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Article: A senator's double life. (Dave Durenberger)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 25, 1990
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In weighing penalties against Dave Durenberger, a skittish Senate may have to confront its own ethical mess s a daunting battalion of cameras poised to record every grimace during his public ordeal last week, Dave Durenberger smiled. Friends fretted he was not acting the part of the suitably subdued public servant on the griddle before the Ethics Committee. Rather, he seemed refreshed at his chance to speak, serene after he had done so. "I am fully responsible and accountable for the mistakes I made," the Minnesota Republican repeatedly told a panel of six Senate peers. "Public attitudes about political ethics have changed, and we have to change with them or be swept ...