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brain trust
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a brain trust (American & Australian)
a group of people with special knowledge or skills who give advice to someone in a position of authority. He joined the President's brain trust for the election campaign.
See also: brain, trust
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When Raymond Moley, a leading early Brain Truster, was asked to provide a philosophical justification for FDR's approach to government, he--along with nearly all of the New Dealers--cited Pragmatism.
Treating Social Security as sacrosanct is foolish, harmful by Goldberg, Jonah / Los Angeles Business Journal
Kamen, by the way; also reports that doubts as to who would be formulating national security policy inside an Al Gore White House seemed removed last month when Gore's brain truster Leon Fuerth announced himself to 300 members of the Council on Foreign Relations as the "putative national security adviser.
Who's Who by THREADGILL, SUSAN / Washington Monthly
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