Word: lott
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...media consultant Goodman. But after a campaign he compares with "climbing Everest," what other race could get his juices flowing? Al Gore's in 2000? Though a host of Republicans have vowed not to let him back into the G.O.P., some predict he'll wind up next to Trent Lott, the most interesting Republican around. And even if he does bow out, the outside-the-box strategy he and Clinton popularized will surely be used by others...
Republicans didn't accept Morris any more than Democrats had. He got plenty of work--Trent Lott, now the Senate majority leader, talked him up in the Republican cloakroom, and Jesse Helms became his most right-wing client ever in 1990--but he was always valued, never trusted. Helms media man Alex Castellanos accused him of grabbing credit for a TV spot Castellanos had made, the infamous ad showing a pair of white hands crumpling a job-rejection notice while a voice said, "You needed that job...but they had to give it to a minority." A number of G.O.P...
...what he meant, and he says Morris talked about the Clinton peccadilloes that would become infamous during the Gennifer Flowers eruption. Morris denies the story. But operatives in four other campaigns told Time they heard Morris make similar remarks. Consultant Goodman says he was sitting with Morris in Lott's Washington office in 1994. "It was during health care, the lowest time for Clinton," Goodman recalls. "Dick said, 'It's not going to be health care that brings down Clinton. It's going to be corruption.' I'll never forget that. If I thought a guy was corrupt, I wouldn...
Those edges include talking secretly to Clinton in the fall of 1994 while working for a roster of prominent Republicans--including Lott, William Weld of Massachusetts and Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania. Morris told Clinton to prepare for a Republican rout and "get out of the way." In December 1994, when the Wall Street Journal reported that Clinton had turned to Morris for help, Morris called the story "totally fabricated" and claimed fealty to the G.O.P...
...having spent his political life arguing that work has to come before play, Dole spun around and embraced Jack Kemp and his supply-side optimism for reasons more tactical than spiritual. He may still not believe it will work, but he can believe it will help him win. Trent Lott, the Mississippian who replaced Dole as Senate majority leader, was shocked, although happily, saying, "I would'na bet 50' a week ago that it'd be going the way it's going...