Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foolish Playboy interview? Why not put some political heavyweights on the Carter plane? Along with the questions came suggestions. The candidate should spend less time at minor-league stops. He should take on a tougher defense posture. Then the Kirbo trouble squad met with a larger group of Congressmen and the next day visited with delegations from four crucial states: Michigan, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania...
...time; when he is caught in open-ended discussions, he clenches his pipe firmly in his teeth-a sign of smoldering irritation. His infrequent outbursts are set off by issues that challenge his convictions. He startled an aide a few months ago by denouncing, in barracks-room language, Congressmen seeking to abolish covert activities of the CIA abroad...
Friends' Fruit. The Justice Department boasts that since 1970 its prosecutors have convicted more than 1,000 public officials-including one Vice President, two U.S. Senators, six Congressmen and one Governor. There may be more. Earlier this year, Assistant Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh, chief of Justice's criminal division, set up a new Public Integrity Section. Drawing on the expertise of Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers, antitrust experts and Internal Revenue Service investigators, the Public Integrity Section is ready to help federal prosecutors anywhere in the country with the complexities of nailing corrupt public officials...
Franklin Roosevelt made his name a catch-phrase joke, but Hamilton Fish is still battling for the last laugh. A flinty New York conservative and 13-term member of the House (1920-45), Fish helped inspire the celebrated 1940 Roosevelt refrain citing Congressmen "Martin, Barton and Fish" as three banes of New Deal legislation. Now a sprightly 87, Fish recently surfaced with a new book lambasting Roosevelt (F.D.R.: The Other Side of the Coin), and he shows no signs of slowing down. Last week the hardy widower announced plans to marry Alice Curtis Desmond, 79, a friend of 40 years...
...note happily that black Representatives Barbara Jordan and Andrew Young often choose to sit in the House chamber with white Southern friends rather than with Northern liberals or blacks. Others laugh about how some white Southern votes are now cast to block antibusing amendments backed by Michigan and Massachusetts Congressmen. Most of the South's congressional Democrats point with particular pride to the fact that on the 1975 roll call for a seven-year extension of the Voting Rights Act, their vote in favor was 52 to 26 in the House and 9 to 6 in the Senate. Southern Republicans...