Images and Artifacts

Boggs Family Outside the Capitol, 1950

Boggs Family Outside the Capitol, 1950

The Boggs family walks along the East Front plaza along the House side of the Capitol in this 1950 image. From left to right, Cokie, Hale, Tommy, Lindy, and Barbara.

Image courtesy of Cokie Roberts, provided by Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Boggs Family at President Harry S. Truman’s Inauguration, 1949

Boggs Family at President Harry S. Truman?s Inauguration, 1949

In this image, the Boggs family (Tommy, Barbara, Lindy, and Lindy’s mother, Corinne Morrison Keller) watch the inauguration of President Harry S. Truman in 1949.

Image courtesy of Cokie Roberts, provided by Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Cokie Roberts with Representative Lindy Boggs and Barbara Boggs Sigmund

Cokie Roberts with Representative Lindy Boggs and Barbara Boggs Sigmund

From left to right, Cokie Roberts, her mother, Representative Lindy Boggs, and sister, Barbara Boggs Sigmund.

Image courtesy of Cokie Roberts, provided by Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Cokie Roberts with her father, Representative Hale Boggs

Cokie Roberts with her father, Representative Hale Boggs

Cokie Roberts looks over the shoulder of her father, Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, who would eventually serve as Majority Whip and Majority Leader. Roberts spent considerable time in the Capitol during her childhood.

Image courtesy of Cokie Roberts, provided by Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Majority Whip Hale Boggs with Speaker of the House John McCormack

Majority Whip Hale Boggs with Speaker of the House John McCormack

Majority Whip Hale Boggs of Louisiana chats with Speaker of the House John McCormack of Massachusetts on a stairwell that leads to the House Chamber.

Image courtesy of Cokie Roberts, provided by Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives