Word: confidante
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DIED. Alfred Bloomingdale, 66, credit card tycoon and confidant to President Reagan; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. In the '40s Bloomingdale was a producer on Broadway (Ziegfeld Follies) and an executive at Columbia Pictures. Heir to the Bloomingdale department-store fortune, he made his millions and started the...
Slow-moving and indecisive, Meese gradually lost control of the White House bureaucracy to the more efficient Baker. "This place needs a manager who can handle 25 balls in the air at one time," said a White House aide. "Meese couldn't do it." Meanwhile, Deaver emerged as the...
Argentina was fully aware of the British handicap and, if anything, seemed to be taking an even tougher line, both militarily and diplomatically. As one senior Argentine Cabinet minister and confidant of President Galtieri's told TIME last week, "We are not trying to strut like roosters, but I...
Mitterrand takes a long view, assured that he will be President for a full seven years. Touring the Limousin region in south-central France last week, Mitterrand sounded a De Gaulle-like note of destiny. "I will stay until the end of the term to which I was elected," he...
Amid the chaos, Baker quietly began rebuilding egos and bridges. He first went to Stevens and persuaded him to apologize to Nunn. The three of them then joined to calm Levin down. Baker was eventually able to forge a consensus: a compromise resolution to keep programs funded for four months...