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There is nothing wrong with House Speaker Jim Wright that being President of the United States would not cure...
What drives Wright, just as it drove his notable mentor, Lyndon Johnson, is the natural desire to be the most powerful Democrat in the capital. Since his party controls the Congress, he can, with adroit maneuvering, often play President, and then, who knows? As it did for L.B.J., history might propel him toward the Oval Office, a development that Wright would at least view with interest...
...moment, Wright's position in Washington is saturated with acid. Since he became Speaker a year ago, he has unwisely poured out his contempt for Ronald Reagan in dozens of not-so-private gatherings around town. Wright has called the President a "liar" and worse. White House aides, no strangers to bile, whispered again last week, "Jim Wright is a mean-spirited snake-oil salesman, and nobody wants to deal with him." On the Nicaraguan flap, Wright and Secretary of State George Shultz grandly staged their own truce negotiations, but that hardly dispels what one Congressman calls a "reservoir...
...startling that Wright has developed disdain for Reagan. Most congressional leaders in the opposition party, so immersed in the mechanics of legislation and so convinced of their own virtue, find Presidents, who sit at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, to be woefully ignorant and out of touch. A little contact always seems to prove the point. Three decades ago, when Dwight Eisenhower was ending his two terms, Johnson, the Senate's majority leader, flared up just like Wright after visits to the White House, though Johnson was far more cautious about who heard him. "That man does not deserve...
Nicaragua' s Ortega storms Capitol Hill with a new cease- fire plan, capping a week of diplomacy orchestrated by House Speaker Jim Wright. -- After a groveling mea culpa, Moscow Party Chief Boris Yeltsin is fired. -- Syria' s Hafez Assad rejoins Arab ranks. -- Cory Aquino is losing support as the Philippines slides into chaos...