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...they're in, they're out. You're never quite sure where they are." Bush unveiled an energy plan and then disappeared, they complain. On campaign finance, he didn't lend a hand. Requests for protection of budget items are mocked as mere pork--a point Representative Saxby Chambliss, whose Georgia district may lose its B-1 bomber contingent, raised with Bush in one of their meetings. "Mr. President, I'd like for you to come to Georgia next week," Chambliss half joked. "We'll send a B-1 up here to get you. Now if you want to talk...
...Bush took Chambliss golfing Friday--a rare Dubya indulgence in that favorite Clinton lobbying tactic--he must have known he was running out of time to pull off what would be a miraculous legislative victory. House G.O.P. vote counters are quite gloomy about his prospects. "When they pulled the vote back this week, it meant Tom [DeLay] couldn't do it," says a House veteran referring to the majority whip's famous ability to cajole. "It means he won't be able to do it next week either." The White House has a different tally. It thinks it will...
...Mules" who controlled Birmingham's industrial economy and the blue-collar terrorists whom they employed to do their dirty work against not only blacks but also unionists and anyone else who posed a threat to the established order. Rather than issue orders directly to Klan-connected thugs like Robert Chambliss, the organizer of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, the Big Mules used intermediaries like public-safety commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor. His brutal tactics produced the shocking television pictures that forced the reluctant Federal Government to intervene on the movement's behalf. As King's aide Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker...
...Back then, nobody would talk," says Rob Langford, a retired FBI supervisor. "You'd interview people, and they wouldn't want to testify. With the climate being different now, they are willing to cooperate." In the '70s, Alabama attorney general Bill Baxley successfully prosecuted "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss. But after Baxley left office, the case went mostly dormant and was not reopened until 1995. Langford, assigned to Alabama, met with local black leaders who were tired of delays. Says he: "What it took was a commitment to stick...
Investigators believe that around 2 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1963, Blanton drove his turquoise-and-white 1957 Chevy to 16th Street with Chambliss, Cash and Cherry. While the others waited, Cherry placed a 12-stick package of dynamite in a window well outside the 16th Street Baptist Church. The bomb exploded eight hours later, killing Denise McNair, 11, and Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins, all 14. The martyred girls horrified the nation and transfigured the civil rights movement...