Congessman Hungate......

[loyalsister]

Wow. By his own account and what people said about him, this guy seems to have been the flip side of Bush. Check it out.

He took his job as a congressman seriously. And was concerned about ethics in govern,ent:
Hungate sponsored the second article of impeachment against President Nixon before the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate proceedings.

He was chairman of the Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on criminal justice, which investigated the presidential pardon of Nixon by his successor, President Gerald Ford. Ford appeared and gave sworn testimony before the committee.


He was courageous and wanted to do the right thing:
snip> Her father's work to desegregate schools led to death threats, Wood recalled. "He was in politics. He liked to be liked, but he did what was right for people of all races," she said.

He got along well with people he disagreed with. Apparently he also worked with a combination of intelligence masked by silliness?:

snip> "I've just lost the best friend I had in Congress," said former U.S. Rep. Paul Findley, a Republican who represented Illinois' 20th District from 1961 to 1983. He called Hungate, a man known for his intellect, "the court jester of the House of Representatives."

He was a goofball:
snip> Hungate played the saxophone, clarinet, piano and accordion and composed music for fun, including a parody song that came to be well-known, "Down at the Old Watergate."

A self-deprecating veteran.

snip> Hungate attended Harvard Law School - though he would cheerfully call himself a "proud 'C' student from the University of Missouri"- and liked to say he probably got in because he was a GI at a time when the dean was agreeable to admitting veterans. He graduated from Harvard in 1948.

Apparently he fooled people a time or two.

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