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OFTEN ANTAGONISTS, the mayor and the city councilors easily unite over this issue because it is not a struggle of pol against pol, but of the pols against an independent investigator. With its broad mandate and the power to subpoena witnesses and records, no agency or individual is immune from its inspection. The finance commission exposed Kerrigan several years ago when he chaired the Boston School Committee. Kerrigan and other school committee members, following a tradition in Boston politics that precedes even the infamous Honey Fitz's career, squeezed the city employees they supervised for money through testimonial dinners...
...Richard Nixon. Curiously, the Times profile of Carter as a man jealously clinging to his power, occasionally alone, resisting contradiction and eschewing political maneuver, is not at odds with part of the image he has built up during his public life. Carter has always been more technocrat than pol, a man who stayed out of back rooms, who said no to special interests, who reached a point when he did not want to argue longer. During the campaign these traits were billed as desirable contrasts to the old-boy Washington clubhouse atmosphere. But back then he never...
...integrity intact. A State House veteran who works on McGee's staff said of Frank, "Barney understands the rules of the game and the rules of procedure. Barney will not lead the charge of the Light Brigade. There are some Kamikaze liberals who will. Barney is a good practical pol...
...diarists are stuck with stupid appellatives--Clare Smith, a 17 year old high school student from Ohio, becomes The Youngest Delegate; Fritz Efaw, an ex-MIT student now living abroad, becomes The Draft Dodger Delegate; Dick Celeste, Ohio's lieutenant-governor on the way up, becomes The Young Pol. And friends, one may be assured that after over 200 pages and the deaths of a lot of trees, they lead as boring a life as even...
There last week was Mike Disalle, the former Democratic Governor of Ohio, Truman's price stabilizer, Kennedy pol and Johnson friend, looking as if he had not moved from his cushion in Sans Souci. He savored both the veal kidneys and the fact that his party would be moving back into the nearby White House...