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Longtime ABC newsman Charles Gibson is signing off. The World News anchor announced Sept. 2 that Diane Sawyer will replace him in January, making Brian Williams of NBC's Nightly News the lone male anchor on the Big Three evening broadcasts. Gibson, who joined ABC as a Capitol Hill reporter in 1975, never expected to preside over the network's flagship news program. He was nearing the twilight of his career when a chain of unexpected developments--Peter Jennings' death in 2005, the head injury Bob Woodruff sustained in Iraq in 2006 and Elizabeth Vargas' pregnancy later that year--thrust...
...parade in Lawrence in March 1969, a burst of popping firecrackers caused me to freeze in my tracks and prepare to dive to the pavement. I stayed upright by an act of will. Years later, on another occasion, I was enjoying a walk in the sunshine near the Capitol with Tom Rollins - then my chief of staff - when a car backfired down the street. Tom recalls that I was suddenly nowhere to be seen. Turning around, he saw me flattened on the pavement. 'You never know,' Tom recalls me saying. His memory is probably true. Even now, I'm startled...
Still, Shelby has his reasons for wanting a bill to fix the financial sector, and they start with pride. "At 75 years old this is probably the last major thing he'll participate in," says one senior GOP Senate staffer. Democrats in the Administration and on Capitol Hill say they believe Shelby is negotiating in good faith. (Read "Geithner Faces Questions as He Prepares to Roll Out Toxic-Asset Plan...
...focused on themes of personal responsibility and controlling one’s own destiny. Few people seem to remember, however, that immediately after President Bush’s speech was given, a Democrat-controlled Congress ordered a General Accounting Office investigation, convened hearings, and summoned senior Bush officials to Capitol Hill to testify...
...Health care is hard," may be the Obama Administration's catchphrase of the moment, but it's a cakewalk compared with the challenge facing Obama on Iran. Under pressure to turn up the heat on the Iranians - from European allies, Israel and bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill - Obama had demanded that the Islamic Republic respond by September to a Western offer to resume negotiations or else face escalating sanctions...