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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt and national co-chair Leon Henderson (right) at a dinner sponsored by the Union for Democratic Action (later Americans for Democratic Act... |
| Date: | 11 08 1954 |
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| Description: | For a publicity photograph on the day the Senate censure proceedings began, Joseph R. McCarthy and Mrs. McCarthy posed for this photograph of him reading w... |
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| Description: | From left to right, Harold Gauer, Senator Hubert Humphrey, who at the time would have been Minnesota's Senator, Senator Theodore F. Green from Rhode Island... |
| Date: | 09 03 1942 |
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| Description: | First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt speaking from a podium to an international youth assembly. The original caption indicates that she told the audience that thei... |
| Date: | 03 06 1986 |
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| Description: | Secretary of State George Schultz during the Reagan Administration (second from the left) testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee. Leaning fo... |
| Date: | 01 20 1969 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of special guests leaving the platform after the inauguration of Richard Nixon. In the center can be seen Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird,... |
| Date: | 12 14 1983 |
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| Description: | U.S. Representative David Obey, his wife Joan and their son Douglas pose with Connie G. Hicks (with guitar) and U.S. Representative Tom Petri. Between Doug... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey speaking on the phone in his office. Taken in 1976 this image was used in his 1980 campaign brochure with the caption: "trying to... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Republican Congressman Thomas Petri and State Senator Walter John Chilsen pose in front of the national christmas tree. The tree came from Northe... |
| Date: | 03 16 1968 |
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| Description: | Senator Robert F. Kennedy announcing his candidacy for the office of President of the United States. The announcement took place in the Caucus Room of the ... |
| Date: | 04 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy writes in a note pad during the testimony of General Miles Reber, the first witness during the Army-McCarthy hearings, what the ... |
| Date: | 05 24 1954 |
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| Description: | During the Army-McCarthy Hearings, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy replies to a Presidential statement that the executive responsibility cannot be usurped by an... |
| Date: | 02 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Senator Wiley and Mrs. John Nance Garner, wife of the Vice President, stand on either side of a woman holding a basket and sitting on the world's largest c... |
| Date: | 12 21 1993 |
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| Description: | Les Aspin (second from the right) served as Secretary of Defense during the administration of President Clinton. He is seen here at the Pentagon holiday pa... |
| Date: | 11 13 1997 |
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| Description: | President Bill Clinton signing the FY 1998 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriation Bill. Behind the President are Vice President Al Gore and Wisconsin Cong... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin leans over to confer with Congressman Tim Wirth during a meeting of the House Budget Committee. Obey's aide Scott Lill... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | A campaign poster for Free Soil Party candidates Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams for President and Vice-President. Above is the American eagle, ... |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Prime Minister of Israel Shimon Peres and Congressman David Obey talk in Obey's office. Papers cover his desk and a large map of Wisconsin is mounted on th... |
| Date: | 02 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Admiral William D. Leahy, the personal representative of President Truman, greets former Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Washington D.C. airport. L... |
| Date: | 06 1970 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey and Senator William Proxmire outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The photograph was taken for use in the campaign li... |
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