HE IS, says a friend who means him well, the wonk's wonk: he likes meetings; he likes memos; he likes detail.
"He e-mailed, he memo-ed, he advocated, he called a couple of people who were donors, and he cost us some money," said Lucy Dalglish, the executive director of the committee.
He said four years ago he wrote memos about it, but did nothing about the memos he wrote.
She deeply admired Mr. Mitterrand, but was puzzled when he would return a memo he had demanded, and he would write on it, "Vu," or seen.
#Leveson — Ravi Somaiya (@ravisomaiya) 14 Jun 12 But, he adds, memo only matched Hunt's public statements, civil servants and lawyers backed decision.
"It is not true that I get $40,000 a year," he wrote, in a memo he posted in the office.
At one point, he mentioned a memo that he'd written for Nixon in 1971 under the heading "Dividing the Democrats".
He cited a memo that he said suggested the decision was driven by the administration's America First policy.
He sent memos to his wife, Pat, about how "RN" would like his furniture arranged.
He wrote memos to his successors, to their White House aides, and to his designated political heirs — memos on foreign policy and press strategy, memos of political pre- and post-game analysis.
I don't believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date.
