Wealth in Washington
Their public salaries hardly compare with those in the top ranks of American private enterprise, but the nine mem bers of the U.S. Supreme Court, the President's Cabinet, members of Congress and four announced candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are not quite ready to line up for food stamps.
Operating under the requirements of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, official Washington and those who hope to become official Washington last week be gan disclosing their personal finances. Thousands more who will be required to report (nearly 11,000 earn more...