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...William Galston, coordinator of National Service Programs for the Clinton Transition, said in an interview this week that many issues related to the initiative--including the size of the program, how fast it will grow, and who will be eligible to participate--are still "unresolved...
...that many of those policies have triumphed, From is marketing the people to carry them out. Kamarck is in charge of campaign-finance issues; deputy Bruce Reed is a former leadership-council policy director; William Galston, a + longtime council luminary, is developing the national-service proposal and helping out on family and children's issues. Three weeks ago, Clinton named former South Carolina Governor Richard Riley, a D.L.C. supporter, as the transition personnel director. Party liberals began to worry out loud about, as one of them put it, "ideological purity tests...
Besides being a textbook case of political co-optation, Bush's program highlights the importance of foreign affairs in elections. In 1988 "about 22% of voters cited foreign and defense policy as their primary concerns," says William Galston, who served as Walter Mondale's issues director. "Almost 80% of those people voted for Bush. It was they who provided Bush's margin of victory, and more will probably vote those concerns in '92 as Bush persuades them that the world is still an unstable place...
...Galston and other prominent Democratic campaign strategists like David Sawyer and John Rendon are apoplectic at the sight of the current crop of candidates blithely walking away from foreign policy and defense issues. "Idiocy, pure and simple," says Sawyer. "There are certain tests a prospective President must pass before he can seriously contest the election. Foremost among these is the question of whether a particular candidate is imaginable in the role of Commander in Chief...
...Galston, it is all obvious. "Over the past 60 years," he says, "every President has sent troops in harm's way. The people know that a President's power to get people killed is almost always his alone. Conversely, they know that no President is singly responsible for anything that happens domestically -- good or bad. That's why foreign policy counts for so much." For these consultants, the lesson is basic. "The key is not to concede the territory," says Rendon. "Push all the buttons, make lots and lots of speeches. Try your damnedest to articulate a vision. You have...