Didn't all these kids working at the senate have school???
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Summer holidays?
It was before camps existed, remember!
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Those kids are Senate Pages, and you still find them in the Senate (although they're a little bit older than those in the movie). They attend the Senate Page School.
shareYeah, probably during summer. July session?
shareNo, pages are there in spring and fall, when Senate is in session. It's like an internship. It has nothing to do with it being summer or a camp or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Page
It's right there on wiki.
The House has them also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_Pa ge
I thought they looked so cute in their little suits, running around. They certainly seemed very well-spoken and knowledgeable - If that's what interning is doing for them, it's almost better than school.
‘Six inches is perfectly adequate; more is vulgar!' (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Re: An open window).
They had a special school back then. Fortunately, by 1983, pages were 17 or so. That was the era of the Stubbs gay sex scandal of having sex with the pages. The jokes back then was that they banned Senator Stubbs from the Library of Congress because he bent the pages.
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