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In La Follette's Shadow
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Congressman David R. Obey and Senator Gaylord Nelson posed talking in front of the statue of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol building. The photograph was taken for Obey's first reelection campaign.
July 1972
Obey, David R.
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Obey and Leadership
July 1970
Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (facing away from the camera) with Democratic leaders John McCormack and Carl Albert. The photograph was taken for a brochure for Obey's first reelection campaign.
Obey and Proxmire
June 1970
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 literature of Congressman Obey who was runni...
Campaigning for Reelection
October 1980
Vice-president Walter Mondale campaigning for reelection in Wisconsin. To Mondale's right, and partially obscured, is Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, who was defeated in the November general elec...
Harmonica Homage
circa 1990-1999
Congressman David R. Obey and his blue grass band, the Capitol Offenses, performed at many political events. It is no accident that the band chose this spot in Statuary Hall for this concert, for S...
Obey and Stitt
June 1970
Congressman David R. Obey with his administrative assistant Lyle Stitt walking down a hall in the United States Capitol building. Statues are along the wall between the stone columns.
Obey on the Phone
1976
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 work out a Wisconsin problem with the bur...
