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...Gabby Hartnett and Chris Chambliss...
Other fellows who will be conducting study groups are: Kenneth O. Hartnett, of The Boston Herald American; Madeleine Kunin, lieutenant governor of Vermont; and Andrew Maguire, an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey...
...together, Hartnett complained that John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, had abruptly canceled a visit to a naval base in his district. Lehman, it turned out, was peeved that Hartnett had tried to stop him from selling a destroyer, based in Charleston, to Pakistan. "Oh, don't worry," said the President. No sooner had Hartnett returned to his office than the phone rang. Lehman was telephoning from Japan. "I'll be there," promised the Secretary. "Oh, by the way, we'll make sure that destroyer stays in your district." Hartnett was pleased by the favor...
...doing some horse trading up here, and he's got to have a commitment. I want it now. "Still Hartnett refused. As the voting bells rang, Hartnett headed for the floor. At 5:49, two minutes after voting began, one of the President's men implored Hartnett to come to the rescue if the vote was close. Five minutes into the voting, a conservative colleague asked him to cast a no vote. "I really don't know what I'm going to do," insisted Hartnett. Then, with less than a minute to go, the Congressman stood...
...moment and pressed the yes button on his electronic voting machine. As it turned out, he had cast the 218th, and decisive, vote for Reagan's tax bill. "It tore at my conservative guts to vote with people like Tip O'Neill and Dan Rostenkowski," Hartnett said afterward. "But it was the right thing...