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Participants will include Theresa Amato, Donna Brazile, Rick Davis, Gina Glntz, and Karl Rove, campaign managers for Ralph Nader, Al Gore '69, John McCain, Bill Bradley and George W. Bush, respectively...
Inside the White House, she defers to Karen Hughes and Karl Rove, Bush's top political and communications aides, and to Andy Card, the chief of staff. But as Cheney's adviser and a force in her own right, she is considered a major player. Though she's keeping a low profile in public, Bush aides say she's more like her true self on the inside. "She's very smart, and she's brutally honest," says her former Crossfire adversary Bill Press. "She's not an a__ kisser. She's not a yes person. She'll tell it like...
Ever since, Bush has made the nickname his signature gesture of outreach. There is scarcely a legislator left in Texas who hasn't been renamed by Bush. His staff members, from the "High Prophet" (Karen Hughes) to "Big Country" (Joe Allbaugh) to "Boy Genius" (Karl Rove), were all tagged years ago. Members of the press covering Bush now answer like so many fighter pilots to handles as varied as "Stretch," "Pancho," "Grandpa" and "Dulce." And in Washington, Bush has already started spraying nicknames at delegations of visiting lawmakers. George Miller, the hulking Democrat from California, is now known...
...Karl Rove Political Adviser Inherits Hillary's old digs, so you know this office has clout...
Bush will have trouble enough trying to execute Rove's plan in the face of Democratic opposition. But his biggest distraction may come from Republican rival John McCain, who is poised to launch an all-out battle on behalf of his favorite issue, campaign-finance reform. McCain will reintroduce his signature bill in the Senate this week and unveil a new grass-roots organization, Americans for Reform, to browbeat Congress into passing his ban on soft-money contributions. Bush, who hates the bill, plans to meet with McCain on Wednesday to try to talk him into delaying a vote until...