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...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...
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...
Scheduled speakers Mandy Grunwald, media advisor for the Clinton campaign, and former Yale President Benno Schmidt, president and CEO of the Edison Project, did not attend...
...side through the primaries, Stephanopoulos settled last May into a messy office with two banks of phones. He became Clinton incarnate, so imbued with the candidate's philosophy and policy that when he spoke it was as if Clinton were there. "He made everything happen," says media consultant Mandy Grunwald. To mainline the candidate's unfiltered personality to the voters, Stephanopoulos orchestrated appearances on talk shows and MTV. He pulled together Clinton's compendium of economic solutions, Putting People First, a task that required him to ride herd on a disparate group of economic advisers, all of whom thought they...
With an intellect unencumbered by a comparable ego, Stephanopoulos was able to bridge the chasm separating the campaign's often mismatched personalities. He made sure that Hollywood's laid-back producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who made the convention bio-film, was on speaking terms with chain-smoking, laser-intense Grunwald; he doled out face time on television among aspiring talking heads; not least, he soothed the brilliant, tightly coiled gonzo strategist James Carville by watching infomercials and Julia Child with him when Carville was too nervous to work...