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...discussing nuclear strategies, Dukakis has a worrisome tendency to wave away such talk as "abstract theology" about how many warheads can dance on the head of a pin. "Some of the arcane scenarios that we nuclear strategists see, he doesn't believe are reasonable," says his top foreign policy staffer, James Steinberg. "When looking at the calculations a Soviet leader would make, he thinks like a politician rather than a nuclear theorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dukakis Wants to Play by the Rules | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...morning and tries to return to his suburban Maryland home by 8 in the evening to tuck in his two young children. When he isn't chain-smoking Marlboros, he is nibbling on pretzels from a huge jar on his desk. More than any other White House staffer since Michael Deaver, Duberstein has taken pains to develop a good relationship with Nancy Reagan. He and the First Lady talk at least twice a day. Duberstein's energy and loyalty led Baker to compare him to a bird dog. Hence Baker's nickname for him: "Duberdog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who's Minding the Lights? | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

Some critics charge that Baker's temperament and work habits have been too much like the President's. "Baker could have spent a little more time doing his homework," grumbles a White House staffer. "He tends to be on the lazy side. He'd just as soon delegate rather than take on any of the heavy work himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who's Minding the Lights? | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...share. "Tommy, did somebody press the down button on your elevator shoes?" He was another Tennessee boy who could roll with it, even at 5 ft. 6 in., and with quick wit he traveled through the Washington jungle unscathed. "You know," whispered a former White House staffer last week, "we sometimes joked that Tommy was the most powerful man in the country. He had a President who was disengaged. Baker was not an administrator. Tommy paid attention to the details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Tennessee Reproach to Rascals | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...degree, dropped out of Wake Forest to become a reporter, then program director of a Raleigh radio station. Years later, his unabashedly conservative editorials for a Raleigh television station won him a statewide following and future political base. He first came to Washington in the early 1950s as a staffer to North Carolina's Senator Willis Smith, but the advice he remembers best came from Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell: "Jesse," he told him, "a Senator who does not know the rules can be cut to ribbons by a Senator who does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JESSE HELMS: Scourge of the Senate | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

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