Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wright, the outcome was predictable, but the collapse of yet another Democratic leader was sudden and unexpected. Barely had Wright's lawyer, Stephen Susman, begun his opening statement to the House ethics committee last week, pleading that even a dead man deserves due process, when all parties seemed to be looking for a way out of the spectacle of a Speaker of the House of Representatives going on trial...
Current majority leader Tom Foley's anticipated move to Speaker would satisfy the Democrats' need for an ethically pure successor. Squeaky clean and conciliatory, Foley could be to the Democrats what Jerry Ford was to the Republicans after Richard Nixon: a healing, avuncular presence and a guarantee that the congressional leadership would cease to be a staple on the nightly news. Despite some scurrilous efforts to spread rumors about him, Foley seems a shoo-in. "Only the Angel Gabriel could beat him," said one Congressman...
...same could not be said of whip Tony Coelho, who had hoped to bump up a notch to majority leader. The Justice Department is reportedly in the preliminary stages of a criminal investigation of Coelho's investment in a $100,000 junk bond sold by indicted inside trader Michael Milken's firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. Late Friday, after Common Cause asked the ethics committee to determine whether the bond deal was a favor, Coelho could see what lay ahead. He announced that he was quitting his leadership post immediately and resigning from Congress on June 15, his 47th birthday...
That cleared the way for Richard Gephardt, who has already passed professional, financial and sexual scrutiny as a candidate for President, to run for majority leader. Gephardt had been lying low until Coelho dropped out -- he and Coelho have a noncompete clause in their friendship contract -- so late Friday he was scrambling to get members' home phone numbers to campaign over the weekend. Georgia's Ed Jenkins, an ally of powerful Chicago Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, is another likely candidate. Former Budget Chairman Bill Gray, Arkansas' Beryl Anthony and Michigan's David Bonior will probably fight it out for Coelho...
...colonial potentates in animal skins and gold braid forming to use Westminster Abbey's toilets. The Eisenhower White House produces little excitement, partly because there wasn't much, but mainly because Press Secretary James Hagerty ran a "tight, tight ship." Later there was the smothering style of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "For you, Russ, I'd leak like a sieve...