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Article: House Republicans Promote Cheney; Conference Chief Succeeds Kemp, Who Will Focus on Presidential Bid
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- The Washington Post
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- June 5, 1987
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House Republicans, in their first leadership shake-up since 1980,
unanimously elected Rep. Dick Cheney (Wyo.) as chairman of the
Republican Conference yesterday.
Cheney, White House chief of staff under President Gerald R.
Ford, succeeds Rep. Jack Kemp (N.Y.), who relinquished the No. 3
leadership post to concentrate on his bid for the Republican
presidential nomination. Cheney's previous position as head of the
GOP Policy Committee was taken by Rep. Jerry Lewis in a close contest
with one of his California colleagues, Rep. Duncan L. Hunter.
In a three-way race to succeed Lewis as head of the House
Republican Research Committee, Rep. Mickey Edwards (Okla.) prevailed
over Reps. Steven ...