Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adherent of the clan. That Kennedy was an idealist, they don't dispute. But they resent Schlesinger's portrait of Kennedy as an ideal idealist--an untainted saint. Sure, Schlesinger received a Pulitzer Prize for history (1945) and one for biography (1965), but he also served on the campaign staff of Adlai Stevenson in the '50s and as special adviser to President Kennedy in the '60s. Can he hope to write true and objective histories or biographies on any public figures from that era? After all, the epoch he says Bobby embodied was one Bobby represented to him all along...
Ford said long before he left the White House that Carter's big problem was that he had not been in the big leagues. "I would repeat that, and I would add that it has been compounded by a staff that doesn't measure up. There is some evidence that their on-the-job training has been helpful, but they have a long...
...Green Book, Washington's suede-covered guide to the up and climbing. Getting into The Green Book requires that you not at present be divorced or separated, "unpleasantly notorious," or missing from the recommended list of entries sent over from the White House. The socially savvy staff of the manual add and subtract names right up until the last minute, and were glad that there was still time to delete the Washington socialite who died in a suspicious fire. Says the publisher with a sigh of relief: "It is awful to have someone who may have been murdered still...
Some White House staff members had speculated that Carter would not support Edward J. King, the conservative Democratic gubernatorial nominee, who unexpectedly defeated Gov. Dukakis in the primaries...
...invitation to speak at the Kennedy School elicited "a real feeling of enthusiasm" from Carter's staff, Moore said...