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...they need a little adrenaline," says Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. "He can energize the President in a way Baker couldn't." Others say that Duberstein's hard-driving style can be alienating. "Kenny's got a strong will and a strong set of convictions," says Tom Griscom, Reagan's communications director, who is leaving the White House with Baker. "He can be tough, determined. He knows when to put his foot down to make something happen...
...Tommy Griscom, 38, Baker's loyal aide, came in for his share. "Tommy, did somebody press the down button on your elevator shoes?" He was another Tennessee boy who could roll with it, even at 5 ft. 6 in., and with quick wit he traveled through the Washington jungle unscathed. "You know," whispered a former White House staffer last week, "we sometimes joked that Tommy was the most powerful man in the country. He had a President who was disengaged. Baker was not an administrator. Tommy paid attention to the details...
...Baker and Griscom are both going off from the White House. It seems unfortunate to lose such good men when scandal is rampant in the Federal Government. There is, however, another point to be made. Baker and Griscom came to help Ronald Reagan in his worst time, and they steadied the Administration and nudged it off again in the right direction. There are too many rascals to count right now in Washington, but we too often lose sight of the fact that the city has many more good folk who step up and serve honestly and honorably. Most of these...
When the bureaucrats from State and the National Security Council moved in to dampen the rhetoric, Griscom was there. The call to the Soviets to "tear down the Berlin Wall and all barriers between Eastern and Western Europe" stayed in the text. Griscom dispelled the worry that Reagan would offend his hosts by championing the dissidents gathered around him in Moscow. He never noted the alarm that Reagan might walk through Red Square arguing with Mikhail Gorbachev about whether the world was tilting East or West. Rolling debate with a few sharp elbows was as good a test of glasnost...
...Tommy Griscom, Reagan's communications director, and Baker, who was once a candidate himself, were watching Bush on TV shivering down the glacial campaign trail. Griscom ribbed Baker: "Just think, if you were a candidate you'd be there." Baker smiled and looked lovingly at the burning logs in his White House fireplace...