Word: tactician
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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...
...while having a wrecking crew ready in the boiler room. Bush has had his political roughnecks, like Roger Ailes and the late Lee Atwater, who played the Willie Horton race card in the 1988 campaign. "I can't imagine this campaign will be that tough," muses a White House tactician. "But we will be ready...
Vulfsons believes that Gorbachev is still indispensable as President of the U.S.S.R. "Gorbachev is a brilliant tactician," he says. "Only he can keep control over the dark underside of Russian nationalism, particularly in its colonialist form...
Clifford prefers to see himself as a statesman using the "art of persuasion," but most of the time, he has been a hired gun in Washington's range wars, a tactician seeking out the right angle of attack. He counseled Jimmy Carter's Budget Director Bert Lance on his banking problems, Speaker of the House Jim Wright on his ethics, and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas on conflict-of-interest charges...