Angus King

Had a helper looking over my shoulder this morning as I was working on office correspondence (we get about 3,000 calls and emails a WEEK and I try to see that everyone gets a substantive response; that’s what’s in the notebook on my lap). Libby is a pup being fostered by one of my staff members a...

Why did you vote for the terrible Continuing Resolution??” many have asked in the last few hours (some expressed the same sentiment in somewhat more colorful language) and it deserves a direct answer. This decision was nowhere near as easy as many seem to think. We were faced with two terrible ch...

A wartime Prime Minister visits the White House, 1942. Just sayin’. #churchill #whitehousevisit #allies

Our offices have been swamped with calls in the last several weeks (about 3,000 a day) from people worried about what’s going on down here with the firings, foreign policy reversals, and agency closures, to the point that I pitched in on a few calls myself (the callers were some surprised). I als...

Abraham Lincoln’s second Inaugural, March 4, 1865. This picture is somewhat eerie in that the man in the upper deck with no hat is John Wilkes Booth, who, of course, murdered Lincoln five weeks later. This photo was part of my presentation at the Senate Prayer Breakfast two weeks ago on Lincoln’s...

A rare snow day in Washington and a poignant moment at the Capitol. As a joint session of Congress looked on, Vice President Harris (in her Constitutionally prescribed role as President of the Senate) officially declared Donald Trump’s election to the Presidency and her own defeat, just as Al Gor...

OK, this is pretty cool. Today, the President signed a proclamation designating the Frances Perkins homestead in Newcastle as a National Monument—and this is one of the three pens he used to sign. He handed the first pen to Frances Perkins’ grandson, the second to the acting Secretary of Labor an...

Mary and I visited a friend in the small western Maine town of Porter this weekend and came upon this wonderful country chapel on a dirt road at the edge of town. It reminded me of our Wednesday morning Senate prayer breakfasts in the basement of the Capitol. Each week, 15 or 20 of us get togethe...

My admiration for Joshua Chamberlain is well known; I have a bust of him in my office in Washington, have taught about his life, and even live half a block from his house. But a friend who was at our election night party has taken admiration of Maine’s greatest citizen to a new and unmatched leve...

For the first time in my life, I know a presidential candidate personally, and I got to know Kamala Harris in a unique way. Twice a week for four years, she sat next to me in the Senate Intelligence Committee—questioning witnesses, sparring with the chairman, and engaging with some really difficu...

Summer’s (semi-official) end, first at a friend’s camp, and then (swipe left) last night at the Statehouse in Augusta. Been traveling lately—Houlton, Madawaska, Van Buren, Presque Isle, Houlton (again), Millinocket, East Millinocket (hey, they’re separate towns!), Portland, Bridgton, Camden, Belf...

The Rolling Stones (cover band) in Bridgton, Maine! Music on Main is a wonderful program of free concerts in the middle of downtown Bridgton complete with 15 food trucks (OK, I went straight for the ribs), a great sound system, and bring-your-own-lawnchairs seating. I’m guessing there were at lea...