Photo From the Attic: A Form of Flattery

By Roll Call Staff

Posted October 28, 2009 at 5:48pm

[IMGCAP(1)]Former Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio) poses in his office in October 1997 with an unidentified young man who apparently believed that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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