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...majority leader John Boehner and campaign chairman Tom Reynolds say they brought it up with Hastert last spring--they insist they never imagined anything like the more graphic instant messages that subsequently came to light. Boehner spokesman Kevin Madden said his boss was told only that there had been "contact" between Foley and a page, and that his knowledge of even that much came from a fleeting conversation on the House floor. But shouldn't someone have got chills at learning that a 52-year-old man had sent a teenager a creepy e-mail asking...
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...Thankfully, stories of the alleged excesses of other days were as wild as it got for us that night. Foley, as far as I saw, behaved himself. After we left, I was in touch with him from time to time as a friendly news contact who was always good for a laugh. He once gave me a story-making quote for a scoop in Legal Times about another scandal. It was an account of another G.O.P. congressman saying, at a closed-door January 1997 Republican Conference meeting, that then-Speaker Newt Gingrich's own attorney had charged that Gingrich...
...been more than 20 years since there was any real discussion in Congress about ending the page program? The answer, of course, is that this century-old institution has now embarrassed the G.O.P. and House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Allegations that Rep. Mark Foley had inappropriate contact with male pages, and that Republicans in power may have known about the allegations long before any action was taken, suggest that someone in the leadership slipped up - and many believe the quickest fix is to get rid of pages altogether...