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...then former Attorney General Ed Meese said all the same things about many of the same accusations and doubts raised against him. Meese resigned. So should Wright, not from the Congress but as Speaker. By his own testimony he has bent if not broken his high trust and now burdens his nation...
...with Wright. Let him be the Congressman from Fort Worth's 12th District, a place filled with the Texas legends of cattlemen and oilmen and other buccaneers who tamed a wild land. He can still be a hero there if his people choose. But Wright became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. "In power and prestige, the Speaker can be compared only with the President and the Chief Justice of the United States," wrote Neil MacNeil in his book on the House, Forge of Democracy. "He has been the elect of the elect." That is the way Sam Rayburn...
NATION: Choking back angry tears, House Speaker Jim Wright vows to fight charges of ethical misconduct...
colleagues brace themselves for a knock-down, drag-out battle. -- Hugh Sidey calls on Wright to step aside. -- Are dull politicians the next big trend from California? -- Abbie Hoffman, the antic revolutionary, dies...
...capitulated to Bush's no-new-taxes pledge, something close to the Administration's defense-spending target and budget chief Richard Darman's strategy of forcing Congress to make the fiscally necessary but unpopular cuts in domestic programs. "This is not a heroic agreement," said House Speaker Jim Wright, putting it mildly. And Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell cautioned, "No one should be deluded into thinking that this is the end of a process...