Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Newt Gingrich's angry band of G.O.P. radicals, who paid their party's elders as much deference as would Hell's Angels swaggering into a bar full of Shriners. Lott won the trust of both sides and remained the Happy Warrior: backslapping and optimistic, the bass of the Capitol's barbershop quartet...
...House Speaker Thomas Foley is said to have the Court of St. James's for the taking. But the post has one drawback: the stately residence of Winfield House is undergoing extensive renovations. If Sir Thomas is not Britain bound, he could be headed for Japan, where former Capitol heavyweights like Mike Mansfield and Walter Mondale are doted...
Muskie had a reputation as the hardest Senator on Capitol Hill to work for. He had an expansive intellect and a volcanic temper, which, Albright says, "he admitted to me he used as a device." His style with aides was prosecutorial. He would warn them in advance: "My rule is I want to know everything everybody else knows about this--and more." To work for him amounted to training with Jesuits, dissecting one's faith and then reassembling it. At dinner he'd even challenge an aide about his or her wine selection...
...perhaps the most fundamental imbalance in the Cambridge market comes from a nation-wide shift of responsibility away from Capitol Hill and into City Hall...
During the State of the Union speech this week, television viewers will see a familiar Capitol Hill tableau: a sober-faced Newt Gingrich sitting behind Bill Clinton. But the more intriguing and unfamiliar pairing will be up in the balcony, where Gingrich's wife Marianne will be sitting with country star Travis Tritt, Joan Shalikashvili, wife of the general, and...Jesse Jackson. Last week Newt extended an invitation to his ideological opposite to sit in the Gingrich family box in the Speaker's gallery, and it was accepted. The unlikely twosome have been communing since Gingrich's opening-day speech...