LABOR OFFICIAL’S RISE BECAME LESSON IN PERILS OF POWER
The face was rounder, the midriff more thickset and the temples grayer. But the voice resounding from the steps of the U.S. Capitol was the very same robust one heard...
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EXILE FROM D.C. MAINSTREAM IS WHISTLE-BLOWER’S REWARD
It's time to leave for Rick Nuccio, a man who has been living in a peculiar Washington shadow world between one-time influence and persisting notoriety. He has fallen out of...
UN ENVOYS GET A TALKING-TO AND–SURPRISE–TALK BACK
As the class sat in the historic Old Senate Chamber, I wondered if at some point a student would raise a hand and ask the teacher, "Mr. Helms, can I...
STUDENT OF CONGRESS PRONOUNCES IT A LESSER BODY
It's fitting that Ross Baker ambles the halls of Congress in a year we are taking the national census. Like a diligent enumerator in a city neighborhood or rural hamlet,...
MCCAIN COULD HAVE USED LENO’S WIT, AND THAT’S NO JOKE
Forget the punditry about Sen. John McCain's demise, like the tactical errors in bashing the Christian right or in his taking money from, and rebuking, the ever-evil "special interests." Now...
BUCHANAN A TRUE BELIEVER IN HIMSELF, AND HIS VOTER APPEAL
It was fitting that a crew of five gardeners was tending to the lawn of Pat Buchanan because the lord of the manor has himself been intentionally lying in the...
R.I.P. PURPORTED POLITICAL WISDOM, PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, JAN. 1, 1999-MARCH 5, 2000
In the beginning there was Vice President Al Gore, the smug preppie with the razor-edged elbows, and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the fraternity rush chairman with The Smirk. They...
ASTROLOGER DIXON STARS ON A WHITE HOUSE TAPE WITH NIXON
Imagine if Richard Nixon was convinced that World War III would begin in 1958 over the offshore Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Or was firm in the conviction that...
AS AGNEW HORNS IN ON RHINOS, NIXON DISDAINS HIM ON TAPE
Bill Clinton, now playing the role of president-as-garrulous Lonely Guy, was going on and on last week about the underling who wants his job, Al Gore. Gore's honesty has been...
MCCAIN RALLY, AVAILABILITY RAISE BAR FOR OTHER CAMPAIGNS
It was 1 a.m. and I was in an airplane hangar, having a Budweiser with a college kid who goes by the name of Deejay Big Worm. He was wearing...