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...news." If the event is sufficiently major, Lord says, Will might be asked if he wants to do a commentary. But to Will this is not the best use of him: "You don't deliver what you were hired for, a lot of surprises." As a newspaper columnist, Will deliberately writes "way off the news" at least one-third of the time, believing that "people don't read you for the subject" but because they're interested in "the play of your mind on the world." (Sometimes humility can be an effort for commentators...
...speechwriter for Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon, Buchanan, 47, has no trouble distinguishing Right from wrong in his own mind. While speaking at White House meetings, he often busily draws little boxes, as if he were sorting the facts into tidy little ideological compartments. Says Tom Braden, a liberal columnist and Buchanan's former sparring partner in radio and TV debate: "Pat always polarizes an issue. He never sees shades; he's plain black and white...
...year ago, when he abandoned his lucrative ($400,000 a year) perch as a syndicated columnist and commentator to take on the $75,000-a-year job of overseeing speechwriting and press relations for the White House, Buchanan was expected to give the Republican right a voice that would carry straight to the Oval Office. But more often than not he was trumped by moderates, particularly National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, who favored compromise with Congress and the Soviet Union. Buchanan's shaky start disappointed the true believers, but he professed to be unfazed. After all, he would assure friends...
Handling an SOB once it has escaped can be quite a fascinating exercise. President Truman let one loose after Columnist Drew Pearson blasted Aide Harry Vaughan; Pearson promptly promoted a new fraternity, "Sons of Brotherhood." Kennedy, SOBing during the 1962 steel crisis, blamed his father for having told him that big steelmen fit the description. Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker stirred some trouble after an Ottawa meeting when his staff claimed that notes Kennedy left behind revealed that the President had SOBed Diefenbaker in the margin. Kennedy claimed he couldn't have done that because he did not know...
...insurance in 1984, and the American Medical Association (AMA) predicts the figure will reach $7 billion within three years. Medical, legal and insurance industries, each rapacious in its own inimitable way, have evolved into three fiercely competitive and increasingly unscrupulous rivals. One disgruntled, and perhaps uninformed, Boston Globe columnist recently quipped that any attempt to take sides on the malpractice issue "is like trying to decide whom to cheer for if war erupted between Libya, Iran, and Iraq...