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...worry that Bush will give too much away to the Democrats to get legislation passed. House Speaker Denny Hastert--whose son landed a job on Cheney's staff--has taken to calling Cheney an extra whip, the vote-corralling job he held in his days as a Wyoming Congressman. As a Hastert aide says, "It's hard to turn the White House down when Cheney calls...
...press covering Bush now answer like so many fighter pilots to handles as varied as "Stretch," "Pancho," "Grandpa" and "Dulce." And in Washington, Bush has already started spraying nicknames at delegations of visiting lawmakers. George Miller, the hulking Democrat from California, is now known as "Big George." Republican Congressman Fred Upton has earned the belittling moniker "Freddy...
...about doing just that. He invited 90 lawmakers to the White House for meetings that--to their astonishment, after eight years on Clinton time--were tightly managed sessions that began and ended promptly. He doled out nicknames; by his fourth encounter with the gruff, 6-ft. 4-in. California Congressman George Miller, a potential adversary on education, Miller was answering to "Big George"--and Bush was explaining to other lawmakers that "the bilingual among us call him Jorge Grande...
...have come straight out of a Terry McMillan novel: it was said that Jackie, Jackson's wife of 38 years, had barged into his office and upbraided Stanford for getting pregnant in order to "trap" her husband. Or that Jackson was sleeping at the home of his son, Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., because Jackie had kicked him out of the house. Several news organizations, including TIME, looked into the matter but declined to publish the story because Stanford denied that Jackson was the father. But Stanford also obtained a DNA test to establish his paternity, and Jackson quietly agreed...
DIED. JOHN SCHMITZ, 70, fiery former Orange County Congressman who led Southern California's right wing in the 1960s and '70s; of cancer; in Washington. In 1972 Schmitz replaced George Wallace when the presidential candidate was paralyzed by a would-be assassin. His political career effectively ended in 1982 when it was revealed that he had a pregnant mistress, a former student with whom he had already had a son. And there was further scandal. In 1997 his teacher-daughter Mary Kay LeTourneau, 35, was convicted of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student...