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His Midas touch is the source of much of his power. In the 1986 election, he scared up a prodigious $5 million for his state Democratic allies. This charity begins at home: Brown accepted $161,000 last year in personal speaking fees, gifts and expenses, much of it from companies...
Nitze has devoted much of his life to public service in part because he could afford to. He came from a well-to-do family, and his wife of 54 1/2 years, Phyllis, who died in June, was an heiress of the Standard Oil fortune. In addition to having a...
Among Republicans, George Bush is doing a Midas turn. His FEC report will show cumulative receipts of $9.3 million, a tribute to his drawing power in the G.O.P. establishment. Bush has already spent more than most candidates have taken in. Rival campaigns have a frail hope: that Bush will spend...
America, however, is still the home of his greatest ambitions. "My dream is to take over an important American company and use it as a base of my operations," he says as he sits in his Monte Carlo apartment. Khashoggi wants to leave his mark on the world the way...
Hazards of the Midas touch is a theme common to both books. Lenzner's The Great Getty is more detailed and better organized and written than Russell Miller's The House of Getty, which contains such cliches as "fruit of his loins" and repeatedly uses the bush-league redundancy "consensus...