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Fishbait: The Memoirs of the Congressional Doorkeeper
Fishbait The Memoirs of the Congressional Doorkeeper Author:Frances Spatz Leighton, William Miller He's William 'Fishbait' Miller, and for 28 of his 42 years on Capitol Hill (1933-1975) he served as Democratic Doorkeeper to the House of Representatives, Speaker John McCormack said of Fishbait, 'The Doorkeeper does more work accidentally and achieves more accidentally than the Clerk of the House and the Sergeant-at-Arms combine... more »d.' Supervisor of 357 House employees and in charge of a budget of $3 million, Fishbait's duties ranged from mother hen to the high and mighty to errand boy and hatchet man. « less