Series: Visual Materials

Photographs

Publicity photographs

Office staff and Johnson with others

Campaign poster

Television spots

Compilation Reel 1
Note: Content includes farm cooperatives with John A Baker, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; visit with 4-H members in DC for citizenship course; farm legislation and aid to the Philippines with Representative Clement J. Zablocki; minimum price supports for dairy farmers with Gilbert Rohde, Wisconsin Farmers Union; Bureau of Indian Affairs with Philleo Nash; legislation to create a state scientific reserve to study the Ice Age; Wisconsin School Safety Patrols in DC for 26th Annual Parade; food stamp program with Leonora Sullivan; Dairyland Power Cooperative with John P. Madgett

Compilation Reel 2
Note: Content includes defeat of Wheat Growers Program; reduce taxes for small businesses with Representative Joe Evans, Chair of the Committee on Small Business; dairy bill to attack overproduction and raise farm income; Peace Corps with Sergeant Shriver; Brazilian project to blend milk and butter for nutrition with Edmund R. Bailey, Information Director of the Agency for International Development; cropland conservation program with Wallace Mullberg; water management with Carl R. Brown, Soil Conservation Service; Food for Peace program in Brazil with Leonard G. Wolf

Veterans Affairs funding needed for rural districts with Representative William Jennings Bryan Dorn

Price support system for farmers with Robert J. Lewis, Wisconsin Farmers Union

Milk Sanitation Bill with Ivan A. Nestingen, Undersecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

Human Relations workshop sponsored by 4-H with Eileen Layton, home agent from central Wisconsin

Hope that farm incomes are on the rise with John Baker, Director of Agricultural Credit Bureau

Milk Sanitation Bill with Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture

National Peace Corps with Ed Bailey, Director of Public Information for the Peace Corps

Bill to eliminate federal funding for wetland drainage with Russ Neubauer, Assistant Chief of Conservation Education Division of National Wildlife Federation

Additional funding for watershed protection in 1961 with Representative Frank Smith of Mississippi

Milk Sanitation Bill with Representative Bob Kastenmeier

Library Service Act with Representative Carl Elliott of Arkansas

Silver Anniversary of Rural Electrification Movement with Clyde Elliott, General Manager of National Rural Electric Co-operative Association

Interstate highway system with Representative John A. Blatnik, Chairman of Special Committee on Interstate Highways

Polk-Johnson Farm Bill with Bob Lewis, Agricultural Advisor to Governor Gaylord Nelson; Gilbert Rohde, President of Wisconsin Farmers Union; Linley George, Director of Dairy Section of Wisconsin Council of Agricultural Cooperatives; Paul Affelt, President of Pure Milk Products Cooperative

President's Conference on Occupational Safety with Otis Berger, President of Wisconsin Rural Electrification Administration

Farm Family Income Act with Representative Bob Polk

Political ads, 1961

Rural electrification
Note: Johnson receives requests for improved postal service, applications to military schools, student loan and social security questions; Johnson was supporter of Rural Electrification Program, now 96 percent of farmers are living better as a result

Social Security and environment
Note: Johnson has voted for progressive programs, is a member of the House Veterans Committee, and House Committee on Agriculture; Johnson is a leader in conservation and helped with wetlands legislation; 35,000 people in the 9th District are on Social Security, and Johnson supports liberalizing the Social Security program; Johnson says that control of water pollution is crucial, and sewer plants must be modernized

Environment and agriculture
Note: Johnson wants a national standard for milk regulation; the first national park in Wisconsin, the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve; wetland conservation for the propagation of waterfowl; importance of watershed programs to prevent soil erosion