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...variety, the kind who could vote against the Democrats all day and still abide by the old rules of cordiality toward the opposition, however much he grew to resent the autocratic leadership style of Jim Wright, the Democratic Speaker. When a young reporter asked Che-ney who was worth listening to among his House colleagues, he pointed her to Ron Dellums, a black Democrat from Oakland, Calif., who was far to the left of Cheney on just about everything. Whenever Dellums had the floor, Cheney told her, he always stopped to listen to what the man was saying...
...running for Congress in 1978 and having to spend all his time denying that his father was some sinister agent of the Eastern establishment. "It's a mixed blessing," he says. "Some folks will say, there's George and Barbara's son, he must be interesting, let me listen. Others may say, he's not done anything in his life, just running on his daddy's name." Wead's report spelled out the dilemma that W. faced after his father took office: "It may seem that the President's children can do nothing right. Try something great, and appear grandiose...
BUSH: It cuts both ways. Some folks will say, there's George and Barbara's son, he must be interesting, let me listen. Others may say he's not done anything in his life, just running on his daddy's name. It's a mixed blessing...Well, to me it's not a mixed blessing. It's a great blessing to be raised by George and Barbara Bush...
...think that Harvard is genuine in its interest to listen to neighborhood interests," the resident said. "If we put up this wall, it will stifle the communication that is going...
Oboler then grabbed a long list with contact information for each of the causes represented at the rally. He told assembled reporters to call every one of them, to listen to what each group had to say about the issues it campaigned...