Series: Speeches and Writings, 1963-1980

Articles and book chapters by Nelson, 1963-1979

Articles and book chapters by Nelson (continued)

Senate remarks, Congressional Record
Physical Description: 33 volumes 

88th-90th Congress, 1963-1968

91st Congress, 1969-1970

92nd Congress, 1971-1972

93rd-94th Congress (missing 1974 93rd 2nd session), 1973, 1975-1976

95th-96th Congress, 1977-1980

96th Congress, 1980

Speeches and statements

Fact sheets

Drafts

List

Mimeos

1963-1965

Speeches delivered to various state and national audiences on conservation are available online.

1966-1971

• Remarks, speeches, and fact sheets about environmental issues and concerns are available online.

• A draft of a press release plan for Nelson's first Earth Day Teach-In tour is available online.

1971-1980, undated

Audio recordings (speeches and statements)

ADA Roosevelt Day dinner, 1972 August 15

AFSCME Convention-Council 40 speech, Madison, undated

Alquist Dinner honoring State Senator Alfred E. Alquist, San Jose, 1971 October 2

American Federation of Government Employees, Madison, 1974 May 4

American Advertising Federation speech, Washington, D.C.

Ashland College speech, Kentucky, 1971 March 3

Chippewa Valley School Press Association, 1973 October 18

Coker College, Environmental speech, Hartsville, South Carolina, 1971 March 2 (PR 71-27)

Consumer speech, Wisconsin, 1969 October 21

Democratic National Convention, Miami, 1972 July 9

Democratic State Convention (with Lucey), La Crosse, 1974 June 14

Earth Day speech, Burlington High School / NPR interview with Bruce Lloyd, 1974 April 22

Earth Day speech, Wisconsin State University-Stevens Point, 1971 April 20

Earth Day Speech at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WMVS-TV, 1970 April

Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun, call for mutual cease fire in Vietnam, 1968 March 10

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology: Federal Government and the Scientist speech, Atlantic City, 1969 April 17

Fox Valley Academy of Medicine, Oshkosh, 1974 May 9

Free Library speech, Philadelphia, 1971 March 23

Guilford College, Arts series address, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1971 February 18

Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, Ninth Constitutional Convention, Washington, D.C., 1971 October 5

Institute of Food Technologists-Wisconsin Section, Madison, 1974 March 9

Iowa Press Association, “The Environment,” 1971

Madison Rotary Club, Madison, 1971 August 25

National Town Meeting, environment speech, 1975 June 11

Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC), Minneapolis, 1974 February 24

Rotary Club, Environment and Energy, Food and Metal, Milwaukee, 1974 January 15

Symposium on Environmental Pollution: Crisis and Challenge, Lawrence University, 1970 January 17

Tire conversations/ environment speech, undated

Town Mutuals Insurance Company speech, Madison, undated

Wauwatosa Kiwanis Club luncheon, 1974 April 23

Westinghouse School for Environmental Management, environment speech, dubbed, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1970 June 19

WFU (Wisconsin Farmers Union) Convention, La Crosse, 1974

Wisconsin Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons Annual Banquet, Fontana, 1974 May 4

Wisconsin Conservation Congress of Eau Claire, 1973 June 1

Wisconsin Livestock Breeders Annual Meeting, 1973 March 19

WSA Symposium, Importance of Dissent in a Free Society, UW-Madison, 1964 February 17

Films

Earth Day-1970 April 22-Denver, 1970
Alternate Format: User copy available.

Physical Description: 1 film reel (1185 feet); sound; color; 16 mm archival positive 
Scope and Content Note: Nelson addresses a crowd in Denver, Colorado on Earth Day. He speaks on the importance of preserving the environment.

Question of Survival-CBS News with Walter Cronkite / CBS News, 1970
Alternate Format: User copy available.

Physical Description: 1 video recording (VHS); sound; color 
Scope and Content Note: Earth Day happenings around the country as reported by Cronkite. Includes a report from Denver (clip from Nelson speech); HEW Secretary James Farmer and Denis Hayes (one of the organizers) in Washington, D.C.
Note: Fuzzy picture (kind of blurry)

Earth Day-University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee / WMUS-TV, 1970 April
Alternate Format: User copy available.

Physical Description: 2 videocassettes (VHS); sound, black and white; 1/2-inch viewing copy (VHA 592-VHA 593)
:   : 2 videocassettes (Betacam SP) (VFA 007-VFA 008) 
Scope and Content Note: Environmental speech delivered by Nelson at the UW-Milwaukee? During Earth Day tour 1970. Includes discussion with Indian tribe members regarding Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

National Democratic Convention, 1972 / CBS News, 1972
Physical Description: 1 film reel (308 feet); sound; color; 16 mm print 
Scope and Content Note: Nelson speaks before the Democratic Convention in Miami Beach regarding loyalty to the Democratic Party.

Manpower and steelworkers conventions, 1973
Physical Description: 1 film reel (821 feet); color; 16 mm print (DD 635)
:   1 film reel (821 feet); sound; 16 mm magnetic track (DD 636) 
Scope and Content Note: In the first part, filmed at the 1973 Manpower convention, John Komosona, director of the Green Thumb program, tells of its accomplishments and expenditures. In the second part, filmed at a Steelworkers convention in Milwaukee, Gaylord Nelson speaks about government spending.
Note: Sound missing in some parts

Gaylord Nelson Public Hearings-Outtakes, circa 1973
Physical Description: 1 film reel (308 feet); silent; color; 16 mm print 
Scope and Content Note: Outtakes of DD 635-636. Nelson holding public hearings in an unidentified Wisconsin city.

Migrant workers banquet / Senator Nelson's anniversary dinner, circa 1974
Physical Description: 1 film reel (1,115 feet); color; 16 mm print (DD 637)
:   1 film reel (1,191 feet); sound; 16 mm magnetic track (DD 638) 
Scope and Content Note: The first part of this film shows Senator Gaylord Nelson in an appearance at the eighth annual Migrant Workers Banquet. In part two, Senator Walter Mondale (D-Minn.) and Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.) acknowledge Senator Nelson's accomplishments at a dinner celebrating Nelson's 25th year of public service.
Note: Both image and sound are missing in parts. Image ends before sound.

Migrant workers' banquet--trims, circa 1973
Physical Description: 1 film reel (142 feet); silent, color; 16 mm print (AC 458)
:   1 film reel (1,048 feet); sound; 16 mm magnetic track (CB 043) 
Scope and Content Note: Trims from a migrant worker awards banquet in an unidentified Wisconsin city. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.) and Senator Walter Mondale (D-Minn.) address the gathering.
Note: May have been produced by the Committee to Re-elect Senator Nelson.

Gaylord Nelson in Ashland, Wis.--sound trims
Physical Description: 1 film reel (389 feet); sound; 16 mm magnetic track 
Scope and Content Note: Incomplete sound track of a speech given by Gaylord Nelson in Ashland, Wisconsin. Nelson makes comments on the catalytic converter and the Alaska pipeline.

Senator Nelson speaks in Ashland, 1973
Alternate Format: User copy available.

Physical Description: 1 film reel (582 feet); color; 16 mm print (CB 022)
:   1 film reel (582 feet); 16 mm magnetic track (CB 023) 
Scope and Content Note: Nelson gives a speech in Ashland, Wisconsin on Wisconsin's environmental and political issues and the people's growing concern for their land. Also talks about herbicides and DDT.
Note: No image at the beginning