Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sitting in the spare, modern living room of Bob Squier's Capitol Hill town house making tense small talk, eating deli sandwiches, sipping diet sodas and herbal tea. Although the debonair media consultant was the nominal host, the meeting had been called by Dick Morris, Bill Clinton's stealth strategist. Morris had been secretly advising the President for six months and had emerged from the shadows only in April. Now Clinton had asked him to assemble the campaign's creative team. But despite Clinton's endorsement, Morris' position inside the White House remained precarious. Many of the President...
Morris couldn't stomach Penn's new prominence. And Penn couldn't stomach Morris. From the start, the strategist had sought to repress Penn, and Penn had come to resent Morris' taking credit for his values ideas. But Morris couldn't contain Penn. Inside the White House, Penn developed a reputation as "the consultant who's not radioactive," as Stephanopoulos put it. Penn set up a jury-rigged workspace in a walk-in closet in Sosnik's West Wing basement office. This triggered Morris' paranoia, and when Penn had a one-on-one meeting with Clinton in the Oval Office...
Along the sawtooth edges of the Christian right, Reed is under suspicion as a political strategist who found religion rather than a committed religious conservative who found politics. He knows there is grumbling about him for tacitly backing Dole, a loser who hardly even touched on abortion and family issues in the campaign. Reed's defense--"It's hard to make the argument that this race would have been significantly closer if the nominee had been someone else" (Buchanan? Alan Keyes?)--is plausible enough. Even so, next time the pressure will be on Reed to find somebody agreeable to Gary...
...flirted with the populist attack on elites, a venerable Democratic tactic that Richard Nixon borrowed for his own purposes. Now that Buchanan was giving that message a serious class-based edge, however, G.O.P. leaders flinched and ran. "The Republican Party can't do more than mouth populism," says G.O.P. strategist Kevin Phillips...
...past 18 months co-authored by Gibbs and Duffy (who, coincidentally, joined TIME on the same day in 1985). Other highlights of this week's issue include some familiar names and some unfamiliar juxtapositions: Jay Leno and Gloria Steinem offer the President some free advice; fallen campaign strategist Dick Morris urges Clinton to stick to the center in his second term; playwright Wendy Wasserstein has some light-hearted tips for the First Lady; Slate editor Michael Kinsley puts Clinton's victory in historical per-spective; and investigative reporter James Stewart explores how scandal could derail Clinton's second term...