Chairman Skinflint

August, 1973

Chairman Skinflintcongressman wayne hays has found the true path to power in washington: he hires and fires the capitol barbersIn one sense, he is a lived anomaly among the gentlemanly company on the Hill. Members of Congress, for all their respective private furies of hubris and avidity, have always maintained a protocol of deference and almost excruciating civility--a kind of chaste genteelness in which any personal affront virtually amounts to a pornographic incident. But in this atmosphere o...