That is because Linda Tripp, the shadowy confidant of the former White House intern who surreptitiously taped more than 20 hours of private phone conversations is public enemy No 1.
Four years on, with the economy slowly recovering and no prospect of re-election, the president clearly feels comfortable enough to put a trusted confidant and adviser in the job, rather than a Wall Street grandee or business leader.
Peterman catalogue, she learns to breathe and treat the camera as her confidant.
The group started moving with a bit more alacrity following the 2007 death of Neil Aspinall, the long time Beatles confidant who ran Apple Corps, for many years.
Mr Olmert's defence has been to lay responsibility for the handling of the money on his former law partner and confidant, Uri Messer, giving prosecutors the tricky task of proving otherwise.
Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, as well as a neighbor of the mobster Frank Costello and a confidant of Roosevelt's inner circle, even a sometimes guest invited to the White House to amuse the president over a drink the in-the-know street fighter and hardboiled man about town whom his enemies feared and who was on our side.
Voters, it is notable, were quite happy to elect to the new European Parliament his closest confidant, Marcello Dell'Utri, whom magistrates in Sicily have accused of colluding with the Mafia.
In addition to his pivotal role at the White House, this long-time Reagan confidant served as Deputy Secretary of State and Secretary of the Interior.
In addition to his pivotal role at the White House, this long-time confidant of President Reagan also served as Deputy Secretary of State and Secretary of the Interior.
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In his column, the paper's former political editor Trevor Kavanagh - long regarded as a close confidant of Murdoch - expressed concern at the management's actions.
The U.S. government says Hamdan was a confidant and bodyguard of bin Laden and helped transfer weapons from the Taliban to al-Qaida.
His foreign circle ranges from Peter Mandelson, confidant of Tony Blair, the British centre-left prime minister, to Joachim Bitterlich, former adviser on Europe to the centre-right Helmut Kohl.
On April 21st Charles Clarke, a former home secretary, mocked as hypocritical a plea for unity by Ed Balls, the schools secretary and a long-time confidant of Mr Brown.
Lewinsky did not need much encouragement to throw herself at Clinton--as Monica admits, she was in love and obsessed--but it was her bad luck that her adult confidant worked so hard to fuel the obsession.
And she was one of the first Labour MPs openly to criticise Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair's close confidant and formerly Northern Ireland Secretary, famously calling him a source of "poison" in the government.
The two clicked, and Isgur eventually became a confidant and a personal assistant.
He was, Mr Ferguson asserts, the best-read banker of all time and he was not shy about making his views known on a host of issues, whether in letters to the Times or, behind closed doors, as a confidant of political leaders.
The president during that timeframe talked to his friend, his confidant and his problem solver, Vernon Jordan.
The Telegraph, meanwhile, described him as a "close confidant" of Cameron.
He used these qualities to influence Empress Catherine the Great not just during the few years when he was her lover, but as her confidant when her affections shifted.
Will Gordon Brown, the chancellor, exult in the absence of Peter Mandelson, his old enemy and Mr Blair's confidant?
Montazeri was once a confidant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led Iran for a decade after the revolution.
The government has created the post of deputy chief of army staff for General Muzaffar Usmani, a close confidant of General Musharraf's.
The Queen herself has been the target of a rash of assassination attempts, which is why Mycroft, a confidant of hers, gets involved.
He became her confidant, and she became his fixer, his disciple, and, when the Nazis took over Austria, his savior.
"The president believed they weren't trying to defeat him, but to wound him, " a Karzai confidant said.
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As confidant and adviser to leading conservative politicians, Buckley had far more political influence than might be expected from the editor of a weekly journal.
Putting the experience into words is freeing for many men, whether they tell a loved one, a professional, a confidant, or simply write in a journal.
He is a confidant of Mr Blair, but he will want to be sure that there is some chance of changing the prime minister's mind on reform before accepting the job if it is offered.
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