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...kind of gets used to them and that they're "part of living in a democracy." Another administration critic, Democratic Rep. Jack Murtha of Johnstown, Pa., was in town and shared Bush's time on the local news. Murtha staffers said it was a coincidence that the Democratic congressman, the most pro-military voice in Congress to call for a withdrawal from Iraq, was in Philadelphia, to visit the port and an obesity center. The burly, white-haired retired Marine officer, who received two Purple Hearts for volunteer service in Vietnam, held a news conference four blocks from the Park...
...PLEADED GUILTY. RANDY (DUKE) CUNNINGHAM, 63, eight-term Congressman from San Diego, California; to accepting $2.4 million from military contractors in bribes that included a Rolls-Royce, mortgage payments and an antique French commode; in Washington. The tough-on-crime Republican, who in July vowed to fight all charges, stunned even jaded Beltway insiders with his tearful confession. "I cannot undo what I have done," said Cunningham, who faces up to 10 years in prison. "But I can atone...
...sweet triumph for the former college professor, who had been the first Congressman to challenge the red-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy. But the savor of March '68 didn't last long. Robert Kennedy defeated him in the June 5 California primary, then was shot dead that night. Hubert Humphrey, favorite of the party bosses, was nominated at a Chicago convention that was chaos inside, carnage on the streets. Richard Nixon won the general election, and the war raged another seven years...
...Hours after the judge?s ruling, DeLay hosted Vice President Dick Cheney at a Houston hotel for a $500-a-plate fundraiser. But while the congressman still has the backing of the Bush Administration, his support is slipping at home-a new Gallup poll finds that just 36 percent of registered voters in DeLay?s district said they would support him in November's election-and he faces an uphill climb with his party. "He's tough, ready for a fight," DeGuerin told TIME. "Some clients I have to build some starch in, but I didn't have to with...
PLEADED GUILTY. RANDY (DUKE) CUNNINGHAM, 63, eight-term Congressman from California; to accepting $2.4 million in bribes, mostly from military contractors, that included a Rolls-Royce, an antique French commode and mortgage payments; in San Diego. The former Top Gun instructor and tough-on-crime Republican, who for months insisted he was innocent--and now faces up to 10 years in prison--stunned even jaded Beltway insiders with his brazenness. In a tearful confession, he said, "I learned in Vietnam that the true measure of a man is how he responds to adversity. I cannot undo what I have done...