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...Carney is an "Etch-A-Sketch" politician. He begins every campaign from scratch and views each as a personal test to do the job better than it was done before. Consider just some of the New Hampshire moves Carney is helping oversee, work Dole's rivals can only envy...
Which is where Dave Carney comes in. At 36, Carney is already a legend among Republican operatives. He cut his teeth running the field operations for John Sununu's losing 1980 race for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. That was when Carney lived in an unplugged walk-in refrigerator in a bagel deli and showered at a YMCA across the street. Carney followed Sununu into Bush's '88 campaign and then served as the White House political director. The pinball machine in his office kept people coming by -- "and helped keep me in the loop," Carney concedes...
...testimony and evidence have come jointly from D'Amato and the ranking Democrat, Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland. (Only D'Amato has sole authority to issue a subpoena.) "The White House posture is that it's insignificant unless and until D'Amato and Sarbanes request that she testify," Carney says. "There's no unanimity among the Senate Republicans, because they know that it's dangerous to go after...
...testify on whether she played any role in the removal of papers from the office of former White House aide Vincent Foster shortly after his 1993 suicide. It is unclear how the move -- a potential political powder keg -- would immediately be carried out. So far, TIME's James Carney notes, all committee requests for testimony and evidence have come jointly from the Republican chairman, Sen. Al D'Amato of New York, and the ranking Democrat, Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland. (Only D'Amato has sole authority to issue a subpoena.) "The White House posture is that it's insignificant unless...
...President could make the best of a no-win situation by holding the line: "Clinton realized it would be to his advantage not to offend one of his core constituencies, including leading black members of Congress who were worried aboutwhat his review of affirmative action would mean." In fairness, Carney adds, the President -- who today dredged up memories of his upbringing in a segregated South -- has a long history of supporting affirmative action. "He may have succeeded today simply by taking a firm stand...