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Americans who remember Ike at all tend to recall a do-little President or a mangler of sentences at press conferences. Military writers sometimes portray Ike the General as a genial and soothing Alliance board chairman at best, or at worst a glad-handing bumbler. Eisenhower the Supreme Commander was none of those. He was a driving, demanding man of terrific energy: up before dawn, to bed after midnight, chain-smoking four packs of cigarettes, drinking 15 cups of coffee a day. He was a military perfectionist, impatient with his subordinates and a peerless, lucid briefer. He had a volcanic...
...walked out of our marriage." And so NBC picks a fight with flush CBS over comic ideas that were hackneyed when Letterman started using them; call it banalimony. That surely describes the high-level mud wrestling over De Forest's Melman. "If you have an actor who's a bumbler," asks Manhattan attorney Stanley Rothenberg, "do you prevent him from earning his living after this series is over? Do you say he can't go and bumble elsewhere...
...into its sixth printing and is lodged in third place on the New York Times best-seller list. Brock, who works ; for the conservative magazine American Spectator, depicts Hill as a left-wing feminist, a woman of "radical views and inflamed sensitivities," who is also a working-world bumbler pushed by affirmative action into jobs she was unequipped to handle. Brock has a bad habit of raising a conjecture on one page only to restate it as a fact on the next. But his close examination of FBI records, the sworn testimony of Hill's witnesses and his interviews with...
...party enforcer and is widely blamed for being too enamored of Hollywood for the President's good. White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, a former Watergate committee staff lawyer who gave Hillary Rodham Clinton her first job, is seen by almost everyone in the White House as a political bumbler who has given his boss poor guidance on a host of matters from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Lani Guinier to the travel-office flap. Even congressional lobbyist Paster, one of the few officials with deep Washington experience, is too closely allied with the liberal House leadership for many House...
...QUAYLE has found a sympathetic statesman in HELMUT KOHL. The stolid German Chancellor knows the sting of scorn because political opponents long portrayed him as a slow-witted bumbler. After the Vice President visited Bonn in early June, Kohl told aides he thought Quayle had an impressive grasp of global issues. The meeting left Kohl wondering why Quayle gets such negative press...