Word: teeters
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...counselors to the President" and "senior strategists" like layers on a compost heap. He is taking his own core staff of four seasoned political operatives from the State Department, and he will hack through tangled lines of authority by working with such trusted, longtime allies as campaign chairman Robert Teeter and Budget Director Richard Darman...
This point is echoed by mid-level officials at the White House and Bush campaign headquarters. They are worried that the President and several of his top advisers -- campaign manager Robert Teeter, White House chief of staff Sam Skinner, Treasury Secretary Nick Brady -- are far too confident that in the end, all that matters is "presidential stature." Teeter explains that in "the last weeks of the campaign, the voters will look at the candidates on a different basis than they do now: on who has the temperament, judgment, experience and character to serve as President. We're very confident...
...instance, it was during a sleepy Bush vacation in Jackson Hole, Wy. that Campaign chair Robert Teeter and Chief of Staff Samuel K. Skinner were first asked about the Quayle rumors and the rumors that Bush...
...Bush himself: the President is an undisciplined campaigner who is prone to sloppy mistakes without a full-time minder. He continues to insist, for example, that Americans are wrong to think the economy is sputtering, even though his own Administration's statistics prove them right and him wrong. "Bob Teeter, Fred Malek and Sam Skinner are all too nice," said an official, referring respectively to Bush's campaign managers and chief of staff. "We need somebody who has the guts to go into the Oval Office, slam his hand down on the desk and say, 'George, shut...
Never mind, too, that Perot received a thank-you note from Bush in late 1986 after he passed along some harmless gossip about the Bush kids. What mattered was that Bush had found a way to throw the wily Perot on the defensive. "The public found out," said Robert Teeter, Bush's campaign chairman, that Perot "is not the kind of person who has the character, the judgment and the temperament to be President...