Word: winging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed his own reform of the IRS after the recent heartrending hearings. His plan called for the creation of 33 so-called citizens-advocacy panels, but he held firm against establishing a private-sector oversight board with power over IRS personnel, policy and budget decisions. In a West Wing meeting before the President's plan was made public, several aides insisted that the Administration not get backed into a corner defending an agency Americans love to hate. But Gene Sperling, the chairman of the President's National Economic Council, ended the discussion by invoking Rubin. "The Treasury Secretary says...
...into Carey's re-election campaign in 1996, they tried to pull off a donation swap with Democrats--a swap that party officials entertained briefly, then apparently rejected. The new documents do not implicate the White House in the scotched deal, but they offer a rare glimpse into West Wing wooing of the Teamsters to guarantee its help in Clinton's re-election campaign. "Carey is not a schmoozer," states the 1995 memo to Ickes. "He wants results on issues he cares about...
When the right-wing Christian men's group called the Promise Keepers held a two-day event at her university, Syracuse University Assistant professor of English Rosaria M. Champagne said she felt uncharacteristically speechless...
...power being a zero-sum equation, it was impossible for her to look strong without the President's looking weak. She learned the hard way what First Ladies before her had assumed: that her influence was better felt than seen. So late in 1994 she vanished from the West Wing. She sent her chief of staff at the time, Maggie Williams, to meetings. If she needed to make a point, she did it one on one with such trusted aides as deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes and political director Doug Sosnik. And she became the covert campaigner, keeping...
...Tori's got acting chops--she's just been doing awful material," says House of Yes director Mark Waters, who had seen Spelling only in Co-ed Call Girl before casting her. As it happens, The House of Yes is a Spelling Films presentation, but Waters says the filmmaking wing of Aaron's empire came aboard long after Tori was attached...