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...often discussed the intern's political plans, and Minow had pledged to help Obama in his pursuit of a place in public life. But Obama didn't just turn the firm down. Minow, a former Federal Communication Commission chairman, recalls that Obama told him to take a seat: "You may not want to help me after you hear the rest of what I've got to say. I'm taking Michelle with me." (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...drama" edict, Nugen is one of the most even keeled political operatives you'll ever meet. He's not a yeller and can sometimes seem mellow to the point where people think he's not paying attention. "Most people throw very, very sharp elbows to get a seat at the table and that's not Matt's style," says Brad Queisser, who met Nugen working at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 1998 and is now a vice president at mCapitol Management. "He's quiet so people underestimate him. Underestimating him could be the biggest mistake that people can make...
...Barack Obama's camp that they had approved our request to interview the candidate for TIME. We were to meet him in Albuquerque, N.M., on Monday afternoon. My flight from Kansas City, via DFW, landed on time Monday morning after three hours of the usual misery. Nothing major: my seat, inches from the fuselage-mounted engine, knocked a couple hundred hertz off my hearing range, and the guy in front of me had reclined his seat so far back I could count his follicles. But I look at it this way: it beats waking up on a Greyhound...
...which in Albuquerque is about 11 yards. There, I found the usual mass of irritated, exhausted travelers preparing, after a three-hour delay, to board. They must have wondered why I was smiling. We filed onto the plane - about 120 grumpy people, plus me. I even got an aisle seat, and not next to the bathroom, either...
...this day, though. Not after I elbowed my way to the podium, asked for a standby seat, and received a boarding pass on the aisle near the front door. I was going to get home early...