But at the time, I grossly overestimated her capacity to answer questions about world affairs, about how her personal points of view were shaped".
Another wife, having discovered her husband's affair, worries about how easily she and he are falling, nevertheless, back into stride.
"I became a council woman without knowing a thing about how municipal affairs are run.
They have been informally consulting half-a-dozen of Scotland's leading public-affairs advisers about how they might improve their image.
Finally, I am awaiting a detailed proposal from our legislative affairs department about how Mrs. Clinton can help us fight the grossly unfair regulation barring a single company from owning TV stations reaching a total of more than one-third of American households.
But the Chavez affair raises doubts about how thoroughly the time-strapped Bush people check their nominees for high office.
The tax deals under scrutiny – sometimes known as "comfort letters" – provide businesses that have complex or controversial tax affairs with certainty about how they will be taxed in a country.
He will also need to pull off convincing public appearances at his testimony (along with Ms Dunn) to the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committeee on September 28th, which was due to begin just as The Economist went to press.Although HP's lurid revelations about spying have grabbed most attention, what lies behind the affair is a battle about how companies should be governed.
With a tight bun, spectacles perched on the edge of her nose and a hunched stance, Ann Hirsch, 25, explained in a Steve Urkelvoice that she was a former star of the VH1 dating reality show "A Basement Affair" and offered pointers about how others as pathetic as she (her words) could land a part.
Typically a roundup of measures to raise money for the public coffers by adding a few pennies on cigarette and booze tax, the announcement will be a very different affair, heavy with expectations about how far deeply into debt it will push the country.
