Fishbait: The Memoirs of the Congressional Doorkeeper

Fishbait: The Memoirs of the Congressional Doorkeeper by Miller William. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780133204162.

Hes William Fishbait Miller, and for 28 of his 42 years on Capitol Hill (1933-1975) he served as Democratic Doorkeeper to the House of Representatives, Speaker John McCormack said of Fishbait, The Doorkeeper does more work accidentally and achieves more accidentally than the Clerk of the House and the Sergeant-at-Arms combined. Supervisor of 357 House employees and in charge of a budget of $3 million, Fishbaits duties ranged from mother hen to the high and mighty to errand boy and hatchet man.