The Forgotten by Ben Bradlee

Author:Ben Bradlee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2018-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

Tiffany Cloud

Tiffany

Tiffany Cloud, fifty, is a politically active housewife and onetime advertising executive married to a former Army Special Operations officer who did two tours of duty in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. She proudly refers to her husband as “a warrior.” She helps him navigate VA red tape to receive the benefits he is due, works to promote veterans’ issues and local Republican candidates, and hosts a weekly public affairs show on her local cable TV station.

Tiffany was originally a Ted Cruz supporter, but when he lost the Republican primary, she quickly hopped on the Trump bandwagon. “This area is dying, and Trump had an electric paddle to make people feel he could bring it back to life,” she says. “They hoped Trump will deliver a plan, or something, for tomorrow.

“You can argue that Luzerne County gave Trump Pennsylvania, which gave him the presidency. And Luzerne represents red America. When I saw thousands and thousands of people at Trump’s rally in blue Wilkes-Barre right before the election, I knew he was going to win. He was the working man’s billionaire.”

Tiffany was raised in Conyngham—a rural borough in Luzerne County outside Hazleton—the elder of two daughters born to Mike and Carol Drewniak. Mike was an executive for the Topps Company, the gum, candy, and sports card manufacturer. Carol was a former ballet dancer and interior decorator who was elected to the Conyngham Borough Council and ran unsuccessfully for the Pennsylvania house of representatives.

“Conyngham is like a Norman Rockwell town,” Tiffany says. “Flags on the front porches, everyone says hello. When I was a kid, Main Street was not paved. We had a lot of parades: on Veterans Day, the Fourth of July, even Halloween. Church was very important. I grew up Catholic. I went to Sunday mass and Sunday school, and then Catholic high school in Hazleton.”

She went on to Colgate University, where she majored in economics and religion, with a minor in studio art. She was pragmatic but had a creative side that led her into the advertising business in New York. At twenty-six, Tiffany was named a vice president at the Saatchi & Saatchi agency, which sent her to Australia to work, initially, on breakfast cereal accounts, competing against the likes of Kellogg.

“I loved living in Australia,” she remembers. “It was not Crocodile Dundee. It was very metropolitan. The people tended not to talk about politics. I don’t know if they considered it impolite. At a party, they congregated around the barbie. The pace of life there was slower than in the States. People got to know each other before diving into a business deal.”

In 1996, after Australia adopted a mandatory gun-buyback program following a rare mass shooting, Tiffany’s agency did the advertising to promote the program. “I remember, as an American coming from Pennsylvania, thinking how bizarre that was. I was big on the Second Amendment and guns were part of my fabric. It seemed strange to me.” Hunting is in her blood, and she says she still shoots “a mean crossbow.

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