Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage....
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The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person...
So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!
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I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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Political examples follow, including a defense of a former president's underestimated grasp of policy despite a figurehead reputation, and a candid account of nearly turning down an offer to head a government safety campaign over the same worry. Even a campaign for attorney general raised the fear of becoming nothing but a symbolic name.
