Research Interview Notes of Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Interview with Rep. Clarence J. Brown (R-OH), Republican Committee on Committees March 1963 “We don’t want anybody who will just spend and spend and spend. We ask ou

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Research Interview Notes of Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Interview with Rep. Charles A. Boyle (D-IL) 12 June 1959 General remarks: Says he didn’t want to come to Congress in the first place, but Chicago party leaders wanted

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Research Interview Notes of Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Interview with Rep. Joe Evins (D-TN) June 12, 1959 How get on Committee?—He was on Veterans Affairs Committee, and had worked up in seniority. Albert A. Gore, from Ten

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Research Interview Notes of Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Interview with Rep. Joseph P. Addabbo (D-NY) April 1964 “You’ve got four agricultural [subcommittee] members and myself. You’ve got a cross section—corn, cotton,

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• Political communication
• Politics
• Structure
• Social psychology
• Committees
• Human communication
• Meetings

Research Interview Notes of Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Interview with Rep. Gordon Canfield (R-NJ) January 1961 Very cooperative—a Republican liberal and not really an Appropriations Committee type; willing to criticize—n

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Research Interview Notes of Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Interview with Rep. John Lesinski (D-MI) April 1964 Independence is his key idea. He voted against the civil rights bill. Talking to Rep. George Meader (R-MI) on the pho

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• John McCain
• Senate career of John McCain
• 2001–present

Research Interview Notes of Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Interview with Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr. (D-GA) January 1965 Regarding the Foreign Operations Subcommittee meeting on Foreign Aid in 1964: “Everybody who was going to sp

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Research Interview Notes of Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Interview with Rep. Edward P. Boland (D-MA) June 9, 1959 General remarks: A protégé of Rep. Albert Thomas (D-TX), chairman of the Independent Offices Subcommittee and

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Research Interview Notes of Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Interview with Rep. Edward P. Boland (D-MA) April 1964 Regarding Rep. Frank Smith (D-MS) – “Whitten couldn’t carry his shoe laces” [reference to Rep. Jamie Whitt

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• Clarence Cannon
• Missouri

Research Interview Notes of Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Interview with Rep. Gerald R. Ford, Jr. (R-MI) June 8, 1959 General remarks: Strong sense for tradition and for idea of work. He says it’s tradition that a man from Mi

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