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...partygoing interviewer before Frost's own birthday bash in Los Angeles and declared, "David, I don't think you're up to this." His assessment galvanized Frost. In the days that followed, Frost pored over his briefing books and endured hours of sessions in which a staffer attempted to answer each Frost question the way Nixon might. With his homework properly done, Frost proved that he was indeed a formidable adversary for Nixon. The British charmer turned into an English bulldog...
...scene is the ragtag headquarters of a Boston underground paper. A staffer takes a kinky sex ad for the personal column over the phone, then politely asks the caller whether he wants to pay by BankAmericard or Master Charge. Question: With credit policies like that, how underground can the paper or its readers really...
...Jordan aides. His chief deputy, Landon Butler, 35, is a key operative for the Georgia cadre and is organized labor's West Wing contact. Another Jordan man is Richard Hutcheson, 25, a former campaign aide, who oversees the paper flow into Carter's In box. Senior staffers send their memos-held to two pages, when possible-to Hutcheson for delivery to Carter. But juniors with ideas they want Carter to consider must send their notes to their own senior staffer first; if he passes a memo, it then goes on to Hutcheson. If he deems it unworthy...
...exhilarating but wearying work. Schlesinger's people regularly put in twelve-to 14-hour days-like the boss. Late one recent evening, a reporter happened to meet Energy Staffer Dave Freeman in the Executive Office Building's deserted hall. "Jimmy says you can go home now," cracked the newsman. "Yeah," replied Freeman wearily, "but Jim didn...
...this "flourishing of the British constitutional monarchy"-one of the more "curious social phenomena of the 20th century," as he rightly observes. It is no easy job, and the word paradox gets used freely. In the end, Lacey, the author of a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh (and a staffer on the London Sunday Times), has spread his cloak over the puddle and gallantly invented a second Elizabeth to walk across it. If this act of prestidigitation is not a work of art, it is a work of considerable artifice...