Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rating could fall even further. Only a few weeks ago, Congressmen visiting their districts were hearing almost nothing about Lance from constituents. Now some of them are hearing almost nothing else. Reports from TIME's U.S. bureaus confirm this concern. Atlanta Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch noted that Carter's support of Lance?"Bert, I'm proud of you"?is proving costly: "With that declaration Carter managed to obliterate the one element that made him different?the innocence of the outsider, the incorruptibility of the unentrenched. That difference was his major hold on the American people." Other bureaus saw that...
Outside, as these melodic strains were filling the cool evening, there was the jarring counterpoint of a growing political crisis. From Capitol Hill to Foggy Bottom, Congressmen, bureaucrats, journalists and their groupies hovered in offices near phones for new fragments from the Bert Lance affair...
...long, plodding investigation of Korean lobbying in the U.S. stepped up a notch last week. With much fanfare, the Justice Department released a previously sealed indictment charging Tongsun Park, the onetime Washington rice-and-influence broker, with 36 violations of federal statutes, including conspiracy to bribe Congressmen, mail fraud, illegal campaign gifts, and failure to register as an agent of the South Korean government. Hinting that more indictments might be coming, Attorney General Griffin Bell suggested coyly, "We'll have to see what the harvest will bring...
...treaty is the top item on the President's agenda-an all-out effort to score a clear-cut foreign policy success amid a series of setbacks. "Carter is deploying his lieutenants the way George Gordon Meade did at Gettysburg," says a Pentagon officer who has briefed Congressmen on the treaty. "And that was a hell of a fight...
...Staff, summoned 75 retired generals and admirals to a meeting to drum up support for the treaty. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss, about to depart for trade talks in Tokyo, was rerouted to Capitol Hill, where his yarn-spinning charm was put to work on wavering Congressmen...