated 22 February 1983 from Jack to Whitten, re: photograph of Whitten and U.S. Representative William Colmer. Attached: copy photograph of Whitten and others on platform at dedication of Submarine-Overhal Facilities at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Original photograph removed to Whitten photographs. Typed letter dated 24 February 1983 from Admiral Kinnaird R. McKee, U.S. Navy, to Whitten, re: nuclear powered Trident strategic ballistic missile submarine Florida. Typed letter dated 26 February 1983 from Admiral Kinnaird R. McKee, U.S. Navy, to Whitten, re: Alubquerque Los Angeles class nuclear powered attack submarine. Typed letter dated 1 March 1983 from John J. Rhodes in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Rhodes in Congress. Typed letter dated 10 March 1983 from U.S. Representative Claude Pepper to Whitten, re: Social Security. Typed letter dated 14 March 1983 from U.S. Representative Daniel K. Akaka to Whitten, re: dairy industry in Hawaii. Postal cachet “Launching of the Nuclear Submarine USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul” postmarked 19 March 1983. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 23 March 1983 from U.S. Representative Neal Smith to Whitten, re: Smith reception. Typed letter dated 14 April 1983 from LaMar Baker, Regional Representative of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, to Whitten, re: birthday greetings. Typed letter dated 15 April 1983 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: birthday greetings. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access. Typed letter dated 18 April 1983 from Major General James P. McCarthy, U.S. Air Force Director Legislative Liaison, to Whitten, re: birthday greetings.

Typed letter dated 18 April 1983 from Lawrence F. O’Brien, Commissioner of National Basketball Association, to Whitten, re: birthday greetings. Typed letter dated 10 May 1983 from U.S. Representative Henry B. Gonzalez to Whitten, re: Gonzalez tribute by Whitten. Handwritten letter dated 22 May 1983 from U.S. Representative Bill Emerson to Whitten, re: Southern Forestry Conference. Typed letter dated 16 May 1983 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: arms control, Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access. Postal cachet, re: fifth flight of Columbia space shuttle, postmarked 11 November 1982. Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: above topic. Postal cachet “Welcome to Earth Orbit Challenger” postmarked 4 April 1983. Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: space shuttle Challenger. Typed letter dated 20 May 1983 from U.S Representative Mark Andrews to Whitten, re: Andrews’ party. Typed letter dated 1 June 1983 from B.F. Smith, Executive Vice President of Delta Council, to Whitten, re: Smith tribute by Whitten. Attached: copy typed letter dated 20 May 1983 from Whitten to Smith, re: tribute. Typed letter dated 20 July 1983 from Dan S. Wilford, Administrator of North Mississippi Medical Center, to Whitten, re: Social Security Amendments of 1983, rural hospitals; two pages. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 27 July 1983 from Whitten to Wilford, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 29 June 1983 from U.S. Representative Sidney R. Yates to Whitten, re: thanks. Copy telegram dated 6 June 1983 from Mississippi Governor William F. Winter to Whitten, re: Appalachian Regional Commission, tribute to Whitten. Typed letter dated 20 July 1983 from Gerald B. Brewer, President of National Cotton Council of America to Whitten, re: cotton, agricultural appropriations bill. Card “First Day of Issue Henry Clay Stamp July 13, 1983” with stamp dated 13 July 1983; two copies. Typed letter dated 3 August 1983 from Tony Coelho, Chairman Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, to Whitten, re: Whitten article on 1932 convention. Typed letter dated 29 July 1983 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: appropriations bill in conference. Typed letter dated 13 July 1983 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: International Monetary Fund, world economy; two pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location.

Handwritten letter dated 1 August 1983 from Randall T. Jones of Washington, DC to Whitten, re: supplemental appropriations bill, cotton. Printed receipt Americans for Constitutional Action, re: Whitten donation. Attached: typed letter dated 8 August 1983 from Charlene B. Craycroft, Chairman of Americans for Constitutional Action, to Whitten, re: donation. Attached: copy Congressional Record (25 July 1983), page E3714, re: above organization. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 15 August 1983 from Sara L. Seigler, Assistant to Whitten, to Craycraft, re: above letter. Postal cachet “Launcing of the Nuclear Submarine August 27, 1983 USS Hyman G. Rickover” postmarked 27 August 1983. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 20 September 1983 from Dan S. Wilford, Administrator North Mississippi Medical Center, to Whitten, re: Medicare reimbursements. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 4 October 1983 from Whitten to Wilford, re: above letter. Clipping “America’s Foundation” U.S. News & World Report (15 August 1983), re: agriculture, Whitten. Typed letter dated 15 November 1983 from U.S. Representative Patricia Schroeder to Whitten, re: Equal Rights Amendment. Campaign flyer “Ode to the Voters,” re: Horace Hutcheson, Whitten. Typed letter dated 15 November 1983 from Frank E. Smith, Special Assistant to Mississippi Governor William F. Winter, to Whitten, re: article. Congressional Record (22 July 1975), page H7191, re: citizenship of Robert E. Lee. Typed letter dated 11 October 1983 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: Defense Authorization Bill, arms control. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 24 October 1983 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: arms control, Soviet Union, Strategic Arms Reduction Talks; two pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 17 October 1983 from U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell to Whitten, re: thanks. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Postal cachet “Launching USS Henry M. Jackson” postmarked 15 October 1983. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Gerald Ford. Attached: envelope postmarked 17 December 1983. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location.

