Word: sununu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once elected, Bush did his best to ignore California. White House chief of staff John Sununu got into several ugly rows with then Senator Pete Wilson, who was running for Governor and charged that the White House was treating California as just another "account...
...February 1990, California Republicans were feeling so scorned and abused that Bush set out to repair the rift. That spring, Sununu and the late Lee Atwater mended fences with several dozen big-dollar fund raisers at the Orange County home of developer Donald Bren. More recently, Wilson invited Sununu to Sacramento for his swearing...
...After six years of seven-day weeks in G.O.P. politics and the White House, he had returned to a normal life. And while he didn't say so then, his new duties were looking extremely profitable. Rogers, who quit his job as executive assistant to chief of staff John Sununu in August, had found a gold-plated client to begin his first law practice with...
Just why Adham turned to Rogers for help remains a mystery, since Rogers was not an important voice in the White House inner circle and won few friends as Sununu's gatekeeper. But Rogers' title implied that he had significant influence, and that suggests Adham was simply following B.C.C.I.'s universal recipe for success: buy favor as close to the center of power as possible. An official familiar with both men suggested that Adham was merely trying to execute what Arabs call wasta, a sort of well-placed personnel fix, similar to Muammar Gaddafi's hiring of Billy Carter during...
This is no renegade operation: Bush, chief of staff John Sununu and Budget Director Richard Darman are fully apprised of the panel's activities. When such agencies as the EPA and the White House differ over how aggressively to implement a law, the council moves in to referee. Staffed by fewer than a dozen officials, who are, even by Bush White House standards, unusually conservative, the council regularly sides with business against the environment. Even Administration officials marvel at how powerful the body has become. "Because Quayle has Bush's total confidence," said a former Administration official, "nobody can touch...