Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First Spouses have always had some influence on the President, no matter how much that influence was hidden or downplayed. Woodrow Wilson's wife Edith was the virtual President during her husband's long illness. And it is impossible to imagine Presidents from George Washington to George Bush not listening to the counsel of the one person in the world upon whom they can count to have their joint interests at heart. Bush is a better President for having Barbara Bush at his side. So why shouldn't Dan Quayle get the benefit of Marilyn Quayle's intellect and instincts...
...since 1968 has the region failed to vote for the victorious candidate. In 1988 it gave Bush a 57% majority. Now both the Bush and Clinton campaigns are targeting Montgomery as a critical swing county in a critical state -- and the latest TIME poll shows both candidates in a virtual dead heat, with Clinton ahead of Bush...
...mates are lone warriors, always campaigning separately, with the vice-presidential candidate usually consigned to media markets so small that the only competing entertainment is the tractor pull down at the fairgrounds. This year the Republicans are pushing that tradition to new limits by turning Dan Quayle into a virtual Stealth Vice President. There are not even any pictures of him on the Bush-Quayle re- election poster, presumably out of fear that the Vice President's vapid visage will repel swing voters. Says a senior G.O.P. adviser: "You won't see Bush even with a cutout of Quayle." This...
...Rodham, how vulnerable Nixon was to impeachment -- she had accepted the offer to work on the staff that he refused. The two were visiting each other, back and forth between Washington and Fayetteville, and spending long hours on the telephone. He was kept informed of her work, of her virtual certitude that Nixon would be convicted in the Senate after the House impeached...
...SCANDAL. As the virtual queen of the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1984 to 1987, Deborah Gore Dean administered programs intended for the poor to favor well-connected real estate developers and Republican consultants. Broadening a two-count indictment issued against her in April, a federal grand jury indicted Dean, 37, on 13 criminal charges of fraud, perjury and conspiracy. The indictment accused her of using her position to dispatch $230,000 in HUD funds to John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's Attorney General...