Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Todd launches himself slowly and awkwardly into the world. Self-centered, given to gusts and swoons of excitement, he is, as one of his actress lovers tells him, a "great, big, Grade A, ignorant fool." Nor is he a wholly attractive fellow. His sex life is a series of not so magnificent obsessions; like his idol, he deserts his children. Irritatingly, a paranoia starts to < flare whenever he loses what he desperately wants: "control, total control...
...with political cartoons, most of them lampooning him as a rogue and obstructionist. The senior Senator from North Carolina takes impish delight in each and every one of them. "The uglier they are the quicker he puts them up," says an aide. Among Helms' favorites is one depicting a fellow Senator praying, "And would you kindly ask Jesse Helms to please shut...
Most of Washington, including a growing number of his fellow conservatives, wishes the Attorney General would quietly leave the field. But like General Ulysses Grant, a warrior Meese greatly admires, he seems determined, as Grant said down in Virginia, "to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." On that he is backed up so far by the President, who is being placed yet again in the awkward position of choosing between what is best for his presidency and protecting a loyal spear carrier...
...sees his antagonists as the traditional liberal assault forces, in league with the media. They come on, in his view, in a set piece of political attack. First, a selected victim is branded as controversial. Then he is labeled an embarrassment to the Government. Finally it is said the fellow has to go. If that tactic proceeds much further unchallenged, Meese believes, such forces will soon paralyze any Government. "I am going to continue the leadership of the Department of Justice," he says. "I am going to wait until the prosecutor's report is issued, and then I am going...
...this courtly fellow, all cracker- barrel charm, really be the dread "Senator No," otherwise known as Jesse Helms...