For all their Adam Smith ties, the Gipper's aides in the White House were only too happy to help out American farmers and other friends.Moreover, the blame for the recent sycophancy towards business lies with Congress as much as with the White House.
Business iconoclasts he admired, but he hated sycophancy ("Why not just send them a nice lacy valentine and forget the prose?"), and once considered a cover story on phonies who had made it to the top.
With one exception: by opportunistically swapping Labour's longstanding sycophancy to Rupert Murdoch for excoriation of him, Mr Miliband scored a hit over the phone-hacking scandal.
So she demanded and apparently gained an immediate audience.Some plaudits verge on sycophancy.
They bemoan the "sycophancy" that surrounds her and the dynastic character of what ought to be a democratic party.
Reversing the amendment would empower Parliament and the prime minister.Habits of sycophancy will widen support for the new rulers.
The fashion business is, after all, a part of the entertainment industry, where sycophancy, exaggeration and gushing insincerity are not unknown.
And they need to be pushed down this path.So Western leaders should maintain the ties but ditch the sycophancy.
The Gandhis have dodged responsibility because of the Congress culture of competitive sycophancy.
The unbridled sycophancy was a reminder of the party's feudal attachment to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, and fear that, without her as a neutral figurehead, its kingdom will fall apart.Mrs Gandhi was swayed neither by them nor by the several hundred equally high-pitched party activists gathered outside her front gate, some of whom felt genuinely cheated.
FIRST-CLASS travel, the finest hotels, sycophancy on a level normally known only to royalty: since all this is routine for the 114 members of the International Olympic Committee and their husbands and wives why should they not expect a little extra when pressed to decide which of the world's cities should hold an Olympic Games?
