Word: lindseyism
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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...
...route to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Campaign director Bruce Lindsey explained what the near mute Clinton did when he was alone with aides. "He talks," Lindsey said with bemused resignation. "He can't, but that's what he does. He talks anyway...
...already signaled the programs he will emphasize in his first 100 days: job creation, health-care reform and training the work force of the future. "These are the things we've run on and we'd want to + address right out of the box," says campaign director Bruce Lindsey. "But each of these implies hundreds of subpriorities that he hasn't yet ranked," says another Clinton aide. "Take job creation. What the hell is that, really? Do we go with a large economic-stimulus package right away? Do we increase infrastructure expenditures? Do we push all the training schemes...