Typed letter dated 1 November 1983 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: appropriations for Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 7 November 1983 from M.B. Oglesby Jr., Deputy Assistant to President Ronald Reagan for Legislative Affairs, to Whitten, re: photograph of appropriations bill signing. Typed letter dated 5 December 1983 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: appropriations bill for Departments of Commerce, Justice and State and the Judiciary. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 9 December 1983 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: 1984 supplemental appropriations bill, International Monetary Fund. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 8 December 1983 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Center for Policy Study at Emory University and Presidential Library. Attached: envelope. Attached: clipping “Fast start for Carter forums” Atlanta Constitution (9 November 1983). Attached: donor form for Carter Presidential Library. Attached: pamphlet “Dedicated Gift Opportunities,” re: presidential library. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 10 October 1983 from President Richard Nixon to Whitten, re: Nixon’s book Real Peace. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Clipping “The Square and Beyond” Holly Springs South Reporter (24 November 1983), page 2, re: Whitten speech on changes since 1940. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1984 Postal cachet “Launching of the Nuclear Submarine USS Augusta” postmarked 21 January 1984. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 17 February 1984 from Thomas A. Coleman in Ackerman, Mississippi to Whitten, re: congressional reapportionment case, civil rights, voting. Postal cachet “STS” postmarked 28 November 1983, re: launch of space shuttle Columbia. Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: above topic. Postal cachet “STS-11 41-B” postmarked 3 February 1984, re: space shuttle Challenger mission. . Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: above topic. Postal cachet “Joining the Fleet STS Discovery” postmarked 5 November 1983, re: roll out of space shuttle Discovery. . Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 5 March 1984 from U.S. Representative Ike Andrews to Whitten, re: Whitten at Farm Breakfast in Raleigh, North Carolina. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 12 March 1984 from Whitten to Andrews, re: above letter.

Typed letter dated 21 March 1984 from U.S. Representative Bob Traxler to Whitten, re: Traxler fundraiser. First day issue “Credit Union Act of 1934” stamp postmarked 10 February 1984. Newspaper clipping “Farmers urged to get aid to keep foreign markets,” re: Whitten speech in Raleigh, North Carolina. Attached: copy typed letter dated 12 March 1984 from J.E. Legates, Dean of School of Agriculture and Life Science at North Carolina State University, to Whitten, re: above topic. Attached: typed letter dated 3 April 1984 from Whitten to Legates, re: above letter, agriculture. Postal cachet “Hart + Van Hoften + Nelson Crippen + Scobee” postmarked 6 April 1984, re: Challenger space shuttle mission. Attached: printed card from Lockheed Space Operations Company, re: above topic. Clipping “Washington Whispers: Summit Talk Blooms Again…The Wear and Tear on George Shultz…”King of the Pork-Barrelers,” U.S. News & World Report (2 April 1984), page 21, re: Whitten and Appropriations Committee. Typed letter dated 17 May 1984 from U.S. Representative Patricia Schroeder to Whitten, re: Schroeder reception. Typed letter dated 9 May 1984 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: International Security and Development Cooperation Act, National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, El Salvador; two pages. Original remove to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 14 May 1984 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: arms control, Soviet Union; two pages. Original remove to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 16 May 1984 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: treaty on chemical weapons, Soviet Union; two pages. Original remove to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Attached: copy typed letter dated 25 May 1984 from Whitten to Reagan, re: El Salvador, Nicaragua. Copy telegram dated 8 May 1984 from Jose Napoleon Duarte, President-Elect of El Salvador, to Whitten, re: El Salvador election. Typed letter dated 22 May 1984 from U.S. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton to Whitten, re: President Harry Truman centennial. Postal cachet “Launching USS Alabama” postmarked 19 May 1984. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 20 June 1984 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: foreign policy, national security, Nicaragua. Original remove to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Program “In Commemoration of The Centennial of President Harry S. Truman 1884-1984, Special Joint Meeting of the Ninety-Eighth Congress of the United States”; two copies. Program “Congressional Staff Club 49th Anniversary Dinner Dance June 22, 1984.”

Postal cachet “Launching of the Nuclear Submarine USS Providence” postmarked 4 August 1984. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 5 October 1984 from U.S. Representative Barber B. Conable Jr. to Whitten, re: Conable’s retirement. Typed letter dated 27 June 1984 from Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of El Salvador, to Whitten, re: economic and military assistance for El Salvador. Copy typed manuscript dated 19 November 1984 “Mississippi Executive Department Certificate of Election,” re: Mississippi delegation in Congress. Typed letter dated 15 November 1984 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center. Attached: copy typed letter dated 26 November 1984 from Whitten to President Ronald Reagan, re: above topic, agriculture; two pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 18 November 1984 from George P. Schultz, U.S. Secretary of State, to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Attached: copy typed letter dated 26 November 1984 from Whitten to Schultz, re: above letter. Engraved invitation by Appropriations Committee to portrait unveiling of Whitten on 20 September 1984; encapsulated. Attached: program for above event; encapsulated. Typed letter dated 2 September 1984 from Annie Ruth Watson in Oxford, Mississippi to Whitten, re: portrait unveiling. Typed letter dated 26 November 1984 from William F. Winter in Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Winter campaign. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 13 November 1984 from Whitten to Winter, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 24 September 1984 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: Whitten event. Typed letter dated 4 December 1984 from M.B. Oglesby Jr., Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, to Whitten, re: agriculture. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. Attached: envelope. Original remove to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Christmas card from Speaker and Mrs. Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Typed letter dated 28 November 1984 from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher to Whitten, re: thanks for letter. Typed letter dated 14 December 1984 from U.S. Representative Virginia Smith to Whitten, re: agricultural credit crisis.

