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California judge and loyal Reagan staffman; Director of Central Intelligence William Casey is a seasoned businessman and an energetic Republican campaigner; Caspar Weinberger does not have the background in defense policy to match his zealous commitment to the goal of rearming America (which is one reason why he has virtually turned over the Pentagon's arms-control portfolio to Perle); if confirmed, Kenneth Adelman, the Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations, will be the least qualified director in the 21-year history of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He is a political scientist whose main prior experience...
There was a further problem. A briefing book for Carter prepared by four Democratic campaign strategists pointed out that he sometimes tends to smile at inappropriate times-when people criticize him, for example. Says one Carter staffman: "Jimmy has his good smiles and his bad smiles." Carter's image chief, Jerry Rafshoon, has his own favorite, which he calls the humble smile: "It's when he smiles with his lower lip, the lips almost pressed together." The wide smile looks forced and sometimes comes across as a smirk, say other smile watchers, and some people have asked Carter...
...years of service, Wheeler has had only five months' combat duty, as a division chief of staff in Europe in World War II. But in his steady climb as a staffman, he caught the eye of Maxwell Taylor and later of John F. Kennedy, whom he was assigned to brief on military matters in the 1960 campaign. Named Army Chief of Staff in 1962, he set about revitalizing the Army along the lines of Taylor's doctrine of "flexible" response rather than overwhelming reliance on massive nuclear retaliation. During Wheeler's two-year tenure as Chief...
...Brien has followed that advice-up to a point. Officially, patronage is left to Democratic National Committee Chairman John Bailey, who works in consultation with O'Brien Staffman Dick Donahue. But O'Brien knows well that patronage is still a potent political instrument; he makes recommendations to Bailey on major appointments, and his suggestions receive top-priority consideration. Thus, when the 14 members of the Italian-American congressional bloc threatened to vote against the Administration's feed-grains bill just to demonstrate their power, O'Brien quickly found out what was on their minds...
...money easily. In 1920 he had an offer of $1,000 each for articles in Cosmopolitan, huffily turned it down because the editors told him what they wanted him to write about: "The Wife's Mental Place in the Home." In 1924 Colonel "Bertie" McCormick cabled Tribune Staffman George Seldes...