We have seen Cook at product launches and heard him on conference calls during his stints as interim CEO during Jobs' health-related hiatuses, but he always seemed to be appropriately reserved. You never got the sense he was going to pull an Alexander...

The hits keep coming, this time from President Obama’s US Treasury Secretary Mr. Geithner , who supposedly told Europe that “Obama is not in charge.” This sounds to me as if Mr. Geithner had an Alexander Haig moment, when Mr. Haig declared that he was...

We have seen Cook at product launches and heard him on conference calls during his stints as interim CEO during Jobs' health-related hiatuses, but he always seemed to be appropriately reserved. You never got the sense he was going to pull an Alexander...

Here she’s very human indeed: tipsily fun loving, easily flattered and sharply opinionated about other White House personnel. (She hates H. R. Haldeman but loves the macho good cheer of Alexander Haig.) Dorothy Hunt, the tough, stubborn wife of the...

I suspect many current and past department heads, who considered appearances before the micromanagers on the county board as the most painful element of their job, cheered Hackel’s statements. At the same time, Hackel should be careful to avoid...

On Gary Busey. Val Kilmer. On Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. And Al Haig. Ron Paul. Ernie from Glen Burnie. Even on my bud Bill Clinton, some days. And the Scofflaw King of New Orleans. That look like, you know, "someone or something else is actually...