he is basically just opening up an intersection, and the reason he came is because robert s kerr wanted him to come. oncef robert s kerr you to come, you do it. so i show you this furniture from his various offices. here is the queen's chair again. the sofa, speaker albert was napping on the sofa when he found out that's bureau agnew -- that spiro agnew resigned and albert was next in line for the presidency. so agnew resigned. there was no vice president. some admiral democrats wanted to have a plan to get albert into the presidency. you could replace a republican, nixon, to speaker albert. albert was opposed to this. he thought it was not fair to have a democrat or place a republican, but being albert, he was prepared. this document is a memo written by ted sorensen to speaker albert, labeled personal and confidential, but it lays out what should albert do if he becomes president. so you can look. it says step one, take the oath of office. step two, physically taking over the office. step three, resign from the house. this is another thing albert would have had to do, resign as speake

we have lyndon johnson, robert s kerr, the back of kennedy's head. they are all looking at alan shepard, who is an astronaut. they are all paying attention to alan shepard. the next collection is the mike steinhauer collection. he's pretty liberal. he's elected first in 1978. he's only 28 years old. he was a fighter. he took on big tobacco. he fights with the nra. he's not afraid to take on the big issues. he eventually gets hurt politically. he ends up losing in the democratic primary in 1994. his opponent up funding from the nra and big tobacco. his big fights came back against him politically. he wanted to do the right thing. he always said he would go to congress to take the heart to congress, not to shy away from the problem. the other collections are a little sanitized. his collection came to us as is. the documents here show who mike steinhauer is. they show who his staff are. we gotten to know his staff over the years as well. one thing steinhauer was known -- under thease reagan administration, congress that ceded power from the comptroller

the papers and objects we have here are from the robert s kerr collection. a senator from oklahoma. which born in eda, was indian territory. he is from a hardscrabble background, grew up very poor but worked his way up. while in the senate, kerr had a lot of priorities. i would say his number one priority was the arkansas river bed project. the arkansas river runs through part of oklahoma. it. -- it goes through tulsa. it connects up with the mississippi river. there are lots of things he wanted to accomplish with the arkansas river been project. oklahoma has lots of issues with wether, -- with weather, have tornadoes, droughts and floods. we try to make up for our droughts with a week's worth of rain a year. it would help with flooding, get some dams and energy, but also be able to negative aga -- to navigate through the river to get to other areas on the mississippi. it was not fully funded until after he died in 1963. he was able to accomplish a lot of this, becoming chair of the public works committee. the public works committee is a committee, where its