Word: congressman
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...Folk-rocker, later Congressman who died in a skiing accident...
...public these days. We were particularly pleased to receive her latest contribution, part of our cover package, as Carlson wrote it wearing a neck brace, a souvenir from a bruising encounter she had with a car while crossing the street last week. (No, the driver was not an angry Congressman.) "Bad timing on my part," Carlson says. "If you're going to get run over, you should find a week when the President's not being impeached." You can catch Carlson and collar on CNN's The Capitol Gang, where she's a regular panelist...
...talk about. The drive to impeach Johnson, the only President to be impeached and tried in the Senate, was really about the politics of post-Civil War Reconstruction. The Radical Republicans who controlled Congress took a hard line toward Dixie. Johnson was no Confederate; he was the only Southern Congressman not to secede when his state did. But he vetoed bills that he viewed as too punitive against former slave owners, and he resisted military rule over the Southern states. Republicans were so irate, said Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, that they would have impeached Johnson "had he been...
Last week former California congressman and almost Senator Michael Huffington announced, via a profile in Esquire magazine, that he is gay. Perhaps making up for lost time, the millionaire ex-husband of conservative political commentator Arianna Huffington appeared within days to become something of a newborn gay activist. He attended an AIDS fund raiser on Dec. 5, dined with gay political consultant and Clinton pal David Mixner on Dec. 10 and continued talks with national gay leaders about what his role in the movement might...
...Democratic nomination, buried a telling detail about the Democratic race. Near the top of a long list of Bradley backers and supporters was LOUIS B. SUSMAN, a Chicago investment banker, former fund raiser for TED KENNEDY and a longtime backer and moneyman for Gephardt. Aides to the Missouri Congressman were surprised to see Susman's name on Bradley's website, not only because Susman raised a big chunk of Gephardt's campaign war chest in 1988 but also because he has been touted as an important benefactor in any White House bid. Susman wouldn't explain his change of heart...