Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scarcely had the opening-day ceremonies ended when six leaders of the Republican-controlled Senate visited the White House for breakfast with Ronald Reagan. Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole of Kansas summarized their message: "We told the President that we could not live with those big deficits." Paul Laxalt of Nevada, Reagan's closest friend on Capitol Hill, described the red-ink figure to reporters as "a little terrifying...
...President doesn't want any yes men and women around him," Elizabeth Dole once remarked. "When he says no, we all say no." Behind the wry humor, there was a hint of truth. As assistant to President Reagan for public liaison and the highest-ranking woman in the White House, Elizabeth ("Liddy") Dole has been a silent team player, wielding little influence and rarely speaking out on women's issues. Now, however, she has moved into the spotlight as President Reagan's nominee to be the new Secretary of Transportation, succeeding the departing Drew Lewis. Her nomination...
...appointment will enhance the Doles' status as one of the most visible and influential couples in the capital. During their seven-year marriage, they have moved swiftly along separate and sometimes conflicting tracks. "You have to compartmentalize," says Elizabeth Dole, 46, explaining how they keep apart their personal and political lives. "You really have to have that basis." Besides, she adds, "there may be something at the White House being discussed that's not ready to be discussed on Capitol Hill." It works both ways. When the "Gang of 17," a bipartisan group of lawmakers and senior White...
Although both are ambitious workaholics-she rises every morning at 5:30, he at 6-they have avoided competing with each other. Friends say they have a relationship reminiscent of high school sweethearts. The couple have no children, but Bob Dole, 59, has a 27-year-old daughter from his first marriage. Dole says he has had no problems adjusting to the high-powered career of his wife, whom he calls a "sensible" feminist. When he ran unsuccessfully for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1979, Elizabeth resigned her job on the Federal Trade Commission to campaign for him. He dubbed...
Elizabeth Dole did not have to lobby very hard for the $80,100-a-year Transportation post, a job that would make her the first woman to head a Cabinet agency in the Reagan Administration and the seventh in U.S. history. She has earned high marks in the White House for loyalty, competence and a toughness swathed in Southern charm. But her main advantage was being a woman in an Administration that is desperate to raise the visibility of women and close its notorious gender...