Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Woodson's business diaries describe his daily business as the chief operating officer of American General, an insurance company founded by Gus Wortham. The diaries range in date from 1954-1979 and describe the growth of this originally small company into one of the largest insurance companies in the world, being traded on the NYSE and possessing more than $5 billion in assets. Woodson's original entires were dictated to a tape recorder after Woodson's meetings, then transcribed by his...