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| Date: | 08 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips wearing a striped dress and a tag that reads "We're here for Wisconsin Human Rights Legislation." Phillips was taking part in a sit-in in supp... |
| Date: | 11 08 1856 |
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| Description: | Political drawing for the Democratic Presidential Campaign, which included Buchanan and Breckenridge. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon speaks at an outdoor event. There is an airplane in the background. Patricia Nixon is shown seated behin... |
| Date: | 03 12 1965 |
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| Description: | Recently-appointed Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach answers questions from the press. To his left is George Reedy, press secretary for President Lyndon... |
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| Description: | Drew Pearson (left), and Robert S. Allen (right), whose syndicated column "Washington Merry Go Round" made them among the nation's best known journalists. ... |
| Date: | 07 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Harlan Kelly, Sauk County district attorney, left, and Harvey Higley, Marinette, leader of the 24 Badger Taft delegates, right, talk over strategy at Wisco... |
| Date: | 05 09 1939 |
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| Description: | Italian gas bomb throwers, wearing their gas masks, riding in a truck during a parade for the anniversary of the founding of the Italian Empire in Rome. Th... |
| Date: | 09 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Ohio Republican Senator Robert A. Taft and his convention floor manager, Madison's Thomas E. Coleman, are shown at Truax municipal airport standing by the ... |
| Date: | 02 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Dignitaries gathered for the start of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Invitational Bonspiel at the Madison Curling Club. Standing, left ... |
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| Description: | Jesse Jackson stands beneath an ACORN banner as he is photographed by a crowd of people. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | During his remarks, Senator Gaylord Nelson, who is standing at the podium, cracks a joke, apparently at the President's expense. Wisconsin dignitaries to t... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey (standing below the C) greets a delegation from Wisconsin that accompanied the official Capitol Christmas Tree cut in the Chequam... |
| 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: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin confers with his aide, Scott Lilly, during a meeting of the House Budget Committee. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey talks on the telephone during a break in the deliberation of the House Budget Committee. Standing above Obey is his aide Scott Li... |
| Date: | 02 07 1985 |
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| Description: | David R. Obey of Wisconsin, chair of the Joint Economic Committee. Opposite him, (in the foreground) is Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block, testifying ... |
| Date: | 09 03 1984 |
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| Description: | A brief shower failed to dampen the enthusiasm of Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale and Vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro during... |
| Date: | 04 1985 |
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| Description: | Members of a special House Appropriations Committee mission to the Middle East at the airport in Jerusalem. The committee was headed by Congressman David R... |
| Date: | 08 1995 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey presents a big check to representatives of Nicolet College. As chairman or ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee O... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Former President Bill Clinton, in the hard hat on the right, with Wisconsin Congressman David Obey (left) and Florida Congressman Bill Young, the Republica... |
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