Word: tessler
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...Curry, to ruin a U.S.-supported invasion of a South American country in which several hundred "patriots" died. Martin had earlier predicted that millionaire Governor Thomas Forville would win the Republican nomination and eventually the election; so he courted the governor's international advisor--Austrian-born, Harvard professor Carl Tessler. Martin leaked secret information to Tessler, who used it for his "brilliant" books. Fortunately for Martin, Tessler is wooed over to candidate Monckton's staff, so Martin's job is safeguarded. Unfortunately for Martin, after the election, his new boss, President Monckton, wants...
...roman à clef was once a cosy affair. But one touch of TV makes the whole world kin. Readers will have no difficulty in making out the shaggy outlines of Presidents J.F.K., L.B.J., R.M.N., not to mention Henry Kissinger (Carl Tessler in the book), J. Edgar Hoover (Elmer Morse) and others, including, eventually, E. Howard Hunt (Lars Haglund), who (yes, indeed) is planted on President Monckton...
...this leader of the free world, as he writes, often emerge from the lavatory to greet foreign dignitaries with a slightly damp hand shake? Nixon, like Monckton, scorned hat and gloves. Was it really to preserve a macho image or to copy John F. Kennedy? And what of Carl Tessler, guttural-voiced escapee from Vienna and Harvard who serves as Monckton's foreign policy expert and chief of the National Security Council? As NSC chief, Kissinger had an influence over the President that Ehrlichman resented. In The Company Tessler is described as an egotistical coward whose mouth was "small...