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...Jonathan Winer, a former Kerry staff member, says the policy process usually involves a political component: "He always asks, 'Who else likes it?' 'Who doesn't?' 'Why don't they?' 'Why haven't we addressed that argument?' And when all those questions are answered, he goes off and makes his decision." Sometimes, however, it takes a while. According to advisers, the decision-making process on all three crucial votes he has cast on Iraq, starting with his vote against the first Gulf War in 1991, was brutal...
There is a heroic version of the elder Kerry's story: "John's father was somebody who took a particularly independent line," says Jonathan Winer, who worked as legal counsel for John Kerry from 1984 to 1995, became a close friend, and remains an adviser. Winer got to know Richard Kerry and saw how father and son related. "[Richard] was a dissident, a genuine dissident within the Department of State. He was not of the manor or the manner born. But he had the style and the capacity to become a foreign service officer anyway. He left because...
...Ciliford Shiplon, Dorothy K. MacKillop; Milton Glick, Jeasnette Glick; P. Wolt Winer, Fay Goell; Samuel Halpert Bernice Gerstein...
...core of Beers' team are Kerry's longtime Senate aide Nancy Stetson, Beers' former deputy Jonathan Winer and Washington lawyer Dan Feldman. Since Kerry all but clinched the nomination, the Monday conference call has grown to some 30 eager participants. Democratic luminaries like Sandy Berger, Richard Holbrooke, Joe Biden and George Mitchell are among those whom Kerry speaks with regularly, and his advisers believe all would be on the short list for Kerry's National Security Adviser or Secretary of State. Advisers also say Kerry's commitment to intelligence reform would require picking a Republican Secretary of Defense...
...congressional ban. Within weeks he was on a plane to Nicaragua with another freshman Senator, Tom Harkin, for a 36-hour fact-finding trip. Secretary of State George Shultz accused the rookies of being "used" by the Managua regime. "It was a very painful time for us," recalls Jonathan Winer, Kerry's general counsel at the time. But that did not stop Kerry from spending the next 18 months trying to discover what White House aide Oliver North was up to in Central America...