Word: conventioneers
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Or a convention so muscle-bound with money. At the downtown hotels, there were limos too long to turn into the oval drives. At the airport, there was Learjet gridlock. Everywhere there was Representative Tom DeLay, House Republican whip, chief money pumper and master of the revels, who spent the...
When the two conventions crossed paths, it was usually in corporate skyboxes high above the floor where big donors rubbed shoulders with big Republicans while the convention went forward on TV sets hardly anybody bothered to watch. Why would they? Eye contact with the power brokers of Congress was the...
For members of the press, face time was a problem. Some gatherings were harder to get into than that fancy sex party in Eyes Wide Shut. When a reporter was discovered, there was likely to be somebody shouting for security. But if you missed the cash bash in Philadelphia, don...
As the candidate took a trip through the heartland to Philadelphia, photographer Brooks Kraft captured Bush watching his convention and being moved by its tributes. Once there, W. found more Bushes and lots of allies
Barbara will make sure to help out with the twin daughters, Barbara at Yale and Jenna at the University of Texas. Her duties include carrying tissues. When the girls teared up at the convention, they were inexperienced and empty-handed. She dispensed the Kleenex. And now and then she will...