Christmas card from Vice President and Mrs. George Bush. Original remove to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Christmas card from Secretary of State and Mrs. George Schultz. Postal cachet “Mission 41-C” postmarked 6 April 1984, re: space shuttle mission. Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: above topic. Postal cachet “Navstar IX” postmarked 13 June 1984, re: Global Positioning System. Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: above topic. Postal cachet “41-D Discovery Joins America’s Transport in Space” postmarked 30 August 1984, re: space shuttle Discovery mission. Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: above topic. Postal cachet “Navstar X” postmarked 8 September 1984, re: Global Positioning System. Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: above topic. Postal cachet “51-A” postmarked 8 November 1984, re: communication satellite mission of space shuttle Discovery. Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: above topic. Typed letter dated 18 December 1984 from U.S. Representative Jack Hightower to Whitten, re: Hightower retirement. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1985 Typed letter dated 3 January 1985 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: economy, defense. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter undated from George P. Cossar Jr. to Whitten, re: Whitten. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 10 January 1985 from Whitten to Cossar, re: above letter. Postal cachet “Launching USS Alaska” postmarked 12 January 1985. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter undated from Vice President Walter F. Mondale to Whitten, re: election. Attached: envelope postmarked 2 January 1985. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Printed invitation to Appalachian Governors reception honoring Appalachian Regional Commission on 23 February 1985. Attached: printed card “Appalachian Regional Commission 20th Anniversary Honoring Its Pioneers.” Publication Appalachian Regional Commission 20th Anniversary Honoring Its Pioneers and Recognizing Its Members, Officers and Staff (1985), includes features on Whitten and U.S. Senator John Stennis. Engraved invitation to inauguration of President Ronald Reagan with associated attachments and envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Ticket to Inauguration Ceremonies platform on 21 January 1985. Attached: program for above event. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location.

Printed car from U.S. Senator John Stennis, re: Stennis’s health. Attached: envelope stamped 9 January 1985. Typed letter dated 15 April 1985 from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: birthday greetings. Hand painted birthday card from Ed Paine and friends at Sears Roebuck-Tupelo to Whitten, re: illustration features Jamie L. Whitten Bridge over the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 23 April 1985 from Whitten to “My Good Friends at Sears, Roebuck Co.,” re: above card. Birthday card dated 18 April 1985 from “Del, Fred, Dennis, Ed., Don.” Typed letter dated 22 February 1985 from “The Butch Lambert Family” in Brandon, Mississippi to Whitten, re: thanks for expression of grief. The Beta Theta Phi (Winte 1985), re: Winter featured in “All 16 Incumbents Were Returned to 99th Congress; Two New Beta Governors Elected.” Typed letter dated 22 March 1985 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: appropriations for missiles, defense, arms control; two pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Birthday card from “B[illegilble] Parish, Margaret, Isabella, Hardy, Catherine, Buddy, J.E. West, Riley.” Typed letter dated 30 May 1985 from Aubrey K. Lucas, President of University of Southern Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten honorarium to purchase books in library. First day issue of stamp “Rural Electrification Administration” postmarked 11 May 1985. Typed letter dated 15 April 1985 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: Africa Famine Relieve and Recovery Act. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Postal cachet “America Leader in Space” postmarked 9 April 1985, re: space shuttle Atlantis. Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: above topic. Attached: sticker “America Leader in Space.” Postal cachet “85th Congress National Aeronautics and Space Act H.R. 12575 51-D Discovery” postmarked 12 April 1985. Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: space shuttle Discovery mission. Postal cachet “The Third Flight of Discovery” postmarked 24 January 1985. Attached: printed card “The Third Flight of Discovery.” Postal cachet “51-B Challenger” postmarked 29 April 1985. Attached: printed card from Rockwell International, re: space shuttle Challenger mission.

