Show Notes
Chris O'Brien, PhD, Director of the Senator Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan, Maine, discusses her life and the collection available to researchers.
Hosted by Claude Berube, PhD.
Senator Smith's "Declaration of Conscience" speech can be found here: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/margaretchasesmithconscience.html
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