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...Times, Bad Times (Doubleday, $19.95) was written by a key insider from this period: Ed Joyce, who served as Sauter's top deputy, succeeded him as news division president in 1983, and was ousted two years later. Joyce was an unpopular figure, viewed by his staff as an aloof hatchet man who set in motion a painful round of layoffs in 1985. Unsurprisingly, he views himself more sympathetically, as a beleaguered defender of traditional news values. His chief enemy, it seems, was Rather. The anchorman was unfailingly polite and supportive in person, Joyce writes, but campaigned for his ouster behind...
...predicting Bob Dole will kiss and make up with Bush to be picked as vice president. With his temperament, he will be picked Sectretary of Defense, but not vice president. Besides, Dole has too many principles to bury his hatchet with Bush the way Bush did with Reagan--unless he aims it at George's back...
Little wonder, then, that Dole has a dark side and that Bush, with his perky optimism, tends to bring it out. Dole has tried to suppress his brooding bitterness following his hatchet-man performance as the vice-presidential Republican candidate in the 1976 campaign. Since then, he has gone through two political make-overs designed to improve his body language and soften his style...
...confident that Robertson would be a competent president. His Yale degree proves he's no intellectual slouch, she says. And while the politicians have been making deals Washington, Robertson has been running one of the nation's largest cable networks. He is no hatchet man. And mom says he's friendly, with no Dolelike dark side...
...they suspected that this was more than a run-of-the mill interview. Multiple copies of the letter circulated to the campaign's wise men. Unlike those in other organizations, the Bush staff members are not gluttons for publicity; they can afford to be discriminating. If they sniff a hatchet job, they steer clear. On his copy of the letter, Bush wrote, "I feel comfortable with Rather. Make sure this guy gets reply soon." Campaign Manager Lee Atwater was dead set against the interview. He was wary of Rather, but he was in the minority...