Word: begala
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often brutal, campaigner. In his race against Democrat Lloyd Doggett for the U.S. Senate in 1984, Gramm repeatedly attacked his opponent for receiving an unsolicited donation from a gay group. "He pounded and pounded at that, and it took us out of the race," says Clinton adviser Paul Begala, who worked in Doggett's campaign. "I would describe him as vicious and ruthless." But Gramm will need more than a simple instinct for the jugular to win in 1996. Though he has rejected any attempts to soften his image in the past, his latest round of speeches include inspirational stories...
TIME has learned that three members of Clinton's Gang of Four-pollster Stan Greenberg and political illusionists James Carville and Paul Begala-have got the go-ahead for fat new contracts with the Democratic National Committee. They are working closely with White House honchos to alter the President's profile and devise what amounts to an 18-month game plan for the President's political resuscitation. Only Mandy Grunwald, the advertising expert, is being dropped from the team that helped put Clinton in the White House in 1992-but failed to save him from the Crash...
...POLITICAL CONSULTANT PAUL BEGALA, COMMENTING ON PRESIDENT CLINTON'S FOREIGN POLICY PROWESS...
Carville & Begala...
...Gore's offer to go to State is that he knew Stephanopoulos would cut him out of the information loop on domestic-policy questions once McLarty was no longer in a position as chief of staff to protect him.) Despite their past differences with Panetta, political advisers such as Begala, James Carville and Mandy Grunwald are likely to gain in strength too with less counterinfluence from Gergen and McLarty (and a possible boost from Hillary Rodham Clinton, who tends to lean their way). All these advisers reject the bipartisan approach that won victories for the Brady Bill and NAFTA...