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...Elkins, doing deals in the go-go Houston of the 1980s but before the controversial Enron transactions took place. He was generally known as a stick-to-the-law kind of attorney in Bush's office. "Very seldom, if ever, did I hear his personal views on issues," said Terral Smith, who worked with Gonzales in Austin. "He was very careful in staff meetings to stay within...
...time he took office, in January 1995, he had met with nearly all the 181 members of the legislature--"the lege," which convenes every other year--asking about their issues, trying to understand their minds and motives: a solid month of virtuoso schmoozing. "For Bush, everything is personal," says Terral Smith, his legislative chief. "He needs to have the personal relationship before the issue comes up." He dropped in unannounced on legislators, gave them nicknames and bear hugs and backslaps, went to pancake dinners and football games in their districts. He wasn't just making nice. He was reminding them...
...leave himself open to attack on the right by appearing lenient," says Naishtat. House Democrat Glen Maxey remembers a day at the end of the 1999 session when Bush was pumping hard for his full-family-sanctions bill. Maxey and Naishtat were in the members' lounge when Bush aide Terral Smith walked in. "He sat down between us and said, 'We need y'all to have a meeting today to vote'" on the bill containing full-family sanctions. As Maxey tells it, Smith then said, "We think we need to adopt the Governor's welfare reform. The Governor needs sanctions...
...circuit court ruled on the 1992 case of Hopwood v. State of Texas, in which Cheryl Hopwood and three other students disputed their rejection by the law school. One of the strengths of the case, says Terral Smith, the Austin lawyer who filed it, is that Hopwood is "a real victim, the sort of person affirmative action should help." According to Smith, Hopwood, who comes from a blue-collar family, was offered a couple of partial scholarships--including one to Princeton--but still could not afford to go. Instead she attended California State University, married a serviceman, worked...
...think St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer Rufus Terral [who parodied President Eisenhower's mixed metaphors-TIME, April 2 2.] should know that Ike is in good company. In Hamlet we find Shakespeare writing: "Take arms against a sea of troubles...