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Ebullient, relentlessly energetic (he jogs 4 miles a day at lunchtime), Buchanan shows refreshingly little ego for a White House potentate. "He's entirely without any of the personal demons that so often occupy the men in power," says White House Speechwriter Anthony Dolan. Shrugs a Regan aide: "He's just a happy warrior for the right...
...collisions of ego might be wonderful -- gridlocking motorcades as they move from villa to casino, colossal bribes to get the best table in the restaurant. St. Helena with a dozen Napoleons on it, huge solipsisms crashing into one another, interpenetrating, great weather balloons of malignant ego drifting in the subtropical breezes...
...vision and listen to everything." White is quite proud of her performance: "I've never turned over a wrong tile." Indeed, her only major gaffe was the time she tripped and fell off the platform behind a contestant's new Mustang. "I wasn't hurt," she recalls, "but my ego was bruised...
Whether he had been courageous, dumb or just quirky, Hodel suddenly became the target of Iacocca's verbal wrath. Never one to hide his feelings, or his ego, the Chrysler chairman blasted back. His summary dismissal, he charged, "borders on being un-American." He referred to "all the crap I've taken." He declared, "I do not appreciate being disenfranchised on somebody's whim...
...known mainly for plagues of mice and seagulls. Reno has passed the years customizing vans and trying to forget that an injury on $ that play cost him his chance for an athletic scholarship. Poor Jack, the town scapegoat, is never allowed to forget. The only cure for his aching ego, and Taft's, is to replay that game...