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Clinton generated unusual internal resentment when he kept many of his most loyal aides in the dark about their jobs until late last week. Some longtime aides blamed transition aide Susan Thomases, a New York attorney and friend of Hillary's, for vetoing strong candidates and enacting a strict quota...
But Bill Clinton is no George Bush, and it is no accident that the new chief of staff lacks the hardballer's callouses of his predecessors. Rather than letting a lone chief of staff bring a narrow set of final decisions to him, as Bush did, Clinton will spend much...
Unlike his late father Robert, a patrician Little Rock lawyer with a lanky frame, Lindsey is short (he looks like a miniature version of British Prime Minister John Major) and so unassuming that even journalists in Little Rock misunderstood his role. "I thought for a long time that he was...
He has established himself--at least unofficially among Harvard's faithful--as the team's enforcer. Each time the Riverwoods, Ill. native slams an opponent into the boards or throws a hipcheck, chants of "Flo" ring from Bright Center's stands.
It is easy to mistake Sununu's value to Bush as merely that of an unshakable link to the G.O.P.'s right wing. In fact, Sununu's real value is the role he plays as the President's enforcer, the "abominable no man," who acts as a lightning rod for...