Word: demeanor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With impeccable grooming and a smile that Miss Americas sweat to learn, Maureen ("Mo") Dean, wife of Watergate Star Witness John Dean, set the precedent for spousal demeanor at Senate hearings. She now capitalizes on her Washington years with a novel about politics and bedfellows. Dean writes about sex in the White House and sex on the presidential yacht. Her version of John Kennedy gives new meaning to the Bay of Pigs affair, as the randy Commander in Chief leaves his lover mad and languishing in a Swiss sanatorium. Elsewhere in this view of Washington below the Beltway...
Dole's public demeanor is so folksy that it is jarring to hear him privately revert to his more acerbic Washington self. "People out there know I'm working," Dole snaps when asked if his Senate duties detract from his campaign. "They know Bush doesn't have to." Tired, Dole lets his affability slip. "Bush hasn't said word one since the market crashed," he says angrily. "He has nothing to worry about; he can just go out on Air Force Two, using dozens of federal employees, at a cost of millions . . ." Dole's voice trails off, his flare...
...nomination of conservative Judge Robert H. Bork has once again proven Dooley's insight. But in the case of Bork, whose judicial demeanor the Senate Judiciary Committee has spent the past two weeks examining, it's not yet clear which election return will play the deciding role. Will it be the election returns of 1984 that put Ronald Reagan and his conservative social ideals back into the White House? Or will it be the election of 1986 that gave the Democrats control of the Senate and control of the Judiciary Committee, which has dissected Bork in all but body...
...rummaging through the Beinecke Library at Yale, they will spend their time in video archives watching old segments of Nightline and the MacNeil-Lehrer report. "So much is preserved in audio and visual these days," says Morris, "that it gives you much of a person's life and demeanor." Well, yes, the historians of the next century will be a lot more accurate in their portrayal of how people looked and spoke. But it is naive to believe that the way Caspar Weinberger answers a Ted Koppel question about America's stake in the Persian Gulf could provide the same...
...while she is warm, emotional and a bit extravagant. They raised three children: John Dukakis, 29, Kitty's son from her first marriage; Andrea, 21, who just graduated from Princeton; and Kara. John, now running the Dukakis campaign in the South, sees a gradual softening in his father's demeanor: "My mother has really helped him to express that it's not an invasion of privacy to show people that he cares for them...