Word: nixonization
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There's no sign that O'Neill is an ardent supply-sider. Zarb, the NASDAQ chief who also served with O'Neill in the Nixon White House, said, "Paul's not an ideologue by any stretch of the imagination." But even those who know him well can only guess at O'Neill's views on the big, trillion-dollar tax cut Bush campaigned on last year. The prevailing view is that O'Neill will fight loyally for whatever package the President sends to Capitol Hill--but then take the lead in the hunt for a final compromise. "Paul...
...turn-of-the-century trains. Yet moments later, we always saw him, just like Wile E. Coyote or Daffy Duck, completely reassembled and eagerly pursuing his next crazy scheme. Essentially, people love cartoon characters because they cannot be hurt. They defy the rules of Greek tragedy. Clinton, unlike Richard Nixon or Lyndon Johnson, was not undone by his flaws. Whenever the smoke cleared, Clinton remained standing, covered in soot and looking at us slightly chagrined. But before we could pity him, the music was back on, and he was confidently strutting across the New Mexican landscape...
...Navy pilot and Princeton wrestler, Rumsfeld was, at 43, the youngest Defense Secretary in history when he ran the Pentagon for the last 14 months of Ford's term. Now 68, the Chicago native spent six years in Congress and eight in the Nixon and Ford administrations before beginning a successful pharmaceutical career at G.D. Searle & Co. Pentagon officials and Bush see Rumsfeld as a counterweight to Colin Powell, the retired Army general tapped to run Bush's foreign policy. "General Powell is a strong figure and Dick Cheney is no shrinking violet, but neither is Don Rumsfeld," the President...
...award for the oldest skeleton in the closet goes to Donald Rumsfeld. A story in the Chicago Tribune has raised a ghost that Bush's nominee for secretary of defense probably wishes had stayed buried. The paper claims that during tapes from the Nixon administration, Rumsfeld, on his way to his first stint in the Pentagon under Gerald Ford, can be heard agreeing with some of Nixon's less politically correct assessments of minority groups...
...Prediction: Rumsfeld won't take too much heat over this; while it's certainly pleasant to imagine an underling taking Nixon to task for his paranoid rantings, it's not exactly realistic...