Dick Gephardt
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Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardt (pronounced /ˈɡɛp.hɑrt/; born January 31, 1941) is a lobbyist and 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 the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1988 and 2004. Gephardt was mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee in 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2008.Since his retirement from politics, he has been working as a senior counsel at the global law firm DLA Piper and is also an active consultant for Goldman Sachs.Gephardt was born into a working-class family in St.
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Richard Ben Cramer, Writer Of Big Ambitions, Dies at 62
Mr. Cramer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was the author of “What It Takes,” an intimate, deeply reported account of the 1988 presidential election.
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Richard Ben Cramer, Writer on Large Topics, Dies at 62
Mr. Cramer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was the author of “What It Takes,” an intimate, deeply reported account of the 1988 presidential election.
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Aaron Sorkin Claims He Has ‘No Political Agenda.’ His Campaign Donations Show Otherwise.
Writer/director Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO series “The Newsroom” aims to do for cable television talking heads what “The West Wing” did for politicians: critique their shortcomings implicitly by presenting a smarter, nobler fictionalized version of them.
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Iowa Caucus: It's Actually Totally Okay If You Haven't The Faintest Clue About What Is Going To Happen
The Iowa caucuses will be getting underway in just a few hours, and normally, as events speed themselves toward the conclusion of a thing, one expects bewilderment to fade and for a certain amount of well. . . certainty to start to congeal. But this is Iowa, in an election year, and the whole point is that you are not supposed to have any clue about what is going to happen.
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HuffPo's Missing Gephardt Disclosure
Sebastian Jones, an editor at the liberal Washington Monthly, has shot a sharp dart at The Huffington Post for publishing an op-ed by former Missouri congressman Dick Gephardt that was missing a key disclosure: Gephardt, who was attacking the president’s health care reform bill, is, in Jones’s words, “a lobbyist representing the very corporate interests gunning.
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