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instituted between 1978 and 1991 (see page 35). Most new publications, including the volumes mentioned earlier, centered on congressional history. The Society also sponsored a major celebration of the bicentennial of the House Ways and Means Committee in 1989. The Society's Oral History Program made an auspicious beginning with the presentation of the first transcript to the Library of Congress in 1978. Other Society productions focused on the Capitol, including a booklet on the Allyn Cox murals, "A Place of Resounding Deeds" video, and an art and architectural history fellowship. ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM PRESIDENT SCHWENGEL and Frank van der Linden presented the first transcript produced by the Society's Oral History Congress and other government officials. Frank van der Linden, a respected journalist and historian with years of experience covering Congress, was chosen to direct the program. The first transcript deposited in the Library of Congress consisted of 151 pages of interviews with former Sen. Hugh Scott. Others interviewed over the years included Senators Robert C. Byrd, Jennings Randolph, and Albert Gore, Sr., Representatives Carl Albert and Tom Steed, Society President Fred Schwengel, and artist Allyn Cox. In 1989 the program was expanded to allow van der Linden to interview participants involved in current breaking events. Military and civilian leaders and Members of Congress recorded their views on Operation Desert Storm in 1991, for example. BOOKS, FILMS, AND FELLOWSHIPS Society Associate Historian Mary Lee Kerr compiled and edited the twovolume collection of speeches given by visiting foreign dignitaries to the United States Congress. The volumes were published in 1989. Program to the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress in 1978. The program was authorized in 1975 to record interviews with current and former Members of WINTER 2013 THE SOCIETY PRODUCED an entirely new edition of Washington Past and Present in 1983, coauthored by Society staff historians Richard Striner and Donald Kennon. The book was designed and edited by a freelance team of National Geographic Society personnel following the same formula and format as We, the People to produce an attractive guidebook to the nation's capital. It was awarded the George Washington Honor Medal by the Freedom's Foundation at Valley Forge in 1984. A freelance team from NGS also assisted with the publication in 1986 of The American Story in Art: The Murals of Allyn Cox in the U.S. Capitol, which was produced by the Society and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Richard Striner supervised the preparation of the text written by Society intern Robert Schwengel. The 48-page booklet provided a guide to the Cox murals, with schematics and illustrations of the murals as well as an interpretive text. The Society produced the first comprehensive history of the House Committee on Ways and Means for the committee's bicentennial in 1989. That year also witnessed the publication of The Speakers of the House of Representatives: A Bibliography, 1789-1984 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The bibliography had been in preparation for a decade, with research performed at the Library of Congress. The publication marked the first scholarly reference work devoted to the Speakers of the House of Representatives. The book featured brief biographical sketches and categorized listings of more than 4,200 pertinent books, articles, dissertations, and manuscript collections. The first copy of the bibliography was presented to Speaker Thomas P O'Neill by President Schwengel . in a special ceremony in the Capitol on February 5, 1986. The Society also announced in 1986 the creation of a research fellowship program in cooperation with the Office of the Architect of the Capitol. The fellowship offered modest stipends to assist research and publication on the art and architectural history of the Capitol. The program was THE CAPITOL DOME 37