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Interview With Christine Williams By Brien Williams, Christine G. Williams
Interview With Christine Williams By Brien Williams, Christine G. Williams
George J. Mitchell Oral History Project
Biographical Note
Christine G. Williams was born January 20, 1952, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Adelaide and Donald Williams, a Methodist minister. She earned a degree in history from Boston University. As a VISTA volunteer she taught on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota before returning to New England to teach at Brunswick High School in Brunswick, Maine, for the 1975-1976 school year. Subsequently, after teaching in New Hampshire for four years, she was hired by George Mitchell’s U.S. Senate office in 1982 and worked there until 1994, focusing on health care issues in the latter years. She later went to …
Interview With Mary Mcaleney By Andrea L’Hommedieu, Mary E. Mcaleney
Interview With Mary Mcaleney By Andrea L’Hommedieu, Mary E. Mcaleney
George J. Mitchell Oral History Project
Biographical Note
Mary Elizabeth McAleney was born on March 18, 1945, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Her mother, Helen Irene (Twombly) McAleney, was a Works Progress Administration worker, and her father, William McAleney, was a U.S. Customs officer. Mary came from a strongly Democratic Maine family and was politically active from a young age. She was sent from her home near Vanceboro, Maine, to St. Joseph’s boarding school in South Portland, and from there she went to Merrimac College. After her graduation, she taught high school in Maine, first at St. Joseph’s and then at Catherine McAuley High School. After eight years …
Campaign 2008: The Critical Issues, Kevin F. Sims
Campaign 2008: The Critical Issues, Kevin F. Sims
History and Government Faculty Publications
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Securing America's Future: A Bold Plan To Preserve And Expand Social Security, Max Skidmore
Securing America's Future: A Bold Plan To Preserve And Expand Social Security, Max Skidmore
Max J. Skidmore
Analysis of the American system of Social Security, with proposals for expansion and for universal health care.