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{{short description|American politician (born 1932)}}
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| name                = Bob Packwood
| image               = RWPackwood.jpg
| office              = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Finance|Senate Finance Committee]]
| term_start          = January 3, 1995
| term_end            = October 1, 1995
| predecessor         = [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]
| successor           = [[William Roth]]
| term_start1         = January 3, 1985
| term_end1           = January 3, 1987
| predecessor1        = [[Bob Dole]]
| successor1          = [[Lloyd Bentsen]]
| office2             = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation|Senate Commerce Committee]]
| term_start2         = January 3, 1981
| term_end2           = January 3, 1985
| predecessor2        = [[Howard Cannon]]
| successor2          = [[John Danforth]]
| jr/sr3              = United States Senator
| state3              = [[Oregon]]
| term_start3         = January 3, 1969
| term_end3           = October 1, 1995
| predecessor3        = [[Wayne Morse]]
| successor3          = [[Ron Wyden]]
| state_house4        = Oregon
| term_start4         = January 14, 1963
| term_end4           = January 3, 1969
| district4           = 6th
| predecessor4        = ''Multi-member district''
| successor4          = ''Multi-member district''
| birth_name          = Robert William Packwood
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1932|9|11}}
| birth_place         = [[Portland, Oregon]], U.S.
| death_date          = 
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| party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Georgie Ann Oberteuffer|1964|1992|end=div}}<br>{{marriage|Elaine Franklin|1998}}
| children            = 2
| education           = [[Willamette University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[New York University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
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'''Robert William Packwood''' (born September 11, 1932) is an American retired lawyer and politician from [[Oregon]] who served as a member of the [[Oregon House of Representatives]] representing the 6th district from 1963 to 1969 and as a member of the [[United States Senate]] from 1969 to 1995. He resigned from the U.S. Senate under threat of [[Expulsion from the United States Congress|expulsion]], in 1995 after allegations of [[sexual harassment]], [[sexual abuse]], and [[assault]] of women emerged. He is a member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]].

Since the death of [[Fred R. Harris]] in November 2024, Packwood is the earliest-serving living U.S. senator, and is the last living former U.S. senator who assumed office in the 1960s. He is also the last living former U.S. senator who served during the [[Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson]].

==Early life and career==
Packwood was born to Frederick William and Gladys Dorothy (Taft) Packwood in [[Portland, Oregon]], graduated from Grant High School in 1950, and in 1954 graduated from [[Willamette University]] in [[Salem, Oregon]].

Packwood is the great-grandson of [[William Packwood]], the youngest member of the [[Oregon Constitutional Convention]] of 1857.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url= http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/packwood_william_1832_1917_/|title=William Packwood (1832–1917)|last=Dielman|first=Gary|encyclopedia=The Oregon Encyclopedia| publisher=Portland State University|access-date=2010-02-04}}</ref><ref name=kirschmeier>{{cite book|last=Kirchmeier|first=Mark|year=1995|title=Packwood: The Public and Private Life from Acclaim to Outrage|location=San Francisco|publisher=HarperCollinsWest|ref=kirsch|isbn=0-06-258549-5}}</ref> Packwood had his great-grandfather's political bent from his early years. During his undergraduate years, he participated in [[Young Republican]] activities and worked on political campaigns, including later [[Governor of Oregon]] and U.S. Senate member [[Mark Hatfield]]'s first run for the [[Oregon House of Representatives]]. He received the [[Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship]] to [[New York University School of Law]], where he earned national awards in moot court competition and was elected student body president.<ref name=oe>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Robert Packwood (1932–)|last=Mahoney|first=Barbara|publisher=Portland State University|encyclopedia=The Oregon Encyclopedia|url=http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/packwood_robert_1932_/|access-date=2010-04-02}}</ref> After graduating from the NYU Law School in 1957, he was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Portland.

