Governor Lee Speeches, 1949-1956.

This series contains a variety of materials related to Governor Lee's public addresses. These materials include the text of public speeches, messages to the Legislature, radio addresses, news media interviews, campaign speeches, and press releases, as well as correspondence related to these public messages. In addition to such documents the series includes considerable correspondence, mostly received in response to Lee's speeches. Most letters are very favorable and constitute a type of "fan-mail", but the files include some disapproving letters also. Correspondence in response to the Governor's public statements is filed under the heading "Speeches -- Reaction." A third portion of the series consists of subject files ostensibly meant as source material for speeches, but encompassing a wide variety of topics. Some topics, such as "State Engineer", seem unlikely subjects for public speeches, so the files may also have served as general information files. The series includes severalfolders of materials relating to the debate over the establishment of state-sponsored educational television. Some folders contain material related to pending legislation, while others hold miscellaneous correspondence. Among this correspondence is a collection of letters about charges that Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Wolfe was a communist. Many such documents in the series seem as if they might have fit better in other series from Governor Lee's office, but were filed with this series for reasons that are unclear.