Nofziger

...These letters rashly echoed the response of the California prisons official quoted by Lynch...

...He would sit there in his Old EOB office, beneath a sign that said DON'T GET MAD GET EVEN, thinking and talking hardball politics twelve to fourteen hours a day...

...The other was given to me by a newspaperman friend, John Pinkerman, after I had lost an in-house power struggle while working for the Copley News Service...

...No, the chutzpah that makes it possible for Nofziger, like some NFL or NBA superstar, to strut his name—knowing it will be recognized by any fan of the American political game—is the kind derived from a unique style of play...

...The American Spectator November 1992 75 NOFZIGER Lyn Nofziger Regnery Gateway /370 pages/$21.95 reviewed by VICTOR GOLD For, although he had been in the Nofziger in an uncharacteristically dour Nixon White House, Nofziger was never mood...

...According to my wife Bonnie, neither saying is fatten for a good Christian lad to adopt, but believe me, if you turn the other cheek in politics you wind up with two bruised cheeks...

...And it Ronald Reagan, repaid the debt by turnwas as one of the original Reaganauts, ing his back on his benefactor when first on the presidential campaign trail, needed...

...By the time Watergate broke, though, Nofziger had left the White House to put his singular propaganda skills to work on behalf of the Republican National Committee, then headed by Senator Bob Dole...

...I am, as I say, skilled operatives on the modern political the author's friend, and the fact that he scene—though not without mixed feel- pulls no punches and spares no names is ings about the game he played...

...On the contrary, he is as unassuming as the Victor Gold is The American Spectator's national correspondent...

...which liberal judges have cloaked their corruption of the law...

...the juice that makes Nofziger a read well "Politics is a strange business," writes worth the price...

...That out of the way, let it be said that it takes a certain degree of chutzpah to title an autobiography with your surname alone, but no one ever mistook Lyn Nofziger for a shrinking violet and came away without at least one bruised cheek...

...Not that Nofziger—or, as it were, Nofziger—is arrogant...

...Anative Californian who once covered Washington as a correspondent for the Copley chain, Nofziger was brought into the Nixon White House in October 1969 to run a propaganda operation (Nofziger's words...

...He is an original, a man who, on being told by Richard Nixon not to let the Democrats "get away with any lies," replied, "Mr...

...President, I'm not even going to let them get away with the truth...

...Nofziger Reagan's press secretary in Sacramento, gives those words of caution as the moral a conservative true believer portrayed by to a story he tells about a well-known one liberal West Coast cartoonist as United States senator who, having asked playing a rotund Sancho Panza to and received numerous favors from Reagan's angular Don Quixote...

...Asked about reverse discrimination against white officers, "He simply smirked and stated, 'It's your turn now.' " rumpled shirt collar around which he twists his trademark Mickey Mouse tie...

...Lyn Nofziger F air notice: This is by way of what's known in the trade as a sweetheart review, Lyn Nofziger being one of my favorite people...

...then in the Reagan White House, that he The ingrate's name...

...He had come to politics as Ronald alties, no lasting gratitude...

...No hard and fast rules, few boyof it...

...quite humble, as a matter of fact, for a political player who in his time has been a high-level adviser to two Presidents...

...Just remember," Pinkerman consoled me, "if you sit by the window long enough they all come by...

...but as the subject of this salty, spirited political autobiography might say, What the hell, liberals do it all the time, why shouldn't we...

...You'll have to secured his reputation as one of the most buy the book to find out...