Word: go
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember one time not long ago when a group of us were sitting around and someone said again that Jimmy is the one who should be President, not George," says Phil Uzielli. "He loved it, and he let the talk go on a bit before shutting it down. If George weren't set on running, said Jimmy, well, that would be a different thing. But someday, maybe...
...save "about $7,000 in hotel bills." Now, at the ranch, Baker says he is thinking of heading back to Washington a few hours early. "O.K.," says Susan, "but remember we got those supersaver fares, Jimmy. It'll cost extra." "Oh, right," says Baker. "Forget it. I'll go back as planned...
...that Bush and Baker go way back only begins to describe their closeness. Bush brought Baker into politics and firmly believes he would not ^ have become President without him. Nevertheless, the President speaks of Baker as his brother -- his "younger brother," a diminution that signals a certain competitiveness. "It's not unjustified for him to think of me as his protege," says Baker. "But then you have to consider that I took off a lot of time and lost a lot of income working for him in the '80 campaign. That kind of squared the circle. And remember, when...
Gold notes something else about the Baker method. "Bush is not manageable in the ordinary sense," says Gold. "You have to be extremely tactful to get him to go along with something. He likes his prerogatives. So down in Houston, Jimmy had a bunch of us there who agreed with him about George's dropping out. He didn't need us there, but spreading the burden was important for Jimmy's continuing relationship with George...
...selecting Dan Quayle, which appears to have been a Bush solo, the candidate often free-lanced by adopting a nonconfrontational technique. "Baker would call him on the plane and get him to change some line or another," says a Baker associate. "Bush would say, 'O.K., Jimmy, right,' and then go and do what he wanted to do anyway...