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By then, we already know what being a Rockefeller Republican consists of: a mixture of lavish spending, arrogance, ambition, scheming, and pragmatism; a belief in expertise and big projects; and, above all, excitement about the sheer adventure of governing.
The characters respond tellingly, either gloating, helping, or scheming.
Immediately the president and his Oval Office confidants began scheming to protect what they portentously referred to as "the presidency" (meaning themselves) from revelations that would surely issue from any serious investigation of their administration: where they got their milk money, how they used the IRS as their own Internal Retribution Service, why they put Ted Kennedy on 24-hour surveillance, how they forged diplomatic cables to frame Jack Kennedy in a political assassination.
In part, the overwrought reaction of the British media reflects their irritation with the holier-than-thou Blair and their impatience, more than a year into his premiership, to catch him out at something . They have longed to show that Blair's New Laborites are as scheming and money-grubbing as the Old Tories were.
Demands for reform won the support of the emperor, but his notoriously scheming aunt, the Empress Dowager Cixi (Tz’u Hsi), edged him off the throne.