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...many people as a lightweight. Other debatable appointments were those of Boyden Gray, the ethics chief with ethical problems of his own, and chief of staff John Sununu, ! an abrasive former New Hampshire Governor untrained in the ways of Washington. Sununu was insisting "we've got the votes" to confirm Tower over the powerful Nunn's opposition, a boast echoed by other White House officials only a day before the committee vote. Bush's political judgment was no better. It was the President who proclaimed last Tuesday that an FBI report had "gunned down" the allegations of heavy drinking...
Although early polls showed Daley far ahead of Sawyer, both candidates said the latest results confirm what they maintained throughout the campaign--today's vote would be close...
...HAVEN, CONN.--Few things are perfect. The Harvard men's basketball team has not been anything close to perfect this season. Its coach and players will be the first to confirm this...
...appearance" of wrong-doing; "ethics czar" C. Boyden Gray, who has been accused of violating ethics rules because he recently received money from his family business; and Secretary of Defense nominee John G. Tower, whom the Senate Armed Services Committee, headed by Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), refuses to confirm because of allegations of his drinking, womanizing, accepting illegal campaign contributions and consulting defense contractors after retiring from the Senate and the Armed Services Committee...
...from Congress after the 1986 election, he put in four terms as a Republican Senator from Texas. For six years he served as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, the panel now judging his fitness to run the Pentagon. His old friends in the upper chamber are eager to confirm his appointment, either because of personal regard or because it would further a kind of quasi alliance between Congress and the Bush Administration that both need for their own purposes...