MCDERMOTT QUITS ETHICS PROBE AN UNUSUAL POLITICAL MISSTEP FOR THE COMBATIVE PSYCHIATRIST.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: January 15, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Although trained as a clinical psychiatrist, Rep. Jim McDermott has spent most of the past 27 years in the bare-knuckles world of politics, reveling in cut-and-thrust debate, as well as Machiavellian backstage maneuver.

Often under fire, in victory and painful defeats, the 60-year-old Seattle Democrat almost never fumbled - until yesterday when he felt forced to take himself out of House Ethics Committee hearings over how to punish House Speaker Newt Gingrich's admitted ethics violations.

``Jim is an unusual public servant in that he is three to four times brighter than ...

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