Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan did not retire - never wanted to. Nor did Johnson, Nixon, Ford or Carter. Leaving the presidency is tough on the ego. Once you've played the White House game there isn't much else that looks like...
Reagan does not display the towering ego or consuming ambition that has driven other Presidents. But the White House does fill a personal need of another sort...
...life, and he is now playing to the biggest audience on earth. Much as he delights in riding horses on vacations at his ranch near Santa Barbara, he has confessed to friends that he would be bored living there full time?and that goes double for Nancy. Finally, his ego is at least big enough to make him doubt whether any other G.O.P. candidate could carry out his conservative mission equally well, or perhaps even...
...forgotten about come out of the woodwork; former adversaries become intimates." Observes Financier William Hambrecht, co-founder of Hambrecht & Quist, a San Francisco venture-capital and investment-banking firm: "Most of the guys who have failed are the ones who stopped listening and got carried away with their own ego. All of a sudden they became folk heroes and started to believe their own public relations...
...videomakers tend, with suitable modifications for ego, to go along with this sort of businesslike evaluation. Simon Fields, head of the Los Angeles branch of London's Limelight Productions, has produced more than 300 videos, and says, "We have to remember we are making a sales tool. These are little commercials. It is our job to make an artist look good." Even so, the skill of the videomakers often seems secondary to the music they visualize. Says Mallet: "You can make a good video of a bad record, and it doesn't do a thing...