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Article: The Judiciary Chairman's Trying Times; Rep. Henry Hyde Is Waiting for History's Verdict
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- The Washington Post
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- December 11, 1998
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Henry Hyde has no one to cook for him anymore, so he eats
breakfast at the Hyatt on Capitol Hill. Egg Beaters with sliced
tomatoes, decaf coffee, half a grapefruit. That's after the Capitol
Police pick him up for work at his Falls Church condo sometime after
5:30 a.m., which is when he lumbers out of bed.
Hyde accepts the security detail. The Illinois Republican is
not one to embrace the imagery of self-importance, but death threats
are serious. He accepts a lot these days because his life has been
converted into a small closet from which there is no escape. "I
haven't driven my car in about a month and a half now," he quips. "I