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Republicans didn't accept Morris any more than Democrats had. He got plenty of work--Trent Lott, now the Senate majority leader, talked him up in the Republican cloakroom, and Jesse Helms became his most right-wing client ever in 1990--but he was always valued, never trusted. Helms media man Alex Castellanos accused him of grabbing credit for a TV spot Castellanos had made, the infamous ad showing a pair of white hands crumpling a job-rejection notice while a voice said, "You needed that job...but they had to give it to a minority." A number of G.O.P...
...Morris organized his West Side district in support of a local candidate; by sending students to ring every doorbell he tripled the district's Democratic turnout. Graduating from Columbia University in three years, he worked New Hampshire for Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign, butting heads over budget and turf with another West Side Democrat, Harold Ickes. Twenty-eight years later they're still at it: Ickes, now Clinton's deputy chief of staff for policy and political affairs, uses his control of the campaign purse strings to torment Morris. Eight years older than Morris, Ickes belonged to the Democratic...
...term, the once scorned President has generally had a double-digit lead in the polls. He has adopted so many traditional Republican themes that the g.o.p. has nothing much to campaign on except character and taxes. And Bob Dole's tax plan gives Clinton a chance, rare for a Democrat, to run as a fiscal conservative virtuously resisting the seductive appeal of tax cuts that might make the budget deficit skyrocket anew...
Still, the questions nag even at voters reluctantly ready to opt for Clinton on Nov. 5: Who is it that they will be casting their ballots for? The government-must-do-more Democrat elected four years ago? Or the President Bob Dole has taunted as trying "to be a good Republican" in order to win re-election? Or will a second term reveal some yet-unseen Clinton, entering the first four-year period of his adult life in which he does not have to worry about the next election and free at last to do...what...
However, a senior Clinton aide says of the President, "He gets it now. He knows what people want. After the election, he is not going to suddenly veer left and start proposing big Old Democrat solutions. Joycelyn Elders is not coming back, O.K.? No Lani Guinier." Moreover, given a continuing effort to balance the budget and the certainty that Republicans will retain a powerful voice in Congress--possibly still a majority--there will be neither money nor votes for any grandiose schemes...