Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reno ran five times, and kept winning by vast margins. That she managed to do so running as a liberal-minded, pro-choice Democrat in a deeply conservative county without hiding her principles, carries a lot of weight in the city of perpetual pandering...
...anymore. Such is the power of her personal geometry that Reno towers above the countless new arrivals to the city. The last time such a crop of eager young technocrats arrived to take over the capital, Sam Rayburn surveyed the bushy-tailed crowd and told Lyndon Johnson, "Well, Lyndon, they may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff...
...public servant who pays list price for a new car to avoid any charge of getting a sweet deal. In a department under fire for being deeply politicized and ethically challenged, drifting past successive scandals from B.C.C.I. to Iraqgate, employees consider her their best chance at redemption. Reno has, says an observer from Capitol Hill, "established a certain air of integrity that is emanating from that department. You cannot diminish the value of having the head of the Justice Department being recognized nationally for strength, integrity and honesty. That is certainly something that has not happened at Justice...
...popularity has a bleeding edge, it may be that it dates to one of the worst days of her life. On that now famous April afternoon when Reno went before the cameras to explain the disastrous finale in Waco, the peculiar laws of politics ensured that she would get all the credit for taking all the blame. The first image Americans held of their brand-new Attorney General was of a stern, sad, certain woman describing a terrible tragedy and using none of the greasy legal language that would have shielded her from blame...
...performance won her the lasting loyalty of her own department. "She stood up and took a bullet for us," a veteran FBI agent says. But Reno may pay a political price. Much was made at the time of the contrast between her mea culpa and that of President Clinton, who vanished for hours before surfacing to claim responsibility. That contrast, which owes as much to Clinton's instincts as to hers, could strain the relationship between Reno and her boss. As supportive as he has been, and as grateful for having at least one folk hero in his Cabinet, Clinton...