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Such impudence, while a virtue in New York, was less appreciated when she returned to Houston in 1993 to take a job with Enron. Her mother noted the new attitude. And while Watkins rose quickly through the ranks and was thought of as whip smart, she earned an equally well-deserved reputation for lack of tact. Poised and pleasant with clients, Watkins often barreled right through her colleagues. They nicknamed her the "Buzz Saw." One boss pulled her aside and said, "Sherron, you kind of cut people off at the jugular. There they are bleeding at the neck, and then...
...Instead Cheney followed the same pattern in the House that had worked for him to date: he quietly made himself useful - and then indispensable - to the higher powers in his party. Bob Michel, the G.O.P. House leader, repaid Cheney's loyalty by making him his No. 2, the G.O.P. whip, in late 1988. When President Bush called Michel in March 1989 to say he was nominating Cheney to be Defense Secretary, Michel was distraught. "I said, 'Mr. President, you're taking my right arm,'" he recalls...
...tripped on a piece of ice and fell. Sensing his vulnerability, his dogs viciously attacked him. After a few moments the dogs backed away to assess the damage they had done before resuming the attack. Herbert, seizing this opportunity, sprang up to his full height and grabbed his whip out of the sled. Knowing that the old order had returned, the dogs fell into line...
...RESIGNED. LORD EVANS, 61, savvy British publishing giant, as chairman of book publisher Faber and Faber after 38 years, to become a government whip in the House of Lords; in London...
Panelists representing the congressional role in affecting presidential decisions included Susan Hirschmann, former chief of staff for Majority Whip Rep. Tom Delay (R-Texas) and Steve Elmendorf, chief of staff for former Minority Leader Richard Gephardt...