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Scholars participating in the working groups include Harvard Divinity School Professor of Theology Preston N. Williams, Amherst College Professor David W. Willis, and University of Paris Professor Genevieve Fabre and Queens College Professor Melvin Dixon.
They were distinctive Senators in an exuberant and confident era 30 years ago, walking the U.S. Capitol together, debating, opposing, befriending one another for a decade in the mannered legislative rituals of the time. They were A. Willis Robertson, old-line Democrat of Virginia; Prescott S. Bush, Republican investment banker...
Willis Robertson was a states'-righter opposing Bush's bold civil rights views. When Gore led the fight to expand the federal highway system, Robertson fought him. "We used to get together at prayer breakfasts," remembers Gore. "Willis used to tell good stories. He was a man of good humor...
At the same time Pat Robertson had begun his broadcasting. That was never enough. Way back when Pat was a wild kid at Washington and Lee, he had inhaled the vapors of power around his dad's Senate office, where he often visited, sleeping in the Senate gym to be...
Avoiding combat. For Pat Robertson, March 8 marks not only Super Tuesday but also the date his libel suit against Pete McCloskey is scheduled to go to trial. Robertson is suing McCloskey for claiming that he sought help from his father Senator A. Willis Robertson to avoid combat duty in...