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...firm, thought new hire Mike Murphy, a shaggy, wisecracking adman who had worked for Alexander in the primaries and Dole in 1988. Everyone worked in a tidy little office, isolated from the others. To make the trains run on time, Elizabeth Dole had forced Reed to bring in Donald Rumsfeld, a Ford-era Defense Secretary with a buttoned-down style. Reed and his new favorite, John Buckley, became the campaign's twin partners, ruling on everything. Buckley, a refugee from Fannie Mae who became communications director in June, was someone who Reed boasted would be the big-think "corporate...
...When?" Dole asked, amazed that Reed hadn't told him. He turned to his wife. "Wasn't Rumsfeld supposed to fix this...
...while preserving his hard-won reputation as a deficit hawk. Eventually he satisfied himself that he could cut federal spending enough to offset his tax cuts and balance the budget, even though he never managed to fill in all the numbers. His national campaign chairman, Donald Rumsfeld, scoffs that it is "absolutely ridiculous" to think Dole should "have to track every nickel down," though a skeptical public seems to demand just that...
...climactic meeting was on Saturday, July 20, at campaign headquarters, with Senators Abraham, Bennett and Connie Mack of Florida present and many other counselors, like Rumsfeld, participating by speakerphone. Dole this time "moved from interested spectator to clear participant," says Bennett. He and Burke are convinced that Dole decided then on the 15% across-the-board cut. A big reason: the plan applied the same reduction to both the rich and the poor, so he could defend the move as fair...
...Reed Rumsfeld Davis...