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In a sense, Perot was only fulfilling his promise to provide his supporters with "a world-class campaign" when he recruited Republican Ed Rollins and Democrat Hamilton Jordan to guide his effort. They, in turn, have signed experienced operatives from both parties to lend the crusade an air of professionalism...
Perot has hired handlers--Ed Rollins and Hamilton Jordan--who are veterans of the sleaziest campaigns of year past. Perhaps they are partly responsible for Perot's refusal to get specific when it comes to policy questions or proposals.
Unlike Rollins, whose help Perot enlisted, Jordan volunteered his services several weeks ago after watching Perot on Larry King's TV show. More cerebral than his aw-shucks manner might suggest, Jordan went to work for Carter in the late 1960s and drafted the 1972 memo that served as the...
In the anti-campaign, Rollins and Jordan say, they will be anti-handlers. As Perot put it, "They will not get me up in the morning, dress me, give me words to say, tell me what to do and where to go." Rollins will run the day- to-day campaign...
But it would be a mistake to underestimate the task facing the two men. Their biggest challenge will be to erect a nationwide organization without upsetting the enormous volunteer corps that got the Perot balloon off the ground. In addition, the gauzy notion of a bipartisan campaign, run jointly by...