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...stung all the same. Six months after Edwin Meese declared himself "completely vindicated" by a special prosecutor's decision not to indict him on charges of misconduct, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility last week issued a scathing report on the former Attorney General's ethics. Its key conclusion: if Meese were still in office, "disciplinary action" should be taken against him for "conduct which should not be tolerated of any government employee, especially not the Attorney General." Among Meese's misdeeds cited in the report: doing favors for chum E. Robert Wallach, who is awaiting trial...
Defensively, Bush's "big decision," said Richard Williamson, a longtime Reagan aide, "was to salute the flag. When the Administration jumped, Bush jumped too." Shortly after Reagan-Bush won in 1980, the Vice President told key staffers that he would keep his head down and his mouth shut. "I'm not going to operate like Mondale," an aide recalls Bush saying. "I'm not going to leak my differences with policies that are unpopular. No one's going to catch me trying to cover my ass that way." And no one ever did. By the end, even some of Bush...
...worked, didn't it?" says Richard Bond, a longtime Bush aide who helped mastermind the President's election. "George Bush is one of the most underestimated men in politics. The key to him is that he has learned to keep his eye on the ball. He's learned that getting there requires that you sometimes swallow hard in order to later be in a position to do the things you want to do. The real way to view Doonesbury's line about Bush having put his manhood in a blind trust is to see it as a masterful...
Vellucci has spent most of his 34 years on the council providing the key swing vote for liberal programs such as rent control, while representing a conservative East Cambridge constituency...
House Ways and Means Chair Richard A. Voke (D-Chelsea), who will play a key role in the debate over local aid, taxes and the new budget, immediately put Dukakis on notice that he considered the local aid proposal overly generous in light of available revenues...