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SLADE GORTON A HAlf Century in PolitiCs John C. Hughes ...

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Introduction: Slippery Slade? .he Gortons and Slades 1 T .umb and Dumped 2 D .he Change Agents 3 T .he Freshman 4 T .ower Strug ...

1 Introduction: Slippery Slade? K eRLLL ie cA son wAs coLd from her nose to her toes. Just out of col- lege, she was an entry-le ...

2 slade gorton: a half century in politics Which brings us to the paramount duty of every biographer: Answer- ing “What’s ...

intRoduction 3 fruit, garnished with Grape Nuts. Sally surveys the hall to see how well he and Trip wiped their feet. “I used to ...

4 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics Many have observed that Gorton and Hillary Clinton seem to rub a lot of people the wr ...

introduction 5 blinking incessantly under the Klieg lights at a news conference while Phil Gramm droned on about the Republi ...

6 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics columnist lathered into a paroxysm of revulsion over Gorton’s challenges to tribal so ...

intRoduction 7 thete-LA t RdAy chARge that Gorton is a conservative ideologue—or, for that matter, any variety of ideologue—is d ...

8 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics gone, however, they’ll be debating what he was really like for a long, long time. He ...

9 1 | The Gortons and Slades I tthe winte wAs R of 1637. Rubber-legged and shivering, Samuell and Mary Gorton and their young so ...

10 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics a sturdy, adventuresome woman of great character and faith. She bore nine children w ...

the goRtons And sLAdes 11 of their home at the height of the worst blizzard so far experienced by the New England settlers.”^6 M ...

12 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics The seventh-generation Slade Gorton whose great-grandson was des- tined to carry his ...

the goRtons And sLAdes 13 pound. Going from village to village, he sounded his horn as he ap... - proached and housewives came r ...