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Recalling his entrance to the statehouse in 1965, the Washingtonian said changing from private citizen to private figure caused a major shift in his family life. Evans explains that his wife had a difficult job, with two of their sons in pre-school and the third a newborn...
...reason for the shortcomings of the reports is that they were prepared before it was clear who the next President would be. Had a non-Washingtonian $ like Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis won, he might have needed suggestions on how to set up an Administration and order his priorities. For Bush, such promptings are old hat. For example, by the end of last week he had at least begun work on each of the four "key decisions" listed in the 68- page foreign policy transition manual prepared by the Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...Nebraska and Nevada. Sen. David K. Karnes (R-Neb.) who was appointed to the post following the death of Sen. Edward Zorinski, is trailing popular former Gov. Robert Kerrey by a significant margin. And Sen. Chic Hecht (R-Nev.), who was voted one of the least effective senators by Washingtonian magazine, and was considered a re-election long-shot from the start, will probably fall to Democratic Gov. Dick Bryan in a close race...
Malone says Kennedy raised a lot of money, hoping to frighten away any competition, because he is uncomfortable "working crowds, standing at factory gates and asking people for their support. He has over the last 25 years become more and more of a Washingtonian. He deals with bureaucrats every day, he deals with other politicians, he deals with lobbyists, but he's not dealing with real live men and women...
...wife, who suffers from diabetes and arthritis, took a job as a bookkeeper to help pay the bills. Volcker's son James now works for a bank in New York City, and his daughter Janice, who lives in Virginia, is a nurse. In a recent interview in the Washingtonian magazine, Volcker admitted, "It ain't quite fair to leave a family sitting out there ((when)) you obviously have the possibility of assuring a little more comfort than I have done so far." One sign that Volcker was ready to make major changes in his life-style came March...