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...increases, he soon found that he needed more revenue to do all he wanted to do, so he imposed the biggest tax hike in state history. Winning a second term by half a million votes, Reagan turned to simplifying and reducing welfare spending and got his way by shrewd bargaining with his Democratic opposition. But his successes came during the years when his party was falling into disgrace nationally because of President Nixon's Watergate scandal. When Reagan retired as Governor in 1975, according to one poll, fewer than 20% of Americans considered themselves Republicans...
...He’s shrewd,” Mansfield says. “He’s not rule-bound but he’s intelligent with people which is unusual for a mathematician...
...that combination of shrewd self-projection and political endurance is exactly what makes him such an attractive candidate to be Chairman...
Thorpe is a warm, Falstaffian 41-year-old who paints her nails fire-engine red. She has a mop of frizzy, streaked hair and a tree-of-life tattoo above her enormous left breast. Even adversaries acknowledge that Thorpe runs a shrewd, deeply entrenched organization. "B.R.O. has usually been on the defensive, but they have also been persistent," says Kevin Mannix, who chairs the state G.O.P. "This is an example of persistence paying off. Then again, nobody should expect to have the kind of secret access to public officials that occurred here...
...most in need of reform--the FBI and the CIA--over the past 60 years have become famously hidebound and self-protective creatures. As four or five outside groups launched probes of--and proposed changes to--FBI and CIA activities after 9/11, the bureau and the agency played a shrewd, wait-'em-out game, allowing small changes proposed by outsiders but drawing a hidden "line of death" at anything dramatic, especially if it undercut their roles, their missions and, most of all, their budgets...