apparatchik

Two years ago, a Party apparatchik surveyed the site of a fatal traffic accident… with a smile on his face.

Rivals tagged her an apparatchik, an heiress, handpicked by a mayor/mentor said to nickname her “ma petite Anne,” my little Anne.

A Rockefeller Republican-turned-Reaganite, Newt aspired to be a back-room apparatchik rather than a demagogue.