Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington Hotel. They are still there. The suite, the hotel and the McCormacks have grown into dignified and genteel old age together. The McCormacks never entertain and rarely go out in the evening. One party they never miss: the annual White House dinner in the Speaker's honor. Mrs. McCormack invariably wears the same black dress. The rest of the year, it is just the two of them. McCormack boasts that in more than 50 years, "we've never missed having dinner together." His wife, no longer spry at 85, is still eager to meet her husband...
...without honor, save in his own country, we're told...
...life ? he will be 47 next week ? was spent as a state or federal legislator,* and he had no other career until last January. "I'm a politician," he has frequently said, "and proud of it. That's all I've ever been." While reviewing an honor guard, he occasionally flusters a properly stiff soldier by sticking out his hand and announcing, can didate-style: "I'm Mel Laird...
Except for Hill, whose blond good looks, shaggy hair and modish clothes could easily mark him as a jet-setter, there is almost no one else around. It is a sad contrast to his high-rolling days, when prominent clergymen, judges and politicians felt it an honor to be entertained at the home of the mobster known as Joe Bananas. When the Government tried to deport Bonanno in 1954, for instance, among those who testified as character witnesses were the Most Rev. Francis Green, former Congressman Harold Patten and former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Evo DeConcini (the Most Rev. Francis...
...politician often proved himself by demonstrating his capacity for drink, women and duels. Alexander Hamilton was able to continue his career in politics even after publicly acknowledging that he had paid blackmail to a woman. The fact that Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel, defending the honor of his wife, probably helped him get elected President. During his four years in the White House, Franklin Pierce often drank himself into a stupor, but, says Historian John Roche: "In those days it really didn't make much difference. The President didn't do anything anyway...