Word: schmoozer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Michael Dukakis, who was defeated by an ex-footballer after his first term as Governor of Massachusetts, Clinton set about recasting his political persona. But where Dukakis was given a light cosmetic coating, Clinton returned to his most authentic self -- the gregarious schmoozer and good ole boy. Arkansas had the least-developed single-party system of all those states studied by V.O. Key Jr. It lacked even factions within the one party. Personality alone formed shifting clots of political alliance...
...there is another George Bush, one whose favorite word is "prudence." He is less sanguine than Dugan about the efficacy of "surgical" strikes and less confident than Kissinger that the U.S. can both lead a posse and play the Lone Ranger. This Bush is also the Great Schmoozer. He prefers consensus to confrontation. He not only values his relationships with foreign leaders but actually listens to them. Most are counseling patience. An aide says that the President has been especially impressed by the cautions of Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady of the Falklands. She believes the embargo should be given...
...Brooklyn house painter, Yetnikoff joined CBS Records as a lawyer in 1961 and rose to the president's job by 1975. He proved to be a superb negotiator, a world-class schmoozer and a self-described "rabbi, priest, marriage counselor, banker and shrink" to the leading rock stars. As the years wore on, however, Yetnikoff seemed to relish waging wars on those he felt were disloyal...