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Diplomatic Meeting

Date: 1980
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (far left) meeting President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq during a visit to Pakistan.
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Diplomatic Meeting

Date: 1983
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (chin in hand) ponders a remark during a meeting of House of Representative leaders with their Soviet equivalents in Mo...
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Wisconsin Congressmen

Date: 1991
Description: Wisconsin was well represented on a congressional leadership trip to the Persian Gulf in 1991. Here Congressman David Obey (in plaid shirt) leans over the ...
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House Leaders

Date: 1991
Description: Speaker of the House Dick Gephardt (standing right) during a flight back to Washington after a House leadership tour of the Persian Gulf. With Gephardt are...
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Daylight Saving Referendum Set

Date: 02 27 1957
Description: The photo caption states in full: "Gov. Vernon W. Thomson had an audience of six daylight saving time advocates when he signed into law the bill setting up...
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I Like Ike — Again

Date: 1956
Description: Wisconsin Congressman Melvin R. Laird with four supporters of the re-election campaign of President Dwight Eisenhower and Dick Nixon, dressed in special ca...
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GOP "Tewesday" Party

Date: 11 29 1957
Description: Four attendees of the Dane County Republican club's "Tewsday" party include, from left to right: E.G. Ascher, Stoughton; Constance Holmquist; 2nd district...
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GOP "Tewesday" Party

Date: 11 29 1957
Description: Headliners of the Dane County Republican club's "Tewsday" party include, left to righ:, Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson; Rep. Donald E. Tewes, Waukesh...
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La Follette Legacy

Date: 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey posed with a portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., who served as the inspiration for many Wisconsin politicians.
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Obey Replies to Reagan

Date: 08 30 1986
Description: Congressman David R. Obey delivering the Democrat's reply to a Labor Day speech by President Ronald Reagan.
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Obey and Leadership

Date: 07 1970
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (facing away from the camera) with Democratic leaders John McCormack and Carl Albert. The photograph was taken for a br...
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Assembly Democratic Leaders

Date: 01 16 1959
Description: Group portrait of three Assembly Democratic leaders include, from left to right: Robert T. Huber, West Allis, speaker pro tem; Keith C. Hardie, Taylor, maj...
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Wisconsin Democrats and Morris Udall

Date: 1975
Description: Democratic members of the Wisconsin congressional delegation with Morris Udall (center), probably at an event associated with Udall's attempted campaign fo...
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Government Reorganization

Date: 1968
Description: David R. Obey, then a Wisconsin assemblyman, testifying in the Capitol in behalf of the reorganization of state government proposed by the Kellett Commissi...
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Visit of Henry May, Member of the New Zealand Parliament

Date: 03 31 1959
Description: Portrait of Henry May, member of the New Zealand Parliament. May was a guest of the U.S. State Department and visited and spoke in several cities and in co...
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Senator Hubert Humphrey

Date: 08 03 1959
Description: Senator Hubert Humphrey appears at a press conference at the Hotel Loraine. Shown (L-R) are Senator Humphrey, (standing) Assemblyman Fred Risser (D-Madison...
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Maple Bluff Fire Department Honored

Date: 01 14 1960
Description: Madison Fire Chief Edward Page, center, presents a plaque from the International Fire Chiefs Association to Maple Bluff's volunteer fire department for ach...
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Two Republican Candiidates for Governor at Dane County Lincoln Day Dinner

Date: 02 15 1960
Description: Two Republican candidates for governor and their wives chat with Roger Radue, dinner chairman, before the annual Dane County GOP Lincoln Day fund-raising d...
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Arthur J. Altmeyer with Sir William Beveridge

Date: 06 05 1943
Description: From left to right: Sir William Beveridge, author of the British "Cradle to the Grave" social security plan, and Arthur J. Altmeyer, Chairman of the Social...
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John F. Kennedy Signing the Social Security Amendments

Date: 1961
Description: John F. Kennedy, seated, surrounded by a number of men, including Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson, center, standing, and Wilbur Cohen, Assistant Secre...

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