==State legislative career==
[[File:Bob Packwood 1968.jpg|thumb|Packwood in 1968]]
In 1960, he was elected Chairman of the [[Multnomah County, Oregon]], Republican Central Committee, thus becoming the youngest party chairman of a major metropolitan area in the country.<ref>[[#kirsch|Kirschmeier]], pp. 80–82.</ref> In 1962, he became the youngest member of the Oregon Legislature<ref>[[#kirsch|Kirschmeier]], p. 87.</ref> when he was elected to the [[Oregon House of Representatives]] after a campaign waged by what ''[[The Oregonian]]'' called "one of the most effective working organizations in many an election moon in Oregon". Hundreds of volunteers went door-to-door, distributing leaflets throughout the district, and put up lawn signs that became "literally a geographical feature" of the district.<ref>Portland Oregonian, December 2, 1962.</ref> Because of the effectiveness of his own campaigns, Packwood was selected to organize a political action committee that recruited attractive Republican candidates for the Oregon House throughout the state,<ref name=oe/> and trained them in "Packwood-style" campaigning methods.<ref name=bwpq1965>Balmer, Western Political Quarterly, June 1965.</ref><ref name=ORJournalJune95>''Oregon Journal'', June 15, 1965.</ref> The success of his candidates was credited with the Republican takeover of the Oregon House, thus making Oregon the only state in the Union in which the Republicans were able to score a significant victory in 1964.<ref name=bwpq1965/><ref name=ORJournalJune95 /><ref>Oregon Voter, July 10, 1965.</ref>

Packwood was a member of the [[Oregon House of Representatives]] from 1963 to 1968. In 1965, he founded the Dorchester Conference in [[Seaside, Oregon]], an annual political conclave on the Oregon coast that "pointedly ignored state leadership in the Grand Old Party"<ref>Christian Science Monitor, April 27, 1965.</ref> to bring Republican officeholders and citizens together, to discuss current issues and pass resolutions taking stands on those issues. Initially a forum for liberal politics, it has become an annual networking event for Oregon Republicans.

==U.S. Senator==
[[File:Senator Bob Packwood (Oregon) (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Packwood in 1977]]
[[File:President Ronald Reagan meeting with Senator Bob Packwood to discuss Tax Reform with Bill Diefenderfer, Don Regan and William Ball in the Oval Office.jpg|thumb|right|Packwood discusses tax reform with [[President of the United States|President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1986]]
In [[1968 United States Senate election in Oregon|1968]], Packwood was nominated to run for the U.S. Senate in Oregon as the Republican candidate against [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] incumbent [[Wayne Morse]]. Morse had been elected to the Senate as a Republican in [[1944 United States Senate election in Oregon|1944]] and [[1950 United States Senate election in Oregon|1950]], then switched parties due to his liberal views, and was easily re-elected as a Democrat in [[1956 United States Senate election in Oregon|1956]] and [[1962 United States Senate election in Oregon|1962]]. The relatively unknown Packwood was given little chance, but after an 11th-hour debate with the incumbent before the City Club of Portland, which Packwood was generally considered to have won,<ref>Portland Oregonian, October 26, 1968.</ref> and a statewide recount in which over 100,000 ballots were challenged by both parties,<ref>Portland Oregonian, December 24, 1968.</ref> Packwood was declared the winner by 3,500 votes.<ref>Myers, Clay. Oregon Blue Book. Salem, Oregon: Office of the Secretary of State, 1970.</ref> Packwood replaced U.S. Senate member [[Ted Kennedy]] from [[Massachusetts]] as the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.<ref>[[#kirsch|Kirschmeier]], p. 105.</ref> Packwood was re-elected in [[1974 United States Senate election in Oregon|1974]], [[1980 United States Senate election in Oregon|1980]], [[1986 United States Senate election in Oregon|1986]], and [[1992 United States Senate election in Oregon|1992]].

Packwood's voting record was moderate. He supported restrictions on gun owners and liberal civil rights legislation. Packwood voted in favor of the [[Passage of Martin Luther King Jr. Day]] establishing [[Martin Luther King Jr. Day]] as a [[Federal holidays in the United States|federal holiday]], and the [[Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987]] (as well as to override [[President of the United States]] [[Ronald Reagan]]'s veto).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/98-1983/s293|title=TO PASS H.R. 3706. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 19.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/100-1988/s432|title=TO PASS S 557, CIVIL RIGHTS RESTORATION ACT, A BILL TO RESTORE THE BROAD COVERAGE AND CLARIFY FOUR CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS BY PROVIDING THAT IF ONE PART OF AN INSTITUTION IS FEDERALLY FUNDED, THEN THE ENTIRE INSTITUTION MUST NOT DISCRIMINATE.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/100-1988/s487|title=TO ADOPT, OVER THE PRESIDENT'S VETO OF S 557, CIVIL RIGHTS RESTORATION ACT, A BILL TO RESTORE BROAD COVERAGE OF FOUR CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS BY DECLARING THAT IF ONE PART OF AN INSTITUTION RECEIVES FEDERAL FUNDS, THEN THE ENTIRE INSTITUTION MUST NOT DISCRIMINATE. TWO-THIRDS OF THE SENATE, HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, OVERRODE THE PRESIDENTIAL VETO.}}</ref>

