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...wanting power for himself allows Bush to give it to him. Bush put Cheney in charge of his transition because it sent an instant signal about Cheney's clout: "I want Dick to build up some political capital," Bush would say, "so he can go up to Capitol Hill and spend it." Ambitious lawmakers who may run one day themselves did not see Cheney as a rival. The Vice President sat at the Senate's G.O.P. policy lunches, taking notes; when Senator Trent Lott asked for comments, Cheney usually passed. When there was an important bill on the floor...
...Tennessee Senator Bill Frist spared the party another potential battle when he quickly locked up the votes to replace Lott. But it may take longer to heal relations between Senate Republicans and the White House, whose heavy hand in the affair has both Lott supporters and opponents on Capitol Hill grumbling...
...want to be famous," she says. "I will not stand up in front of people unless I have something important to say." Visiting FBI headquarters after the hearing, she was popular with clerks and secretaries. "I'd get elbows in my ribs and winks," she says. In the Capitol building, janitors and police darted across the hall to thank...
...discriminatory policies and its ban on interracial dating. (In his defense, his office offered a list of largely symbolic accomplishments on behalf of minorities: a congressional medal for Rosa Parks, who began the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott; a task force to recognize the slaves who helped build the Capitol; a day honoring minority World War II veterans...
...Martin Luther King Jr.--another racial-reconciliation measure favored by Thurmond. At his press conference last Friday, Lott emphasized that he objected to the cost of the holiday--about $325 million, by his reckoning--and added that he had worked to place a bust of King in the U.S. Capitol. Lott's open sentimentality about the Confederacy has continued unabated. In 1998 he spoke at the dedication of a library at Confederate leader Jefferson Davis' last home, on the beachfront in Biloxi, Miss., saying "Sometimes I feel closer to Jefferson Davis than any other man in America...