In this article we ask what kind of benefit or disadvantage results from the fact that interviews are conducted, transcribed and archived by the same institution that ex-MPs have served during their political career. We also argue that oral history of MPs should be approached not only in terms of elite oral history as a given category, but also by paying attentio to the variation of ex-MPs experiences of political representation.The concept of institutional remembering provides frames for understanding interviews as communicative events, where both parites are active agents in positioning themselves and the other. In this article, we show how the questions posed by the interviewers are also a substential part of the data as they frame the concept of power in a negative or positive manner.