Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, the strategy had shifted to a plan sketched out by White House chief of staff John Sununu and Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole within hours of Tower's narrow rejection by the Senate Armed Services Committee: since the will-o'-the-wisp of bipartisanship was likely to evaporate anyway, a fight to the finish could provide the President with an opportunity to charge that it was the Democrats who spoiled the atmosphere first. "It's been so embarrassing already, what's a vote on the Senate floor?" said one operative working on Tower's behalf. "Besides, this...
...leader of the fight for Tower, Dole appears to relish the opportunity to rescue Bush, who buried him in last year's New Hampshire presidential primary, and Sununu, who helped engineer the Bush victory in his state. "Dole was instrumental" in plotting the Tower strategy, said a senior Administration official. "He was the architect, and Sununu carried it out." Dole is known to be skeptical of the skills the White House brings to a battle. (With good reason: Bush's aides confessed last week that they did not even know in advance of Tower's pledge to swear off drinking...
...Senate, like the springy black leather couches. Making millions from inside contacts after Government service is not all that grave a sin either, else an army of former lawmakers now behind the polished doors of august law firms would be in irons. It was the booze that got John Tower in real trouble...
...NATION: Tower assails his accusers' ethics, stirring a new debate about an old issue: How pure should the Government...
...Senate decides the nominee's fate, confusion mounts over where to draw the line in the conduct of public officials. -- Facing likely defeat on Tower, the White House attacks the motives of his Democratic foes. -- Chicago's black mayor is defeated by Dick Daley's son, who may soon become hizzoner, and Jesse Jackson abandons his party...