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...assumption of presidential authority, Edith misplayed her hand. Had she been forthright about her husband's condition and allowed his Cabinet to honestly assess his condition and assume some of the presidential authority, the U.S. rejection of the League of Nations treaty might have been avoided, altering the bitter environment that encouraged World...
...attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last Tuesday has galvanized not only the country but also the U.S. Congress. Politicians who were bitter enemies last Monday were working hand-in-hand last week in bipartisanship Washington hasn't seen since the days after Pearl Harbor...
...attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last Tuesday has galvanized not only the country but also the U.S. Congress. Politicians who were bitter enemies last Monday were working hand-in-hand last week in bipartisanship Washington hasn't seen since the days after Pearl Harbor...
...gathered together on couches and chairs in Speaker Dennis Hastert's private office in the Capitol. Hastert and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt sat together on a couch. In the previous two days, they had talked to each other more than they had in the entire past year. (So bitter had been their political feuding in the past, when Hastert had information to pass along to Gephardt he had Minority Leader Dick Armey make the phone call.) Now Hastert and Gephardt sat side by side - grumpy old men who had made up, at least for the moment. On another couch...
...second item on the agenda was money. There would be no arguments: A truce had been called in the bitter political war over dipping into the hundreds of billions of dollars piling up in the Social Security surplus. They'd dip into the fund. The men huddled in Hastert's office debated how much would be needed. The White House already had told Congress it wanted $20 billion to help rebuild the damaged Pentagon, deal with the New York catastrophe and bolster security. But $20 billion might not be enough, one of the leaders said. "You're probably right," Lott...