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...thousands of others in Florida) in which she extolled her son's virtues. It was a smart move, given Barbara Bush's likability, unless you happen to think it underscores George W.'s lack of political maturity. It's like the guy needs a permission slip from Mom saying it's O.K. for Dubya to go on the field trip to the White House...
...Mom's phone work is an indication of the all-out war over the nation's fourth biggest basket of electoral votes. It is a state Bush can't afford to lose, especially with the humiliation that would come from tanking in a place where brother Jeb is Governor. But Gore, sniffing blood in the water, has sharked up and down the state trying to make the kill...
...Perhaps Bush senses there's a smallness about newshounds too. Some of us want to get on the air just for the sake of the exposure, not because we have a new fact or idea to report. Mom was the first glamour TV gal - with matching ego - so she would have sympathized with us (if she wasn't stepping on our necks to get to the camera). She loved seeing herself on television, and she loved gossip. She had an undifferentiated hunger for the news, but she had a civics-class feeling about it. She thought all this information...
...scoops came from those dates and the parties she threw. Of course, her male colleagues whispered that she was sleeping around. They would do that today too. But by letting herself be wined and dined, Mom was only working to overcome a locker-room atmosphere that favored her male colleagues. She may have given some pols a pass for making one. But that's part of a conspiracy among her and her male colleagues on a range of behavior - particularly Kennedy's - that our profession once considered private. When a drunken Wilbur Mills pulled Mom from dinner to see stripper...
...John McCain in the primaries, I spent a weekend with a colleague and our wives at McCain's mountain cabin. The stories and insights and blunt talk crackled like fireworks. As we left, I had an urge that I still can't shake. I thought, "I've gotta tell Mom about this...