Word: wordsmith
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...speechwriter in Richard Nixon's White House in 1971, served as communications director to Gerald Ford and was what several Bush loyalists described as a "fair-weather friend" in 1980. As assistant to chief of staff James Baker in the Reagan White House, Gergen emerged as a skilled wordsmith and political strategist, helping design the 100-day plan for winning Reagan's revolutionary tax cuts. Gergen aggressively courted reporters and earned a reputation as a world-class leaker, but nonetheless lost a contest with deputy press secretary Larry Speakes to be Reagan's top spokesman. Distrusted by the harder-line...