Podcast appearances and mentions of donald ritchie

To close out Women's History Month on the THINK HUMANITIES podcast, Bill Goodman talks to Terry Birdwhistell from the Nunn Center for Oral History and Donald Ritchie, Historian Emeritus of the US Senate, about their new book "Washington's Iron Butterfly: Bess Clements Abell, An Oral History." THINK HUMANITIES is made possible by generous support from the Spalding University Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing.

Hal Wilson's guest is Donald Ritchie and they're discussing Ritchie's book The Columnist about the life and work of the famous columnist Drew Pearson. Ritchie is the Historian Emeritus of the US Senate. He conducted an oral history program at the Senate and edited for publication the transcripts of the previously closed hearings of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Don Ritchie is the author of more than 30 books.

Donald Ritchie, historian emeritus of the U.S. Senate, talks about the influence of Drew Pearson's muckraking “Washington Merry-Go-Round” columns, which derailed many political careers in Washington and drew the ire of every president from FDR to Nixon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week, Helen and Ryan speak to Donald Ritchie, author of the new book The Columnist: Leaks, Lies and Libel in Drew Pearson's Washington, about the life of the legendary gossip. In the intro segment, immigration changes and the fall of Anthony Fauci.

In the second of a three-part series on impeachment, join host Chris Gober and guests Donald Ritchie and Professor Daniel Freeman as they look beyond the politics to develop a more solid understanding of the impeachment process. Episode two takes a deeper dive into the rules and legal standards in the U.S. House, such as what does and does not constitute an impeachable offense, what power the House has to subpoena witnesses and which impeachment rules are interpreted from, versus dictated by, the U.S. Constitution.

Host Chris Gober kicks off the Unpundit Podcast with a three-part series on how impeachment really works. Expert guests include Donald Ritchie, historian emeritus for the U.S. Senate who served as the Senate historian during the Clinton impeachment, and Daniel M. Freeman, J.D., fellow at the American University Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. Daniel was counsel and parliamentarian for the House Judiciary Committee under three separate chairmen, both Democrat and Republican, and the only staff lawyer in history to have worked on four impeachments. Episode 1 focuses on the overall impeachment process from a historical, constitutional perspective, featuring anecdotes from Dan and Don about their real-life impeachment experiences.

Historian emeritus of the U.S. Senate, Donald Ritchie, talks about the process and history of Senate impeachment trials, including those of Presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In which we discuss the results of the Peachtree Road Race (with a special guest appearance from Michelle Frank!), the start of the Tour de France, the death of Donald Ritchie, and some research related to the brain, endurance, mental health, and injury.

For spring break, we are going to take you on the ultimate insider’s tour of the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol. Your guide: Senate historian Donald Ritchie, who will retire in May after nearly 40 years in the Senate Historical Office. The office serves as the Senate's “institutional memory,” according to its Website, collecting information on important dates, precedents and statistics. But it is so much more. Movie set designers, mystery writers and biographers have depended on Donald Ritchie to answer the serious and the trivial questions about everything from carpet color to whether this is actually the most do-nothing Congress. We asked Ritchie for a tour of some of his favorite places in the Senate – and some of our's too – such as: --Lyndon Johnson’s Senate office, nicknamed “the Taj Mahal” for its ornate decorations. --The Old Senate Chamber, where the Senate met from 1810 to 1859. When senators first gathered there, there were 32 of them. By the time they moved out in 1859, there were 64 -- and no more room. It also is the room where abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner was severely beaten by a Southern lawmaker during the pre-Civil War debates over slavery. --The original Library of Congress – a small room that started as a law library. When the British set the Capitol on fire in 1814, they used the books in this library as fuel for the blaze. Thomas Jefferson sold his private book collection to the federal government to restock the facility and the rest is, well, library history. --The Senate bathtubs tucked deep in the Capitol. Marble soaking tubs date back to the 1850s and were a pleasure -- and hygienic necessity -- when senators would arrive after long, hot carriage rides. So come behind the scenes with guest host Todd Zwillich and Senate historian Donald Richie on this week’s DecodeDC podcast. And for a look at the some of the sites we visited, check out the slideshow below from our staff photographer, Matt Anzur. You also can see full size versions of the images on the Scripps Washington bureau Flickr page.

Washington journalist and historian John Muller talks about his new book, "Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent," which chronicles Twain's time in Washington. Joining Muller is Donald Ritchie, historian of the U.S. Senate, who wrote one of the book's forewords and authored "Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents."

This week on New Books in History we interviewed Donald Ritchie about his new book Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932 (University Press of Kansas, 2007). Ritchie is an associate historian at the U.S. Senate Historical Office and is also the author of seven other books, including the Richard W. Leopold prize-winning Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents. In Electing FDR, Ritchie argues that, contrary to popular belief, it was not inevitable that FDR would become president in 1932. There were multiple factors standing in the way of FDR's election, and it was only through successful campaign strategies that FDR was able to overcome those obstacles. Patrick J. Maney, author of The Roosevelt Presence: The Life and Legacy of FDR, calls Electing FDR “The best account of the most important presidential campaign of the twentieth century. Holds some surprising lessons for today's presidential candidates.” Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven't already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices