"After chafing for years under what they saw as flagrant Republican abuse of Congressional power and procedures, the incoming majority has promised to restore House and Senate practices to those more closely resembling the textbook version of how a bill becomes law..."
And if you're about my age this is the textbook version you know:
I always felt so worried for Bill: "Die?!? Yes, DIE! In committee!!"
From that same era: Jerry Ford is gone.
His presidency remained open and plain.
Not imperial. Not reclusive. And, of greatest satisfaction to a nation numbed by Watergate, not dishonest.
It's either not the lead or just barely the lead, reflecting some judgement that he was only kinda sorta a president. Too bad because he was a decent guy. Even his defining moment, the Nixon pardon, was done out of a sense of decency (however misguided). One more bell tolls for the moderate Republicans.
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