Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House of Representatives last Wednesday was part theater, part courtroom and part confessional. As his wife Betty wept in the visitors' gallery, Speaker Jim Wright played defense attorney, arguing away each charge against him; thespian, wiping his brow and lowering his voice to a whisper; and penitent: "Are there things I would do differently? Oh, boy." As the minutes ticked away -- Wright took more than an hour -- some began to wonder whether he was giving a resignation speech or making another plea for forgiveness. Finally the words that had caught in his throat for so long passed his lips...
...atmosphere in Congress had truly turned poisonous in the week since Wright's position crumbled and majority whip Tony Coelho resigned rather than face similar investigations into his advantageous insider acquisition of a $100,000 junk bond. Republican Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who first leveled the charges against Wright, crowed over his victory and declared that at least ten other Democrats were guilty of similar violations...
...Congressman William Gray, the leading candidate to replace Coelho, had to ask Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to investigate the source of an apparently unfounded rumor that the FBI was looking into whether he had a no-show employee on his payroll. Majority leader Tom Foley, the likely successor to Wright, was asked to assure a group of conservative Democrats that nothing in his background would embarrass them...
Wrapped up in the furor surrounding the nomination of former Texas Senator John Tower as Secretary of Defense and the recent allegations of ethics violations involving House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tx.) and Majority Whip Tony Coelho (D-Ca.), Congress itself is only now beginning to address the drug crisis...
When the discussion turned to Wright, who has said he will resign over questions about his personal ethics, Kriss said that before Watergate, journalists had a different view of what was newsworthy...