Handwritten letter dated 29 July 1985 from U.S. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton to Whitten, re: New York Times article. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 2 August 1985 from Whitten to Eagleton, re: above letter. Handwritten letter dated 23 August 1985 from Josephine Marshall in Grove City, Minnesota to Whitten, re: thanks for letter. Typed letter dated 13 June 1985 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: chemical weapons, Soviet Union, national security; two pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Handwritten letter dated 3 August 1985 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: thanks. Typed letter dated 9 September 1985 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: South Africa. Attached: White House press release dated 9 September 1985 “Fact Sheet President’s Decision on South Africa Measure. Attached: White House press release dated 9 September 1985 “Executive Order Prohibiting Trade and Certain Other Transactions Involving South Africa”; two pages. Attached: White House press release dated 9 September 1985, re: open letter to Congress on above subject. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 10 September 1985 from New York Mayor Edward I. Koch to Whitten, re: Coughlin-Westway, transportation. Postal cachet “USAF C-5B First Flight September 1985” postmarked 10 September 1985. Attached: printed card from Lockheed-Georgia Company, re: above cachet. Attached: sticker “USAF C-5B First Flight September 1985.” Program “Jamie L. Whitten Appreciation Day September 16, 1985 Oxford, Mississippi, Mississippi Association of Conservation Districts.” Postal cachet “Launching USS Nevada” postmarked 14 September 1985. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 23 September 1985 from U.S. Representative Tom Bevill to Whitten, re: Bevill’s health. Typed letter dated 1 November 1985 from Larry Speakes, Deputy Press Secretary to President Ronald Reagan, to Whitten, re: Speakes’ son, Whitten’s honor. Typed letter dated 11 November 1985 from Orma R. Smith Jr. in Corinth, Mississippi to Whitten, re: enclosed article. Attached: copy newspaper clipping “The South’s ‘national problem,’” re: water projects, Whitten. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 21 November 1985 from Whitten to Smith, re: above letter. Postal cachet “Launching of the Nuclear Submarine USS Louisville” postmarked 14 December 1985. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Christmas card from Frank and Rachel Bishop in Jackson, Mississippi. Attached: envelope.

Christmas card from U.S. Secretary of State and Mrs. Schultz. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 9 December 1985 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: Tax Reform Act of 1985; two pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Handmade birthday card from “Your Friends at Sears Roebuck Tupelo, Miss.” Program “Celebration of Y-LT Accomplishments Ole Miss Educational Auditorium, Oxford, Mississippi, September 16, 1985,” re: Whitten address, Yazoo-Little Tallahatchie flood prevention project. Attached: spiral bound notebook, re: above topic. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1986 Typed letter dated 14 January 1986 from Rear Admiral J.S. Disher, U.S. Navy, to Whitten, re: enclosed photographs from visit to NAS Corpus Christi. Attached: four photographs, re: above topic. Original photographs removed to Whitten photographs. Carbon typed letter dated 21 January 1986 from Whitten to Sheryl Jones of Kansas City, Missouri to Whitten, re: clients of Truman Medical Center. Attached: Christmas card, re: above topic. National Geographic (March 1986), re: includes “The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway: Bounty or Boondoggle?” Typed letter dated 27 January 1986 from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger to Whitten, re: appropriation for Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 14 April 1986 from U.S. Representative Claude Pepper to Whitten, re: Rules Committee testimony on deferrals. Handwritten letter stamped 10 May 1986 from U.S. Representative Wes Watkins to Whitten, re: thanks. Typed letter dated 10 February 1986 from John R. Block, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, to Whitten, re: Block’s retirement. Typed letter dated 20 February 1986 from U.S. Representative Virginia Smith to Whitten, re: Old West Regional Veterinary College. Copy typed letter dated 25 June 1986 from James C. Miller III, Director Office of Management and Budget to U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield, re: 1986 Urgent Supplemental Appropriations Bill. Attached: White House press release dated 2 July 1986 “Statement by the President,” re: above topic; two pages. Postal cachet “Launching of Nuclear Submarine USS Helena” postmarked 28 June 1986. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet.

Typed letter dated 26 June 1986 from U.S. Representative Gillespie V. Montgomery to Whitten, re: Supplemental Appropriations Bill, Mississippi district. Typed letter dated 21 August 1986 from U.S. Representative Edward P. Boland to Whitten, re: defense appropriations bill. Typed letter dated 27 August 1986 from Richard A. Schmidt Jr. in Washington, DC to Whitten, re: Whitten, Schmidt as counsel for Agriculture Committee. Handwritten letter dated 5 November 1986 from U.S. Senator Thad Cochran to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection, Appropriations Conference Committee. Attached: copy handwritten letter from Cochran to Whitten, re: Mississippi. Handwritten note, re: attached letter. Attached: handwritten letter undated from Whitten to U.S. Representative Trent Lott, re: Appropriations Committee, Mississippi projects, Lott vote. Attached: copy newspaper clipping “The Lott Report” Calhoun City Monitor-Herald (6 November 1986). Attached: handwritten letter undated from Lott to Whitten, re: above letter; envelope stamped 18 December 1986. Postal cachet “Launching of the Nuclear Submarine USS San Juan” postmarked 6 December 1986. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Postal cachet “Launching USS Tennessee” postmarked 13 December 1986. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Christmas card from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 10 September 1986 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: Central America, Nicaragua; two pages. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 11 December 1986 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: Christmas greetings. Christmas card from U.S. Secretary of State and Mrs. Schultz. National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare press release dated 5 September 1986, re: Whitten as “Golden Age Guardian.” Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1987-1988 Typed letter dated 6 February 1987 from Bob Bergland, Executive Vice President of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, to Whitten, re: thanks for message to association. Typed letter dated 12 February 1987 from John M. Fisher of Coalition for Peace through Security, to Whitten, re: 1986 Leadership Award. Typed letter dated 9 April 1987 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: birthday greeting.

