Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's strategy, crafted with help from recently departed adviser Dick Morris, is winning back moderates who abandoned the Democratic party during the 1980s...
...then there are the politicians. The two parties' conventions were virtuefests, four-day parades of people conspicuously devoted to their families. Bob Dole vowed to revive "old values," and Bill Clinton vowed to "protect our values." Even presidential adviser Dick Morris, while drowning in a prostitution scandal, managed the obligatory nod to virtue. His parting statement embraced Clinton's vision of an America of "opportunity and"--yes--"responsibility." (Morris may be a candidate for the Charlie Sheen recovery program...
...still respects Morris' skills. "He said he 'ran' the Gennifer Flowers response in New Hampshire, polled for Clinton in 1992 and advised him in the fall of '94. Then he said, 'But I never hurt any client we worked for, and I never hurt the Republican Party.' I said, 'Dick, you just told me you helped elect Clinton. I don't think that helped the Republicans much.' He thought about it and said, 'I guess you could look at it that...
...easy to answer. Dick Morris, Clinton's premier political strategist, says the President has always had both a "left agenda" and a "right agenda," and pushes whichever seems realizable at the moment. A former aide describes a consistent instinct: "If you go to him and say, 'We must do A or B,' he'll say 'Can't we do A and B? Or something else...
Proud came my chieftains-- the stalwart Gore, the tiny Reich, wealth-sated Rubin--and took their seats around the counsel table-- Heavy-laden with soft drinks and those butter cookies the White House kitchen does so well-- that we might implore the all-knowing seer Dick Morris to divine for us what sacrifice--of cattle, oxen or welfare babies-- Might best propitiate the god of polls and focus groups, lighthearted Hermes, ruler of nations...