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...days of rule from a chamber in City Hall are over, for the people are, will, and must be involved in those decisions which affect their everyday lives," Sullivan said...
John Ehrlichman, 45, looks as approachable as a Junior Chamber of Commerce booster. His face settles quite naturally into a smile, while his waistline suggests a temporary breakdown in an otherwise vigorous selfdiscipline. Though he neither drinks nor smokes, Ehrlichman and his wife are fond of throwing family barbecues at their suburban Virginia home. Among friends, Ehrlichman displays a penchant for puns and a dry sense of humor. Last year he told the audience at a Women's National Press Club dinner that he works in the White House because it was the only way he could...
...made him a strident antiCommunist. Issues, however, concerned him less than the party line. As with other old-school legislators, his capital was discipline and personal obligation. Once while presiding over the House, he noticed a conservative Democrat lobbying several New Jersey members in the back of the chamber. McCormack left his place and marched on the group. "This is a McCormack bill," he told the Jerseyites. "Are you for McCormack or for this fellow?" He kept their votes...
...fights next January will be over the second and third spots in the leadership, majority leader and whip; for these posts there is no shortage of candidates, and lively scraps between reformers and old-liners could develop. But it is the Speaker who sets the chamber's pace and tone. McCormack, the last man born in the 19th century to hold top congressional leadership, never made it to high school and never got over the New Deal tradition of a Congress that takes its cue from the White House. Albert, a Rhodes Scholar and affable companion, is likely...
...police and the people who rely on them could not tolerate this surveillance for long, and today the image of the Panthers has changed: where once we saw Huey Newton emerging from his heat-up 1956 Ford, jacking a round into the firing chamber of his rifle and facing down the cops, we now see the Panthers as experimental subjects strapped to an operating table and screaming in rage as clumsy butchers hack at them without anaesthetic...