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...environment was nice, but it wouldn't win him any more electoral votes than he already had. They gave him a list of issues that might win a few crucial states. Gore followed their advice. "They ran about 26 different Senate races rather than a presidential campaign," says John Podesta, Clinton's former chief of staff. "They won more votes than the Republicans, but they lost something too. They gave up having Gore look like a President...
...which suggests that however wide the field, the fight for the nomination could be all but over only weeks after the Iowa caucuses. "It won't be the distance runner who wins," says former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, a Daschle strategist. "This time it's the sprinter." At this rate, they will all be exhausted before the starting...
...residents of 49 of the United States. But the state of Nevada is about to launch a $5 million media campaign designed to block the nuclear garbage dump. The state's powerful U.S. Senator, Democrat Harry Reid, has recruited two former White House chiefs of staff--John Podesta, who served under Bill Clinton, and Kenneth Duberstein, of the Reagan White House, to lobby Congress. Show-biz stars like Christie Brinkley and Wayne Newton will also speak out. Most dramatically, the campaign plans to send trucks with mock nuclear casks into cities around the country, where they will get stuck...
...loans to the world’s poorest nations. He wanted to know, was it too late? After quick calls to get consensus from Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Jack Law and OMB Deputy Sylvia Mathews ’87, Chief of Staff John Podesta told us if we could meet the President at his current event, we could make the pitch to him on the ride over to the World Bank/IMF meeting. The President accepted Larry’s idea in a heartbeat and wrote the new section into the speech with his own hand. The next...
...think he’ll take it really seriously and spend a lot of energy thinking about what he wants to say wrapped in a package of self-deprecating humor,” Podesta says...