1972 Wisconsin Senator Bill Proxmire AUTOGRAPHED Office press release-VINTAGE!

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Check it out...Here's a VERY SCARCE Original 8 1/2" wide by 14" tall legal paper sized brochure dated January 27, 1972 that has been 100% hand signed/autographed by Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire (Died in 1989). This is an official memo from the office of the Senator talking about his opposition to the nomination of John E Sheehan to the Federal Reserve Board by Richard Nixon using Proxmire's typical colorful language he became known for. Here is an excerpt: "Sheehan seems to think the Phillips curve referred to the pitching technique of a Chicago Cubs left-hander… Mr Sheehan is obviously an intelligent, able and honorable man, but so are Johnny Unitas, Muhammad Ali and coach George Allen as well as millions of other Americans but all of them, like Sheehan are appallingly unqualified to serve as governors of the Federal Reserve Board." The memo features a large vintage blue ink signature on front at the top. Great vintage item!
1972 Wisconsin Senator Bill Proxmire AUTOGRAPHED Office press release-VINTAGE!
1972 Wisconsin Senator Bill Proxmire AUTOGRAPHED Office press release-VINTAGE!
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Check it out...Here's a VERY
SCARCE
Original 8 1/2" wide by 14" tall legal paper sized brochure dated January 27, 1972 that has been 100% hand signed/autographed by Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire (Died in 1989). This is an official memo from the office of the Senator talking about his opposition to the nomination of John E Sheehan to the Federal Reserve Board by Richard Nixon using Proxmire's typical colorful language he became known for. Here is an excerpt: "Sheehan seems to think the Phillips curve referred to the pitching technique of a Chicago Cubs left-hander… Mr Sheehan is obviously an intelligent, able and honorable man, but so are Johnny Unitas, Muhammad Ali and coach George Allen as well as millions of other Americans but all of them, like Sheehan are appallingly unqualified to serve as governors of the Federal Reserve Board." The memo features a large vintage blue ink signature on front at the top. Great vintage item!
Here's some info on Senator Proxmire:
Edward William "Bill" Proxmire (November 11, 1915 – December 15, 2005) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989. Proxmire served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1951 to 1952, and was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1952, 1954 and 1956. Proxmire was elected, in a special election on August 28, 1957, to fill the remainder of the term vacated due to the death of Senator Joseph McCarthy, on May 2, 1957. He paid no homage to his predecessor in the Senate, stating that McCarthy was a "disgrace to Wisconsin, to the Senate, and to America". Proxmire was reelected in 1958, 1964, 1970, 1976 and 1982. His re-elections were always achieved by wide margins, including 71% of the vote in 1970, 73% in 1976 and 65% in 1982, when he ran for a fifth six-year term. In his last two Senate campaigns of 1976 and 1982, Proxmire refused to take any campaign contributions, and on each spent less than 0 out of his own pocket — to cover the expenses related to filing for re-election and return postage for unsolicited contributions. He was an early advocate of campaign finance reform. Proxmire holds the U.S. Senate record for consecutive roll call votes cast: 10,252 between April 20, 1966 and October 18, 1988. In doing so, he surpassed the previous record of 2,941 which was held by Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine. Proxmire served as the Chair of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs from 1975 to 1981 and again from 1987 to 1989. During his first tenure in this position, Proxmire was instrumental in devising the financial plan that saved New York City from bankruptcy in 1976–77. He was an early, outspoken critic of the Vietnam War who frequently criticized Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon for their conduct of the war and foreign policy decisions. He used his seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee to spotlight wasteful military spending and was instrumental in stopping frequent military pork barrel projects. Despite his support of budgetary restraint in other areas, he regularly sided with dairy interests and was a proponent of dairy price supports. From 1967 until 1986, Proxmire gave daily speeches noting the necessity of ratifying The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. After giving this speech every day that the Senate was in session for 20 years, resulting in 3,211 speeches, the convention was ratified by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 83–11 on February 11, 1986. Proxmire was head of the campaign to cancel the American supersonic transport and particularly opposed to space exploration, ultimately eliminating spending on said research from NASA's budget. In response to a segment about space colonies run by the CBS program 60 Minutes, Proxmire stated that; "it's the best argument yet for chopping NASA's funding to the bone .... I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy". Proxmire introduced an amendment into the 1982 NASA budget that effectively terminated NASA's nascent SETI efforts before a similar amendment to the 1994 budget, by Senator Richard Bryan, terminated NASA's SETI efforts for good. With these positions Proxmire drew the enmity of many space advocates and science fiction fandom. Arthur C. Clarke attacked Proxmire in his short story "Death and the Senator" (1960). Later, the short story "The Return of William Proxmire" (1989) by Larry Niven and the novel Fallen Angels (1991), written by Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael F. Flynn, were directed against the senator. He refused to accept reimbursements for travel expenses related to his Senate duties.
Great vintage item with a 100% authentic HAND-SIGNED autograph on the front!
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