Box and Folder Inventory

Box 15

F1: Correspondence, 1982, Budget, Petitions
Topics include lowering the deficit and balanced budget.

F2-6: Correspondence, 1982, Budget, Ronald Reagan Economic Recovery Proposals
Topics include abolishing the Department of Education, balanced budget amendment, spending cuts, tax cuts, Reagan State of the Union address (April 29, 1982), social programs, defense spending, new federalism, deficit, and tax reform.
Correspondents include Helen Arnold and Mike Fair.

F7: Correspondence, 1982, Commemoratives and Charters
Topics include POW/MIA Day, National Orchestra Week, national prayer day for Israel, commemorative stamp for William Dickson Boyce, and charter for the National Society of the Daughters of American Colonists.

F8: Correspondence, 1982, Commerce
Topics include Small Business Innovation Development Act (HR 4326), patent times (HR 1937), HJ Res. 294, and Regulatory Reform Act (HR 746).
Correspondents include Bryce L. Harlow.

F9: Correspondence, 1982, Commerce, Domestic Content
Topics include Fair Practices in Automotive Products Act (HR 5133).

F10: Correspondence, 1982, Commerce, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Regulation of Professions (HR 3722)

F11: Correspondence, 1982, Commerce, Trade
Topics include trade with Japan.

F12: Correspondence, 1982, Communications
Topics include home taping (HR 5705).
Correspondents include Finis Smith.

F13-22: Correspondence, 1982, Communications, Telephone Industry Restructuring (HR 5158)
Topics include consent decree between AT&T and the Department of Justice, competition, Western Electric, Bell system, AT&T divestiture, telephone service rates, Bell anti-trust settlement, AT&T stockholders, and Southwestern Bell employees.
Correspondents include Hamp Baker, Norma Eagleton, and James B. Townsend.

F23: Correspondence, 1982, Communications, Television and Cable
Topics include copyright laws and low-power television.

F24: Correspondence, 1982, Congress
Topics include election reform, limiting contributions from political action committees (PACs), and campaign laws (HR 4070).

F25: Correspondence, 1982, Congress, Tax Breaks for Congressmen

F26: Correspondence, 1982, Defense
Topics include nerve gas and shrinkage of uniforms.

F27: Correspondence, 1982, Defense, B-1 Bomber

F28: Correspondence, 1982, Defense, Contracting
Topics include moratorium on contracting out, bid competition, and HR 6030.

F29: Correspondence, 1982, Defense, Defense Spending
Topics include national defense and wasteful spending.

F30: Correspondence, 1982, Defense, Military Personnel
Topics include retirement, divorced spouses (HR 3039), cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs), National Guard, education benefits, survivor benefits (HR 6427), and drawing Social Security.

F31: Correspondence, 1982, Defense, MX Missile