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Pat Williams Interview, 1989
No full textPat Williams discusses Mike Mansfield’s legacy as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and Ambassador to Japan. He talks about the precedent that Mike Mansfield’s tenure as a U.S. Senator from Montana has set for future Montana senators.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mansfieldsamerica_oralhistory/1006/thumbnail.jp
Pat Williams Interview, May 15, 1997
No full textPat Williams talks about the public’s changing relationship with wilderness, and the correlation between that and various wilderness bills that were passed or failed to pass. He describes the evolution of the wise-use movement and its relationship to both conservation and extractive pressure groups to that movement. Williams dissects the split in the conservation movement, mentioning the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA).https://scholarworks.umt.edu/patwilliams_interviews/1001/thumbnail.jp
Pat Williams Interview, April 10, 2013
No full textMontana politician Pat Williams, who grew up with Ed Lahey in Butte, Montana, shares stories of his time meeting with Lahey in Missoula and his never-ending curiosity about Lahey’s talent and process as a writer. Williams talks about his shared Irish heritage and mining background with Lahey. Williams explains how those similarities play into Lahey’s personality as well as how they are demonstrated in Lahey’s poetry. He also recalls how Lahey used his poetry as a platform to express his strong political views.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/edlahey/1006/thumbnail.jp
Pat Williams Interview, June 12, 1997
No full textPat Williams talks about his wilderness proposal for 1.7 million acres of national forest in Montana. He discusses Montanans’ views on wilderness and how water and wilderness are inextricably linked. Williams recalls defeating the Secretary of Interior’s proposal to open the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana to oil exploration. He describes defeating Ron Marlenee in the 1992 election for Montana’s only U. S. House of Representatives seat based on his views about Montana wilderness protection. Williams concludes by discussing Montanans’ close relationship to wilderness and land and it effect on their livelihoods.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/patwilliams_interviews/1002/thumbnail.jp
Pat Williams Interview, November 20, 2015
No full textPat Williams remembers his childhood in Butte, Montana, and early tenure in the Montana state legislature in the mid-to-late 20th century. Williams recalls growing up working in his father’s restaurants in Butte, and the changing Butte culture from his childhood to the present. He discusses his first campaign, running to be a Montana legislator from Silver Bow County, and navigating Butte political scene. He describes his dealings with the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and its complicated relationship with the people of Butte and of Montana. Williams discusses members of the legislature he admired, and legislation he supported or introduced early in his career.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/brown/1076/thumbnail.jp
Pat Williams Interview, May 12, 1997
No full textPat Williams describes his early childhood in Butte, Montana and spending time with his maternal grandmother, an Irish immigrant who told him stories of her immigration to America. He discusses how living in Butte, Montana, shaped his political views due to Butte’s culture of political engagement. Williams also recalls how his management of the multi-state vocational Mountain Plans Education and Economic Development Program at the Glasgow Airforce Base, shaped his understanding of the welfare system and unemployment in the United States.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/patwilliams_interviews/1003/thumbnail.jp
Pat Williams Interview, September 24, 2014
No full textPat Williams recalls his battle to obtain funding for the National Endowment for the Arts during his career as a United States senator from Montana. He describes serving on the Select Education subcommittee of the Education Committee from 1979-1997, and fighting to preserve the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funding in the 1980s and 1990s, beginning with the Reagan Administration. Williams discusses reworking obscenity language in the NEA reauthorization bill in 1989, and creating language to mandate quality over content, including Supreme Court-mandated definitions of profanity and obscenity. He talks about various senators with whom he worked on arts funding, and several artists whose works prompted scrutiny of NEA funding. Williams discusses constituents’ reactions to the NEA and freedom of speech in the United States.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mtpolitics_oralhistory/1011/thumbnail.jp
Pat Williams Interview, November 23, 2015
No full textPat Williams recalls serving as a representative from Butte, Montana, in the Montana legislature, and serving in the U.S. House as a representative from Montana from the 1960s through the 1990s. He discusses the Montana delegation from Butte and his own actions, as well as those of other Butte legislators in the Montana House. Williams recalls leaving the Montana legislature to work as a staffer for John Melcher in the U.S. House. He describes his return to Montana, working in education, his first, defeated bid for the U.S. House, and his subsequent successful bid and election. He discusses the various committees he worked on, and his interactions with other representatives like Morris Udall, Tip O’Neill, and Mike Lowry. He recalls particular legislation he pushed to pass, as well as his work on subjects like labor, wilderness, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Native American recognition.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/brown/1077/thumbnail.jp
Episode 15: The Other Side of the Doors: The Early Butte Years & Beyond - Congressman Pat Williams
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For more discussion with Congressman Pat Williams on this topic, view Montana: 1965 to 1980 - The Other Side of the Doors - Butte & Beyondhttps://digitalcommons.mtech.edu/crucible_episodes/1014/thumbnail.jp
Letter to Pat Williams
No full textLetter from James J. McLaughlin to Pat Williams notifying Williams of her nomination for the office of Vice-President for International Union of Operating Engineers Local 501
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