GIBBONS MAY BE NEXT WAYS, MEANS CHIEF.(MAIN)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | May 31, 1994 | Copyright

Byline: CRAIG CRAWFORD Orlando Sentinel

WASHINGTON Last week Rep. Sam Gibbons drank beer served from a silver platter at the White House. This week he could be running the most powerful committee in Congress.

After parachuting into France 50 years ago as part of the D-Day invasion, the Florida Democrat couldn't know it would come to this as he stopped to drink Schlitz by a riverbank on June 6, 1944.

But there he was Tuesday, drinking it again as President Clinton toasted the congressman most likely to succeed beleaguered House Ways and Means ...

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