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...affairs, beginning late and ending later. So when political consultant Paul Begala stumbled into an 8:30 a.m. health-care meeting last month just 14 minutes late, he was certain that he was right on time. Instead, the first thing he saw and heard was deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes close his notebook and say, "O.K., let's get to work." Dumbfounded, Begala rechecked his watch. "It said 8:44," he recalled. "I thought, 'Man, I like this guy!' Never before in the recorded history of the Clinton presidency has there even been a 14-minute meeting -- until Harold...
Many White House officials view the arrival of Harold Ickes much the way Jane and Michael Banks came to regard the coming of their strict new governess, Mary Poppins. In an Administration that likes to think big and play messy, Ickes is devoted to detail and driven to discipline. While he has by no means reversed the fortunes of the President's health-care reform bill -- last week many legislators on Capitol Hill were sounding taps again for central elements of Clinton's plan -- the 54-year-old New York attorney has brought to the White House skills that have...
...Harold Ickes brings needed discipline to the Clinton team...
Epstein and his sometimes business partner, Beverly Hills attorney Harold Klein, did not return phone calls seeking comment for this story. But he insisted in interviews last spring that his role in the companies run out of Sepulveda was minimal...
...bottom fell out of the Harvard literature departments in the Seventies. They had failed to find new blood to continue Harvard's reputation into the next generation, while Yale, after a bitter battle with undertones of anti-Semitism, secured Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman, followed by several figures from Johns Hopkins...