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...working to advance the President's agenda on Capitol Hill. Representing the President in 47 countries around the world. Traveling to all 50 states, helping out with political responsibilities. Heading the Competitiveness Council, heading the Space Council. Probably the most important event was monitoring the Philippine crisis when the President was in Malta...
...eighth-floor apartment in Arlington, Virginia. He waves an arm through the air. "Some view, huh?" he says in his famed Brooklyn baritone. Some view: first the Potomac River, then a panorama of marble. Directly ahead, in a precise line, are the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the Capitol. To the left is the Kennedy Center; to the right, the Jefferson Memorial. From his balcony King can also see the Watergate apartments, the home of his childhood friend Herbie Cohen, a successful lawyer and consultant. King used to tell a story about how he, Herbie and another Brooklyn teenager...
...President ($115,300), earned 65% more than Judy Smith ($70,000), who had the same title. Sighed one of the well-paid men: "It's not gonna look so good that the guys are making so much more. But I'll bet there's a similar gap on Capitol Hill...
...Civil War. In some important ways it is not over yet. Just a few days of Senate hearings were enough to revive the country's faded memories of bloodshed, the accusations of official duplicity and the anger of the 1970s. Names and faces out of the past returned to Capitol Hill to wrangle and dispute, 20 years later, the fate of American servicemen who did not come home from Indochina...
...beliefs were as widely shared by agency types as their low regard for Capitol Hill. In the 1970s, following embarrassing revelations about failed assassinations and bungled covert operations, Congress set up an oversight system and tried to put the agency on a swidely shared by agency types as their low regard for Capitol Hill. In the 1970s, following embarrassing revelations about failed assassinations and bungled covert operations, Congress set up an oversight system and tried to put the agency on a shorter leash. Some CIA officials, including former Director William Colby, applauded the move. "I thought things had changed...