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Staff workers at the History and Literature office said they were surprised by the efficiency of many thesis writers. "People were calling up last week asking if they could turn in their theses early," said one staffer. Department secretary Melanie A. Murphy observed at 4 p.m. that "only 30 theses" had yet to be submitted...
...even if time was running short and I was cursed with an extraordinarily unsympathetic computer room staffer, I was not yet ready to give up. I thought about the commands I had used, and realizing my error, I started to correct it. It was then that I ran into Problem Number...
Richard Darman was an anonymous White House staffer seven years ago, still struggling to make his place among Reaganauts suspicious of his moderate politics, but he knew what job would suit him next. If his ally David Stockman, then the embattled Budget Director, departed, Darman thought himself a natural for the Office of Management and Budget. Word of his ambition seeped out. A newspaper column scoffing at his qualifications got big play in Boston, and his ailing father saw it. The younger Darman seethed, and not only because of the criticism. Later he confided that he was upset partly because...
...balance, Baker did more for Bush than any White House staffer has ever done for a Vice President -- but that was not necessarily enough. Shortly before Baker left the White House for the Treasury Department in 1985, he made certain that Bush was present at the crucial 9 a.m. meetings with Reagan. When Donald Regan replaced Baker, he figured that Bush's presence came with the territory. "Nobody suggested that to Baker," says a White House aide. "He just did it for his friend. But believe me, as soon as it started, George's first reaction was to wonder...
Nunn and Warner would not disclose the charges. But after Paul Weyrich, a former Senate staffer, became the first committee witness to talk publicly about Tower's alleged drinking and sexual escapades, the committee was inundated with calls reporting "sightings" of Tower either in a less than sober state or with women, both before and after the FBI conducted a supposedly thorough background check in January. (It was learned last week that the FBI actually completed only the first part of a three-part investigation before Bush sent Tower's name to the Senate.) Committee insiders say many callers were...