From Jenna's Ex to a Presidential Jeeves -Bumiller, NYT

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Mr. Gottesman, who dated the president's daughter Jenna in high school, provides a glimpse into the prosaic behind-the-Oval-Office-doors daily life of the modern White House and the needs and habits of Mr. Bush. Few people spend more waking hours with the president, and almost no one is better, senior aides say, at anticipating his next move.

Mr. Hagin compares Mr. Gottesman to Radar O'Reilly, the clerk in the movie and television series "M.A.S.H." who knew what the colonel was going to say before he said it.

"He anticipates and thinks three or four steps ahead of everyone else," said Mr. Hagin, who was the personal aide to George H. W. Bush when Mr. Bush was vice president.

Mr. Gottesman, who makes about $70,000 a year, declined to be interviewed for this article, saying that cooperation would paint him as a publicity hound. Senior staff members describe him as precocious, self-effacing and savvy enough to know that calling attention to himself would not sit well with the president, who has a low tolerance for self-promotion by members of his staff.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/politics/30letter.html?

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* would be NOWHERE without these guys pulling the strings for him.

"He anticipates and thinks three or four steps ahead of everyone else," said Mr. Hagin, who was the personal aide to George H. W. Bush when Mr. Bush was vice president.

Yeah, I guess that why, after his speech at the Unity Conference, he walked offstage the wrong way and then had to walk back across stage again.


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