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...political pro has any trouble keeping his staff advisers in line with his own wishes. The most common relationship is symbiotic: the staffer knows the inclinations and needs of his boss and gets ahead by following those tendencies and filling the information gaps. One strong Senator, New York Republican Jacob Javits, now has a personal staff of 50. In addition, he has increased his own considerable influence by relying on such able committee aides as Don Zimmerman, minority counsel to the Senate Human Resources Committee. Javits, the ranking minority member on the committee, has used Zimmerman to develop far more...
...Kenneth McLean, 43, staff director of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. "I'd be a terrible politician," admits McLean. "To be a politician you have to go out and shake a lot of hands. It's a lot more fun to be a staffer...
Miller can perhaps take some ironic comfort in the thought that on this subject, his lack of training in monetary matters puts him at no disadvantage: even his more experienced colleagues-to-be on the board do not really understand what has been happening to velocity. Says one staffer: "The whole thing is a mystery." But the technical complexities of carrying out money policy are only one problem: whatever Miller decides to do, he is bound to ruffle either liberals or conservatives. It would take only minimal bad luck or misjudgment for him to dismay both...
...overstatement. The Herald-Examiner has lost more than 400,000 readers in the past decade with its overblown headlines and underreported stories. The staff is so demoralized that even the scabs hired to break a strike ten years ago eventually went on strike. Said a Her-Ex staffer of his peers: "They're all running about two quarts...
Written by a self-described "inside the barricades" White House staffer whom even Nixon's harshest critics always viewed as one of Nixon's "good guys"--a gentle idealist, devoid of malice and full of integrity--With Nixon should be read by all who maintain a fascination, morbid or otherwise, with Richard Nixon and his White House years...