edgar bergen, rip: Wanted: Straight man with warm lap, by professional comedian, age 50, ligneous, disconsolate. —C. McC.
What ever happened to the congressional crowd of ’74? You know, the good old gang that ran Nixon out of Washington? Only marginal attrition, it would seem. True, Wayne Hays is gone, ignominiously. Carl Albert got out while the getting was good. Koreagate claimed a few casualties, though Tip O’Neill is hanging in there, and even Ed Patten was exonerated by the House Ethics Committee after swearing up and down that he didn’t speak a word of Korean. Now Charles Diggs has been convicted on 29 counts of high crimes and hanky-panky; but he plans to run again. And the House has kept intact its historic record of never having expelled a single member for corruption.
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