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...year-old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) too old to chair one of the most powerful committees on Capitol Hill? Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and John Warner (R-Va.) reportedly met recently with Majority Leader Bob Dole to raise concerns about whether Thurmond, the Senate's oldest member, had the stamina to run the Armed Services Committee. Today, after receiving assurances from Dole that he was "an excellent senator," Thurmond spoke out: "I think it's just a little power play and there's nothing...
...Republican leadership has promised across-the-board cuts to every program except Social Security and defense. We must ask why on earth these politicians feel compelled to throw money at fighter planes and protect this country's oldest generation while leaving its youngest hamstrung and hog-tied...
...pedigree, like her father's before her and her children's after, was politics. The oldest child of Josephine Hannon and John Fitzgerald, she was born on July 22, 1890. Her father, Honey Fitz, who eventually became mayor of Boston in 1906, was the quintessential ward politician: he joined every club, attended every wedding, wept at every wake and kept Rose, his favorite child, close by his side. Though Rose had wanted to attend Wellesley, her parents dispatched her and her sister Agnes to a convent in the Netherlands. In the beginning, she was desperately lonely, but eventually...
...political and economic rights of children. Grant received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994. DIED. ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY, 104, matriarch of America's foremost political family, whose indomitable will and unshakable faith sustained her through the many tragedies that befell the Kennedys; in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The oldest daughter of Boston Mayor John F. (``Honey Fitz'') Fitzgerald, Rose attended convent schools in Boston and Europe. At 24 she married Joseph P. Kennedy, with whom she had nine children in 18 years. While Joe revealed a facility with money that was to make him a millionaire many times over...
...year-old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) too old to chair one of the most powerful committees on Capitol Hill? Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and John Warner (R-Va.) reportedly met recently with Majority Leader Bob Dole to raise concerns about whether Thurmond, the Senate's oldest member, had the stamina to run the Armed Services Committee. Today, after receiving assurances from Dole that he was "an excellent senator," Thurmond spoke out: "I think it's just a little power play and there's nothing...