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The official spin: Gephardt is sacrificing his ambition for the good of the party.
Obviously, a president's ambition, judgment, temperament, integrity, and ways of relating with other people (among other psychological qualities) bear greatly on how he will govern--at least as greatly as whatever election-year stands he stakes out on "the issues" of policy.
Flick's name is clearly an hommage to Sammy Glick, the Hollywood hustler of Budd Schulberg's classic portrait of '30s ambition, What Makes Sammy Run ? Glick was viewed through the eyes of Al Manheim, a jaded lefty alcoholic who regarded this new species of capitalist human with contempt but also with awe: Sammy was a force of nature.
Christine Todd Whitman's relentless ambition
His son Bindusara combined his father’s ambition with a taste for the good life and philosophy.