. >> sheila burke. >> sheila burke, at the time of this writing, was bob dole's chief of staff. she is now a volunteer in his presidential campaign. we chose her as our chief staff to illustrate the anonymous power of staff on capitol hill. sheila burke started as a health care advisor for bob dole in 1977 and worked her way up through the ranks to become his most trusted advisor. we compare the duo of bob dole and sheila burke to the dance team of fred astaire and ginger rogers, that sheila does everything bob dole does except backwards and on-- well, not high heels, medium-sized heels. >> you have an appendix, and it seems that there's a thread through the book that you might help us if you can tell us more about this appendix and who wrote it and what it's all about. >> well, the appendix is titled, "money matters," and in the end, 's about money and it's about the role of money, specifically with our characters anmore generally in washington. i suppose one could devote a whole series of books to this topic alone because it is the one topic that dominates washington politics