Word: shrum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuck close to home, exciting speculation even as he shied from the fray. But this Monday he goes to New Orleans and next week to Florida, and he plans further appearances this spring in New Hampshire and Iowa. He has met privately with top national strategists, among them Bob Shrum, Ted Kennedy's former word wizard, and Gerald Rafshoon, Jimmy Carter's media adviser...
...organization good-naturedly invited the Massachusetts liberal to speak at Liberty Baptist College, the group's education stronghold in Lynchburg, Va. Although Kennedy got along well personally with Falwell, he strongly challenged the views of his hosts in an excellent speech (largely written by his press secretary, Robert Shrum). Said Kennedy: "The controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name-which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right." He added, "If the right...
...June, before Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy emceed a fund-raising "roast" of Arizona Congressman Morris Udall-who is renowned as a Washington wit-Kennedy's press secretary, Robert Shrum, asked Drayne and Mankiewicz for some gags. They helped Kennedy steal the show from the five Democratic hopefuls on the dais. Kennedy poked fun at Rollings' heavy Southern accent ("the only non-English-speaking candidate ever to run for President"). And he flicked a good jab at the easiest mark in town, urging that Interior Secretary James Watt be thrown to the wolves "while there are still some wolves...
...outsiders contribute jokes-the White House solicits from Bob Hope's stable, and Tonight Show Writer Ray Siller feeds gags to Vice President George Bush-but inoffensive insiders seem to have the real knack. "Some Hollywood gagwriters are good with political humor," says Shrum, "but most are not. The people here know the limits...
...chief speechwriters, Carey Parker and Robert Shrum, began drafting a withdrawal statement, his sisters pored through a book of quotations looking for poetry appropriate to a losing situation. They could not find a suitable verse. Kennedy hit on one thought. "I want to start off thanking my delegates for their support," he said. Then he added: "Of course, Carter has more delegates to thank." Amid the laughter, his writers turned that idea into his opening line: "I'm deeply gratified by the support I received on the rules fight tonight [pause] but not quite as gratified as President Carter...