Word: coughlinism
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...first and most powerful connection was made during high school. Both, as delegates in American Legion Boys Nation, a group that allows young high school boys to simulate the federal government, were able to meet the president. Clinton famously met John F. Kennedy, whose handshake Clinton found inspiring. Coughlin met President George W. Bush. The encounter changed his life...
...It’s the summer between my junior and senior years [of high school],” Coughlin describes. When he stepped up to shake the President’s hand, all he could think was, “This is the threshold: My life is before me now, what am I going to do with it? I have big dreams; I want to serve the world...
...Coughlin said to Bush as he put out his hand, “I only hope to serve this country as you have...
...Bush, though, raising the kind of money needed to launch a political campaign that could allow him to make America proud was a much less complicated ordeal than for the unconnected young Coughlin. Fundraising is undeniably a matter crucial to running a campaign. In the last presidential election, Bush raised nearly $100 million, and Gore raised about half that sum, according to Federal Election Commission receipts...
...While Coughlin sees a lack of connections as his weakness, fellow student Libby knows his ability to fundraise is his strength. At the age of seven, Libby served drinks at his parents’ cocktail parties. Since then, he’s become increasingly comfortable in social circuits like those in which his parents travel. “I’m as comfortable in a suit as I am in tennis clothes,” he says...