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...wear his religious faith on his sleeve is part of this ethos, as is his formal, hortatory Sunday-sermon speaking style. A strong sense of honor comes with the territory, a discomfort with swagger and braggadocio. "I once was with Kerry watching Bob Dole on television," recalls David Wade, an aide who is usually found in Kerry's immediate proximity. "Someone was asking Dole about how he was wounded in World War II. Dole wouldn't do it. He said, 'You just don't talk about those things.'" Kerry, who was wounded three times in Vietnam, nodded his head vigorously...
...Several advisers suggested that he might even have to leave the Senate to make enough money to avoid foreclosure. Since then, Kerry's fund raising has been so successful that he was able to announce last week that he would use campaign money to repay the debt. But David Wade remembers driving along one night in Iowa, listening to one of Kerry's oldest financial supporters trying to persuade the candidate not to take out the loan. Even with the money, the supporter argued, Kerry's prospects in Iowa were dim. But without it, Kerry pushed back, there...
...Kerry rarely shows up these days on the Senate floor, he has carried much of that world into his presidential campaign. He still relies on his Senate staff, particularly chief of staff David McKean and foreign policy adviser Nancy Stetson, for policy advice. Kerry's Senate press secretary, David Wade, has moved over to the campaign, where he has logged more miles with the candidate than any other adviser and become an important arbiter of what is and isn't working on the stump. For those tricky situations that only a peer would know how to navigate, Kerry turns...
...give him even a look. But it's the nature of how things work in Washington that when a politician starts looking like the One, you will find legions of people who claim to have his ear. Kerry does indeed give many a listen. But as his spokesman Wade put it, "He's his own big thinker. He's not looking for people to make it easy for him." Nor does he always make it easy for those in his inner circles...
...grief. She quit work, changed her surname to Edwards (she had kept her maiden name at marriage) and stayed home, finding numbness, if not comfort, in watching the Weather Channel with the sound off. Eventually, she and John plunged themselves into creating memorials to their son, including the Wade Edwards Learning Lab in Raleigh...