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ADMINISTRATION: Rafael Soto, Alan J. Abrams, Catherine M. Barnes, Denise Brown, Tresa Chambers, Anne M. Considine, Tosca LaBoy, Marilyn V.S. McClenahan, Katharine K. McNevin, Elliot Ravetz, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Marianne Sussman, Raymond Violini...
...Marilyn's most undiplomatic words were aimed at Secretary of State James Baker, who may compete with her husband for Bush's job four years from now and is a formidable Washingtonian in the meantime. Baker is not only Bush's closest friend and former campaign manager, but also has accumulated friends around the capital since he arrived 17 years ago. It was Baker, Marilyn complained to the Post, who was responsible for Quayle's fumbling first appearance at the riverfront rally in New Orleans in August 1988, because the campaign sent no one to greet him. He was also...
...more than palace intrigue if the Post had not pronounced her potentially the "most influential First Lady in American history" should Quayle become President. "Their relationship represents what will be the typical political relationship of the future," says Sheila Tate, the former spokeswoman for Nancy Reagan and one of Marilyn's friends. "Most women in their 30s and 40s are career people; from here on out, when their spouse is elected to a public office, these women are going to have the role of senior adviser." That prospect would not be so alarming if, after scarcely laying a kid glove...
...series does give the Vice President's wife high marks for the care and energy with which she has pursued the causes of disaster relief and cancer detection. But the impression of Marilyn that emerges overall is of a woman so controlling of her husband's image that she once removed from the wall a picture she believed gave him a paunch, scribbled over it and then kicked it out of its frame; a strategist who helped plot not only her husband's early political career but also his mini-campaign for the vice-presidential spot on the G.O.P. ticket...
...past the book's clutter of cliches ("Even his fertile imagination hadn't truly conceived of the ecstasy of ultimate power"), arthritic prose ("Acknowledgment of those limitations in no way comforted him") and breathless dialogue ("There's got to be a way!") will not find it hard to decipher Marilyn's ideological prejudices. The hero is a black Republican Senator from Georgia and a defender of the Star Wars program who is up against a fatuous Democratic President with "little understanding" of his country's security, an intelligence community "crippled by the micromanagement of Congress" and the elitist editor...