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That means back-room politicking, secret calls to Washington insiders and protecting himself from potential embarassment. Flynn's an old-time pol, and while that often means watching out for the little guy, it means, above all, watching out for yourself...
...outsider, it's a miniature version of Washington, where political connections, as much as money, are the coin of the realm," writes Marian Burros, also of The Times. Here's Clinton as Slick Willie, the smooth pol with a rolodex large enough to make any Institute of Politics hack salivate...
Whoever is chosen to replace Rich Bond as party chairman next January will face the task of reuniting the fractious G.O.P. Departing Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber seems the favorite for the job, partly because he is a straight-talking pol who kept his head above water while the President was drowning in his futile re-election bid. Du Pont also wants the party job, and has hinted he would forgo another run at the White House if he got it. Gramm and many moderate Bush operatives believe Labor Secretary Lynn Martin would do a better job of preventing the party...
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...would have to make some sense of its "proposition that all men are created equal." He reached into the childhood memories of his audience, to all those Fourth of July orations they had absorbed. He was appealing from one set of prejudices to a nobler set, as a shrewd pol should...