First year in office

I have now completed the biography through Pell's election to the Senate in 1960, a year in which he stunned the Democratic establishment by winning a three-way primary and then went on to bury his Republican opponent in the general election. I am currently writing what will be Chapter Four, about Pell's first term, during which he led the effort to create the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, which rank with the Pell Grants among his greatest achievements. Here is the freshman senator in the summer of 1961 in Washington, the Senate Building, speaking to some people from Rhode Island.