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Clinton, of course, will campaign no more. Not for himself anyway. He has his last elected office, probably. Long ago, with his political guru Dick Morris, Clinton had thought to erase the distinction between governing and campaigning. Each activity, they decided, was an indispensable function of the other. Clinton was a master at campaigning. It was the other part that sometimes gave him trouble. What...
...urged Clinton to sign the bill, most of them conservative and New Democrats, did have their political arguments, notably that vetoing would undercut all Clinton's efforts to present himself as a champion of traditional social values, prominently including work. Dick Morris, at the time Clinton's chief political guru, contended that by putting his signature on the bill, Clinton would solidify a clear electoral majority by attracting relatively young suburban families who were the core of the swing vote in the country and who viewed work as a value far outweighing, say, school uniforms...
...little extra in his packet: he has managed to boost the company's value at a torrid 83% compound rate over the past five years, making it one of the hottest issues on the New York Stock Exchange and winning encomiums from the likes of Fidelity mutual-fund guru Peter Lynch. Just last week Green Tree reported record earnings of $227.3 million through the third quarter and a stunning 50% increase in its loan volume, to $7.57 billion over the same period last year...
...father, Charles Skelton, was a starting quarterback at Muskingum College in Ohio, and is friendly with, among others, Michigan football guru Bo Schembechler. Charles Skelton had a major impact on young Colby's days in Chelsea, and remains so today...
...dismay of modern virtuecrats like Bill Bennett, we are defining character down too. But the Baby Boomers do it differently from the Generation X-ers. According to fallen Clinton guru Dick Morris, the Baby Boomers look at the President and say, "Heck, he didn't do anything I wouldn't do, and at least he's trying to make sense out of it all." But younger voters are more gimlet-eyed and take the view that character is as character does. "They look at the character debate as a cover for party politics as usual," says Gen-X pollster Jefrey...