| Unlike most speechwriters, who tend to be segregated from policymaking, Gerson has always been an influential figure in the White House, in part because he shares Bush's belief in the power of faith""both men are evangelical Christians""and because he possesses a preternatural ability, his friends say, to anticipate Bush's thinking. There is a "mind meld" between the two men, Bush's counsellor Dan Bartlett told me, adding, "When you bring a West Texas approach to the heavy debates of the world, there has to be a translator, and Mike is the translator." |
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