Word: gergens
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...There's a lot of political savvy around at the top," says IOP Fellow David R. Gergen, the President's former director of communications. Returning to call the plays as campaign chairman is Sen. Paul Laxalt (R.-Nev.), the person on Capitol Hill closest to Reagan; the chief strategist and campaign manager is Ed Rollins, a former Oakland Raider and assistant to the president for political affairs in the White House. The Reagan team also managed to grab consultant Stu Spencer, the premier political tactician who gave President Gerald Ford's 1976 campaign the only real intellectual power it ever...
...There is only one Republican candidate," says one campaign yet who's not around for the ride this time the ex White House Communication Director, David R. Gergen. He says, "All the sharpshooters are in the same fort Reagan will derive tremendous benefit from this." The one major campaign post yet unfilled is that of media coordinator though Republican officials predict the job will likely to Peter Daly...
Last month, David R. Gergen, assistant to President Reagan for communications, also resigned his post to take the six-month IOP fellowship...
...fellows are chosen in a rolling selection process, and IOP officials say they are currently busy confirming the acceptances of the four who will join Wagner and Gergen at the Kennedy School. Donovan said they expect to announce the remaining fellows at the end of January...
...Baker stays in the running, it will reinforce the impression that the White House staff is restless and feuding. Director of Communications David Gergen resigned last week to accept a fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics. Three weeks earlier, Legislative Liaison Kenneth Duberstein quit to join a private lobbying firm. The departure of these two "pragmatists" as well as the expected resignation early next year of Budget Director David Stockman, will leave Baker with only two staunch allies in the White House, Michael Deaver and Richard Darman. That prospect, along with the fatigue of three years...