There are ironies in history, and Nick Calio is one of them. Mr. Calio was the Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs for George Herbert Walker Bush before he held the same position for the son. After his stint in Poppy’s administration he did what all self-respecting former assistants to the president do…he opened his own lobbying firm: O’Brien Calio. By 1998, he was listed as one of the ten most powerful lobbyists in Washington DC. It was in 1998, in the midst of the l’affaire Lewinsky, that Calio sat down for an interview with Elizabeth Drew.
The Republican Nature
