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Bill Bennett: “I remember sitting in the family gallery, night after night, when the Senate would be debating, listening to the oratory…”

On the recordMay 22, 2000
I remember sitting in the family gallery, night after night, when the Senate would be debating, listening to the oratory that went on and the clashes of opinion that would occur, and falling in love with the place. I was a teenager. My father had been elected in the election of 1950. I was here in the summer of 1953. Dwight Eisenhower was the President--the first time a Republican President had been in office since 1932. The Democrats were apoplectic about the idea that there was a Republican President, and carrying on with great frustration. I remember the towering debates--and they were debates.
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Bill Bennett

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Reflecting on personal experiences in the Senate during the early 1950s.

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