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...least, is Clinton's own political savvy. Last month, when Morris resigned from the Clinton campaign after the media disclosed his $200-per- hour toe-sucking escapades, others in the Clinton camp said there would be no replacement because Clinton was his own best political strategist. The more skeptical may have considered this spin control by his campaign; it was not. Clinton's only skill is politics, but it is some skill. Arkansas has 75 counties and more than 5,000 voting precincts; Clinton knew the demography and politics of every one of them. On drives through the state with...
...certain risque prestige with the drama of its poignant risk. But public male heterosexuality, like water seeking its own level, has settled down in the tabloid bottomlands, where it does its best to provide low entertainment. So we have hilariously unwholesome scenes in which, for example, the chief political strategist to the President of the U.S. is described as barking around an expensive Washington hotel suite on all fours. Besides that arresting scene, the story offers continuing suspense: Will Rover's wife forgive him this untidiness? Has she heard of the Invisible Fence...
Your article about political strategist Dick Morris was frightening with its myriad implications of no character and double-crossing [THE DEMOCRATS, Sept. 2]. You described an amorphous chameleon who fed Bill Clinton what the voters want to hear, providing the President with a platform that echoes issues back to the voter. This is scarier than Orwell's classic, 1984. Of course we want to hear that; we said it. I hope the average person can judge Clinton's character by the company he keeps. BOB WHITE Chula Vista, California...
...wasn't just intuition. The strategy was guided by a mid-1995 survey conducted by strategist Mark Penn. The "Neuropersonality Poll," as Penn called it, attempted to map the psyche of the American voter and became the campaign's blueprint. Armed with those data, every presidential remark, every action every gesture was pretested and scripted. No detail was too small. Rather than amble off Air Force One, Clinton marched; the campaign's most famous line, about "building a bridge to the 21st century," was intoned because "building a bridge to the future" tested less well; Clinton vacationed at Yellowstone National...
With the invaluable help of Dick Morris, the postideological strategist who had guided his 1982 comeback as Governor of Arkansas after a devastating defeat two years earlier, Clinton crafted a series of positions and actions that fixed him firmly in that holiest of political spaces, the center. In standing against Republican proposals to restrain the budget-busting cost of Medicare, Clinton appeared both compassionate and firm. In embracing the G.O.P.'s call for a balanced budget (in July 1995, fully eight months before Dole's nomination), he laid claim to fiscal sanity, an issue virtually owned by the Republicans since...