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Cleary grew up here, went to high school at nearby Belmont Hill and starred at Harvard. In the 1955 Beanpot, he scored seven goals, capturing the tournament MVP Award...
Though tales of libidinous mischief on Capitol Hill are not exactly rare, the allegations that surfaced last week about the sexual conduct of an Ohio Congressman came as something of a shock. In a conversation secretly videotaped by a Columbus television station last November, Republican Donald Lukens talked with Anna Coffman, an unemployed widow, in a fast-food restaurant about his relationship with the woman's daughter, now 17. "I couldn't understand a man in your position, why you're messin' around with these teenagers," said Coffman. Replied Lukens, who turns 58 this week: "I didn't really know...
John Tower, Secretary of Defense-designate, is a full-fledged member of the Capitol Hill old boys' network. Before retiring from Congress after the 1986 election, he put in four terms as a Republican Senator from Texas. For six years he served as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, the panel now judging his fitness to run the Pentagon. His old friends in the upper chamber are eager to confirm his appointment, either because of personal regard or because it would further a kind of quasi alliance between Congress and the Bush Administration that both need for their own purposes...
...Word from the Hill to the White House that a former wife of John Tower, Secretary of Defense-designate, wants to testify about Tower's alleged indiscretions. Question to a White House aide: "Can the Bush Administration stand a sex story so soon?" Thoughtful pause from White House aide, then, "Maybe it will help...
...Louis Sullivan, nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, is called to White House woodshed because he whispered around Capitol Hill that perhaps he might not want the Roe v. Wade abortion decision to be rescinded. This is leaked instantly, contradicting Bush's pro-life stand. Note to newcomers to heed John F. Kennedy's rule: "If there is more than one person (yourself) in a room, consider anything said to be on the record and a probable headline in the morning paper...