Word: strategists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Said Hart: "Welcome to overtime." He declared his campaign "must go forward, and we will." Oliver Henkel, Hart's campaign manager, insisted that "Mondale's claims of 2,008 delegates are bravado. He's still in the 1,800s by our best counts." David Mixner, a key Hart strategist in California, argued that even if Mondale winds up 200 votes over a majority by convention time, "it's a slim margin. One event, one thing done wrong, and he's gone." If Hart kept Mondale from a first-ballot win, delegates might desert Mondale in droves...
...clear evidence that the Vice President pulls much in the election except as a piece of the presidential candidate's image." Indeed, the importance of the No. 2 nominee may rest in how and why he or she was selected. Notes Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter's chief strategist: "It is the first time people get to see the candidate make a substantive decision...
Given the chance, Reagan probably would not choose to run with a woman. Certainly, his counselors would not point him in that direction. Says one campaign strategist: "When you look at who would be advising the President about potential running mates, you have to conclude that a woman wouldn't be near the top of the short list." A former White House aide thinks the problem is endemic. "Old habits and ingrained ideas die very hard," she says of the Reaganites. "With the present structure, you wouldn't see them going out and beating the bushes...
Scarcely less important, though, was that the battered and backward Soviets had also won themselves a major role in the world. It was that prospect, in fact, that inspired some Western strategists to argue for a Normandy invasion as early as 1943, not only to help Stalin continue fighting but to prevent him from eventually dominating Central Europe. One such strategist was General Albert C. Wedemeyer, who helped draft the Overlord strategy later adopted by Eisenhower and Marshall. "The idea here," says Wedemeyer, now 87, "was to get ashore as early as we could, advance as fast as we could...
...White House, Rosalynn Carter was often characterized as a "steel magnolia." In her autobiography, First Lady from Plains (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95), to be published early next month, she does little to defrost that decidedly cool image. By her own account, she is a tireless campaigner and a more cunning strategist than the 39th President. "I am much more political than Jimmy and was more concerned about popularity and winning re-election," she says. "Our most common argument centered on political timing...