The Public Interest

Reflections of a Senate aide

Michael A. Scully

Spring 1977

I had been working in the Senate only two weeks, and enjoying it very much. I especially relished the greatest privilege of a legislative aide-easy access to the Senate floor-and, in my new blue suit, did everything in my power to be mistaken for a Senator.


 

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