Episode 16 - Reflections from Young Max

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DescriptionFormer U.S. Senator and Ambassador to China Max Baucus serves the Constitutional Convention as Committee Coordinator and Interim Executive Director. Max was born in 1941 in Helena. Baucus lived in California until he was two, when he returned to Helena, graduating high school there. Attending Carleton College in Minnesota for a year, he transferred to Stanford University, where he received a BA in economics and a JD degree from Stanford Law School. Baucus spent three years as an attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. before moving back to Montana in late 1971

At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention Max opened a law office in Missoula, and was elected to as a Democrat to the Montana House of Representatives in 1972. After serving one term, in 1974 Baucus ran a successful campaign for US Representative from Montana’s Western Congressional District, unseating Republican Congressman Dick Shoup. Max planned to run for Senator Lee Metcalf’s seat in 1978 as Metcalf had announced he would not run again. But then early in 1978 Lee Metcalf died. Governor Tom Judge appointed Montana Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Hatfield to Metcalf’s vacant seat and in the June 1978 Democratic Primary, Max defeated Hatfield and went on to win the Senate seat in the General Election of 1978.

Max served in the U.S. Senate from 1978 to 2013, becoming Montana’s longest serving U.S. Senator. On April 23, 2013, after indicating he would not seek a seventh term, President Barack Obama nominated Max Baucus to be Ambassador of the United States of America to China. He was confirmed by the Senate on February 6, 2014 and served as Ambassador until 2017. Since that time, Max and spouse Melodee Haines have been retired in the Bozeman.

In this episode, Max discusses his personal path leading up to becoming a staff member of the Constitutional Convention, his commitment to returning to Montana and living here, his belief in public service, his activities at the Convention, including becoming Interim Executive Director during the Convention itself. He reflects on the leadership of the ConCon and a number of delegates, particularly delegates from Missoula. TypeMoving ImageCreatorHelena Civic Television and Orphan Girl ProductionIntervieweeMax BaucusInterviewerBarrett, EvanGenredigital videoLanguageengDate2022SubjectConstitutionConstitutional ConventionsGovernmentLegislative bodies--CommitteesContributing InstitutionOrphan Girl ProductionsGeographic CoverageMontanaTime Period Represented1971-1972Digital CollectionLast Best Constitution - Montana's 1972 Constitutional Convention & Constitution: a Video RetrospectiveDigital Formatvideo/mp4Digitization SpecificationsIntegrated Studio:
Three camera system designed around the Panasonic AW HE130 p PTZ camera platform. Kino Flo set lighting. Sony ECM 44B lapel microphones. Mackie audio mixer. Ross Carbonite source A/V switcher with Expression CG package. Blackmagic Designs Hyper deck A/V recorder set to capture the Apple ProRes codec.

Postproduction:
Audio and video edits, Final Cut Pro Studio package deployed in the iMac system. Graphics designs and editing, Adobe Photoshop. Open animation and closing credit creation, Adobe After Effects. Transcoding, Adobe Media Encoder and Final Cut Pro.

Zoom interface capture:
Blackmagic Designs ATEM mini switcher Date Digitized2022

CollectionLast Best Constitution - Montana's 1972 Constitutional Convention & Constitution: a Video RetrospectiveRelated Exhibit1972 Montana Constitutional Convention

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