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...International Network, who, along with his wife, contributed almost $90,000 to the G.O.P. and national candidates in the mid-1990s. Lindsey says another Metabolife lawyer, James Jonas III, paid him a visit, apparently to "get leverage" on the issue. But while Bush and his chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh, were kept informed, Lindsey insists "there was no pressure from the top [other than to] just work this thing out if you can." Allbaugh, who has since become Bush's presidential campaign manager, says Metabolife lawyers did not discuss the issue with him or the Governor...
...anyway. For several weeks top Republicans, including Michigan's John Engler, had been quietly complaining that the Bush campaign has been too secretive, too insular, too resistant to taking outside advice. Bush himself had expressed impatience with the way the Iron Triangle of Hughes, Rove and campaign manager Joe Allbaugh had limited access of ideas and people but never took any step to open things up. "This is a colossal f___up," said a Bush adviser. Said another: "By any measure, the campaign failed." "It's gone from 1 in 10 to 2 in 10," said a longtime pioneer...
...them." It is true that Rove is one of three fiercely loyal top aides, dubbed "the Iron Triangle," who have all been with Bush since his first campaign for Governor and who form the impenetrable nucleus of the presidential operation. And it is also true that Joe Allbaugh holds the title of campaign manager and that Karen Hughes, the communications director, is closer to Bush personally. But Rove is the intellectual and strategic heart of the campaign, the one adviser to Bush who, insiders say, is indispensable. "Karl plays politics like Bobby Fischer plays chess," says Mark McKinnon, Bush...