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...principal item on the agenda of the House Democratic Caucus was strictly ho-hum-though it involved selection of the man who will fill the second most powerful political office in the United States: the Speaker of the House. This process has sometimes produced gory battles. But last week, with the 292 Democrats who will sit in the next Congress eligible to vote (along with delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam and the Virgin Islands and the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico), there was literally no contest. Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, after four brilliantly...
...scramble for power begins next week when the 292-member House Democratic caucus meets to choose by secret ballot a new Speaker and majority leader. The current majority leader, Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, 63, a big, tough-minded Boston liberal who is committed to Carter, is unopposed in his bid to succeed retiring Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma. By contrast, four candidates are in the race for the majority leader's position that O'Neill will be vacating...
Davis has given the Med School a stigma that may be difficult to dispel. The remarks of Phillip R. Pittman, chairman of the Med School's Third World Caucus, that "many students have a feeling of selling out if they apply to Harvard Medical School" reveals the great difficulty Harvard Med may have in getting qualified minorities to apply in the future...
...that the President-elect is in debt to blacks is to put it mildly. During the campaign he promised to appoint more blacks to high Government posts than any previous President. The congressional Black Caucus gathered and submitted names; so did other black organizations such as the National Bar Association and the National Medical Association. Said Jeffalyn Johnson, a senior professor at the Federal Executive Development Institute who spent several months working up potential appointee lists: "There is no shortage of black talent in this country...
...SUMMER OF 1973, for most Americans, will be remembered as the first of the "Watergate Summers." Under television lights in the venerable Caucus Room, the Senate Watergate Committee became an afternoon fixture almost as important as the soap operas it replaced on home television screens. Phrases like "At this point in time," and "What did he know and when did he know it?" as well as appointment logs and White House organization charts became the lifeblood of political conversations. The really knowledgeable viewers knew not only the names of the senators and their peculiar questioning habits, but the names...