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...think about it a lot," claims a senior White House official, before admitting, "If Powell does run, he will be a significant player." Another in the White House is more fatalistic: "If he runs, we're dead." Says William Lacy, Bob Dole's top strategist: "If he jumped in the race today, he would be the principal competitor...
...Gore in urging Clinton to engage Republicans in the deficit-cutting debate.) "He's a very smart guy," Stephanopoulos says of Morris, "and a good friend of the President." So smart, in fact, that Morris is considered the top candidate to be the re-election campaign's senior strategist. Other Morris allies have the inside track on top campaign slots, including pollster Doug Schoen, who worked for Ross Perot in 1992, and media consultants Frank Greer and Bob Squier...
...Dartmouth College. White House spokesman Mike McCurry downplayed the coincidence today, but allowed: "It is New Hampshire and we are approaching 1996, and he will probably see some people he would like to have as supporters when the New Hampshire primary occurs."Campaign consultant Mandy Grunwald, a key1992 Clinton strategist, noted today that President Clinton is likely to get a lot more attention thanks to Newt's presence...
...Hollywood was the result of consultations with Reed. Lamar Alexander, who last summer held that Washington should neither subsidize nor prohibit abortion, began shifting his view to the right after calling on Reed, who then rewarded the candidate by describing him as "pro-life." Says William Lacy, chief strategist for Dole's presidential bid: "Without having significant support of the Christian right a Republican cannot win the nomination or the general election." Reed is so hot a commodity that the presidential campaign of Senator Phil Gramm of Texas offered to hire him as its political director, the No. 2 staff...
...George won't be the only political magazine to launch in September.in the U.S. Last week a group of semifamous conservatives (William Kristol, a Republican strategist and former Dan Quayle adviser; John Podhoretz, son of Commentary editor in chief Norman Podhoretz and a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan; and Fred Barnes of the New Republic and The McLaughlin Group) announced that Rupert Murdoch had agreed to put up $3 million to start the Standard. The weekly journal hopes to be to conservatives what the New Republic at its best was to liberals: a journal of opinion intellectually honest enough...