Packwood differed with President [[Richard Nixon]] on some significant issues. He voted against Nixon's [[Supreme Court of the United States]] nominees [[Clement Haynsworth]] and [[G. Harrold Carswell]],<ref name=kirschmeier124>[[#kirsch|Kirschmeier]], p. 124.</ref> as well as Nixon's proposals for the [[Rockwell B-1 Lancer]], submarines capable of carrying the [[Trident (missile)|Trident]] and the [[Supersonic transport]] (SST).<ref name=kirschmeier124/> He became the first U.S. Senate Republican to support the [[Impeachment process against Richard Nixon]], which was unsuccessful.<ref name=kirschmeier/> In a White House meeting on November 15, 1973, he told Nixon that the public no longer believed him, and no longer trusted the integrity of the administration.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lukas |first=J. Anthony |year=1976 |title=Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years |location=New York |publisher=Viking Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/nightmareundersi00luka_0/page/452 452] |isbn=0-670-51415-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/nightmareundersi00luka_0/page/452 }}</ref>

Two years before the ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' decision by the Supreme Court, Packwood introduced the Senate's first abortion legalization bill, but he was unable to attract a co-sponsor for it.<ref>S.1750 and S.1751, 92d Congress 1st Sess. May 3, 1971.</ref> His [[abortion-rights movement]] stance earned him the loyalty of many feminist groups,<ref>O'Beirne, Kate (October 9, 1995). "Bread & circuses – Senator Bob Packwood's public and private stance on women". National Review. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282?tag=artBody;col1. Retrieved 2008-07-05.</ref> and numerous awards, including those from the [[Planned Parenthood]] Federation of America (January 10, 1983) and the [[National Women's Political Caucus]] (October 23, 1985). In 1987, Packwood crossed [[Party line (politics)|party lines]] to vote against the nomination of [[Robert Bork]] to the Supreme Court of the United States, and he was one of only two Republicans to vote against the [[Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination]] to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1991.<ref name=oe/> Both votes were based on the nominee's opposition to abortion rights.<ref name=oe/>

He played a major role in the enactment of the [[Hells Canyon National Recreation Area]] Act,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/94/statute/STATUTE-89/STATUTE-89-Pg1117.pdf |title=Public Law 94-199 |date=December 31, 1975 |access-date=2025-10-16}}</ref>{{fv|date=October 2025|reason=This citation gives the text of the bill, but makes no mention of Packwood's involvement in sponsoring the bill or enacting the law.}} sponsoring a bill which protected scenic [[Hells Canyon]], the deepest river gorge in North America, by making it into a {{convert|652488|acre|km2|adj=on}} [[National recreation area|National Recreation Area]] on the borders of northeastern Oregon and western Idaho.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fs.fed.us/hellscanyon/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203055225/http://www.fs.fed.us/hellscanyon/ |archive-date=2009-12-03 |url-status=dead |title=Hells Canyon National Recreation Area |website=www.fs.fed.us |access-date=2009-12-20}}</ref><ref>Nokes, Portland Oregonian, July 10, 1990.</ref> Environmentalists also praised his advocacy of solar energy, [[container-deposit legislation]], and bike paths.<ref name=kirschmeier124/>

Deregulation was another interest of Packwood's. In the late 1970s, he became a passionate supporter of trucking deregulation, and a "persuasive spokesman" for reform.<ref>{{cite book |last=Robyn |first=Dorothy L. |year=1987 |title=Braking the Special Interests: Trucking Deregulation and the Politics of Policy Reform |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/brakingspecialin00roby/page/73 73, 200, 204, 217] |isbn=0-226-72328-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/brakingspecialin00roby/page/73 }}</ref>

He has been described as an "ardent" pro-Israel supporter. He opposed a sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia under President Reagan.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Prince: The secret story of the most intriguing Saudi royal : Prince Bandar bin Sultan
|first=William
|last=Simpson
|publisher=Harper Paperbacks
|year=2007
|isbn=9780061189425
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=at9z3p2c-MEC&pg=PA11 |access-date=September 28, 2014}}</ref>

