Word: tampa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tampa. Craig Fuller, Bush's smooth and efficient White House chief of staff, knocks on the door of the Vice President's suite at the Sheraton Grand Hotel. Bush, who has been up for 45 minutes, is eating a breakfast of cereal, fruit and yogurt. Fuller provides the latest breakdown from Tuesday's nonbinding Vermont primary (Bush has beaten Dole 49% to 39%) and then runs through the themes to be stressed during the five-state swing today: strong defense and "stability." Each day the campaign carefully focuses its message on a simple idea. Fuller reminds Bush to avoid mentioning...
...Tampa. Tim McBride, Bush's personal aide, hands him the telephone for a five-minute live interview on the Oklahoma radio network. Since New Hampshire, Teeley has ordered at least two such interviews each morning for drive-time radio in markets where Bush cannot appear in person...
...Tampa. Bush enters the first of five black Cadillac limousines flown in the day before by Air Force C-130 cargo planes. Morning traffic is never a bother for the Bush campaign: with radios cackling about the movements of "Timberwolf," Bush's code name, the Secret Service and the state police block all intersections along the way. Although Iowans were unimpressed with the trappings of incumbency, Southerners seem to cotton to such pomp and circumstance...
...Clearwater. For 45 minutes after breakfast, Bush does several interviews with the three Tampa-St. Petersburg network affiliates in a back room at the restaurant. The campaign's goal is to get as many images on as many local stations as possible. Bush looks each interviewer in the eye, as he has been coached by Ailes to do. His aides smile as Bush keeps mentioning "stability." "Dole acted like talking to us was a chore," notes Diane Pertner of WXFL. "But the Vice President was relaxed and obviously very interested...
Another focus of the anger was the difficulty of ousting Panama's arrogant military leader, General Manuel Antonio Noriega. U.S. attorneys in Tampa and Miami last month had announced indictments of Noriega for drug trafficking and money laundering. The charges made it impossible for the Reagan Administration to continue to overlook Noriega's sinister activities...