Typed manuscript “Pennsylvania Avenue Development,” re: Whitten’s role in appropriation for Pennsylvania Avenue restoration; two pages. Typed letter dated 21 May 1987 from U.S. Representative Neal Smith to Whitten, re: Smith program. Typed letter dated 1 June 1987 from U.S. Representative G.V. Montgomery to Whitten, re: GI Bill, veterans. Typed letter dated 19 June 1987 from U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield to Whitten, re: thanks for photograph. Typed letter dated 27 June 1987 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: Supplemental Appropriations Bill. Program “Ribbon Cutting and Open House Tallahatchie County Medical Center (Jamie L. Whitten Building) Charleston, Mississippi…August 16, 1987.” Program “The Mississippi National Guard Presents…Guardfest ’87 Training and Equipment Expo & Dedication Ceremonies for Jamie L. Whitten Complex August 30 Camp McCain.” Typed letter dated 19 August 1987 from F.W. Ergle Jr., Executive Director of Tallahatchie General Hospital, to Whitten, re: Jamie Whitten Medical Building. Typed letter dated 25 August 1987 from R. Gerald Turner, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten selected as University of Mississippi’s Centennial Alumnus. Postal cachet “Launching USS Pasadena” postmarked 12 September 1987. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 13 August 1987 from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher to Whitten, re: Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Appropriations bill. Typed letter dated 10 September 1987 from U.S. Representative E (Kika) de la Garza to Whitten, re: de la Garza’s birthday. Typed letter dated 1 October 1987 from U.S. Representative Dale E. Kildee to Whitten, re: article on Whitten in Christian Science Monitor. Typed letter dated 12 November 1987 from R. Gerald Turner, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten as Centennial Alumnus. Typed letter dated 20 October 1987 from U.S. Representative Joseph M. McDade to Whitten, re: Agriculture Appropriations Bill, Farmers Home Administration, rural housing. Typed letter dated 14 October 1987 from U.S. Representative Steny H. Hoyer to Whitten, re: Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.

Stationary with letterhead “Jamie L. Whitten, District Attorney 17th District, Charleston, Miss.” Christmas card from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 20 November 1987 from L. Glenn Fant, Chancellor of Chancery Court of Mississippi Eighteenth District, to Whitten, re: Whitten letter. Attached: copy typed letter dated 16 November 1987 from Whitten to Fant, re: Marshall County, Mississippi. Typed letter dated 11 December 1987 from U.S. Representative Gillespie V. Montgomery to Whitten, re: Montgomery’s mother. Typed letter dated 8 December 1987 from Leon E. Panetta to Whitten, re: Economic Summit Conference. Handwritten letter stamped 16 December 1987 from U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi to Whitten, re: new federal building for San Francisco. Typed letter dated 10 February 1988 from James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, to Whitten, re: court transcript of Mississippi versus William Clark Mitchell. Typed letter dated 25 November 1987 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: federal deficit, economy. Typed letter dated 9 December 1987 from C.B. (Buddie) Newman to Whitten, re: Mississippi Legislature, Whitten. Typed letter dated 18 April 1988 from U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield to Whitten, re: Whitten chair at University of Mississippi. The New Age Magazine (May 1988), re: “Brother Whitten Honored,” re: Whitten portrait in Capitol. “Mr. Speaker, You Are a Bum!”: Miss Lizzie? and her Aunt Priscilla!; inscribed on cover by author Charlie Phillips. Postal cachet “Launching of USS Pennsylvania” postmarked 23 April 1988. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 9 August 1988 from Speaker of the House Jim Wright to Whitten, re: thanks for work. Typed letter dated 13 October 1988 from James C. Miller III, Director of Office of Management and Budget, to Whitten, re: Miller’s retirement. Typed letter dated 18 October 1988 from U.S. Representative Ed Jones to Whitten, re: Jones’s retirement. Typed letter dated 4 November 1988 from Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. to Whitten, re: Eddie Boland.

Typed letter dated 9 November 1988 from U.S. Representative G.V. Montgomery to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Handwritten letter dated 9 November 1988 from U.S. Senator Thad Cochran to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection, appropriations. Typed letter dated 22 November 1988 from U.S. Representative Gene Taylor to Whitten, re: Taylor’s retirement. Postal cachet “USS Miami SSN755 Launching” postmarked 12 November 1988. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed manuscript “Holly Springs, Mississippi Post Office.” Copy typed letter dated 30 September 1988 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, abortion. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1988 Copy document, re: Jamie L. Whitten Dinner at University of Mississippi on 23 February 1988. Handwritten letter dated 9 February [1988] from U.S. Representative Steny Hamilton Hoyer to Whitten, re: breakfast. Typed letter dated 23 February 1988 from U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd to Whitten, re: Whitten. Typed letter dated 25 February 1988 from Judge Glen H. Davidson, U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten event. Typed letter dated 29 February 1988 from Thomas A. Edmonds, Dean of Law Center at the University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten Dinner. Typed letter dated 1 March 1988 from U.S. Representative Ed Jones to Whitten, re: Whitten Chair at University of Mississippi. Typed letter dated 1 March 1988 from Douglas C. Stone in Columbus, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten. Typed letter dated 2 March 1988 from Jerry L. Lee, Administrator of Oxford Lafayette Medical Center, to Whitten, re: Whitten Chair at University of Mississippi. Typed letter dated 9 March 1988 from Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus to Whitten, re: Whitten. Typed letter dated 14 March 1988 from Leone D. King, Assistant to the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten Dinner. Typed letter dated 21 March 1988 from T.H. Bailey in Tupelo, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten Dinner.

