Word: czars
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...with his ads, he can't seem to keep straight which is his first priority: tax cutting or deficit cutting. He recently described the economy as being "in the tank," although each new piece of economic data suggests otherwise. The lack of discipline reached the point where policy czar Donald Rumsfeld, a former Nixon aide, urged Reed to put a stronger handler--plus four personal secretaries--on the plane with Dole, just the way Nixon used to travel. Reed asked Margaret Tutwiler, a longtime top aide to former Secretary of State James Baker, to take over the fuselage team...
...school uniforms and deadbeat dads, an aide explained, "he ran into Bennett already standing on top of them." The President has approvingly cited Bennett's writings to his advisers and in private chats with the author. And although Bennett served as Education Secretary for President Reagan and drug czar for President Bush, he wins grudging praise from partisan Democrats like campaign strategist James Carville. "You gotta give Bennett credit," he says, "for taking the values debate beyond just bashing poor people, into areas which make a lot of people in his own party uncomfortable," like corporate responsibility and the effects...
...GOODGAME first met Bill Bennett while covering the Bush White House. "He was working on a chaw of Nicorette," Goodgame recalls of the then drug czar, "as he struggled--successfully--to overcome his addiction to cigarettes." This week Goodgame, now TIME's Washington bureau chief, profiles the Republican commissar of virtue. Traveling with Bennett, he reports, "is like a very good graduate seminar. When Bill finds something he likes to read, he's like Abe Lincoln, rereading the best parts until he's able to declaim them from memory. He has the same memory for anecdotes, including jokes...
...Book of Virtues possessed not only the intellect but the gravitas to shoulder the Dole campaign into a debate on values, where Dole himself moves reluctantly. Bennett is a Catholic, and the Dole team badly wants the Catholic vote; he is a man with government experience--drug czar, Secretary of Education--even if he was never an elected official, which is something of a virtue all by itself these days...
Your article "Rescuing Boris" was a remarkable story of how a population can be changed, directed or led by the visual and printed media [WORLD, July 15]. How different the world would be if Czar Nicholas II had been able to acquire this group of outside advisers to guide him, rather than Rasputin! GEORGE MOON Southfield, Michigan...