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BORN: Nov. 20, 1942, Scranton, Pa. EDUCATION: U of Delaware, B.A., 1965; Syracuse U, J.D., 1968 FAMILY: Wife, Jill; three children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: New Castle County council, 1970-72; U.S. Senate, 1972- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 371, Wilmington...
...CULLEN (D) District 10 (Northeast--Scranton...
BORN: Sept. 30, 1958, Scranton EDUCATION: Yale U, B.A., 1980; Georgetown U, J.D., 1986 FAMILY: Wife, Michele; one child RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 241 Main Avenue, Suite 103, Dickson City...
BORN: Sept. 29, 1931, Scranton EDUCATION: U of Notre Dame, B.A., 1953; U of Pennsylvania, L.L.B., 1956 FAMILY: Wife, Sarah Scripture; five children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1962- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 962, Scranton...
...mordantly juvenile ditty circulating in Nelson Rockefeller's campaign headquarters in 1968 insulted every hopeful in sight: "Scranton's a sissy,/ Nixon's a prick./ Romney's a moron,/ Goldwater's sick./ Nelson's your best man,/ Able and quick./ But who is our candidate?/ Upright Dick!" After Nixon's Inauguration, even the Washington Post's cartoonist Herblock gave him a shave (erasing the famously sinister Milhousian stubble shadow). Whatever else Nixon may have become in the years before his forced retirement, he was deemed for an instant to be presidential. Every President, including Bill Clinton, has a hard fight...