Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires 12/15/1983
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
55.06 Cokie Roberts intro report on Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia), the only remaining Senator who served in the "First 100 Days" of the New Deal, announced retirement at end of his current term.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
15.55.41 Do not use film narration. Grainy film stock of bread lines during Great Depression. Soup line, soup being dished up.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
56.03 Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) in office, speaking about the Great Depression. There was a searching going on. There was a gloom in the country. There was almost a doom that settled across the country in those days.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
56.18 DO NOT USE Stills of Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia), from 1932 Congressional Campaign poster, Randolph and wife.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
56.31 1933 Grainy B/W film stock of Franklin D Roosevelt inauguration. FDR speaking, "only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Crowd outside of Capitol for inauguration.
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57.02 Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) speaking about Franklin D Roosevelt. I think we had a hope. And I remember Mary saying to me, I think that if anyone can do it, I think he can. And that was the spirit in those days.
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57.13 DO NOT USE Stills of RANDOLPH with FDR, FDR in OVAL OFFICE signing a bill.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
57.27 Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) remembers the near-unanimous support for most New Deal programs. We passed the Emergency Banking Act without a dissenting vote. And in the Senate was 73 to 7. I m only spelling out it s different today as the White House and the Hill, let s say fight back and forth with almost confrontation. It then was a cooperative spirit. It had to be! We had to be unified in those days.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
15.57.51 DO NOT USE Still photos of railroad workers and road crews from WPA projects. Sen. RANDOLPH v.o.-nowadays, people scoff at the NEW DEAL as "makework" or trivialize it, but people were at work building bridges and roads and towns.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
58.25 Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) says he proposed the interstate road system. In 1937 I offered the first legislation to build a nation-wide system of highways.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
58.38 Drive by of West Virginia countryside from highway, old mining chute on hillside opposite car.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
58.47 Representative Harley Staggers (D - West Virginia) says, The one truth I associate with Jennings Randolph is his visions into the future. I think that even now, when he talks about the issues he still has a - it s as if it s not tied to the present. And he s able to transcend that and look to the future.
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59.10 1980s Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) riding in back of big Cadillac convertible through a small town street in a parade, shots of Randolph with supporters.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
15.59.35 Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) in office says, I have also been active all through these years in work for the handicapped. And I did create, in a sense, the first sub-committee on the handicapped which was in the Senate. And I served as its chairman.
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16.00 1980s Clerk at newsstand in a public building. C/S a Visually impaired clerk, Veronica Holt. She says it's a great opportunity to work that wouldn't be there without Randolph. Woman operating cash register.
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16.00.34 Voters at polls.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
00.46 Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) says he's disappointed that young people aren't voting in high numbers. I m saddened today about one piece of legislation that I authored. And that was the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, the last we have as you know. What happened? I thought those young people would vote. I took hundreds of them in to register and all. But Cokie they re not voting.
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01.08 Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) in committee meetings
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
01.23 DO NOT USE Still of Randolph shaking hands with REAGAN. ROBERTS v.o.-disc. of RANDOLPH'S status as a Democratic maverick.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
01.30 Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) in office says FDR was the greatest president. (All these Presidents. I could list them all.) I ve enjoyed those times I ve been privileged to work with them. Cokie Roberts, But Roosevelt in some ways the most? Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia), Oh yes. I put him at the top of the list. I surely do.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
16.01.41 DO NOT USE Still of RANDOLPH and Rep. CLAUDE PEPPER (D-FL) sitting holding portrait of FDR.
Lawmakers - Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) retires
01.49 Representative Claude Pepper (D - Florida). I hate to see Jennings leave the government. I hate to see him leave Congress. I think he stands for something we need to remember - something that s meaningful to the country. And I wished he had stayed on. He looks like he s in good health. Representative Harley Staggers (D - West Virginia) says, The type of person that he was, that could devote his life basically for public service and doing such a great job, I think will always be treasured by the people of West Virginia looking back on that. Representative Claude Pepper (D - Florida) says Randolph will be remembered as an able and compassionate official. It will be that of a very able man. A man with a great and warm sense of compassion. A man who genuinely cares for people.
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02.49 1933 Clip of Franklin D Roosevelt riding in car in inaugural parade, spectators at parade.
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03.23 Senator Jennings Randolph (D - West Virginia) (I m not believing that tomorrow is going to be a bad tomorrow. I don t believe that. Each day, and if this sounds sort of namby-pamby , each day I look through the window of my bedroom, out into that world, and I say these words so that I may hear them, but quietly but speak them. This is not just another day. This is a new day. ) And I d like to believe that America can lift itself again. Walk straight and strong. And be a leader for peace and understanding in a world that is troubled beyond almost realization.