Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never be said that Bill Clinton does not understand the game and how to win it. As a strategist and tactician, the Arkansas Governor is as thoughtful a student of politics as has ever held office. It is not surprising then that Clinton has developed a bottom-line theory for achieving the ultimate office. "When you are running for the presidency at a time when you are just coming into people's lives," Clinton told TIME two weeks ago, "when you're a relatively unknown challenger rather than an incumbent, and the public has to judge whether you can defend...
...considering the timing rather than the substance of negative charges, Clinton revealed his essence. Beyond being both the candidate and his campaign's top policy analyst, Clinton is also chief strategist and tactician, the nuts-and-bolts mastermind of his own race for the presidency, an office he has been preparing to occupy for "at least 10 years," largely by learning from the losses of Democratic wannabes. So while luck has played a role -- Clinton's competitors have yet to catch on, heavy hitters like Jesse Jackson and Mario Cuomo chose not to run, and the end of the cold...
...President's ear? ROBERT TEETER, his chief political strategist, is emerging as first among equals on the campaign staff. An Ann Arbor, Mich., pollster and longtime Bush adviser, Teeter was largely frozen out of the inner circle during the past three years by ex-powermeister John Sununu. But lately he has revived an old alliance with the new White House chief of staff, Sam Skinner. One reason they get along: Teeter's strategic skills complement Skinner's managerial strengths. Both men enjoy unlimited access to Bush. Teaming up on nearly everything, the two meet nightly for 90 minutes to talk...
...cancer detection. But the impression of Marilyn that emerges overall is of a woman so controlling of her husband's image that she once removed from the wall a picture she believed gave him a paunch, scribbled over it and then kicked it out of its frame; a strategist who helped plot not only her husband's early political career but also his mini-campaign for the vice-presidential spot on the G.O.P. ticket; a political partner who has installed herself in a large office across from the Vice President's and receives a nightly packet with his schedule...
...Raftis, the campaign director for Democratic presidential candidate TOM HARKIN, has a management style that owes more to Robert Bly than to Lee Atwater. Last week Raftis, 32, abruptly left the campaign trail. Reason: his wife gave birth to a boy, and the 32-year-old strategist wanted to help out at home...