Word: rnc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting of young Republicans before last night's session, RNC officials told students that when they gestured for Bush to have "Four More Years" in office, they should wave side to side, not forward and back as they had been doing. Forward and back, college Republicans were told, looked a little too much like the "Heil Hitler gesture...
...slender, red- bearded 32-year-old who, friends wryly note, flicks his Camel butts into an "Elvis Lives" ashtray. This team is helped by a staff of 20 to 40 people at the Republican National Committee who work shifts through the night, when time is available on the RNC mainframe computer. Comparable staffs at the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign number about 30. The Perot campaign says it employs only two researchers. All the campaigns eagerly provide tips to reporters seeking information about their rivals. But most journalists seek independent confirmation of the stories before publishing them...
...case, political skulduggery can be difficult to prove. For example, a Republican source bragged that the Bush campaign and RNC have sought information on Clinton's alleged extramarital affairs and stalled G.O.P. approval of the New York state budget, thus helping keep Governor Mario Cuomo from challenging Bush, but have insulated themselves by having the dirty work performed by trusted G.O.P. political consultants. Bush campaign chairman Robert Teeter and five of his colleagues independently denied the allegations...
Atwater's right-hand man at the RNC wrote a memorandum titled "Tom Foley Out of the Liberal Closet," likening the politics of the house speaker to Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.), who is openly gay. Atwater's aide strongly implied in the memo that Foley is gay, hoping to smear Foley because of his alleged sexual orientation. It's hard to believe that Atwater would not have known about the memo. He probably had a hand in creating...