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...been in mourning, with top officials from the President on down trying out theories of "what happened" on one another. The soul-searching has ended, and no one sped the change more than Ickes. Last week, backed by Mrs. Clinton, he worked out the arrangement by which Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Don Fowler, a longtime party operative from South Carolina, will take over as co-chairmen of the party this week. Dodd will be the outside man, talking on television, taking on Newt Gingrich and defending the President on Whitewater, as necessary. Fowler, a close friend of Ickes...
...arrangement will give the White House better control of the political operation as it heads toward 1996. Some party leaders are worried that Dodd- Fowler team is too liberal, but that was deliberate. Dodd has ties to the party's left, which Clinton needs to hold down, especially in a three-way race. Meanwhile, Ickes and Fowler are both aficionados of party rules, obsessed with delegate-filing deadlines and renowned for tying conventions up in arcane procedural fights. With both men on Clinton's team, the thinking goes, it will be harder for someone like Senator Bob Kerrey to challenge...
...Dodd for the Democrats...
Ending a fractious search for the next chairman of the Democratic Party, President Clinton settled for a two-man team. Telegenic Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, who will remain in his seat, will become general chairman of the party and its chief spokesman. Donald Fowler, a longtime Southern political operative, will become the party's national chairman and day-to-day manager...
...CHRIS DODD...