| Title: |
Floyd M. Riddick
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
U.S. Congress. Senate. Historical Office
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| Collection: |
Senate Oral History Project
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| Series: |
Item 7 of Series Floyd M. Riddick
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| Description: |
While researching his doctoral dissertation on congressional procedure in 1935, Floyd Riddick spent a year observing the workings of the House of Representatives. Most of the rest of his career he spent on the Senate side of the Capitol, as the first editor of the "Daily Digest" in the Congressional Record and as Parliamentarian of the Senate. As Parliamentarian, he sat immediately below the presiding officer in the Senate chamber, providing information on precedents and advising other senators on parliamentary procedure. In his interviews he talks about Senate filibusters and the efforts to change the rules of cloture. He also discusses the censures of Joseph McCarthy and Thomas Dodd, the contested election between John Durkin and Louis Wyman, and the preparations for a planned impeachment trial of Richard Nixon.
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| Extent: |
20 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Riddick_interview_7.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1978 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Riddick, Floyd M., 1908-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
13-Jul-1908
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Trotville, NC; North Carolina; United States; North America
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| Speaker occupation: |
Professor; Senate parliamentarian; Statistical analyst
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| Age at speaking: |
70
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| Document date: |
08-Oct-1978
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| Interviewer: |
Ritchie, Donald A.
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| People discussed: |
Dodd, Thomas Joseph, 1907-1971; Joseph Raymond McCarthy; McCarthy, Joseph Raymond, 1908-1957; Thomas Joseph Dodd
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Congress. Senate
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| Locations discussed: |
District of Columbia; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
District of Columbia; Dodd, Thomas Joseph, 1907-1971; Federal government; Joseph Raymond McCarthy; Legislative bodies--United States; Legislative hearings--United States; Legislators--United States; McCarthy, Joseph Raymond, 1908-1957; No confidence motions--United States; North America; Oral history; Political science--United States; Thomas Joseph Dodd; U.S. Congress. Senate; United States; United States--Officials and employees; United States--Politics and government
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Censure motions
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0022292-23479
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