Typed letter dated 22 March 1988 from Betty A. Williams, President of Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, to Whitten, re: Whitten Dinner. Typed letter dated 22 March 1988 from Ray Cleere, Commissioner of Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, re: Mississippi Chair. Typed letter dated 25 March 1988 from Parham Williams, Dean of Samford University School of Law, to Whitten, re: Whitten Dinner. Typed letter dated 7 April 1988 from Harold Burson in New York, New York to Whitten, re: Whitten Chair. Typed letter dated 26 February 1988 from Kenneth W. Fairly, Chief of Police in Natchez, Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten. Card from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan, re: retirement. Attached: envelope stamped 13 January 1989. Typed letter dated 1 March 1989 from U.S. Representative Gillespie V. Montgomery to Whitten, re: Jewish War Veterans reception. Typed letter dated 23 March 1989 from U.S. Representative Silvio O. Conte to Whitten, re: supplemental appropriations bill. Typed letter dated 12 September 1988 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: Stennis tribute. Typed letter dated 16 September 1988 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, labor, airlines. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access. First day issue card with stamp “Bicentennial House of Representatives” dated 4 April 1989; three copies. Printed card, re: White House Easter Egg Roll. Attached: envelope. Handwritten letter stamped 20 April 1989 from U.S. Representative Virginia Smith to Whitten, re: air service subsidies. Handwritten letter dated 15 May 1989 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: Bush speech in Starkville, Mississippi. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 20 April 1989 from U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd to Whitten, re: Byrd’s book. Typed letter dated 9 June 1989 from Speaker of the House Thomas S. Foley to Whitten, re: Whitten support for Foley as Speaker. Handwritten letter dated 26 May 1989 from U.S. Representative Tony Coelho to Whitten, re: Supplemental Appropriations.

Typed letter dated 10 April 1989 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: birthday greeting. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 16 June 1989 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: minimum wage bill veto. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Handwritten letter dated 13 July 1989 from U.S. Senator J. Robert Kerrey to Whitten, re: defense, national resources. Attached: handwritten office note, re: above letter. Typed letter dated 28 June 1989 from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher to Whitten, re: Appropriations Committee. Typed letter dated 13 July 1989 from Esther Coopersmith in Potomac, Maryland to Whitten, re: thanks for Roosevelt memorabilia. Typed letter dated 10 August 1989 from U.S. Representative Larkin Smith to Whitten, re: Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant, Defense Appropriations Bill. Attached: typed letter dated 7 October 1989 from Sheila A. Smith to Whitten, re: Larkin Smith. Handwritten office note, re: attached letter. Attached: handwritten letter dated 29 August 1989 from William F. Winter in Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Winter as Jamie L. Whitten Chair. Attached: carbon typed letter dated 1 September 1989 from Whitten to Winter, re: above topic. Handwritten office note, re: attached letter. Attached: Typed letter dated 11 August 1989 from U.S. Senator John Stennis to Whitten, re: Stennis birthday celebration. Typed letter dated 13 September 1989 from U.S. Representative Carl. D. Pursell to Whitten, re: Whitten presentation. Typed letter dated 26 September 1989 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: capital gains, jobs; two pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 2 October 1989 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: capital gains. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 17 October 1989 from Woods Eastland, President Stapleton, to Whitten, re: Agricultural Soil and Conservation Service appeal. Attached: handwritten office note. Handwritten letter dated 26 October 1989 from Alma Maglia in Alexandria, Virginia, re: Whitten fundraiser. Attached: envelope. Typed letter dated 21 November 1989 from U.S. Representative Neal Smith to Whitten, re: Smith Breakfast. Christmas card from President and Mrs. George Bush. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location.

Typed letter dated 26 October 1989 from U.S. Representative Robert T. Matsui to Whitten, re: Commerce-Justice Appropriations bill, Japanese-Americans interred during World War II. Typed letter dated 27 October 1989 from Rickey L. Cole, President of Young Democrats of Mississippi, to Whitten, re: Whitten contribution. Copy newspaper clipping “A NASA Project for Whitten’s District,” re: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Typed letter dated 14 December 1989 from U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi to Whitten, re: California earthquake relief. Handwritten letter dated 12 July [1989] from U.S. Representative Steny Hamilton Hoyer to Whitten, re: Beltsville Center, Chesapeake Bay. Christmas card from Vice President Dan Quayle and family. Attached: handwritten office note. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 24 January 1990 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: Whitten trip to Soviet Union in 1959. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 18 January 1990 from Peter J. Benvenutti in San Francisco, California to Whitten, re: California earthquake relief. Attached: copy typed letter dated 31 January 1990 from Whitten to Benvenutti, re: above letter. Attached: copy newspaper clipping “Whitten Writes Earthquake Relief Bill” Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (3 November 1989). Typed letter dated 13 April 1990 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: birthday greeting. Typed letter dated 10 April 1990 from Richard G. Darman, Director of Office of Management and Budget, to Whitten, re: Panama-Nicaragua supplemental bill. Copy typed letter dated 9 April 1990 from President George Bush, re: greetings for ground-breaking ceremony of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Production Facility at Yellow Creek, Mississippi. Attached: copy typed letter dated 19 April 1990 from H. Hollister Cantus, Vice President of Lockheed Corporation, to Whitten, re: above letter. Handwritten letter stamped 3 May 1990 from U.S. Representative Virginia Smith to Whitten, re: Smith building. Typed letter dated 8 January 1990 from U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi to Whitten, re: California earthquake relief. Copy typed letter dated 1 June 1990 from Anthony M. Frank, Postmaster General, to Whitten, re: Holly Springs Post Office. Attached: copy typed letter dated 30 May 1990 from Frank to Whitten, re: above topic; two pages. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1990-1992

