Read Slade Gorton\'s Biography

274 30 | ew Friends and N Old Enemies T osuhe t RpRise of MAny, cerebral Slade Gorton and Trent Lott, a former Ole Miss cheerlea ...

new friends and old enemies 275 senator he was. He was a fiscal conservative, but his demeanor is very moderate. He is very muc ...

276 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics they both favored allowing women to fly combat missions and voted for a foreign-aid ...

new fRiends And oLd eneMies 277 death knell for the midsize American family sedan, Detroit and its allies insisted. “It means sm ...

278 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics Warren Rudman and Georgia Democrat Wyche Fowler crafted a substi- tute focusing on ...

new fRiends And oLd eneMies 279 as guests of its Cultural Foundation. Given some leeway to experiment with Western-style governm ...

280 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics As a menacing column of tanks rumbled into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, Cu ...

new fRiends And oLd eneMies 281 bring special talents to our society,” Gorton says. “China’s loss was our gain—all those brillia ...

282 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics St. Mark’s, but they wouldn’t have found Gorton there either. He had boycotted St. ...

new fRiends And oLd eneMies 283 ity whose overwhelming interest was foreign and defense policy. He pre- sided over winning the C ...

284 31 | A House Divided T pRto the 1992 enhe u -u Lections found Gorton embroiled in the spotted owl battle, the president with ...

A house divided 285 Adams stuck it out. It was a sad ending, Gorton says, for someone who had once been “a brilliant and articul ...

286 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics I award The Times my first prize for a journalistic double standard... and bias aga ...

A house divided 287 Chandler did the weeping. Murray took 54 percent of the vote, one of four female Democrats elected to the U. ...

288 32 | Messy and Unpredictable T heited un stAtes senAte was the most frustrating place Trent Lott had ever been. “The process ...

Messy And unpRedictABLe 289 the street and enacting a “three strikes, you’re out” law Gorton had cham- pioned. Gorton hosted a c ...

290 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics a $5 million goal. His “Skinny Cat” days were long gone. The agony of his 1986 defe ...

Messy And unpRedictABLe 291 lies in Congress to pony up nearly $30 million within two years to pur- chase two dams on the Elwha ...

292 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics James for the Democratic nomination. Between them they had only a third of the vote ...

Messy And unpRedictABLe 293 theMAte s RstRoKe of gingRich’s cAMpAign to reclaim Congress was unveiled on the steps of the Capito ...