Word: grunwald
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After the movie, the stars moved on to the Dixie Grill, a faux southern bar with big fish and stock-car racing signs, where the ensemble acting troupe spun its own live performances. Mandy Grunwald, sitting in the opening-night audience, got to see Carville, Stephanopoulos and Boorstin in Little Rock indulge in an eye-rolling exasperated riff at her expense as she tries to sell them on a campaign ad by speakerphone from Washington. "Were you guys embarrassed for Mandy to see you acting that way?" Stephanopoulos spun that one: "Not at all. It was James...
...hands rising in the famous V-for-victory gesture. The much feared adviser and friend Susan Thomases was a Pilgrim. Affable communications director Mark Gearan became a gorilla, while mild-mannered personnel chief Bruce Lindsey wore a nun's habit. Pirate George Stephanopoulos huddled with media whiz Mandy Grunwald, who looked for all the world like a health security card. White House decorator Kaki Hockersmith--Scarlett O'Hara--had her dress made from fabric matching the curtains in the Lincoln Bedroom...
...problem. "It has been a long time since the public has seen him wrestle with the problems of everyday working Americans," said a White House official. "They didn't see it on gays, and they didn't see it on the budget. Now they see it." Mandy Grunwald, an outside political adviser, put it more succinctly: "He's fighting the right fight...
That is a danger, but the Clintons seem to sense it. After the speech, the Clintons and the Gores returned to the White House and made a triumphant visit to the troops in the health-care "war room" in the Old Executive Office Building. Greenberg and Grunwald pulled Clinton into an adjacent office to deliver the results of the networks' instant polls. But the new challenge was summed by Mrs. Clinton, who stood on a chair in the middle of the room and said, "After tonight, this is no longer the war room. It's the delivery room...
DURING THE CAMPAIGN, THEY WERE AT THE HEART OF WHAT was known as the War Room, the pressurized chamber in Little Rock famed for formulating rapid political parries and thrusts: James Carville, the raging Cajun strategist; his partner, Paul Begala; media maven Mandy Grunwald; and pollster Stanley Greenberg. When they failed to follow Clinton to the White House, their laser-sharp populist instincts were soon missed. Now Clinton has called them back, though just how much he relies on them remains a question. In room 160 of the Executive Office Building, aides have re-created the War Room. Around...