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I can't remember the year.
Well, it would have been the '72 election, I believe.
I was there from '70 to '76, and the election was in '60, '64, '70, '74 - so it had to be '74. It may
have been in '73, getting ready for '74.
What did you think about that?
Well, I thought, "That'd be great to work for a President," you know. But I didn't think he had a
chance. And he made atrip or two to New Hampshire, I guess it was, like everyone would do.
And I had nothing to do with that. But I got involved when he was really working at it quite
strongly with Dick Cudahy. Dick Cudahy was his manager, and that's before Dick became a
federal Judge. I guess he was running the State Party, and he still had a hand in on the packing
company. And he took us there one time to see the hogs being killed. I didn't think much of that.
In any event, I found out about Prox's - that he had a hideaway. He had enough seniority to have
a hideaway in the Capitol, which was a little office that the senior Senators had on the east side
of the Capitol. And so he used to go up to the hideaway and make telephone calls from there, and
that was about the campaign. And I didn't even know he had one. But the bad part about that was
when he decided he didn't have a chance and he was going to call a press conference in
Milwaukee to say he was not going to run. But I was supposed to scare up reporters to be there,
but he didn't want to say what the subject was, other than it had to do with the presidential
campaign. Well the reporters, especially television guys - back then, it was a different business
Carl Eifert Interview Transcript 39 Proxmire Oral History Project
Object Description
| Title | An oral history interview with Carl Eifert |
| Author/Creator | Eifert, Carl |
| Additional Authors/Creators | Hecht, Anita |
| Description | Carl August Eifert was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Columbus, Ohio, the only child of Karl and Frances Eifert. In 1945, he entered Notre Dame, where he graduated cum laude with a BA degree in journalism. After graduating, Eifert worked for the United Press in Columbus, and then served as Madison Bureau Chief for The Milwaukee Journal. He was editor and publicist for the Madison Council for Economic Growth, Technology, and Public Policy of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. He later worked as city editor and special projects writer for The Paper for Central Wisconsin in Oshkosh. Eifert met William Proxmire during his gubernatorial campaign in 1954. In 1957, Eifert covered Proxmire's senate race and became his press secretary. He recalls piquing Sen. Proxmire's interest in repealing the Federal Communications Commission equal time rule and fairness doctrine. When Eifert retired from Sen. Proxmire's office, he recommended that his own position of press secretary be eliminated and Sen. Proxmire agreed. After the 1976 election, Eifert became director of the Office of Congressional Relations for the Consumer Product Safety Commission. He then worked as a speech writer for Ruth Clusen, the Department of Energy's assistant secretary for environment. Eifert later became editor for Congress' Joint Economic Committee and retired as editor for the Catholic News Service. |
| Language | English |
| Decade | 1950-1959; 1960-1969; 1970-1979; 1980-1989; |
| Type | Interview Transcript |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2011 |
| Rights | Copyright 2011 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Digital Format | XML |
| Digital Identifier | Eifert.trn.final |
| Source Creation Date | 2009-07-06 |
Description
| Title | Page 39 |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Proxmire-Presidential Aspirations; Proxmire-Elections |
| Type | Interview Transcript |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2011 |
| Rights | Copyright 2011 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Digital Format | JPEG2000 |
| Digital Identifier | Eifert.trn.final_Page_39 |
| Full Text | I can't remember the year. Well, it would have been the '72 election, I believe. I was there from '70 to '76, and the election was in '60, '64, '70, '74 - so it had to be '74. It may have been in '73, getting ready for '74. What did you think about that? Well, I thought, "That'd be great to work for a President" you know. But I didn't think he had a chance. And he made atrip or two to New Hampshire, I guess it was, like everyone would do. And I had nothing to do with that. But I got involved when he was really working at it quite strongly with Dick Cudahy. Dick Cudahy was his manager, and that's before Dick became a federal Judge. I guess he was running the State Party, and he still had a hand in on the packing company. And he took us there one time to see the hogs being killed. I didn't think much of that. In any event, I found out about Prox's - that he had a hideaway. He had enough seniority to have a hideaway in the Capitol, which was a little office that the senior Senators had on the east side of the Capitol. And so he used to go up to the hideaway and make telephone calls from there, and that was about the campaign. And I didn't even know he had one. But the bad part about that was when he decided he didn't have a chance and he was going to call a press conference in Milwaukee to say he was not going to run. But I was supposed to scare up reporters to be there, but he didn't want to say what the subject was, other than it had to do with the presidential campaign. Well the reporters, especially television guys - back then, it was a different business Carl Eifert Interview Transcript 39 Proxmire Oral History Project |
| Source Creation Date | 2009-07-06 |