He was most noted for his role in the 1986 tax reform, while he was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Birnbaum |first1=Jeffrey H. |first2=Alan S. |last2=Murray |year=1987 |title=Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform |url=https://archive.org/details/showdownatguccig0000birn |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Random House |isbn=0-394-75811-0 }}</ref> President Ronald Reagan had proposed the idea of tax reform in 1984, but Packwood's initial response was indifferent.  However, he played a leading role in fashioning a tax code that would raise business taxes by some $120 billion over five years, and lower personal income taxes by roughly the same amount.<ref name=oe/>

Packwood's debating skills were rated A+ by ''[[USA Today]]'' in the issue of July 18, 1986.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} But his debating and legislative skills could kill bills as well as pass them. His floor management has been credited with killing President Clinton's 1993 health care bill.<ref>O'Donnell, Lawrence, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040202050816/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/#34106292], accessed 2009-12-20.</ref> And he could be stubborn; in 1988, he was carried feet-first into the Senate Chamber by Capitol Police for a [[quorum call]] on campaign finance reform legislation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Feet_First.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019005023/https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Feet_First.htm |archive-date=2012-10-19 |title=U.S. Senate: Feet First |website=[[United States Senate]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-24-mn-11822-story.html | title=Guards Seize Senator, Haul Him into Debate Feet First : Packwood's OK but GOP is Outraged | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=February 24, 1988 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==Resignation==

===Sexual misconduct as a U.S. Senator===
Packwood's political career began to unravel in November 1992, when a ''[[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]'' story detailed claims of sexual abuse and assault from ten women, chiefly former staffers and lobbyists.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/packwood.htm "Senator Robert Packwood's History of Sexual Harassment"]</ref> Publication of the story was delayed until after the [[1992 United States Senate election in Oregon|1992 election]], as Packwood had denied the allegations and the ''Post'' had not gathered enough information about the story at the time.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/congress.htm#packwood|newspaper=The Washington Post|title=Congressional Sex Scandals in History|date=January 31, 1999|access-date=2010-04-26}}</ref><ref>[http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1992/9212060058.asp "Packwood Story Angers Oregon Women, Want Him To Resign"], Joel Connelly, ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', December 5, 1992 p. A1.</ref> Packwood defeated the Democratic nominee, U.S. House of Representatives member [[Les AuCoin]], 52.1% to 46.5%–easily his closest race since his initial run for the seat a quarter-century earlier. Eventually, 19 women came forward.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-08-mn-43532-story.html |url-access=subscription |title=Senator Packwood resigns |date=September 8, 1995 |first=Edwin |last=Chen |newspaper=[[LA Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2020/09/the-women-packwood-preyed-on-steve-duin-column.html |title=The women Oregon Sen. Bob Packwood preyed on: Steve Duin column |publisher=oregonlive.com |date=2020-09-06 |accessdate=2022-05-21}}</ref>

As the situation developed, Packwood's diary became an issue. Wrangling over whether the diary could be subpoenaed and whether it was protected by the protection of [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] against self-incrimination ensued. He did divulge 5,000 pages to the [[United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics]] but balked when a further 3,200 pages were demanded by the committee. It was discovered that he had edited the diary, removing what were allegedly references to sexual encounters and the sexual abuse allegations made against him. Packwood then made what some of his colleagues interpreted as a threat to expose wrongdoing by other members of Congress. The diary allegedly detailed some of his abusive behavior toward women and, according to a press statement made by [[Richard Bryan]], at that time serving as U.S. Senate member from Nevada, "raised questions about possible violations of one or more laws, including criminal laws".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,979534,00.html|title=No Thanks for the Memories|magazine=Time|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120525010201/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,979534,00.html|archive-date=May 25, 2012|df=mdy-all |first1=Jill |last1=Smolowe |first2=Andrea |last2=Sachs |first3=Nancy |last3=Traver
}}</ref>

