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...veteran of five transitions himself (including the tricky Nixon-Ford one), Cheney also bemoaned with a lip-curl the "admittedly unusual circumstances" that had wasted three weeks of the normal 10-week turnaround time. "A transition has a direct bearing on the quality of administration that follows it," he said. "Whatever the vice president's decision, that does not change our obligation...
...stroke. He reminded some, physically at least, of a young Dan Quayle with brains. He was so frisky at a Memorial Day parade, trying to shake as many hands as possible, that he literally fell on his face. He had to introduce himself to voters with a fat lip...
...Light Prince and the Dark Prince. There they were again, under the studio lights of the famous first debate - graceful Jack, loverboy and martyr; and eye-flicking Tricky, unshaven paranoid with sweat on his upper lip. The scene has persisted in the mind like a cave drawing, a cartoon from prehistory...
...distraction--in the form of a fake war--from a risqu sex-scandal threatening the president on the eve of his re-election. Bulworth recounts the tale of a disenchanted and suicidal political icon who finds solace when he begins to speak the truth--rather than his usual lip service--regardless of the consequences of his offensive, yet candid, remarks. And Primary Colors tells the story of an idealistic political aficionado seduced into organizing the presidential campaign of a slick southern governor...
...spoke in front of the Board of Governors, which I didn't even know existed. So I spoke about theater. I explained to them what goes on and what we needed from them. And they just sat there, literally, with these smiles plastered to their faces. It's lip service. It's as if they're saying "Yes, there are arts at Harvard, and that's important because Harvard is Arts and Sciences, so there'd better be some arts! And as long as we hear that it's still going on, everything's fine." Going to the Board...