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...Bennett's law of diminishing smarts...
...nonsense that a public official must attend receptions and eat the food, both of which further enervate him. "I have eaten a lot of poached salmon, and I don't like it, particularly at 10 p.m.," Bennett said last week. "I never could get used in this town to being treated as if I were a large house cat." In four years Bennett attended only one State and one Gridiron dinner, absences considered in pre-Bennett eras as a sure way to oblivion. His alternative for political longevity: home cooking as often as possible. "Eat something recognizable," he declared. "Beef...
...treat a President as royalty. In Cabinet meetings know what you think and say what you think. "Don't leave a Cabinet meeting saying to yourself, 'Gee, I should have said that,' " Bennett offered. But also, he noted, try a joke now and then. Call the President "Boss" when it seems appropriate. Eat a few jelly beans...
...first you doubt, doubt again. Harry Truman's advice that "if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog" is funny but false, insisted Bennett. "I leave this job with a lot more friends than when I came. None of them are dogs...
...idea that every Cabinet officer must first be neat, trim and well pressed is backward. What is inside is more important than what is outside. The 6-ft. 2-in., 216-lb. Bennett bought his suits off the rack for less than $300 and sometimes got them pressed. "Enough said about that," declared the rumpled Bennett in his National Press Club valedictory...