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...White House, gutting it and replacing ancient timbers with steel and concrete. To much public displeasure, he added a balcony off the private quarters on the third floor. Like many Presidents, Truman considered himself an amateur architect and used to inspect the construction progress, leading the likes of freshman Congressman Gerald Ford through the building chaos, explaining history and design with his usual irreverence. Truman also dispensed bits and pieces of the old White House to political cronies like Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose Bonham, Texas, library still has an original marble mantelpiece...
...Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose negatives were as high as hers and who played out his marital crisis on the 6 o'clock news. When Giuliani finally dropped out to fight prostate cancer, the Rottweiler was replaced by a puppy dog named Rick Lazio from Long Island, a four-term Congressman with a picture-perfect family who had nursed his father through a stroke. He reminded some, physically at least, of a young Dan Quayle with brains. He was so frisky at a Memorial Day parade, trying to shake as many hands as possible, that he literally fell on his face...
With a price tag of some $60 million, Jon Corzine's ticket to the U.S. Senate was the costliest in history. The former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs spent $3 million from his $400 million personal cache on Election Day alone--about $20 a vote--to defeat four-term Congressman Bob Franks for the New Jersey seat of retiring Democrat Frank Lautenberg. Though the biggest issue in the race was the amount of campaign spending (Republicans dubbed Corzine the "human ATM machine"), Corzine ran on one of the most liberal platforms in the nation, advocating such edgy programs as public...
...Following Newt Gingrich's 1998 self-immolation and Bob Livingston's scandal-plagued, 32-day stay as Speaker-designate, congressional Republicans needed a Speaker with an aversion to open microphones and a private life cleaner than soap. They wanted the Anti-Newt, and Hastert--a beefy, obscure, seven-term Congressman from Illinois--was their knight in a husky gray suit. He quickly put his stamp on the office by delivering part of his acceptance speech from the floor of the House. "My legislative home is here on the floor with you," he told the chamber. "And so is my heart...
...more votes than any other Democrat in history. But like his father before him, he couldn't hold on to his home state, and that could cost him the race. The most fervent environmentalist in national politics was foiled by the Green Party; the guy who as a young Congressman made his name investigating tainted baby formula and influence peddling by the contact-lens industry lost because of a few thousand votes for a mischievous consumer advocate. Gore is the one who campaigned as though every vote counted - and he was right...