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...press conference held before the service Jackson announced that Lamond Godwin, a key Jackson campaign strategist and the political director of Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, will be an Institute of Politics fellow in the spring semester...
...here," says Charles. "It was nice to know that she cared." But many newspaper editorialists and a large portion of the citizenry thought the extravagance unseemly. "She was one of the best single targets for the opposition's attacks about 'fairness' and special interests," says a White House strategist. Thin-skinned Nancy Reagan was wounded by the criticism, especially since the White House really was badly in need of repairs. "That absolutely uncalled-for attack by some in the media with regard to the refurbishing and painting a few walls in the White House," says the President, "that was very...
...direct way. Rather, her agenda is highly personalized. Nancy Reagan is single-minded in her intention "to protect Ronnie," and to that end she is a hard-eyed judge of the officials serving him. "Her first concern is the people around the President," says one of those people, Reagan Strategist Stuart Spencer, "because she knows that they are the ones who will make things happen." Again and again, she has used her leverage to effect important personnel changes right up to the Cabinet level. There is now a rather effective upstairs-downstairs alliance between her and the leading West Wing...
...scheduled departure of forceful conservatives left many members of the New Right dismayed. Those whose stature stands to increase: Baker, a moderate whose pre-eminent position in the West Wing is now undisputed; Richard Darman, a capable Baker ally and legislative strategist; and Craig Fuller, an aide to Meese...
...comrades. Syria's Assad, eager to seize control of the Palestinian movement, fanned the revolt by giving Abu Mousa's troops financial aid and a safe haven in eastern Lebanon. "The Syrians want Arafat's head," recently explained Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s chief political strategist. "They want to remove the symbol of the revolution because their real aim is to have the P.L.O. as a political card in Assad's pocket...