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Article: Wright should quit. (House speaker Jim Wright) (column)
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- National Review
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- June 16, 1989
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A PROFESSOR OF American history writes to ask with exasperation "Why doesn't Jim Wright quit? On top of everything else, be's third in line for the Presidency." His failure to step down suggests an insensitivity that Wright-watcbers noticed way before be began to refashion the book business in order to beat the expenditure rules of the House over which he presides.
It was many years ago, early in Reagan's Presidency, and Jim Wright appeared on the Today show. I hadn't ever before seen a picture of him, and as he flashed on the screen with that avuncular smile and whitish hair I thought, truly this man must be in heavy demand every Christmas to play Santa ...