Word: hardeman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began three years later, when as a Ph.D. candidate, he worked as a Congressional aide. His responsibilities weren't too demanding ("If I were lucky, I would get to pour the brandy and branch water at meetings"), but he had the invaluable opportunity of sharing an office with D.B. Hardeman, an aide to Rep. Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.), then-speaker of the House...
...Hardeman had been active during the fifties in Texas politics and learned a great deal about the trade. "From eight until ten every morning, we'd read the papers and talk about politics," Eidenberg recalls. "It was a one-on-one seminar in American politics in the fifties and sixties." For the man who was educated in the Midwest. Hardeman's insight into Texas hardball politics "was a real eye-opener. It was important for me to realize that politics was tough...