The Boston Globe, December 26th, 1990
WASHINGTON - John Tower believes his former Senate colleagues did him wrong when they rejected his nomination as defense secretary. Now he is trying to settle the score. Sen. J. James Exon, a Nebraska Democrat, is a "genuine boozer," Tower writes in a new book. Sen. Ernest Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat, is the "Senate bully . . . a study in arrogance and pomposity." Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, "has a tendency to resort to flatulent indignation." Tower, a four-term Texas senator and former Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was defeated in March...
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