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...midst of his Harvard graduate studies in modern Chinese history, Thomson left the University for politics in 1956 to work on Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson’s second campaign for the presidency. For one Stevenson speech on foreign policy, Thomson coined the term “brinksmanship” to describe Secretary of State John F. Dulles’s claim to bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war in order to block Soviet expansion. The term has since become standard foreign policy jargon...
With half a dozen House Republicans vying this year for a promotion to the Senate, it's not surprising that Senate majority leader Tom Daschle felt a new urgency to pass just about any bill that might deny them bragging rights. The final compromise, proposed by Democrat Bob Graham of Florida and Republican Gordon Smith of Oregon, would have limited coverage to seniors of low and modest income and to those who face catastrophic costs. It was skimpier than legislation that Democrats had earlier rejected as inadequate. This time it got the votes of all but five Democrats. But with...
...fallen to Clarke. A bureaucratic survivor who now leads the Bush Administration's office on cyberterrorism, he has served four Presidents from both parties--staff members joke that the framed photos in his office have two sides, one for a Republican President to admire, the other for a Democrat. Aggressive and legendarily abrasive, Clarke was desperate to persuade skeptics to take the terror threat as seriously as he did. "Clarke is unbelievably determined, high-energy, focused and imaginative," says a senior Clinton Administration official. "But he's totally insensitive to rolling over others...
...Republicans have one sure thing, it ought to be Texas. In Bush country they hold all 27 statewide offices. It has been nearly 30 years since a Democrat has won an open Senate seat. When three-term Senator Phil Gramm announced his retirement last year, who thought Republicans didn't have a lock on his replacement? Just to make sure, the President's political strategist, Karl Rove, mineswept the primary field to ensure that attorney general John Cornyn, a stately, snowy-haired vote getter with a huge political bankroll, would have a straight shot...
...What no Republican calculations took into account was Kirk's charm. A tall, bald man with a big voice and a booming laugh, he jokes, he chats, he hugs and pats his way through a room. The 48-year-old Democrat made a sparkling career by forging alliances across ideological and racial lines, from his election as senior class president at a largely white Austin high school through two runaway victories as mayor of Dallas, a Republican citadel. When George W. was a Governor toying with the idea of a run for the White House, his nickname for Kirk, then...