Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this cautionary precedent, the Democrats know that if they do regain power, it will be by a margin so thin that they won't pass anything without the support of their moderates--and probably a few Republicans. "We're going to have to run the place the way Sam Rayburn ran it," says Michigan's John Dingell, one of the few House members who have been around long enough to have served under the legendary autocratic Speaker. "Rayburn thought that having too many Democrats was a source of danger and mischief." And while New York's Charles Rangel still...
...recapture the Senate, they might want to look to Cleland as the candidate with the model playbook. This year's Republican version calls for tagging Democratic congressional candidates as hopelessly liberal, but Guy Millner, the millionaire businessman who is challenging Cleland for the seat of retiring Georgia legend Sam Nunn, is having a hard time making it stick. Millner notes darkly that "the Jane Fondas, the Ted Kennedys, all these kinds of people would love to see Max Cleland get elected." But so far, Georgia's increasingly conservative electorate seems to be resisting Millner's ideological barrage: a poll released...
...young." Instead he became National Security Adviser, transforming the job into the powerful fiefdom it has been ever since. It was a heady time as Bundy, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and others exuberantly conceived limited-war options and counterinsurgency theories. Their intellectual firepower dazzled much of Washington, though Sam Rayburn did grumble to an awed Lyndon Johnson, "I'd feel a whole lot better about them if one of them had just run for sheriff once...
...Reported by Sam Allis/Boston with Bernard Baumohl/New York
...Sam Allis/Boston