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Article: Hyde seeks his own kind of conservatism. (Illinois Representative Henry Hyde)
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- Insight on the News
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- January 31, 1994
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Summary: As the author of a controversial amendment that bars most women from getting federally funded abortions, Henry Hyde has been in the middle of a legislative maelstrom. But the 69-year-old Illinois congressman has an abiding faith in Congress.
Newspaper copydesks are unlikely sites for conversions. But that is where Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois began his journey from liberal Democrat to conservative Republican more than 45 years ago.
As a Loyola University Law School student in the late 1940s, Hyde was working part-time for the Chicago Sun-Times proofreading Eleanor Roosevelt's columns. As he scoured the pieces for routine grammar and spelling ...