Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A publisher of legal and business manuals, Farmer was a Republican for most of his adult life. He first became interested in politics in 1979, when he was attracted to gadfly Candidate John Anderson. Farmer sent Anderson a check for $1,000 and soon became his chief fund raiser in...
Right-wing true believers like Attorney General Edwin Meese and former Interior Secretary James Watt would get the brush-off in a Bush Administration. "There are no ideologues around George Bush," says a prominent aide. "He can't abide people who know they have all the answers." Bush's Cabinet...
Robyn Fass is a delight as Alice Park, Susan's quirky, sometimes naive confidant. Fass takes the stereotypical character of the naive bohemian and turns her into a fascinating and realistic person, the perfect complement to the Lear-ish Susan. Fass captures Alice's precarious perch on the line between...
The flip side of Gephardt's natural feel for the legislative compromise is, as former Administrative Aide John Crosby puts it, a tendency "to be all things to all people." Gephardt is overtolerant, too slow to judgment. Other than anti-Reagan boiler plate, criticisms rarely pass his lips. Even some...
Part of the strategy involves shedding his previous reluctance to talk about himself or his crippling war wound. Now he uses an intensely personal autobiographical campaign speech. "He grudgingly recognized that the personal touch is effective," explains Confidant Tully Plesser.