Copy typed letter dated 8 March 1990 from President George Bush to U.S. Representative G.V. Montgomery, re: Yellow Creek National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility. Typed letter dated 23 May 1990 from James A. Baker III, U.S. Secretary of State, to Whitten, re: Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, Panama, Nicaragua, Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations Act. Copy newspaper clipping “On Capitol Hill: Rep. Whitten receives Eagle of Freedom Award” DeSoto County Tribune (8 August 1990). Postal cachet “Launching USS Alexandria” postmarked 23 June 1990. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 21 September 1990 from U.S. Representative Virginia Smith to Whitten, re: Smith’s retirement. Typed letter dated 4 October 1990 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: Bipartisan Budget Agreement. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 1 November 1990 from U.S. Representative Lindy Boggs to Whitten, re: Boggs party. Handwritten letter dated 8 October 1990 from Will Hickman in Oxford, Mississippi to Whitten, re: tribute by Whitten. Typed letter dated 10 December 1990 from U.S. Representative Lindy Boggs to Whitten, re: Boggs’ retirement. Handwritten letter dated 14 December 1990 from Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus to Whitten, re: troops in Middle East. Typed manuscript dated 25 January 1991 “Schedule of the President,” re: includes phone call to Whitten. Attached: handwritten office note. Copy typed letter dated 25 January 1991 from President Gerald R. Ford to Whitten, re: Whitten’s fifty years in Congress. Copy typed letter dated 23 January 1991 from President Richard M. Nixon to Whitten, re: Whitten’s fifty years in Congress. Copy typed letter dated 25 January 1991 from President Jimmy Carter to Whitten, re: Whitten’s fifty years in Congress. Copy typed letter dated 25 January 1991 from President Ronald Reagan to Whitten, re: Whitten’s fifty years in Congress. Christmas card from President and Mrs. George Bush. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location.

Typed letter dated 2 January 1991 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: Democratic Caucus, Budget Agreement. Attached: copy typed letter dated 21 December 1990 from Bush to Speaker of the House Thomas S. Foley, re: above topic. Print H.Res. 4 dated 3 January 1991, re: election of Speaker of the House. Typed letter dated 26 November 1990 from U.S. Representative Silvio O. Conte to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 13 February 1991 from Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus to Whitten, re: Whitten’s visit to Jackson. Typed letter dated 1 Marcy 1991 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: trade agreements, global economy; two pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Carbon typed letter dated 5 April 1991 from Whitten to U.S. Representative Lindy Boggs, re: Boggs’ award from United States Association of Former Members of Congress. Attached: typed letter dated 25 March 1991 from Jed Johnson Jr., Executive Director of United States Association of Former Members of Congress, to “Dear Member of Congress,” re: above topic. Attached: Congressional Alumni News (Spring 1991). Typed letter dated 29 March 1991 from Carroll N. LeTellier, Senior Vice President of Sverdrup Corporation, to Whitten, re: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Typed letter dated 24 April 1991 from William F. Winter in Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: thanks for contribution to Mississippi Democratic Party. Typed letter dated 19 April 1991 from U.S. Representative Vic Fazio to Whitten, re: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Typed letter dated 11 March 1991 from Ambassador Ton-Jin Park of the Republic of Korea, to Whitten, re: leaving Washington, DC. Typed letter dated 8 May 1991 from U.S. Representative Vic Fazio to Whitten, re: Democratic Congressional Dinner. Postal cachet “Launching USS Annapolis” postmarked 18 May 1991. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Program “The Gala Celebration of the 100th Congress by the United States Senate” dated 14 September 1988; two copies. Carbon typed letter dated 28 May 1991 from Whitten to Danielle Street in Corinth, Mississippi, re: education. Attached: handwritten office note. Attached: thank you card from Street. Attached: copy newspaper clipping “Biggersville readers cash in rewards” Corinth Daily Corinthian (2 May 1991). Typed letter dated 1 May 1991 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: North American Free Trade Agreement; three pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location.

