Word: planner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Caddell 's father, and is known in the business, to his pleasure, as the "grandfather "of the modern pollsters. Wirthlin is a sedate family man and former professor of economics at Brigham Young University who speaks cautiously, befitting his responsibilities as Reagan 's chief strategy planner. Caddell, on the other hand, is a voluble, black-bearded bachelor who turned pro in 1970, working for Governor John J. Gilligan of Ohio while still a Harvard undergraduate, and can be startlingly candid about his chiefs political problems. But Wirthlin and Caddell agree in sizing up the election: close...
...showing by performing the tasks that party candidates accomplish at conventions: choosing a running mate and issuing a platform. His vice presidential selection, Democrat Patrick J. Lucey, former Governor of Wisconsin (see box), is hardly likely to give Anderson a major boost. Lucey is a skilled campaign planner and organizer, and has close ties to labor leaders, who have been very suspicious of Ander son. Still, Lucey has neither a widely recognized name nor a national constituency...
...ideally matched. Strauss, 61, the wily, experienced tactician, is indispensable to the Georgians, who are still inept in the use of political power. The ebullient Strauss is virtually their only bridge to the real world of politics, and they trust him. Jordan, 35, the brilliant and impetuous young planner, tends to keep himself isolated. Neither man has much use for Ted Kennedy personally, but they both know how tough his opposition was. Earlier that day Strauss felt a surge of optimism that the pressure from Kennedy was about to be relieved. He had received word that Kennedy wanted to meet...
...addition, Soviet military literature has been emphasizing a "warfighting" nuclear doctrine-something missing from U.S. strategy. Explains a U.S. defense planner: "The Soviet view has been that the world does not stop when the two nuclear forces are released...
Sources close to the planning office said recently that Goyette, who was the University's first professional planner, has been talking for some time about leaving Harvard, and that his departure--which has been kept quiet in Holyoke Center--is connected to Massachusetts Hall plans for reorganizing the administrative wing of the University...