Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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James K. Glassman '69, former managing editor of The Crimson, writes a twice-weekly column for The Washington Post. He is the former publisher of The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly, and editor of Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper. Reserve Officers Training Corps, investments inSouth Africa, the lack of Black studies and thelike, was playpen stuff. It was intellectuallyengaging, exhilarating and libidinous. But itwasn't the real thing...
When PRESIDENT CLINTON visited Capitol Hill last week for closed-door meetings on health care, he didn't make his usual threat to veto any bill that fails to provide "universal coverage," according to Representative Jim Cooper. Instead, Clinton used the phrase "full coverage." Cooper and other lawmakers have been arguing that "full coverage" is like "full employment" -- it doesn't mean 100%; it means roughly 95%. Some members of Congress feel that with this latest very Clintonian semantic shift, the President may be giving himself room to compromise...
State of the Union: Die Hard in the Capitol building...
...covered in her husband's blood -- but she came home to Washington and walked down those broad avenues dressed in black, her pale face cleansed and washed clean by trauma. She walked head up, back straight and proud, in a flowing black veil. There was the moment in the Capitol Rotunda, when she knelt with her daughter Caroline. It was the last moment of public farewell, and to say it she bent and kissed the flag that draped the coffin that contained her husband -- and a whole nation, a whole world, was made silent at the sight of patriotism made...
...Capitol Hill, the standard thinking is that Clinton's health-care plan is lost without the big Chicagoan. That may be overstating it. In the event of his ouster, Florida's Sam Gibbons becomes the acting chairman and would be expected to work with three committee members -- New York's Charles Rangel and California's Robert Matsui and Pete Stark -- to try to usher Rosty's vision through Ways and Means. Clinton no doubt hopes that between them, they are up to Rostenkowski...