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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Background: Protege of Elliot Richardson, staff secretary to Reagan, a key aide and confidant to James Baker, Deputy Treasury Secretary, now an investment banker...
...almost the reverse of Robertson's. He went further, gained more votes, commanded more attention and remained an important factor in the race right up to the convention. But his themes were not incorporated into the Democratic campaign after the convention. Robertson's cadres would be a quiet but key element in Bush's campaign, while Dukakis treated Jackson as an embarrassment, something he had to cope with, placate, keep a healthy distance from. This would lead him into his worst mistake, the renunciation of ideology, the attempt to build a middle constituency from scratch in the name of "competence...
...interests that were supposed to burden them at the national level. And then, in 1986, something striking happened: black voters, many of them registered by the Jackson campaign of 1984, turned out in larger percentages than their white counterparts, defying historical patterns, and helped elect liberal whites in two key states, Alabama and California. This, with white liberal victories in other states, returned control of the Senate to Democrats...
...There' s lots of work to do," he says -- but a Democratic Congress won' t make it easy. -- How the new President took the White House: by sweeping the South and taking key industrial states in the Midwest. -- If Michael Dukakis is such a competent manager, why was his presidential campaign so poorly managed? -- Nine behind- the- scenes moments that shaped and determined the course of the 1988 election. -- Historian Garry Wills says Bush won by embracing his own version of populism. -- Seven new faces in the Senate...
After seeing aides take credit for much of Reagan's success, however, Bush is determined not to be similarly emasculated in his presidency -- even if some of the key offenders are now moving into his own Administration. In recent weeks Bush has become increasingly frustrated by stories that portrayed every campaign success as a product of his handlers' acuity. Bush's eldest son, George W., was installed in a central office at campaign headquarters in part to keep a watchful eye on Bush's effective, but self-congratulatory, hired guns. At least two key aides believe Dan Quayle will...