Word: candidate
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...couple of Reagan's more candid assistants acknowledge that some of the candidate's miscues are caused by an almost naive desire to prove that some conviction he holds dear is correct. The other day he visited the Santa Marta Hospital in a chicano area of East Los Angeles and told the institution's staff that he had asked a nun there whether the hospital gets "compensation from Medicaid or anything like that." She had answered no, he reported, and then told the group, "I appreciate your pride in that." But a puzzled senior administrator later informed...
Paul Laxalt. Of all Reagan's advisers, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, 58, feels most free to tell the candidate precisely what he thinks. That may be because the two view each other as compatible equals. Both were elected Governor in neighboring states at the same time. Both are proud of their Western backgrounds. Reagan likes the way Laxalt strides through Washington in his cowboy boots. They get along so well, notes a Laxalt aide, because they "share a belief in the great, growing, ebullient American West. They squint when they look into the distance." Ever since they consulted...
...allows the imagination to rove like a child in a flower field, especially when an office romance is involved, and the imagination may cavort among infinite possibilities of after-hour adventures behind the desk-legs sprawled wildly among the Eberhard Fabers; Muzak stuck on Boléro. When the candid spoilsport steps forward to tell it like it actually was, the imagination's freedom is curtailed. The audience grows vengeful. Carnage ensues...
...Brigham Young University who speaks cautiously, befitting his responsibilities as Reagan 's chief strategy planner. Caddell, on the other hand, is a voluble, black-bearded bachelor who turned pro in 1970, working for Governor John J. Gilligan of Ohio while still a Harvard undergraduate, and can be startlingly candid about his chiefs political problems. But Wirthlin and Caddell agree in sizing up the election: close...
...When the campaign gets going, I think you'll see a very strong firming up of the traditional constituencies of this party: minorities, farmers, teachers, union members, blue-collar workers. I must be candid and say that we've got a long way to go. But I expect that we're going to see a dramatic closing of the gap [with Reagan] in the next month. For one thing, I think we already see John Anderson fading. That will strengthen us because we'll then have only one opponent. The other thing is that I believe...