Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cleary stood in a corner in the belly of The Whale. He wore a smile. He has seen a lot of hockey. Victory. Defeat...
With his impish smile and baby face, Brown, 47, hardly looks like an agent of historic change. He has an outsize mustache, a quick wit and an ability to energize any room he enters, traits that conjure up comparisons with Jackson. But his hands are those of a polished Washington lobbyist: when he speaks, his left hand rests casually in his pocket while his right hand ticks off the logical points he wants to make; when he listens, his palms press together as he taps his fingers thoughtfully. At a lectern, he talks rather than preaches. On a couch...
Such good deeds seldom go unpunished. At every stop, the question of Brown's relationship with Jackson comes up. At a small meeting in a Richmond hotel, a woman squirms on the couch, apologizes, then blurts it out with a nervous smile. At a Chicago forum, a man reads the question from a page prepared in advance. They often call it simply "the Jesse question," the perception that Brown is Jackson's candidate or is obligated...
...held up to an undefined ideal; she bears all America's conflicting notions about women as wives, mothers, lovers, colleagues and friends. A First Lady should be charming but not all fluff, gracious but not a doormat, substantive but not a co-President. She must defend her husband and smile bravely when he says stupid things. She must look great, even fashionable, when a shower and clean clothes would suffice for anyone else; possess perfect children though such critters do not exist in nature; and traipse around the globe in a suit and sensible pumps when she would rather...
...nearly 40 years, his geniality kept him in touch with the folks. "Having been a Roosevelt Democrat was an asset," Neustadt observes. "Though he turned far to the right, he never became a three-piece-suit, business Republican." Instead he became something new under the Republican sun, a smile-button conservative who persuaded voters that less taxation meant more prosperity, that less government facilitated the pursuit of happiness. And he taught the Washington establishment that compulsive attention to detail in the Oval Office simply got in the way of big ideas...