Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write about them at length; my publications, which have been remarkably accurate and influential, range from analyses of educational financing to advice to young people who get in trouble. I serve from time to time as Party Platform Chairman and position paper draftsman. I am not the greatest political strategist who has ever come to a state capitol and my limitations in that respect are traceable in large part to an intellectual attitude. But I have a least a thought or two about that experience which may be valuable...
...John Patrick Sears, 35, an amiable, Georgetown-educated lawyer with a scholarly understanding of the tides that move American politics. Despite his youth at the time, he was a prime strategist of Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, served briefly as a presidential aide but left after he was frozen out by the jealous H.R. Haldeman. He became a guest lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, then returned to a lucrative Washington law practice. Though the Reagan committee is headed officially by Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, even he admits that Sears is the master planner...
...American politics than the needs of facing up to the Russians. NATO officials got a good look at Rumsfeld while he was the U.S. Ambassador to the alliance, and while they became used to his crisp style, they rank him far behind Schlesinger, who they feel is a brilliant strategist. One NATO official said that his colleagues welcomed having "a tough-minded guy like Schlesinger around who acts as an alternative opinion to Kissinger...
...foremost strategist is Secretary-General Santiago Carrillo, 60, who has spent the past 36 years in exile, almost all of them in France. Last week in a joint declaration with Italian Communist Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, Carrillo indirectly criticized the Portuguese Communists: "Socialism can only exist through the development and realization of total democracy...
...after Ford's press conference, a newly formed steering committee met to start mapping strategy. The committee is a careful blending of G.O.P. factions. Representing the party's right wing are Dean Burch, who was a key strategist in Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign, and Richard L. Herman, former national committeeman from Nebraska. From the left are former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and Robert Douglass, a New York attorney who is close to Nelson Rockefeller. In the center are Bryce Harlow, an old White House hand (now a lobbyist for Procter & Gamble) who was an adviser...