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Much in the vein of Douglas, the past two weeks have seen Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Terry McAuliffe, and countless other national leaders of the Democratic Party align themselves squarely behind the president. Even the Rev. Jesse Jackson has offered effusive praise for the president’s performance under these most extraordinary circumstances...
...travel logs, or would we include past criminal records? How about party affiliation? Should we really allow newly appointed Secretary of Homeland Security Thomas J. Ridge ’67 to watch our every move? While in the past such measures have encountered stiff opposition, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) suggested to Fox News that last week’s events changed the nature of the debate. Indeed, terror stricken civil rights activists may have reevaluated their position on national identity cards since Sept...
...have the most to fear from the guys across the aisle in Congress. He and Democratic leader Dick Gephardt are barely on speaking terms, and have locked horns over everything from scheduling votes on bills to the appointment of the House chaplain. Democrats complain that behind Hastert's aw-shucks mien is a take-no-prisoners pol. When they belittle him as DeLay's puppet, Hastert just smiles. "Nobody's running the show but me." While it's true that DeLay was instrumental in seeing Hastert, then his deputy whip, get the top job, the Speaker...
...Thursday morning, Sept. 13: The country's most powerful legislators gathered together on couches and chairs in Speaker Dennis Hastert's private office in the Capitol. Hastert and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt sat together on a couch. In the previous two days, they had talked to each other more than they had in the entire past year. (So bitter had been their political feuding in the past, when Hastert had information to pass along to Gephardt he had Minority Leader Dick Armey make the phone call.) Now Hastert and Gephardt sat side by side - grumpy...
...Thursday morning, Sept. 13: The country's most powerful legislators gathered together on couches and chairs in Speaker Dennis Hastert's private office in the Capitol. Hastert and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt sat together on a couch. In the previous two days, they had talked to each other more than they had in the entire past year. (So bitter had been their political feuding in the past, when Hastert had information to pass along to Gephardt he had Minority Leader Dick Armey make the phone call.) Now Hastert and Gephardt sat side by side - grumpy...