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Article: Dick Gephardt: an insider looking out.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 12, 2003
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Byline: Linda Feldmann Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
AMES, IOWA -- Dick Gephardt is on a roll. The avowed St. Louis Cardinals fan says nice things about the Chicago Cubs. Crowd cheers. He tells funny stories about people in airports thinking he's Dan Quayle or the weatherman on CNN or an astronaut. "I didn't say anything," grins the Missouri congressman, telling the story of the little boy in Pittsburgh with the autograph book. "I just signed it: Dick Gephardt, astronaut."
Crowd laughs. Who knew Mr. Gephardt, the Eagle Scout former House Democratic leader, was a standup comic? Now he's bought himself half an hour to tell the 80 or so ...