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Wall Street Journal Reporter: Maybe so, but I know that just the other day the president called up Congressman Charlie Rangel, head of the Congressional Black Caucus, to arrange to have a meeting. He called Rangel himself. Charlie's secretary was sitting at her desk when the phone rang. She picked it up, and when she heard it was the president on the other end, she put her hand over the mouthpiece, like this, and said to a fellow office worker, "You're not going to believe this, but it's the president on the phone...
Soon two overlapping groups were working on articles: 1) a partial Democratic caucus, heavily influenced by Brooks but not dominated by him, and 2) the coalition of Southern Democrats and impeachment-leaning Republicans. The Southerners were able to shuttle between the two groups and thus were especially influential. Surprisingly, the coalition group moved more quickly toward agreement than the all-Democratic drafters. By the end of Tuesday, said one of the coalition Congressmen, "we had unanimity, a consensus, in two major areas: the abuse of power and the obstruction of justice." It was then clear that at least four Republicans...
With jowls jiggling and eyebrows all but airborne, North Carolina's retiring Democratic Senator Sam Ervin could not resist going out on a quote. As the Senate Watergate committee gathered in the Old Senate Caucus Room for its final news conference, Ervin summed up the meaning of it all with the help of liberal sayings from the Scriptures and the classics, including a ripely solemn phrase from Rudyard Kipling: "For the sin they do by two and two they must...
Then, finally, on a warm summer day, the committee assembled for a closing ceremony in the marbled Old Senate Caucus Room. At the long table sat the Senators and key staff members, like a senior class on graduation day. Only four of the committee's seven members were present: Chairman Sam Ervin, Lowell P. Weicker Jr., Joseph M. Montoya and Daniel K. Inouye. Vice Chairman Howard H. Baker Jr. was home in Tennessee; Herman E. Talmadge was busy elsewhere; and Edward J. Gurney was beset by troubles of his own (see story page...
...movement, Steinem has done much to change viewpoints, and now she is retiring from the talk circuit to concentrate on writing. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith, she serves on the advisory board of the National Organization for Women, helped convene the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971 and is a co-founder and editor of the highly successful Ms. magazine (circ...