Window on Congress: A Congressional Biography of Barber B. Conable, JrAn analysis of the congressional career of Barber B. Conable, Jr., one of the most-respected legislators of modern times. Barber B. Conable Jr. served as a Republican congressman from western New York from 1965 to 1985. He is recognized as one of the most respected members of the House of Representatives in recent years. This biography explores his twenty-year congressional career, focusing on his remarkable educational abilities as a gifted teacher-legislator. Using excerpts from Conable's private journal, his newsletters and news columns, and from personal interviews, JamesS. Fleming has crafted a book that enables readers to appreciate why Conable was held in high regard by his constituents, his colleagues, the press, and congressional scholars. Political scientist Charles O. Jones expressed the opinion of many when he observed that "Barber Conable was just about everybody's idea of what a congressman should be." In his foreword the renowned congressional scholar, Richard F. Fenno Jr. writes, "Barber Conable was an especially admirable United States Representative; and Jim Fleming has written an especially admirable congressional biography. This book is, therefore, a special gift." |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Roots in Western New York | 14 |
Becoming a Lawyer and Politician | 33 |
Mr Conable Goes to Albany | 52 |
A Freshman in the EightyNinth Congress | 75 |
Appointment to the Ways and Means Committee | 108 |
Support for Richard Nixon | 130 |
The Watergate Betrayal | 156 |
A Friend in the White House | 197 |
Republican Leader of Ways and Means | 234 |
Cutting Taxes | 266 |
Saving Social Security | 309 |
Concluding a Congressional Career | 339 |
Life After Congress | 373 |
Notes | 385 |
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Window on Congress: A Congressional Biography of Barber B. Conable, Jr James S. Fleming No preview available - 2004 |
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The House: The History of the House of Representatives Robert V. Remini,Library of Congress No preview available - 2006 |
The House: The History of the House of Representatives Robert V. Remini,Library of Congress No preview available - 2006 |