The series contains a variety of material relating to Fong’s family, business career, and Senate campaigns.

A subseries of particular interest is the Campaigns subseries, which documents Fong’s Senate races in 1959, 1964, and 1970. Fong developed his own specialized “Fong Program,” a campaign method based on the idea that every Hawaii voter should be personally asked for his vote. The intensive work and organization required by this grassroots networking system is evident in the scores of “worker cards” and lengthy lists of contact persons. Information on Fong’s campaign methods and philosophy can also be found in the Party Politics series, particularly in the material relating to Fong’s involvement in the 1960 Nixon-Lodge campaign.

The Biography subseries includes biographical sketches produced by Fong’s office staff for distribution, drafts of a book-length Fong biography, storyboard sketches for a proposed biographical movie, and a lengthy oral history interview conducted with Fong after his retirement.

The Family and Household subseries consists mostly of family correspondence and records, and is restricted from access except by permission of the Archivist.

Scrapbook & Photos subseries comprises one box acquired from Fong’s Finance Factors office after his death. Contains many photographs (early years, Washington, elder statesman), speeches, a statement about Nixon and the Watergate Affair, favorite legislation, commemorative brochures. Kept separately as personal mementoes, some in folders labeled “Scrapbook,” probably intended to be filed in scrapbooks “one day.”

Additional material relating to Fong’s pre-Congressional personal life and campaigns can be found in the Memorabilia series.