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Dukakis was a weak (accidental, really) front-runner, and by that point several other candidates and former candidates (Paul Simon, Dick Gephardt, Al Gore) were sitting on piles of delegates. Suddenly, it seemed like Jackson — who was demonstrating...
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Where is their sense of manners?” The next morning, when New York’s Daily News depicted Gingrich as a bawling, diaper-clad baby, House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt arranged for a giant reproduction to be unveiled on the House floor. Republicans...
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Congressman Newt Gingrich is sworn in as the first Republican Speaker of the House in 40 years during the opening session of the 104th US Congress in Washington DC, 04 January. Gingrich accepted the gavel from Democrat Dick Gephardt. View Photo »
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Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) has already used one of his two choices to appoint the chairman and CEO of a Las Vegas casino company. House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-MO), a recipient of big gambling bucks, who gets one selection,...
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"I saw the effect he had in 1996," King said. "I had to spend time in debates and interviews saying why I was against Newt Gingrich, instead of saying why I was against Bill Clinton or Dick Gephardt. You shouldn't have to waste time talking about the...
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The turnabout also harks back to the 1988 Democratic vote in Iowa, where former St. Louis Rep. Dick Gephardt scored a narrow victory over Paul Simon, a victory questioned over the years by allies of the late senator from southern Illinois. Gephardt and...
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Opposition responses Opposition responses to recent State of the Union addresses: • 2011: Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. Bob McDonnell, R-Va. Bobby Jindal, R-La. Kathleen Sebelius, D-Kan. Tim Kaine, D-Va. Gary Locke, D-Wash. Source: Senate Historical...
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I actually don’t think this will be a particularly long primary. But the attacks on Romney have already assured themselves a resonance in the general, just as Al Gore’s attacks in 1988 on Michael Dukakis came up again later, for example, or Dick...
About Dick Gephardt
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Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardt (born January 31, 1941) is a former prominent American politician of the Democratic Party. Gephardt served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri from January 3, 1977, until January 3, 2005, serving as House Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995, and as Minority Leader from 1995 to 2003. He also ran unsuccessfully for... Full Article