Typed letter dated 29 August 1991 from Lindy Boggs to Whitten, re: Boggs Room in Capitol. Attached: Program “A Ceremony for the Dedication of the Congressional Women’s Reading Room and the Unveiling of the Portrait of The Honorable Lindy (Mrs. Hale) Boggs” dated 30 July 1991. Attached: photograph of Whitten and two others at above event. Typed letter dated 16 November 1991 from U.S. Representative Gillespie V. Montgomery to Whitten, re: Montgomery event. Christmas card from President and Mrs. George Bush. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 3 January 1992 from U.S. Representative Gillespie V. Montgomery to Whitten, re: thanks for letter. Typed letter dated 13 January 1992 from Samuel K. Skinner, White House Chief of Staff, to Whitten, re: thanks for note. Typed letter dated 17 January 1992 from Texas Governor Ann W. Richards to Whitten, re: 1992 Emergency Job Creation Appropriations Bill, economy, Mexico, transportation infrastructure. Typed letter dated 9 June 1992 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: balanced budget constitutional amendment. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Postal cachet “USS Columbus Launching” postmarked 1 August 1992. Attached: printed card from General Dynamics, re: above cachet. Typed letter dated 14 August 1992 from U.S. Representative Stephen L. Neal to Whitten, re: Whitten reelection. Typed letter dated 3 August 1992 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: FREEDOM Support Act, Russia, trade; three pages. Folder: Contents of Special Letters Scrapbook 1993-1994 Typed letter dated 17 March 1993 from President Bill Clinton to Whitten, re: budget resolution bill, economic stimulus bill, economy. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 23 March 1993 from President Bill Clinton to Whitten, re: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Advances Solid Rocket Motor, Yellow Creek facility. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 25 March 1993 from President Bill Clinton to Whitten, re: Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River; two pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 23 April 1993 from Ray Mabus to Whitten, re: Secretary of the Navy selection process.

Typed letter dated 27 May 1993 from President Bill Clinton to Whitten, re: economy, deficit. Attached: White House press release dated 27 May 1993 “U.S. Representative Jamie L. Whitten puts American Families First Votes to Pass the President’s Economic Growth Plan.” Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 14 July 1993 from President Richard Nixon to Whitten, re: Pat Nixon. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Handwritten letter dated 16 March 1993 from Elizabeth Fischer Jones to Whitten, re: Walter B. Jones. Typed letter dated 5 August 1993 from President Bill Clinton to Whitten, re: economy, deficit. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 6 August 1993 from Vice President Al Gore to Whitten, re: economy, deficit. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 6 August 1993 from Lloyd Bentsen, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, to Whitten, re: economic recovery plan. Publication “Patricia Ryan Nixon March 16th, 1912-June 22nd, 1993.” Attached: envelope. Typed letter dated 14 October 1993 from U.S. Representative Robert H. Michel to Whitten, re: Michel retirement. Typed letter dated 3 November 1993 from President Bill Clinton to Whitten, re: North American Free Trade Agreement. Attached: document “NAFTA Opportunities: Mississippi Congressional District 1: Industries, Representative Jamie Whitten”; seven pages. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 17 November 1993 from President Bill Clinton to Whitten, re: North American Free Trade Agreement. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 17 November 1993 from Vice President Al Gore to Whitten, re: North American Free Trade Agreement. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 15 April 1994 from Vice President Al Gore to Whitten, re: birthday greeting. Attached: envelope. Original removed to Whitten VIP restricted access location. Typed letter dated 16 April 1994 from President Bill Clinton to Whitten, re: Crime Bill. Typed letter dated 18 April 1994 from President Bill Clinton to Whitten, re: birthday greeting. Typed letter dated 22 April 1994 from President Bill Clinton to Whitten, re: Crime Bill. Typed letter dated 21 August 1994 from President Bill Clinton to Whitten, re: Crime Bill Conference Report.

Typed letter dated 3 March 1994 from U.S. Representative William H. Natcher to Whitten, re: Whitten letter. Handwritten letter dated 18 July 1994 from Michael Stephens to Whitten, re: Appropriations Committee. Typed letter dated 12 July 1994 from U.S. Representative Steny H. Hoyer to Whitten, re: Whitten retirement, Appropriations Committee. Typed letter dated 6 August 1994 from Speaker of the House Thomas S. Foley, U.S. Representative Dick Gephardt, and U.S. Representative David Bonior to Whitten, re: budget reconciliation conference report. Typed letter dated 4 October 1994 from U.S. Representative Tom Bevill to Whitten, re: Whitten retirement, Appropriations Committee. Handwritten letter dated 6 April 1994 from President George Bush to Whitten, re: Whitten retirement. Typed letter dated 6 October 1994 from U.S. Representative Frank R. Wolf to Whitten, re: Whitten retirement. Attached: copy typed letter dated 6 October 1994 from Wolf to Gerald Turner, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, re: Whitten as adjunct professor. Handwritten letter dated 21 November 1994 from U.S. Representative Bob Carr to Whitten, re: Whitten retirement. Typed letter dated 16 November 1994 from Mississippi Governor William F. Winter in Jackson, Mississippi to Whitten, re: Whitten retirement; two pages. Typed letter dated 12 October 1994 from Vernon R. Kelley III, Executive Director of Three Rivers Planning & Development District, to Whitten, re: Whitten retirement. Typed letter dated 20 October 1994 from U.S. Representative Gillespie V. Montgomery to Whitten, re: Montgomery reelection campaign. Typed letter dated 25 October 1994 from U.S. Representative Henry B. Gonzalez to Whitten, re: Whitten tribute. Typed letter dated 27 October 1994 from U.S. Representative Frank R. Wolf to Whitten, re: Whitten at University of Mississippi. Attached: copy typed letter dated 14 October 1994 from R. Gerald Turner, Chancellor of University of Mississippi, to Wolf, re: above topic.