Word: lindseyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...James's; and people with the remotest connection to the President-elect say they have not paid for a lunch or dinner in weeks. But there is one man who is so close to power that he does not need to ask for any. He is Bruce Lindsey, a 44-year-old lawyer from Little Rock who is Clinton's closest friend and most trusted adviser, the first to see him in the morning and the last to see him at night, the only person in Clinton's entourage to sit in on all the meetings...
...Lindsey's virtue is that he understands the centripetal nature of power -- that to get to the core of it, you have to almost disappear. Lindsey is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. "He's like oxygen," says Clinton strategist Paul Begala. "You can't see him, and you can't live without him." After years of his being at Clinton's side -- Lindsey was the presidential candidate's first traveling companion when the two trekked anonymously through airports, carrying their own bags -- there is practically nothing in print about him. He shuns interviews and does...
Unlike his late father Robert, a patrician Little Rock lawyer with a lanky frame, Lindsey is short (he looks like a miniature version of British Prime Minister John Major) and so unassuming that even journalists in Little Rock misunderstood his role. "I thought for a long time that he was just Clinton's gofer, but it's obvious he's much more than that," says John Brummett, political editor at the Arkansas Times. In fact, Lindsey is the outside, practical manifestation of Clinton's political anima, a campaign unto himself: he took the competing opinions of the staff to Clinton...
...Lindsey is also the official worrier, often pacing in the back of the room, not easily contented. Last week it was he who fretted to associates that the vacuum created by the Governor's lack of activity in the early days of the transition had created a number of not fully favorable stories. "Bruce isn't satisfied if the Governor just hits the ball out of the park," George Stephanopoulos, the campaign's communications director, is fond of saying. "That ball has to go out of the park, over the river and through an apartment window...
...significantly, Lindsey's protest was within the Establishment: he fought to make his fraternity pledge a black friend (and resigned as a member when the national organization balked), and he fought to drop some curriculum requirements, arguing that academic standards in those courses were so low that students were not learning anything. In the summer of 1968 he worked in Senator J. William Fulbright's office in Washington, where he met Clinton and a group of other bright young anti-Vietnam War idealists, and he returned to a job there upon graduating in 1971. He earned a law degree...