Word: daley
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Papers take a day to set up veep's veep day Tuesday, and press needles are lurching toward G. The NYT holds a dignified pep rally: Bill Daley, suddenly, "in his short time here... seems to have significantly revived the once flagging morale of the Democratic campaign, both in Nashville and beyond." Gimme an A, Kevin Sack. WP leads section with another in "The Life of Al Gore" series - a Nakashima/Maraniss tale of Gore's near-obsessive responsiveness to his Tennessee constituents...
...country club Republicans) embraced a new generation in the person of young, dashing John Kennedy, who promised to "get America moving again." Hmmm. It was not much of an embrace. Kennedy won that election by an eyelash - some think it was an electoral eyelash conjured up by Mayor Richard Daley from the graveyards of Cook County, Ill. In any case, too close an election to support the Bush thesis...
...when Democrats returned to Chicago, Daley pulled off a dazzling convention, erasing the memory of the strife-torn 1968 debacle that for a generation had haunted his city, his party and his family. In 1996, after Ron Brown's tragic death, Clinton turned to Daley to pick up the pieces of the Commerce Department. The post wasn't the usual rescue operation but the fulfillment of a dream born when, as a 12-year-old, Daley visited J.F.K.'s White House and sat at the Cabinet table. He loved...
...While Daley is a strict taskmaster--he is at his neat desk at 7 a.m., fires people who don't measure up and gets even quietly--he's a popular boss. He dines at his desk off Styrofoam, rides up front with the driver of his government car and thinks a perfect night on the town is a thick steak at the Palm with his son William Jr. (A second son died of lung disease when he was eight years old.) He's a neighbor of Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Fred Thompson in a downtown condo and visits...
Taking on the toughest tasks in the darkest moments, seeking no credit and little reward, Daley is a type rare in Washington: hardworking, discreet, modest and loyal. Gore has dialed the right number. Now he had better listen...