===Expulsion recommendation and resignation===
Despite pressure for open hearings from the public and from female U.S. Senate members, especially [[Barbara Boxer]] from [[California]], the Senate ultimately decided against them.{{why|date=February 2021}} The Ethics Committee's indictment, running to ten volumes and 10,145 pages, much of it from Packwood's own writings, according to a report in ''[[The New York Times]]'', detailed the sexual misconduct, obstruction of justice, and ethics charges being made against him.<ref name="Seelye">{{cite news|last=Seelye|first=Katharine Q.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/08/us/packwood-case-overview-packwood-says-he-quitting-ethics-panel-gives-evidence.html?pagewanted=all|title=The Packwood Case: The Overview; Packwood Says he is Quitting as Ethics Panel Gives Evidence|work=The New York Times|date=September 8, 1995|access-date=October 11, 2017}}</ref> The chairman of the Ethics Committee, Republican U.S. Senate member [[Mitch McConnell]] from [[Kentucky]], referred to Packwood's "habitual pattern of aggressive, blatantly sexual advances, mostly directed at members of his own staff or others whose livelihoods were connected in some way to his power and authority as a Senator" and said Packwood's behavior included "deliberately altering and destroying relevant portions of his diary" that Packwood himself had described in the diary as "very incriminating information". On September 7, the committee unanimously recommended that Packwood be [[List of United States senators expelled or censured|expelled from the Senate]].<ref name="Seelye"/>

The following morning, the committee released its findings. With bipartisan pressure mounting, Packwood announced his resignation from the Senate, saying that he was "aware of the dishonor that has befallen me in the last three years" and his "duty to resign."<ref name="Seelye"/> Democratic [[United States House of Representatives]] member [[Ron Wyden]] won the seat in a [[1996 United States Senate special election in Oregon|special election]].

After the sexual harassment case came to light, Packwood entered the [[Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation]] clinic for alcoholism in Minnesota, blaming his drinking for the harassments.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gabriel|first1=Trip|title=The Trials Of Bob Packwood|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/29/magazine/the-trials-of-bob-packwood.html|access-date=October 7, 2014|work=New York Times|date=August 29, 1993}}</ref>

Four years later, during debate on [[Impeachment of Bill Clinton]], McConnell said that the Republicans knew that it was very likely Packwood's seat would fall to the Democrats if Packwood were forced out. However, McConnell said, he and his fellow Republicans felt that it came down to a choice of "retain the Senate seat or retain our honor."<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12/senate.statements/mcconnell.html McConnell statement on Clinton impeachment]</ref>

==After the U.S. Senate==
Soon after leaving the Senate, Packwood founded the lobbying firm Sunrise Research Corporation. The former senator used his expertise in taxes and trade, and his status as a former Senate Finance Committee chairman, to land lucrative contracts with numerous clients, among them being [[Freightliner Trucks]], [[Marriott International]], and the now-defunct [[Northwest Airlines]].<ref>''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]'', August 4, 1998.</ref> Among other projects, he played a key role in the 2001 fight to repeal the [[Estate tax in the United States]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2007}} In 2015, Packwood returned to the Senate as a witness for the [[United States Senate Committee on Finance]], which was again considering tax reform. He and U.S. Senate member [[Bill Bradley]] from [[New Jersey]] spoke on the [[Tax Reform Act of 1986]].<ref>{{cite web | last1=Mapes | first1=Jeff | title=Bob Packwood Gets a Polite Homecoming From Senate Finance Committee | url=http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2015/02/bob_packwood_gets_a_polite_hom.html | date=February 10, 2015 | work=[[OregonLive.com]] | access-date=February 27, 2016}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of United States senators expelled or censured]]
* [[List of American federal politicians convicted of crimes]]
* [[List of federal political sex scandals in the United States]]
* [[List of federal political scandals in the United States]]

==References==

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==External links==
* {{Oregon Encyclopedia|packwood_robert_1932_|author=Mahoney, Barbara}}
* {{congbio|P000009}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030920043055/http://www.courttv.com/archive/legaldocs/government/packwood2.html Text of the Senate's resolution for investigation, May 17, 1995.]
* [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/09/us/packwood-is-leaving-as-a-pariah-in-his-state.html?scp=5&sq=%22willamette%20university%22%20library&st=cse "Packwood Is Leaving As a Pariah In His State"],{{subscription required}} ''The New York Times''
* [http://purl.lib.ua.edu/82844 Speech by Robert Packwood given on November 3, 1969.] Audio recording from [http://purl.lib.ua.edu/18388 The University of Alabama's Emphasis Symposium on Contemporary Issues]
* {{C-SPAN|468}}

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