Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will haul enough black boxes of communications gear to run a SAC mission. A computer on Carter's plane, linked to the Atlanta headquarters, will spew out a daily intelligence report on such matters as poll results, position papers, travel schedules and campaign spending. Carter is also keeping a cool eye on Ford's efforts. Says an aide: "We're getting really good intelligence on their scheduling?legitimately, I hasten...
...James Baker, 46, who replaced Rogers Morton as campaign manager. Baker is the man who so successfully wooed the delegates in Kansas City. A wealthy Houston lawyer, he did not become a Republican until 1970 and had no national political experience until the primary fight. He is a cool, low-keyed operator with a talent for getting the biggest bang out of his bucks?"a C.P.A.-realist type," in the admiring phrase of Republican Senator Howard Baker (no kin). Jim Baker will work closely with Political Director Stuart Spencer and White House Chief of Staff Richard B. Cheney...
...many observers, that foray is the most peculiar yet for the former Minnesota Democratic Senator with the poet's mane of white hair and the cool wit. McCarthy's Washington headquarters currently has all of five staffers. National Campaign Director Jerry Eller, a former administrative assistant to McCarthy, allows as how his best workers in California are "Gary and Michelle ... um ... I don't know their last names. We don't use last names much around here ... and then we have, um, Mark and Randy in ... uh ... other states." Even after two earlier runs...
Cesare usually managed to arbitrate their business disputes, but after he died in 1959 the tensions increased until, in 1965, they exploded into a fistfight. The other family members talked Robert into taking a six-month leave to cool off. He soon concluded they wanted him out and started a rival business, the Robert Mondavi Winery-while still sharing the family's profits from Krug. In a final burst of fraternal affection, Peter helped his brother-competitor by arranging for Krug to crush grapes for the new winery and lending it a badly needed bottling machine...
...Sears was among the earliest to sense that Ford, as an appointed incumbent, was vulnerable, and that his huge budget deficits, Nixon pardon and foreign policy stressing accommodation with Moscow and Peking had created a large Republican constituency for Reagan. Sears' own cool, charm and intelligence guarantee him a role in future campaigns-if he wants one. Sears insists that he wants no part of Ford's campaign. Instead, "I'll go back to practicing law." He believes the wounds from the primaries are still too sore for him to join the President's cause; besides...