Donald Ritchie
Donald Ritchie
Donald A. Ritchieis Historian Emeritus of the United States Senate...
cabinet member sure
Because everybody's all in the same room, just as a fail-safe situation, they make sure that there's one member of the cabinet who isn't there.
convention national party political
The first national convention of any political party was the anti-Masonic party.
boxes chamber reason
It's the same reason we have spittoons and snuff boxes in the chamber. There's a veneration of the way the chamber has always operated.