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Privacy, Publicity, and Propriety in Congressional Eulogies for Representative Stewart B. McKinney (R-Conn.)
- Rhetoric & Public Affairs
- Michigan State University Press
- Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 2004
- pp. 191-214
- 10.1353/rap.2004.0034
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When U.S. House Representative Stewart B. McKinney (R-Conn.) died of AIDS-related causes on May 7, 1987, while still in office, House representatives and senators eulogized the departed from their respective chamber floors. An examination of these eulogies reveals Congress members' extraordinary concern about propriety within their forums, particularly with regard to the proper boundaries between the public and the private.