Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though he cultivates an outsider's air and stands apart from the Clinton establishment--making the weekly commute from his rural Connecticut home, conducting business out of a suite at the elegant Jefferson Hotel--Morris has an insider's ability to push his agenda. His allies are the First Lady, Vice President Al Gore, press secretary Mike McCurry, communications director Don Baer, policy adviser Bruce Reed and presidential counselor Bill Curry. But his closest confidant is the President himself, for whom he prepares exclusive briefing books that sometimes critique Clinton's other advisers. Some aides say Morris sees the Executive...
...Democrats. It meant braving the warnings of deficit hawks that higher taxes and less spending would lead to stagnation or recession, and following the advice of Republican Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who insisted that a credible deficit-reduction program would lower interest rates enough to push the economy ahead...
...part because the G.O.P. resists any change in its delegate-selection rules. For instance, rules awarding extra delegates to states with Republican governors end up favoring places like New Hampshire, where minorities tend to be a smaller share of the population. Some delegates tried again at this convention to push reform, but they got nowhere. Meanwhile, minority attendance at G.O.P. conventions is inflated by nonvoting "auxiliaries" affiliated with the R.N.C. Says a member of the National Black Republican Council, the auxiliary for African Americans: "We're window dressing." But the window last week was a big one: almost every camera...
...says, "is that the stage has been set. Awareness of spinal-cord injury is at an all-time high. People now understand that something that was thought incurable can be cured. The politicians are motivated, the scientists are motivated, the public is showing concern, and everything is prepared to push to a successful conclusion. Now the question is how to keep the momentum going, making sure that people don't fall by the wayside...
...Hotel Sofitel in Los Angeles. With his press secretary Nelson Warfield and California campaign chief Ken Kachigian also in the room, Dole talked mainly about his upcoming tax-cut proposals. When he asked Bennett how best to sell them to the public, Bennett was ready. "The person to push this economic plan," he said, "is Jack Kemp...