Read Slade Gorton\'s Biography
34 slade gorton: a half century in politics his brilliant mind and his determi- nation to focus intently on his goals.” Joel P ...
the chAnge Agents 35 duced himself to Gorton. “It’s wonderful to have you young people here,” he said, “and you’ll do very, very ...
36 4 | The Freshman F R neoMdAy o , RepResentAtive goRton, R-Seattle, actually read the fine print of all the bills set to be de ...
the fReshMAn 37 theession s wAs winding down when Gorton encountered an incom- prehensible bill on trade regulation. “For the li ...
38 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics course of this evil.” He cites the example of a farsighted lobbyist who cre- ated a ...
the fReshMAn 39 resisted it, but (Slade) said, ‘I know you did it. Your people don’t make that kind of mistake.’”^3 Reflecting o ...
40 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics looked more like a rancher than a lawyer because that’s what he was. Goldmark, his v ...
the fReshMAn 41 they were dating, John derided communism as an oppressive ideology. She told him her secret and suggested he wou ...
42 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics from James Russell Lowell’s poem, “To Every Man.” From memory, Gorton recites: Once ...
the fReshMAn 43 Canwell was incensed by Gorton’s testimony. “Of course, Slade Gorton, Joel Pritchard, Evans, all of these people ...
44 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics Toevs and several supporters screeched to the curb at the Gortons and piled out. “I ...
45 5 | A Power Struggle T contentious stMsthe o Andoff in the history of the Washing- ton Legislature was all about power, liter ...
46 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics freshman, was getting beat up on by the likes of John Goldmark, whom I immensely enj ...
A poweR stRuggLe 47 pieced together a tenuous 51–47 majority by turning up the heat on Dem- ocrats from public utility district ...
48 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics needed refreshing. In 1955, after injuring her ankle in an auto accident, she made a ...
49 6 | The Coalition I tund wAs s Ay, JAn. 13, 1963, the day before the 38th session of the Washington State Legislature. The Re ...
50 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics O’Brien found out he was making hay on the side by selling services and told him to ...
the coALition 51 mendous problems. We need to use the best brains we have in a biparti- san effort to represent the people.” “Wo ...
52 sLAde goRton: A hALf centuRy in poLitics that they couldn’t tip their hand too early when the voting for speaker got under wa ...
the coALition 53 Republicans were switching their votes to Big Daddy. O’Brien had swapped seats with Mark Litchman, the majority ...
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