Word: brummett
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...looks like a miniature version of British Prime Minister John Major) and so unassuming that even journalists in Little Rock misunderstood his role. "I thought for a long time that he was just Clinton's gofer, but it's obvious he's much more than that," says John Brummett, political editor at the Arkansas Times. In fact, Lindsey is the outside, practical manifestation of Clinton's political anima, a campaign unto himself: he took the competing opinions of the staff to Clinton to extract decisions from him, and then he applied his own prosecutorial mind to the candidate to make...
...close second. Diane Blair, a political scientist who has written the best study of the state's constitutional structure, calls Arkansas nearly ungovernable. Yet Clinton has governed it -- fairly well -- for 12 years. He seems to find in it things that elude the rest of us. As Brummett talked, he moved from his first judgment. "Clinton in Arkansas is like Bush in the nation -- he has hometowns everywhere and a network of friends in each place." Clinton can best be understood in terms of his four hometowns: Hope, Hot Springs, Fayetteville and Little Rock...
...than Clinton at this kind of shoulder-patting, chat-about- the-family, how-is-so-and-so-back-in-such-and-such-a-town politics. In his second and subsequent terms as Governor, he sought out legislators in the halls of the capitol, acting as his own best lobbyist. Brummett wrote that it would be more dignified for the Governor to summon people to his office; but the informality of Clinton's new approach seemed to work. He realized that his long-range plans depended on building popular support, and he sent his wife out to talk about concern...
When I repeat to Stephen Smith, a key aide in Clinton's first term as Governor, John Brummett's claim that Clinton is more Yale and Oxford than Arkansas, Smith says, "He is more Georgetown than Yale." I ask Clinton if he agrees with Smith. "Yes. At Yale I had to work at a number of jobs. At Georgetown I had only one outside job. It was my first time away from home, and I had a whole range of things to learn." Also, Arkansas kept intruding. His one job was in Fulbright's Senate office. Clinton took roommates from...
Faubus was converted to government baiting by the popular reaction to his 1957 demagoguery. It helped that he was being vilified elsewhere. Arkansans rally to their own under assault. John Brummett says Clinton was never more popular at home than when the nation mocked his endless speech at the 1988 Democratic Convention or when he came under assault in New Hampshire and New York earlier this year. Even some inveterate foes of Clinton's came to his rescue during these moments of attacks by outsiders...