Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...election and Morris getting a piece of it (he won't say how much), he'll have enough money to retire. But being out of politics would surely make him restless. "I've never met anyone with as much need to be on a plane scheming and plotting as Dick," says media consultant Goodman. But after a campaign he compares with "climbing Everest," what other race could get his juices flowing? Al Gore's in 2000? Though a host of Republicans have vowed not to let him back into the G.O.P., some predict he'll wind up next to Trent...
...almost forget he is playing it. So Clinton can go to a rally where voters scolded him for calling Bob Dole a quitter when he left the Senate, then berate Morris for making the TV spot that called Dole that--even though it was Clinton who approved it. "Dick always worked the dark side," says Rudy Moore, a Clinton aide in Arkansas, "so Bill could move toward the light." In a series of exclusive, wide-ranging interviews with Time, Morris put it this way: "He shaped me into his tool. He looked at his life and saw what he needed...
...High School in Manhattan, Morris joined the debate club, displaying a talent for arguing any side of any issue ("Truth is that which cannot be proved false," he said) and teaming up with a group of budding pols that included future Congressman Jerrold Nadler and state assemblyman Richard Gottfried. "Dick was always the leader," says Gottfried, "the most creative thinker, the most energetic worker, the one on the phone at 2 in the morning telling you what had to be done. He was already that...
...block stretch. He flirted with the idea of running himself, then stashed those ambitions forever. "I preferred to be the cat with nine lives," he says. "If we lost, I was still employed." Says West Side activist Ross Graham: "Some of us wanted to change the world. Dick wanted...
...surveys, each one yielding different slices of voter sentiment. Still, the notion that Morris dictates policy to Clinton, says former chief of staff Betsey Wright, fundamentally misreads their relationship. Clinton controls the dynamic; Morris reads his grunts and silences and knows when they mean no. "I have never seen Dick move Bill on an issue," says Wright. "I watched him propose positions, like a no-tax pledge, that would have been fabulously popular, but Bill said no. Dick huffed out of the room, pouted overnight, then came back with a way to minimize the damage. But he always accepted that...