Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special assistant in charge of federal procurement policy. Jane Austen would keenly appreciate the spirited comedy of manners that is being played out inside the Democratic Party: like spinsters preening before the village bachelor, Democrats are jockeying for position in a future Dukakis Administration. Some call this genteel process Potomac Fever. Others view it as the Waltz of the Wise Men Wanna...
Republicans are hardly immune from Potomac Fever, but after eight years in power and multiple turnovers in the top jobs, most have already had a chance to serve. For Democrats, who have held the White House only four of the past 20 years, the yearning is unmistakable. "Like others, I am getting a continuous supply of letters, telegrams, calls, reports and recommendations," says Harvard Professor Robert Reich, who is often cited as a key economic adviser to Dukakis. He adds with a roguish twinkle, "I hear from a remarkably large and varied number of people...
...sense, For the Record was preordained the day Don Regan stormed out of the White House. As he rode through the February darkness along the Potomac to his Mount Vernon estate, he brooded about what had happened and determined to write a book. He had his meticulous notes put in a word processor and then brought in Novelist Charles McCarry, who helped Alexander Haig write his memoir, Caveat, to restructure the material...
Regan now works out of a spacious office looking up the Potomac toward the White House from Alexandria, tending to the substantial investment portfolio he assembled during his 35-year career with Merrill Lynch, the last ten as chairman of the board. Still full of what he calls his "Irish jollity," the feisty ex-Marine is unapologetic about his disclosures. "What do you mean 'kiss and tell'? To my knowledge I've never been kissed by anybody in the Reagan Administration...
...freshman coming out of Thomas Wootten High School in Potomac Md., Morrison realized that he wouldn't play over guard Keith Webster, so he decided not to play basketball for the next two years...