Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald Reagan was very much the way he was at the beginning: the reluctant politician whose words were fiercer than his manner. Win or lose, his candidacy has been extraordinary. He was seen by many as shallow and simplistic and even dangerous. All but a handful of Senators and Congressmen shunned him. He was opposed by nearly every state organization. He had practically no editorial support...
...Edgar Hoover's image as an incorruptible crimebuster has crumbled since his death in 1972. Congressmen and journalists have exposed the late FBI director as a petty tyrant who conducted vicious personal vendettas, trampled on citizens' rights and all too eagerly carried out requests from Presidents to investigate their political rivals (TIME cover, Dec. 22). Now federal investigators have found that Hoover and his cronies in the bureau improperly dipped into FBI funds for private parties, vacation trips and other personal expenses...
...fact, there is a tremendous amount of that already among my previous opponents, mayors, Governors, U.S. Congressmen and Senators...
...state and local affiliates have also been successful backing school-board members, city councilmen, state legislators, governors and congressmen. California Teachers Association funds went to all but three of the 54 Democratic state assemblymen elected in 1974, and the CTA is now rated, behind the oil lobby, as the most generous campaign contributor in the state. Indiana's state association is described by politicos there as being aggressive and in the last election helped defeat Congressman Earl Landgrebe, a Republican who had consistently voted against education bills...
Former Congressman Kenneth Gray, 51, an Illinois Democrat, was one of Ray's patrons until he turned her over to Hays. According to congressional sources, Gray is talking to authorities and offering cooperation with an FBI investigation. Subject: the possible misuse of public funds for sex by Congressmen and Senators. Gray retired from Congress in 1974 after suffering a heart attack. A married man, he was famed on Capitol Hill for his assortment of girls. He also kept a 55-ft. houseboat on the Potomac River for the use of business and congressional colleagues who could be helpful...