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Nancy Pelosi s father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., was mayor of Baltimore during the 1950s. Like most politicians of that era including the two most influential ones, President Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson D’Alesandro did not want to burn his bridges with either side of the civil rights divide. (The exceptions to this rule tended to be from the deep south or the firmly liberal north.) Thus, D’Alesandro s record on race ....
The father of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Tommy D’Alesandro Jr., served as mayor of Baltimore. But, to hear his daughter tell it, he was also mayor of Washington, D.C. When Rep. Tommy D’Alesandro, D-Md., served in Congress, the nation’s capital lacked home rule. Congress served as a sort of super city council over Washington, D.C. Congress even set up key committees devoted to overseeing Washington, D.C. D’Alesandro chaired the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the District of Columbia. Pelosi says her father did not like that he was often referred to as the Washington, D.C., mayor, just because he controlled the purse strings. ....
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Apr 19, 2021 America is a nation of heroes political heroes, personal heroes, celebrity heroes, sports heroes but its most impactful are its everyday heroes; the men and women whose names aren’t often remembered, but whose deeds are etched in history. And sometimes, those everyday heroes are our sports heroes, whose most important achievements weren’t on the field, but in the streets. This is the Forgotten History of How Bologna Helped Save a City. Baltimore was burning. In the days following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in early April, 1968, the city was in mortal danger. Riots were becoming uncontrollable. ....
Madam Speaker : Susan Page s new Nancy Pelosi biography examines the singular politician Emily Gray Tedrowe Replay Video UP NEXT Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House and second in the presidential line of succession, has had an unparalleled political career in America. USA TODAY s Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page’s new book, Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and The Lessons of Power (Twelve Books, 432 pp., ★★★ out of four), traces Pelosi’s life and work in a readable, engaging biography that takes us from Pelosi’s Baltimore upbringing through her current term as speaker in the Biden administration. A central storyline, launched in the first pages, is Pelosi’s response to the election of Donald Trump, the man who would be impeached under her leadership not once, but twice. As Page quotes her, Pelosi’s first response to the shock of Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016 was: “How could it be that person is going to be president of ....