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U.S. Senate:
U.S. Senate: Press Relations/Media
Activity Records,
1973-1996, 101 boxes.
Cohen's
press secretaries and their assistants communicated with Cohen's constituents through
newsletters, press releases, weekly columns, specialized mailings, and radio and
television broadcasts. Cohen was featured on a weekly radio program for several years, and
from 1989-1991 he and Senator George Mitchell had their own monthly television program
entitled Washington Perspective. This program provided a timely way for the Senators to talk
about their positions on a number of issues, and to receive feedback from their
constituents. The press staff was also responsible for maintaining speech files, newspaper
clippings, and information on important issues. Audiovisual materials, such as videos of
Cohen's appearances on television talk shows and tapes made of his speeches were also
maintained by Cohen's press staff, and these materials will be processed during the year
2000, and filed under the Audiovisual and Photographs series.
The press
secretaries in the Cohen Senate office were Thomas Bright (1979), Alan Brewer (1980), Bob
Tyrer (1982-1986, with assistants Michele Carpentier, Mary Beth Carozza, Kim Corthell,
Donna Saucier, and Debi Griffith), and Kathyrn Gest (1987-1996, with assistants John
Siafsky, Douglas Jones, Laura Head, Michael Townsend, and Andy Antrobus).
Records
in this series are divided into five subseries: a) Administrative press
files, b) Columns,
releases, radio beepers, d) Issue files, e) Newspaper
clippings, and f) Speeches. |
