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...Never a backslapper in the clubby Senate cloakroom, Kerry has brushed up on his small strokes. He's been hosting quiet dinners in the Georgetown mansion he shares with his wife Teresa. When a Sudanese delegation came to town, Senator Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican who has been involved in Darfur issues, got invited to dinner. "I can't recall Senator Kerry and I in the same room hardly before that ... He has been solicitous of us participating; I haven't seen any standoffishness...
Sanford, Jenny • South Carolina governor's mansion is unsurprisingly moved...
Some Alaska pols, however, say that could be just what the state needs. Parnell is a steadfast social conservative and has nearly a decade's experience in the state's House and Senate-a background that could help him reopen channels of communication between the governor's mansion and the legislature that all but closed during Palin's final months. "I think his understanding of how to communicate is going to do him well," State Rep. John Coghill told the Associated Press July 26. "That's one of the things [Palin] has struggled with. I think he will just...
...Sammy Sosa - Sharp had worked quietly for the President for a while before anyone even knew about it. In the meantime, the two men had become friends, spending hours chatting over cigars and near beer. On the Sunday before he left office, Bush invited Sharp to the executive mansion for a farewell cigar. (See Bush's economic mistakes...
...waited in Palin's office as she finished a meeting. "She wasn't particularly happy to see us or interested in anything other than getting the ceremony over as quickly as possible," he says. "And this from a woman who had served cupcakes for my birthday at the mansion just six months earlier." That was the last he saw of the governor in Juneau...