He was too busy "running the country," aides grandly briefed.
"There sat MacArthur, wearing his frayed gray flannel Army bathrobe with his varsity letter sewed onto it, at ease in his favorite chair, with Lombardi perched nervously nearby, and a military aide running the projector," David Maraniss wrote in "When Pride Still Mattered," a biography of Lombardi.
As Ted Newton, one of the senior Romney aides running the process, apparently put it: "When you look below the surface, it's not pretty".
The emails, however, demonstrate that the Walker aides running the nonprofit network saw their efforts as explicitly electoral and designed to help elect their favored candidates.
General Wald, who flew to Saudi Arabia on Monday with several top aides, would run the air war from a sophisticated air operations center at Prince Sultan Air Base, near Riyadh, that opened this summer.
In Salt Lake City, he recruited one of the founding crew at Bain Capital, Fraser Bullock, to serve as his chief aide in running the Olympics.
Prior to running the Department of Labor, Perez, a former aide to Ted Kennedy, headed the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, where he aggressively tackled police violence, among other hard-charging progressive efforts.
Mr. Romney is already running the campaign he and top aides say they envisioned more than a year ago — forcing Mr. Obama to defend his economic record in a gloomy environment.
Talking so extensively about Mrs. Rodham signals an evolution for Mrs. Clinton, from a deeply private, reluctant politician to a 67-year-old candidate who, according to her friends and aides, is running the campaign she wants to run.
"The police were running behind him," the aide said in a telephone interview.
