Emanuel, just thirty-three, was already a legend for his rich vocabulary of four-letter words, and for his willingness to walk over hot coals, broken glass, or worse to get a job done. People who disappointed him could expect the unexpected: like a dead fish, which Emanuel famously sent in a box to a pollster who betrayed him. The Luca-Brasi-sleeps-with-the-fishes treatment was just for openers. Bob McNeely, the White House photographer, marveled at his modus operandi: “He twisted arms. He threatened people. He called ’em names. There was a little bit of the Lyndon Johnson treatment: ‘We’ll
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