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...been a brutal week for Harlem politicians. On March 3, Charlie Rangel, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and 20-term representative from New York's 15th district, announced he would temporarily relinquish his stewardship of the powerful tax-writing body in the wake of an ethics investigation that found he violated protocol by accepting corporate-funded trips to the Caribbean. The decision came on the heels of scandal-scarred New York Governor David Paterson's announcement that he will not run for re-election in the fall. The synchronized setbacks of two longtime Harlem leaders have...
...Rangel and Paterson's father Basil were members of Harlem's Gang of Four, along with Percy Sutton - a civil rights activist, lawyer and local power broker, who died Dec. 26 at 89 - and David Dinkins, who served as mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993. The group inherited a tradition passed down from trailblazers like Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whom Rangel unseated in 1970, and together shattered scores of racial barriers, attaining offices once dismissed as off-limits and paving the way for the ascension of black leaders around the country. In the process, they turned Harlem...
...little; they let their members with health care expertise do the talking. The Republican delegation had an average age of 60; it included three medical doctors and young policy wonks like Representative Paul Ryan, 40, of Wisconsin. The Democratic delegation had an average age of 66; it included Charlie Rangel, fresh from his "admonishment" by the House Ethics Committee. In the absence of Ted Kennedy, it had no senior legislative health care expert from the Senate - unless you count Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, of whom the less said, the better. (Senator Ron Wyden, who has done the most...
Gates considered that and said there was a lot of consistency in his strong support for surges both in Iraq and Afghanistan. His aide interrupted to clarify. "This goes back to the Cold War, sir." Gates thought for a moment. Even his chief of staff, Robert Rangel, the most influential unknown man in Washington, seemed curious to see what the boss would say. "If there's a consistency, it is my belief that the country is - I am very much an American exceptionalist" - he paused - "and I believe that we are, as a country, the greatest force for good...
When Percy went to join the civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala., he took along Rangel, Dinkins and Basil Paterson, the father of New York's current governor. One day, after hearing Malcolm X speak in Harlem, Percy went to his office and said, "Malcolm, you need a lawyer." Percy represented him until his 1965 assassination...