Word: stakeouts
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...course, the initial charges were slightly more fastidious. A stakeout by a team of Miami Herald reporters yielded a front-page story claiming that Hart had spent most of the weekend with a comely blond, a part-time actress named Donna Rice, 29, whose half-clad modeling photos soon graced newsstands across the country. Hart was forced to concede that he had also taken an overnight boat trip from Miami to Bimini with Rice and two other people on a yacht called Monkey Business. But the final blow came when a Washington Post reporter called campaign officials midweek with evidence...
...ostensibly for Hart, Broadhurst and the two women to have dinner together on Friday and Saturday nights. Even though Lee Hart was home in Colorado, the exhausted candidate had flown from Iowa to Washington for the weekend. But in making his social plans, Hart never figured on a stakeout by the Miami Herald...
...hindsight it is hard to believe that a lustrous political career could hang on such prosaic details. Moreover, the Herald's stakeout would have been infinitely more difficult at a later stage in the campaign, when Hart would have warranted Secret Service protection. In short, for want of a lookout a presidential campaign was lost. It ultimately made little difference that Hart told Herald reporters Saturday night, "I have no personal relationship with the woman you are following...
...days before the stakeout, the House of Representatives had voted 350 to 73 to override the veto--far exceeding the required two-thirds majority. Now the override depended on two-thirds of the 100 Senators. Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd had to keep his troops disciplined; only 34 "no" votes could defeat the override...
...stakeout" had begun at 11;00 on Thursday morning, the third day of maneuvering in the Senate over HR 2, an untidy, bloated package of $87.9 billion in transportation funds, with an increase in the speed limit tacked on to attract Western legislators' support. Rhetoric aside, nobody cared what was in the bill by now, and few had even read its entire convoluted text...