Attic: Center of Attention - Roll Call

Attic: Center of Attention

By Roll Call Staff

Posted July 20, 2011 at 6:32pm

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. Charles McNary attracts reporters at the Capitol on July 1, 1940. A long-serving Senator, he was picked by GOP nominee Wendell Willkie as a running mate. The campaign lost to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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