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Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...
Some see in this a pattern of demagogy of the sort Louisiana has specialized in from Huey Long's time to that of Edwin Edwards. But Huey Long did not claim, as Duke does, to be a serious author writing on the environment and other subjects -- even, once, a sex manual -- under various pseudonyms. Ben C. Toledano, one of the founders of modern Republicanism in Louisiana, sees nothing of Huey in Duke. "My family has lived in New Orleans for 265 years -- a long time for Americans, and I don't see anything Southern in Duke. You drop...
...Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka, which regulates thrifts in the region. He even served as chairman of the regulatory policy committee for the U.S. League, the most influential S&L lobbying group. Openly, the League poured millions of dollars into political campaigns through its PAC. Says Edwin Gray, former chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board: "I don't think it would be stretching it to say Wise controlled S&L policy and the way the industry developed...
Weld, in contrast, favors abortion rights and is an advocate of environmental reform. As U.S. Attorney, he led several highly publicized investigations into public corruption, and admirably resigned from the office of former U.S. Attorney General Edwin M. Meese in protest of the attorney general's ethical misdeeds...
...attorney general. In 1981, he was appointed U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. Former President Ronald W. Reagan brought Weld to Washington in 1986, appointing him assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division. Weld resigned from the post in 1988 to protest the actions of former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese. He now works for the Boston law firm of Hale & Dorr...