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Article: Jim Wright, statesman. (House Speaker's trip to Moscow)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 22, 1987
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Jim Wright, Statesman
PUT A CONGRESSMAN in front of a TV camera, andthe hot air rises to the klieg lights. American audiences know that, but what are Russians supposed to think?
House Speaker Jim Wright went on Soviet primetime while he was in Moscow to say that Soviet-American relations were better than at any time since--well, it's hard to say since when, because at one point Wright said World War II, and at another, Kerensky. (May Wright thinks Kerensky fought in World War II.) Wright was wearing one of those little crossed-flag pins, Hammer & Sickle with Stars & Stripes, and offered to send one free to any ...
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