Mandela and Pell

Pell was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during some of his final term in office -- the realization of a long dream. Here he is with Nelson Mandela, one of many world leaders he met as chairman, and during the years before, when he worked in his trademark low-key style toward his goal of world peace.
-- Photo courtesy of Dennis P. Riley.

Hideaway

Pell loved his hideaway office in the U.S. Capitol. There, he was surrounded by his books and photographs and paintings of his father and family members, and treasured mementos from his many campaigns. There, he greeted special visitors. There, he was in his element.
-- Photo courtesy of Dennis P. Riley.

Chairs Senate Foreign Relations

Pell realized his long-time ambition of chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the Democrats resumed control of the Senate in the 1986 mid-term elections. One of his most important roles would be shepherding the intermediate-range nuclear missile treaty (INF) to ratification -- a critical advance in his even longer-held dream of world peace. Here he is chairing the committee when debate opened on January 25, 1988. Secretary of State George P. Shultz is testifying. Long-time Pell nemesis Jesse Helms sits to the chairman's left.
-- Photo courtesy of Dennis P. Riley.

Teddy and Claiborne

Ted Kennedy eulogized his friend Claiborne at Pell's funeral in January 2009 -- the last major public address that he gave. The two were longtime buddies, in the Senate and in their personal lives. Here's a wonderful shot of the two in the 1960s.
-- Photo courtesy of Dennis Riley

Pell, and Presidents three

Throughout his career, of course, Pell had many occasions to be with the commander-in-chief; two, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton, who eulogized Pell at his funeral, were also personal friends. Here he is in the late 1970s with President Jimmy Carter, and past presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, whom Ford had pardoned for his Watergate transgressions.
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That different Pell look...

As the '70s progressed, Claiborne became increasingly known not only for his legislative accomplishments -- but also how he dressed which was, well, different. He wore his late father's clothes, even though Herbert was many sizes bigger, and when he took his daily jogs, he looked like... he looked like this. Running shoes, socks and shorts; topped with a suit jacket (I'm guessing from his Princeton days), and a shirt and tie. The chapter I am writing now gets into this other side of Pell in detail, and I am enjoying it immensely...

The third term begins...

After his 1972 reelection victory over John Chafee, Pell returned to Washington with an ambitious agenda, and his new look. The look symbolized a new period in his life, the subject (among others) of Chapter Six, which I am now writing.
Here is a photo of Pell in the fall of 1973.