"Woods, Stuart - The Run" - читать интересную книгу автора (Woods Stuart)

"Good."

"It's a little like having Secret Service protection, isn't it?" she
nudged.

"Does it make you feel presidential?"

"Nothing is going to make me feel presidential, at least for another
nine years."

"What about the cabinet? If Joe Adams is elected and wants you for
Defense or State or something, will you leave the Senate?"

Joseph Adams was vice president of the United States and the
way-out-in-front leader for the Democratic Party's nomination for
president the following year.

"Joe and I have already talked about that. He says I can have anything I
want, but he doesn't really mean it."

"I always thought Joe was a pretty sincere guy," Kate said.

"Oh, he is, and he was sincere with the half-dozen other guys he told
the same thing. But I don't really have the foreign-policy credentials
for State, and while I think I really could have Defense, I don't want
it. I don't want to spend eight or even four years doing battle with
both the military and Congress; the job killed James Forrestal and Les
Aspin, and it's ground up a lot of others."

"What about Justice? Your work on the Senate Judiciary Committee should
stand you in good stead for that."

"I think I could have Justice, if I were willing to fight for it tooth
and nail, and there's a real opportunity to do some good work there."

"Well?"

"I think I'll stay in the Senate. Georgia's got a Republican governor at
the moment, and if I left, he'd get to appoint my replacement, and we
don't want that. Also, if Joe's elected, three or four top Senators will
leave to join the administration, among them the minority leader, and
I'd have a real good shot at that job. And if we can win the Senate
back, then the job would be majority leader, and that is very inviting."

"It's the kind of job you could keep for the rest of your career," she
said.

"It is."

"But you don't want to spend the rest of your career in the Senate, do