Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yet for all that, and despite holding the most public office in the world under unforgiving scrutiny, Jimmy Carter is, remarkably, harder to figure out now than he was in 1973 when, as Governor of Georgia, he appeared as the mystery guest on the television show What's My...
The louder Carter has shouted, the more his staff has worried about his assaults on Reagan boomeranging. At an urgent strategy session in the Watergate apartment of Campaign Chairman Robert Strauss, five top aides agreed that Carter must tone down his rhetoric. How to persuade him was the problem. Charlie...
When Reagan suffered an unexpected beating in the Iowa primary caucuses, partly because he refused to debate there, Laxalt warned him bluntly: "Campaign or we're heading for disaster." Reagan dropped his protective politicking, entered the debate ring in New Hampshire, and his campaign took off. A relaxed personality...
Changes also seemed to be brewing within the party ranks. The official press hinted at impending purges that would be aimed at "clearing from the party ranks those individuals who have given in to the temptations of an easier life and corruption." The notorious example that was held up was...
Also present at Loon Lake are Bennett's wife Lucinda, a world-famous aviator, and Warren Penfield, a drunken poet whom she keeps on as a pet and confidant. And an uninvited guest arrives: a young hobo named Joe, who wanders onto Bennett's property and is nearly...