Word: jims
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March 1967: McCoy says, "Dammit, Jim, I'm not a bricklayer, I'm a doctor!" First variation of this phrase...
...Jim Sasser...
...Jim Cooper...
...Secret Service today said it dropped a review of Helms' comment since -- surprise -- it did not constitute a threat. "We always knew the senator was never a threat or a target of an investigation, but we had to follow up," said Secret Service spokesman Jaime Cagigas. Jim Rosen, the Raleigh News & Observer reporter whose Monday interview with Helms started the fracas, says the senator made the remark "with a bit of a laugh, which perhaps should have been better conveyed in the article."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
Republicans won eight seats and got a bonus ninth when Richard Shelby, Democrat of Alabama, switched parties, bringing the new G.O.P. majority to 53 to 47. Among the big-name Democrats felled by voters were Tennessee's Jim Sasser and Pennsylvania's Harris Wofford. A number of struggling Democrats survived: Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg, Virginia's Charles Robb (who beat out controversial Iran-contra figure Oliver North) and, apparently, California's Dianne Feinstein. Kansas' Bob Dole, a possible presidential contender, will become the new Senate majority leader. Colleagues in line to head key committees include Strom...