Word: sununu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush called a series of Cabinet-level meetings of his Economic Policy Council, attended by a dozen Cabinet secretaries and other top advisers. They put forth several ideas for boosting the economy, but Brady and Sununu shot them down as economically unnecessary or politically risky. Frustrated, Housing Secretary Jack Kemp warned, "Mr. President, the American people will forgive us if we try a program and it fails, but they will not forgive...
...Were you aware that Sununu was saying things like that...
...believe he'd say that, either. For him to suggest that we had nothing more to do on the domestic agenda, I don't believe he'd say that. John Sununu wouldn't say that. I mean, come on. He was here trying to help get a lot of things done in the Congress...
FOOTNOTE: *Sununu made the statement in a speech to the Conservative Leadership Conference in Washington...
Longtime Bush aide CRAIG FULLER, who was passed over in 1988 for the job of White House chief of staff in favor of JOHN SUNUNU, is now G.O.P. convention manager and controls the speaking roster in Houston. Fuller had offered a slot to Sununu on Tuesday morning -- not exactly prime time. Sununu's response was a predictable no. Fine, said Fuller, who declined to make a better offer. "It all goes to show," muttered one observer, "that what goes around comes around...