Word: maheli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adding the only conservative voice among the American fellows, Eddie Mahe, a prominent Republican consultant and former executive director and deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), described the "sheer agony" of working for the RNC during the Watergate...
...talked like Johnson. His indictment, trial and acquittal in the milk-fund case that grew out of Watergate remained damaging. His toughness, his slickness, made him seem the wheeler-dealer. And rather than run away from that image, he tried to exploit it. Says Campaign Strategist Henry Edward ("Eddie") Mahe: "That perception was so deep, we couldn't have changed it. We had no choice...
...waged in Iowa. And he was never fully able to trust his campaign aides. His television ads were hatched by committees and lacked quality and focus. His scheduling came apart because he would not give up control. And when things got tough, he distrusted his aides even more. Says Mahe: "We were all newcomers in his life, and when it got tense, he turned to the people he knew best from Texas." But most important, Reagan was simply too strong...