who i recommended he pick? nelson rockefeller. because i knew naming rockefeller would revive the conservative movement as nothing else would. if we can t take it from rockefeller, we can t take it from anybody. i never heard that, but i think it s correct, machiavellian move on his part. the salesman of the supply side economicist was nixon and art laffer. one night in a washington restaurant, laffer who thought high taxes were ruining america, famously sketched what would become known as the laffer curve on a dinner napkin. i had dinner with donald rumsfeld once a week, maybe once every ten days. couple times we d invite guests with us. i invited lumanisky and he