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Elmer C. Werner Papers
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Between 1942 and 1944, Elmer Charles Werner led an Internal Revenue Service investigation of Brown & Root's disguised financial support of Lyndon B. Johnson's 1941 United States Senate campaign. According to Werner's records, this investigation was impeded and eventually ended by a complicated series of requests from Johnson to Roosevelt's White House to senior Internal Revenue Service officials.
This collection includes the papers of Elmer Charles Werner, a former special agent for the Internal Revenue Service, and his experiences investigating Lyndon Johnson. This collection includes Werner's diaries from 1942-1945, the period during which Johnson was investigated; Werner's notes and newspaper clippings regarding the case; a chronology of the facts of the case prepared by Werner; and Werner's manuscript narrative regarding his experiences.
Gift of Julia Werner Gary in 2011. The accession number associated with this gift is ML.2011.008.
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This collection was processed by Maureen Callahan on March 29, 2011. A MARC record, collection-level description, file-level inventory, and finding aid were created but no physical processing or arrangement occurred at this time.
No records have been removed from this collection.
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