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...vote a month ago, House Republican Whip Tom DeLay marveled at the Teamsters' approach, which included posting envoys by wavering members' offices as well as by the House floor. The vote passed. "They say, 'This is jobs for us and votes for you,'" says senior adviser Mary Matalin of the union pitch. "There's no tap dancing. They deliver...
...Cheney's fourth heart attack in November and his angioplasty in March. Cheney gave George W. Bush a heads-up last Tuesday, and the President replied, "It sounds like the right thing to do." The last time the Vice President left for the hospital, he only told Mary Matalin, his communications aide, on the way out the door. This time Matalin had almost a week to put together a presentation to the public. Among its key elements: having Cheney make the announcement--to demonstrate that he's in charge of his health care--and arranging a wide-open press conference...
...Mary Matalin, a senior adviser to Cheney, brought in an outside public relations consultant, Jim Sims, to help with the plan's rollout. But in a conference call with administration allies last Tuesday, Matalin railed against what she called the press's "ignorance about energy" and the unfair coverage of the plan. By then, Bush aides were happy to have regained control of the roll out of the energy policy message from Cheney's office and efforts were under way to amp up the conservation message that some felt was missing in the previous weeks. "I take responsibility for absorption...
...changing public perceptions. Which is why the private meeting that took place in Rove's office last Tuesday tells you more about his value to Bush than anything about the publicity blitz. Rove--the Man to See for G.O.P. favor seekers--was joined at the meeting by Mary Matalin, a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, and Alex Castellanos, a Republican consultant who has been working with oil companies to help sell Bush's plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Castellanos feared that bad press about the environment was weakening resolve inside the Administration...
...changing public perceptions. Which is why the private meeting that took place in Rove's office last Tuesday tells you more about his value to Bush than anything about the publicity blitz. Rove - the Man to See for GOP favor seekers - was joined at the meeting by Mary Matalin, a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, and Alex Castellanos, a Republican consultant who has been working with oil companies to help sell Bush's plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Castellanos feared that bad press about the environment was weakening resolve inside the administration...