Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Watch my vice-presidential decision," Bush urged in a TIME interview three weeks ago. "That will tell all." To the Vice President, the selection of Quayle, 41, a blond, boyish, baby-boom, back-bench Senator from Indiana, represented a bold leap across generational boundaries. Bush, it seemed, had looked in the mirror and found what was most needed in the second-banana role that he had played for eight years: a younger version of himself. Quayle radiates the same bumptious enthusiasm, the same uncritical loyalty, the same palpable gratitude and the same malleable mind-set that Bush brought...
...spelled out in specifics what I would do. All I've heard out of the opposition is assailing Ed Meese. Ed Meese was not indicted. But Mr. ((Gerard)) Indelicato in Massachusetts was indicted. So please tell me what the difference is, Governor. One was a high-ranking state education official, indicted, convicted, and on his way to prison. And here is a man standing there with all the chutzpah in the world, pointing the finger at somebody else. And I might say, to get one last political shot in here, the analogy of a fish rotting from the head down...
That became even clearer when he took the central seat in the Leonardoesque composition of a dozen or so lunchers around a long table. Early on, Bush tried to put himself at ease by telling the students, all brimming with horror stories they are encouraged to tell, "I don't want to talk about what you don't want to." This left the sandwich-room disciples speechless for a moment, each about to be deprived of some carefully prepared item of testimony. But so strong was their sense of mission that soon, despite Bush's signals of anxiety...
...Nixon archives, complied. Then Nixon gave Bush the job he least desired, the one Barbara had warned him against, sweetening his offer with the promise of a Cabinet post after the 1974 elections. Bush told his disappointed wife, "Boy, you just can't turn ( down a President." The notes tell a grimmer story. He left the sessions with Nixon, saying, "Let me think about it. I'll do what you tell me. Not all that enthralled with R.N.C...
...brother and sister stayed close to home -- the Iron Range of northern Minnesota -- Sharon struck out on her own. She worked her way through college, found a teaching job, bought a house with a friend and developed her passions for photography, cross-country skiing and motorcycling. "I used to tell her I got a new gray hair every time she took off for somewhere," recalls her mother Della. "Kids do lots of things you don't like, but you still love them." In short, a willful young woman...