Read Slade Gorton\'s Biography

214 25 | Trick or Treat T heon c goRt AMpAign was riding high on April Fools’ Day and scared stiff by Halloween. Paul Newman and ...

tRicK oR tReAt 215 paign,” says Chris Koch, Gorton’s chief of staff in that character-building year. Koch joined the campaign te ...

216 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics wholly owned subsidiary of organized labor and the Democratic Party,” adding that w ...

tRicK oR tReAt 217 When seven workers for a Hanford contractor were dismissed for mis- handling plutonium, the specter of a dead ...

218 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics Meese’s deputies learned that Dwyer and his wife had attended a Mon- dale fundraise ...

tRicK oR tReAt 219 Jim Kneeland, a former Gardner press secretary who had become a political consultant, was critical of the med ...

220 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics by the ABA as “lacking in intellectual capacity.” “We are all horse-traders here,” ...

tRicK oR tReAt 221 gas interests. The ads clearly hurt, Globokar glumly admitted, adding that some voters even called their camp ...

222 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics Air Force One. So much for a small media market. Slade and Sally went aboard the pr ...

tRicK oR tReAt 223 I do not know what’s going to be in the president’s speech tomorrow. I certainly hope he says something on th ...

224 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics tell you I will see to it that the law on this issue is followed to the letter, and ...

tRicK oR tReAt 225 ams said, “and the downside risk came true... .We hear all these state- ments about Mr. Gorton being in the O ...

226 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics ninenutesM i AfteR the poLLs cLosed in Washington State, ABC News announced Adams w ...

tRicK oR tReAt 227 warned the media, “He doesn’t want to answer any questions analyzing the election, so be sensitive, OK?” Slad ...

228 26 | Post-mortems I hficto v Ry As A thousAnd fAtheRs and defeat is an orphan, this waif was left with a footlocker full of ...

post-MoRteMs 229 who’d take the magazine out of his hand when he needed to talk with peo- ple” rather than surrounding himself w ...

230 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics “As they brushed off Tuesday’s dust from their uniforms,” Nolan wrote, “Mack Mattin ...

231 27 | The Comeback R etuto the ingRn cApitoL in defeat was devastating. Outwardly, though, at least around his wife, Gorton w ...

232 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics tunity to move the left-leaning court to the right, or at least toward the center. ...

the coMeBAcK 233 had no job offers of any kind from the administration, “and I’m not hang- ing on every ring of the phone.”5* Go ...