Her aides even called to ask if they could use his name in announcing the plan.

An aide to the President called it "the wave of the future."

The colonel's aide had called her apartment with a confession.

Democratic aides call him a detail man who keeps watch over the most minute aspects of what is going on in the Senate.

Neither Senator was available for comment yesterday, but aides called the agreement a victory.

His aides called the Council's proposal unrealistic and "not responsible."

The president took several specific steps yesterday to flesh out what aides are calling his "new opportunity agenda."

The governor ultimately signed the law at the 200 percent threshold, and his aides call the issue a priority.

"The revenge of the deputies," an older aide calls it.

Mr. Bush's aides call it the next step in welfare reform.