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...make decisions than he is," says Carolyn Staley, one of the Clintons' oldest friends. "He'll maybe ((let)) things drag or wait for someone else to do them. ((Hillary's)) very organized. She's very thorough on follow-up. Bill relies on the staff to keep him organized." Betsey Wright, who served as Clinton's gubernatorial chief of staff, views Hillary as the "process" person in the Clinton political partnership. "She's the facilitator for making certain that the decisions he is leaning toward are ironclad," says Wright. "And by asking him the questions and walking him through scenarios...
...frequently helping to cut through confusion and bring rambling discussions to a focus. Clinton has a tendency to listen to everyone interminably and let discussions drag. Hillary, says one of her advisers, is frequently the one to say, "O.K., we've had enough discussion, let's get this resolved." Betsey Wright, long Clinton's chief of staff and now a sort of "secretary of defense" for the campaign, formulating quick answers to any attack on Clinton's record, adds that while Bill usually determines what needs to be done, Hillary is often the one who sees to it that someone...
Clinton's defenders dismiss the allegations that he is cavalier about the working conditions. "Bill is not insensitive to the hard, tough nature of those jobs," argues his spokeswoman, Betsey Wright. "I recall at least one brutal public piece of warfare where Bill made a comment about these near- minimum-wage jobs, and the entire poultry industry came down on our heads very hard...
Thus emerged the unlikely trio that now holds day-to-day responsibility for directing the campaign -- Carville, George Stephanopoulos and Betsey Wright. Each represents a different facet of the totality that is Clinton. Carville is the grit, the guts and the unyielding determination. Stephanopoulos, like the candidate a Rhodes scholar, mirrors Clinton's thinking and intuits his likely responses. Wright, Clinton's chief of staff during most of his years as Arkansas Governor, is the keeper and the ardent defender of his record...
...Washington press conference last Wednesday, Campbell blasted Clinton's Arkansas record and reiterated the G.O.P.'s standard line: Clinton's a closet liberal who favors "tax and spend all the way." Thanks to the news wires, Campbell's pending appearance had been noted in Little Rock, and thanks to Betsey Wright, Clinton's former gubernatorial chief of staff, the Democrats struck back even before Campbell spoke. Wright has collected just about everything anyone has ever said about Clinton (a research task that required poring through 1,200 boxes of Clinton's papers), and as journalists listened to Campbell's thrust...