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| Last Edited | RP Nov 28, 2005 06:39pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Built like the tight end he was in high school, with a gleaming shaved head that sets off his pinstriped suits, Steve Schmidt looks like someone you would not want to bump into in a dark corner of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, his current lair.
But Mr. Schmidt, 35, is more of a subtle tactician than his appearance might suggest. At the moment, he is using that skill, with varying success, in two crucial jobs: counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney, with responsibility for press relations and communications, and chief White House strategist in charge of selling the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. on Capitol Hill.
In short, he is one of those people most Americans have never heard of who is at the center of the big brawls in Washington. He got his start in the administration by running the Bush campaign's war room in 2004, when Newsweek likened him to an artillery shell and said he stalked through campaign headquarters declaring, "Kill, kill, kill." |
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