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Each morning and night, Baker and his team meet with five other officials: Budget Director Richard Darman, campaign chairman Robert Teeter and manager Fred Malek, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Baker makes most of the decisions on scheduling, speeches and lines of attack; he demands same-day execution from his nine aides. "Once decisions get made," says Malek, "they stay made...
...Clean Air Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act snare most of the blame for this increase. But Bush rightly defends his signing of all three bills. His campaign manager, Frederic V. Malek, told Republicans on the Hill that Bush would run on this record. The response from at least one conservative member of Congress: "That ain't going...
...Bush-Quayle high command tried to counter this brewing insurrection last week by dispatching campaign manager Fred Malek to Capitol Hill. Malek gave House Republicans an upbeat private briefing and a slick brochure trumpeting the President's accomplishments. But many G.O.P. lawmakers felt patronized and berated Malek and his campaign colleagues for the message "vacuum" that has allowed Democrats Bill Clinton and Al Gore to pull some 30 points ahead of Bush in the polls. Minnesota's Vin Weber said several of his colleagues sarcastically urged the Bush-Quayle campaign to stop "sitting on our lead." Meanwhile, some of Bush...
...President is an undisciplined campaigner who is prone to sloppy mistakes without a full-time minder. He continues to insist, for example, that Americans are wrong to think the economy is sputtering, even though his own Administration's statistics prove them right and him wrong. "Bob Teeter, Fred Malek and Sam Skinner are all too nice," said an official, referring respectively to Bush's campaign managers and chief of staff. "We need somebody who has the guts to go into the Oval Office, slam his hand down on the desk and say, 'George, shut...
...muckraking and distortion. In fact, Oppo was a vital component of major local and national campaigns long before 1988. And practitioners in both major parties distinguish between "political pornography" and legitimate inquiry into public statements and actions that might bear on an opponent's fitness to hold office. Fred Malek, manager of the Bush campaign, says his campaign's research efforts are aimed at scanning old and current news stories and other public records and coding them into computers by topic, "so that we can pull it up quickly whenever we need...