Word: ex-congressman
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...Democrat John V. Lindsay, 54, that philandering politician in the former New York mayor's first novel is strictly fiction. The central character in The Edge is dapper Mike Stuart, an ambitious Congressman with a wife, three children and a mistress. The author, insisted Lindsay, is an ambitious ex-Congressman with a wife and four children. Period. "As my old friend Bill Buckley said, there is a certain amount of obligatory sex in a book," Lindsay observed at a Manhattan publishing party held in his honor last week. And how had the former mayor kept his own sanity during...
Naturally Ford's people were too busy indulging themselves to think that they would spend as much that week as millions of hardworking Americans earn in a year. Or, for that matter, too busy gaping at Ford to help out a young man disabled in a war the ex-Congressman plugged so vigorously...
There were repeated meetings with Kissinger, Secretaries William Rogers of State and Melvin Laird of Defense, CIA Chief Richard Helms and Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Ex-Congressman Laird was concerned about the bombing for fear of political reaction at home; Rogers and Kissinger were scarcely more enthusiastic, though evidently less concerned about what might happen politically. Finally the President made up his mind. Top-secret instructions were sent in code via satellite to the B-52 bases and to the Seventh Fleet. Next day he sent the order to raid Hanoi and Haiphong. Within...
...Harlem pulpit for the first time in four months, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, 62, told the 2,500 faithful in his Easter congregation that he was retiring. It might have been more of a shock-Powell has been pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church since 1937-but the ex-Congressman's stock has fallen nearly as low in the church as it has in politics. Not long ago, for example, he tossed his wallet onto the Communion table and offered to bet $1,000 that nobody in the congregation could prove to him that it was wrong...
...never going to play golf with you.' " Not all of the humor was intentional. Toward the end of his speech, Agnew referred to Rivers' predecessor, former Representative Carl Vinson, as "the late Carl Vinson." On the phone in Georgia, the 86-year-old ex-Congressman was not amused: "I saw that in the paper. I've got no comment. I'm still living." Slam...