Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington. I don't know. It starts because some people in Washington don't like what you're doing. And there were Congressmen that didn't like the approach I was trying to take. And there were people -- not just in Congress, but developers and builders and so forth -- who wanted to keep programs that I wanted to get rid of because I thought they were wasteful. I think about the names I've been called in this town. I've been called Stepin Fetchit, I've been called Silent Sam, Mr. Mayor.* I've been called Svengali. It shows...
...your staff serve you well by favoring Washington insiders and excluding arguably more deserving projects...
...talked about "playing the game," about the way Washington works. What do you mean by that...
...Washington is a power-hungry place. It has nothing to do with somebody getting money. It has to do with wanting to feel strong. That's when you reach the pinnacle in Washington...
...Ross Perot and the National Organization for Women, she is Mother Courage personified. Dr. Elizabeth Morgan, 42, a plastic surgeon, has spent two years in jail -- without benefit of trial -- for civil contempt of court. Her offense: refusing to disclose the whereabouts of her daughter Hilary, now 7, to Washington Judge Herbert B. Dixon Jr., who had ordered unsupervised visits with her ex-husband, oral surgeon Eric Foretich, 46, whom Morgan charges with sexually abusing the child...