At last he has an efficient and apparently loyal team in place.

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Cary Donaldson portrays Bud, his admiring and loyal aide, wearing the efficient, slightly harried attitude of a political operative.

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Mr Bush's formula for making his administration more efficient in the second term has been to send his most loyal White House policy advisers (such as Condoleezza Rice and Margaret Spellings) to run various cabinet departments.

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