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...first surfaced as a conservative polemicist. On becoming a highly articulate TV interviewer, he crowded his guests, suggesting that they were not sufficiently militant about intervening in Lebanon, Syria or Nicaragua. If Will emerged seeming bolder and more candid than the person he interviewed, his guest--a politician, a bureaucrat--usually had the disadvantage of being constrained by policy or responsible for the consequences of his words in a way that Will was not. Nowadays, as a regular commentator on ABC's Evening News, Will finds his allotted 90 seconds give him time only to "cast a little light...
Jimmy's quest for truth and justice takes him all the way to City Hall, where he is sent packing by tough-guy Mayor Tyler (Robert Culp). Fed up with the insensitivity of yet another elitist bureaucrat, Jimmy embarks on a one-man campaign to discredit Tyler and his administration. Trouble from Jim is the last thing that the Mayor and his tuxedo clad cronies need, already troubled by the departure of a top mayorial aide, accompanied by the city's bank accounts...
Although Khrushchev valued Gromyko's diplomatic experience, he could not resist teasing him, often calling him an arid bureaucrat. "Look at that," Khrushchev would say, nodding toward Gromyko and smiling. "How young Andrei Andreyevich looks." (He really did look very young for his years.) "He doesn't have a single gray hair. It's obvious he just sits in a cozy little place and drinks tea." These jests were not at all pleasing to Gromyko, but he always managed to force a smile...
...California attorney general's office in 1958. In the 1966 gubernatorial contest, Weinberger backed Reagan's opponent in the primary but signed on with the former Hollywood actor in his victorious general election campaign. A year later, Governor Reagan made Weinberger his finance director, launching his career as bureaucrat extraordinaire...
...past three years he has cut the Labor Department's work force from 22,000 to below 18,000 and its budget from $30.1 billion to $25.3 billion. Taking over Donovan's day-to-day duties is Under Secretary Ford B. Ford, 62, a nearly invisible bureaucrat who is expected to stay on the course set by Donovan...