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...event, Mnookin read a passage from his book and answered questions about the inner workings of the Times as well as the current state of journalism in general...
Although widely regarded as a friend to business, the President has struggled to find a Treasury boss who has won the respect of Wall Street and the Bush inner circle. JOHN SNOW is expected to remain in place, at least for a while, but it's almost certain that the search will go on. A possible replacement: WILLIAM DONALDSON, the former investment banker who, after a sluggish start as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is beginning to win praise for steering the agency into more aggressive scrutiny of slippery business practices. A Donaldson drawback: he has alienated some...
...think Hillary still annoys them." Few things could excite the passions of the "vast right-wing conspiracy"--as Clinton once called her husband's enemies--or motivate the Republican base more than the prospect of a President Hillary Clinton. "I'm one of the few in the semi--inner circle who don't think she can win," says Ickes, a close Clinton ally who was deputy chief of staff to her husband in his first term. "It would be a brutal, bruising fight. It would make this year's race look like kindergarten...
...terrifying. A top Kerry fund raiser condensed the pros and cons of Gutsball in a memo and sent it round to the inner circle. Gutsball meant Kerry would try to raise $150 million in the final three months of the race. It meant diverting Kerry and Edwards at least 40 times to blue-state cities like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, where money was plentiful but swing votes were not. And playing Gutsball ensured that Bush would opt out of funding too. On the other hand, the memo noted, if Kerry didn't opt out, Bush still might...
...settle the matter, Kerry convened a virtual Cabinet meeting of top advisers one afternoon at the campaign's soulless McPherson Square headquarters in downtown Washington. He went round the big conference table and asked everyone in his inner circle what to do. And each time he got an answer--Do It or Don't--Kerry argued with it. The staff realized what was going on. Kerry was working through it. He argued passionately with both sides, telling the Do It crowd why it was nuts and then reminding the more reluctant side that it might work. It went on that...