Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tuesday evening, no one was more dumbfounded by Kennedy's triumph than his own top advisers. "What the hell is going on?" asked Campaign Manager Stephen Smith as he encountered Strategist Edward Martin in a corridor of the Halloran House, the Senator's headquarters hotel in New York City. Replied Martin, with a grin: "How the hell do I know?" The following day, Jimmy Carter asked the same question while speaking at a fund-raising dinner in Washington for Democratic congressional candidates. Said he: "I am sure that a lot of you are wondering what happened...
...White House aides believe that the House and Senate budget resolutions will embody most of the President's recommendations for expenditure cuts, whatever those recommendations finally turn out to be. "When we get to the appropriations process, though, everything is going to be in jeopardy," says one Carter strategist. The budget resolutions merely set a target; congressional committees can and often do vote more money for specific programs than the budget resolutions allow. It is to the appropriations committees that lobbyists probably will make their loudest cries of anguish...
...them all. He even talked like Johnson. His indictment, trial and acquittal in the milk-fund case that grew out of Watergate remained damaging. His toughness, his slickness, made him seem the wheeler-dealer. And rather than run away from that image, he tried to exploit it. Says Campaign Strategist Henry Edward ("Eddie") Mahe: "That perception was so deep, we couldn't have changed it. We had no choice...
Last week Ford was getting some solid signs of support. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Ford in Palm Springs and said he would endorse his candidacy. New York State Republican Party Chairman Bernard Kilbourn urged Ford to run. Stuart Spencer, a key Ford strategist during the 1976 race, began putting together a campaign staff. Ford met with Ohio Governor James Rhodes, among others, to discuss politics. He even conferred with John Sears, the man Reagan fired as his campaign manager on the day the Californian won big in New Hampshire. Neither man would say whether...
...Reagan's presidential rivals were also jubilant. Said David Keene, George Bush's political director, who worked as Reagan's Southern strategist in 1976: "We're pleased to see him benching his first string. They managed to get rid of 90% of the people with talent in that campaign. Look at how Sears bagged us in the debate. Nobody else could have done it." With 47 Republican primaries and caucuses to go, Reagan now has to rely on a new team to undertake the services once performed by "Rasputin...