Word: governors
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...reminiscent of Bush's selection of Dan Quayle, who as Vice President still comes across to many people as a lightweight. Other debatable appointments were those of Boyden Gray, the ethics chief with ethical problems of his own, and chief of staff John Sununu, ! an abrasive former New Hampshire Governor untrained in the ways of Washington. Sununu was insisting "we've got the votes" to confirm Tower over the powerful Nunn's opposition, a boast echoed by other White House officials only a day before the committee vote. Bush's political judgment was no better. It was the President...
...Dallas police interrogated Harris after they heard that he had been boasting to friends about killing a policeman. Nonetheless, when Harris fingered Adams, the police believed him. Within six months, Adams was convicted and sentenced to die. Later Governor William Clements commuted his sentence to life...
Brown's journey has led him to an altogether worldly destination: a furniture warehouse in Sacramento, where he has a temporary office as the newly elected chairman of California's state Democratic Party. As Governor, Brown often feuded with party regulars and was never known for the organizational skills that are badly needed by California Democrats, who last delivered the state for the party's presidential nominee in 1964. Yet just the sort of politicos he once disdained backed his campaign for the chairmanship, swayed by his promise to build a no-nonsense organization that could provide Democratic office seekers...
...thinks otherwise. "I can become the media black hole that absorbs all the negative feedback," says he. "I can absorb a lot of flak that would otherwise go to our candidates." The most organized opposition to Brown came from women's groups concerned about abortion rights. A pro-choice Governor, the former Jesuit seminary student did an about-face after working for Mother Teresa. Last year he told an interviewer, "The killing of the unborn is crazy." He also wrote a letter to Florida penal authorities urging the release of a jailed antiabortion crusader. During the campaign, Brown tried...
With U.S. policy in disarray, Texas becomes a giant way station for the latest wave of arrivals. -- The trial of Oliver North is finally about to begin. -- Secretary of State James Baker discovers that striped pants go on one leg at a time. -- California's "Governor Moonbeam" is back in politics. -- New Time polls: Bush is up, Tower is down, and the urge to control assault rifles is rising...