Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Party strategists give the same poor reading to the convention's major no- show, Jack Kemp, who once seemed likely to be the torchbearer of the Republican right. In their view it has been a mistake for Kemp to insist that the G.O.P. must reach out to minorities. "We've got to repeal the old Southern strategy of the 1960s and 1970s," says Kemp. "We need a new strategy based on asking black and minority men and women to vote Republican -- and give them a reason to vote Republican." However laudable, that's not a message to win the hearts...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff. But the man who is now one of Clinton's designated interlocutors in Haiti still hasn't signaled whether he's a Republican, much less a presidential hopeful. "In my travels I hear a lot of interest in Powell among Republicans," says G.O.P. strategist William Kristol. "There is a hunger for a fresh face, a nonpolitician...
...these and other reasons, even Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose Finance Committee gave birth to the mainstream bill, gives it little chance of passage. Harold Ickes, the chief White House strategist for health legislation, has warned Clinton that he should avoid embracing the mainstream bill lest he be identified with another failure. At the same time, Leon Panetta, the new White House chief of staff and a veteran of Congress, warns that the President must not write off the efforts of key lawmakers. Upshot: Clinton is left to cheerlead in hoarse whispers from the sidelines...
...alternating monologues that are the book's format) is re-enacted in a single 11-page chapter and merely augmented by bittersweet scenes of them pining at a distance. The uninitiated may find it startling that Bush's political director (Mary) was besotted with Clinton's master strategist (James), but political Washington is smaller and more inbred than Lake Wobegon. Now if either of them had been in love with a tree surgeon from Idaho, that really would have been something. Mary was the one who fretted that her relationship might hurt her career, which says as much about...
...hope that in the final weeks of the campaign, particularly after Congress adjourns in early October, Clinton can galvanize the party base by reminding them, as he did two years ago, why they vote Democratic. "For months the other side has had a corner on intensity," says one party strategist. "That's what we have to turn around before November. No one knows better than they do that November is not long from...