Artifacts
A longtime aide described blue-blooded patrician Millicent Fenwick of New Jersey as “the Katherine Hepburn of politics. With her dignity and elegance, she could get away with saying things others couldn’t.” Fenwick also earned the nickname “the conscious of Congress” for her dedication to campaign finance reform and the rehabilitation of government in the midst of Watergate and numerous Congressional scandals.
Millicent Fenwick Campaign Button, c. 1979, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives