Word: rostenkowskis
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...Rostenkowski was also pleased, both by the expressions of loyalty from his party conservatives and by the negotiating points they relayed. He met Thursday morning with Secretary Regan to begin the complex task of discussing details. Meanwhile, Majority Leader Wright had lunch with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese at the White House and also talked to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and Republican Paul Laxalt of Nevada...
...emerging deal still faces many obstacles, and Dole and Rostenkowski will meet privately this week in the Capitol to tackle them. If a final bargain is reached, the Democrats will insist that Reagan give it unqualified public support before it is brought to a vote. Says Wright: "If Congress is going to give birth to his child, then Reagan must own up to its paternity." -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Douglas Brew and Neil MacNeil/Washington
...drama unfolds in Congress, a pivotal role belongs to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. It is a rich bit of casting: for the next few weeks, an old-style Chicago ward heeler will be the nation's premier economist-accountant-social philosopher...
...Rostenkowski, 53, known widely as "Danny," is a member of an endangered species: a dyed-in-the-polyester Cook County pol trained by late Mayor Richard J. Daley to put party before everything. Rostenkowski learned his lesson well. He once impressed House Democrat Richard Gephardt of Missouri by following up some legislative support he had promised with a simple note: "I keep my word. Dan." Says Chicago political analyst Don Rose of Rostenkowski: "He is not an ideological politician. He is Mr. Practicality...
...Born in Chicago in 1928, he was educated at St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wis., served in the infantry in Korea, and was graduated from Loyola University in 1951. A baseball player who was once invited by Connie Mack to try out for the Philadelphia Athletics, Rostenkowski reluctantly obeyed his father, a Chicago alderman, and entered politics instead...