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...hoped Reagan would cut out the graft and corruption on Capitol Hill. But Reagan's buddies--Lyn Nofziger, Michael Deaver, Edwin Meese, and a couple dozen others--have been less than ethical. She wanted honesty in government--instead she got the Iran-contra scandal. She wanted a hands-on president--instead she got one who slept through Cabinet meetings and delegated decision-making to junior staff members...
More than a century after the Civil War, the rebel battle flag still waves -- beneath the Stars and Stripes -- at Alabama's state capitol in Montgomery. For black Alabamans, however, that bit of pre-emancipation nostalgia is not an endearing sight. Last week, Representative Thomas Reed led 13 other black legislators in an attempt to scale the capitol dome and strike the rebel colors. Before a crowd of 2,000, some shouting "Nigger go home!," state troopers arrested the group for trespass. Later, the Alabama house, voting 67 to 17 along racial lines, defeated a measure to remove the flag...
...calm, self-assured presence of Ferraro has remained with me ever since. Over the weekend she took us on a tour of the Capitol, treated us to lunch in the members' Dining Room, and let my sister and me vote in her place. She explained the sights and people to us as she walked confidently down the halls, stopping to discuss an upcoming vote with her colleagues...
...cameras were set up in Bush's vice presidential office on Capitol Hill. In New York, CBS staff members watched Bush walk into his office accompanied by Ailes and Fuller. CBS had set up a monitor in Bush's office so that he could watch the five-minute introductory report. "You may want to see this," said one technician. As he watched the first teaser for the interview -- "Still to come, a live interview with Mr. Bush on arms to Iran and money to the contras" -- Bush got steamed. "If that's all it's about," he announced...
...thousand caucus attendees may be all that separates the victor from also-ran status. The latest political tout sheets label Richard Gephardt as the freckle-faced favorite; he put on last week's most elaborately choreographed media event, importing 42 House colleagues to stand with him on the state capitol steps. The message was simultaneously powerful and confusing, since this impressive exhibit of insider solidarity jarred with Gephardt's suspect, but successful, anti- Establishment claims...