Word: sununu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...December, Spy magazine publisher Gerald Taylor telephoned John Sununu, who had been ousted as White House chief of staff and was looking for a job. Posing as a headhunter for a FORTUNE 200 energy company, Taylor dangled a position with a salary in the "low seven figures." For 13 minutes, the two conversed about the way Sununu's search for employment was going. "Most of what I've been putting together as packages start at $3.5 million," said Sununu, who added that he expected to garner another "couple of million dollars in six months" from speaking engagements...
...Bush, former New Hampshire Governor John H. Sununu and a number of political pundits have argued, Bush's 1988 primary win in the Granite State played a critical role in securing him the Republican nomination...
...past, the Kennedy School has hosted such faded luminaries as Michael S. Dukakis and Henry Kissinger, who spent a memorable week last year doing the weather on one of those morning news shows. Who is next for a fellowship offer, John Sununu? Will he be teaching economics or public relations? Or, perhaps, ethics...
George Bush versus the White House. John Sununu's still on the payroll in the West Wing, and everyone still hates him. Even so, the new chief of staff, Sam Skinner, is holding a tight leash on his predecessor. Since December, CNN has been trying to get Sununu to take Buchanan's place on "Crossfire" (or simply to appear on a show), but he always has to "check with Sam," and Sam never lets him play...
Meanwhile, Skinner is not much better than Sununu was at improving the president's image. The Japan trip was a fiasco, and Skinner let budget director Richard G. Darman talk Bush into stalling on new economic proposals until last Tuesday, during the State of the Union address. The yearly snoozer of a speech was probably watched by lots of people. Some may have even paid attention. None will remember...