Word: confidante
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McClellan, who began working for Bush in the Texas Governor?s office in 1999, was one of the few people left in the West Wing known as "family" - put in his job because he was beloved by the President and because longtime confidant Karen Hughes wanted him there. Like Bolten...
CHRIST'S CONFIDANT Jesus said to him, "Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom."
Card did not want to go. But he "heard the tom-toms," according to someone who knows him well, and told Bush it was in the best interests of the team for him to leave, five months short of the record tenure in the job set by Sherman Adams under...
Speaking to the Federalist Society in 2003, Card described how Bush starts each weekday when he?s in town. "The President shows up in the Oval Office between quarter of seven and seven o?clock in the morning, and I?m there to greet him," Card said. "One of the...
J. Lorand Matory, professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies, says that the Shleifer affair had long been whispered about, but in part because the economics department closed ranks around both Shleifer and Summers, few spoke out about it. Until now. ?People were coming out of the woodwork,? he says...