Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DICK MORRIS...
...Dick Morris' brain was in orbit. It was late July, and the President's political consultant--the co-author of his campaign message and advertising, the strategist who helped Clinton scoop up Republican issues and ideas on his way to a double-digit lead over Bob Dole--was returning again and again to a problem he thought might hurt Clinton's re-election. Not welfare reform, because Morris had already won that fight, but taxes. Clinton had promised a middle-class tax cut in 1992 but delivered a tax increase on the wealthy instead. Now Dole was getting ready...
...this, Dick," Clinton said, "people will think it's precisely what it is," a naked appeal to swing voters...
...paid to preach, who can teach it round or teach it flat. He is someone lost so far inside the game that he breaks its most basic rules--Don't leak to the other side, Don't sell out your clients--and doesn't seem to notice. "Dick has a blind spot on character," says a key Clinton aide. "The President sees that, and it makes him think about his own blind spots. That's a real service...
CHICAGO: President Clinton is expected to propose a $3.5 billion jobs program for welfare recipients in his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention on Thursday night, even as the White House tries to dodge the controversy surrounding the resignation of his top political advisor, Dick Morris. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said the President's initiative would include $3 billion in grants to create jobs in high-poverty areas and $500 million in tax credits to businesses that hire people who have been on welfare for at least 18 months. The proposal is part of an effort...