Interview includes discussions of: Aroostook County, 1946-1999; Maine Democratic Party post- 1946; Party organization; Violette’s contributions to the 1960s Maine legislature; the seclusion of Aroostook County; Dickey-Lincoln; Allagash Wilderness Waterway; Sumner Pike; running against Margaret Chase Smith; 1968 Maine Convention debates; Ed Muskie’s 1968 Vice Presidential campaign; Congressional campaigns of the early 1970s; politics as a justice; Bob Haskell; and John Martin.
Interview includes discussions of: Violette family history; Van Buren, Maine history; unions; Catholicism; Maine House of Representatives in 1946; Muskie in the Maine State Legislature; and St. John Valley, 1919-1948.
