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...Meanwhile, Giuliani has been speaking across the globe for fees of $75,000 and up - sometimes way up. He has campaigned for Republicans in 35 states since leaving office, and he's a prime-time speaker at this week's Republican convention. Still, he is guarded about the idea of a Cabinet post in a new Bush White House. "It would be presumptuous to rule something out that no one has offered. But it's not something I'm seeking, not something I particularly want." It is hard to imagine, though, that America's mayor will be satisfied with being...
Democrats remember the week before Bush was sworn in--the crisp but friendly meetings with lawmakers from both parties, the kind for which Bush had been famous when he was Governor of Texas. Republican Senate leader Trent Lott and House Speaker Dennis Hastert were quickly treated to a heavy courtship, but Democrats were also promised a place in the partnership. Bush assured minority leader Dick Gephardt, "I'll tell you what I think, and I hope you'll do the same with me." Gephardt thought Bush would be good to his word and couldn't help liking...
Meanwhile, Giuliani has been speaking across the globe for fees of $75,000 and up--sometimes way up. He has campaigned for Republicans in 35 states since leaving office, and he's a prime-time speaker at this week's Republican convention. Still, he is guarded about the idea of a Cabinet post in a new Bush White House. "It would be presumptuous to rule something out that no one has offered. But it's not something I'm seeking, not something I particularly want." It is hard to imagine, though, that America's mayor will be satisfied with being...
...Chinese immigrants who became a millionaire businessman and the first Asian American in the U.S. Senate, serving as Hawaii's only Republican Senator for 18 years; in Honolulu. A product of the Honolulu slums who worked his way through Harvard Law School, he lobbied for Hawaii's statehood as speaker of the territorial house of representatives and in 1959 was elected one of the state's first two Senators...
...misusing his office to help a woman with whom he had had an affair. Or Jack Ryan, the millionaire who was running for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois this year until tawdry allegations from his divorce papers hit the airwaves. Or Robert Livingston, who was to be Speaker of the House in 1998 but resigned his seat because of alleged adulteries...