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...ever, and he is also very much Bush's subordinate; this is not a contradiction so much as a cause and effect. Bush trusts Cheney because he is loyal, discreet and very clear about who is in charge; that trust in turn is Cheney's trophy, up on the mantel for all to see. They have more than that weekly private lunch that Al Gore insisted on when Bill Clinton recruited him. They are together every day, sometimes for most of the day; Cheney attends any important meeting and then often stays behind with Bush alone. As a minister without...
...books were all over the place freshman year—the shelves just couldn’t accommodate them,” says Pintar, who is originally from Croatia. “They were lined up on the fireplace mantel, they covered my desktop and they filled my desk drawers. Eventually, the overcrowding got so bad that I just started stacking them up in corners and next...
This message was so strong, while the message from the mantel and the room itself was so muddled. Perhaps it was that contrast that made me put the book down and re-examine where...
...quote on the mantel just didn’t seem to fit such a context. I was first struck with the tension John Harvard himself presented. Why was he on top of this quote? John Harvard as a beneficiary, as a mascot of sorts, sure, but who thinks of him as a role model? Had he ever chosen a good name over great riches, or love over wealth? His one claim to fame—mysterious, nondescript historical figure that he is—seems to be that he accumulated wealth over his lifetime and decided to donate a large...
...Europe for the first of May. Roosevelt died before he saw it. "The last map" was returned to the White House, and Elsey took it over, saving it from destruction. A few years ago he gave it back to the White House, and today it hangs over the mantel in the Map Room, now stately and elegant with its thick carpets and polished Chippendale furniture. Today's Presidents plan their wars in the Situation Room, built in the West Wing during Kennedy's time. The Map Room, meanwhile, has acquired some incongruous new history, having served as the site...