Word: gorton
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...radio address he had delivered criticizing the Democrats' budget proposal as "phony." Said Gray: "Look, it doesn't do either of us any good to describe our plans this way." The President was riled, but he did not actually throw down his pencil until two Senators, Republican Slade Gorton and Democrat Lawton Chiles, started to talk about the need for tax increases. Said Reagan: "You can't show me a time in history when a major tax cut did not result in greater revenue...
...President Jimmy Carter's Transportation Secretary for two years; in Stevensville, Md. Elected to the House in 1964, he became chairman of the Budget Committee before joining Carter's Cabinet in 1977. After returning to his law practice, he made a political comeback in 1986, unseating Republican Senator Slade Gorton in a close race. After facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment--all of which he denied--he retired in 1992 after one term...
...George Gorton (Jeff Goldblum), Dick Dresner (Anthony LaPaglia) and Joe Shumate (Liev Schreiber) have just left the 1996 presidential campaign of Republican California Governor Pete Wilson. Idle and itchy, they get a call seeking help for a presidential candidate in even worse straits: Russian President Boris Yeltsin. A hero for leading his country out of communism in the early '90s, he is now, amid economic ruin and a war in Chechnya, the goat. Polls show him trailing not only his main opponent, communist Gennadi Zyuganov, but also Joseph Stalin, the long-dead Soviet dictator...
...Gorton, Dresner and Shumate jump at the offer--for the challenge, the glory and a fat pile of money--but there are catches. The thuggish Yeltsin cronies who hire them insist on total secrecy and keep them virtual prisoners in a hotel. They cannot meet the candidate, who is often ill, drunk or both. Most ominously, the aides press the consultants to let them know if Yeltsin has no chance, so they can "take steps"--which, we assume, will be more brutal than push polling...
...care enough about current events to watch this movie, it's no spoiler to say that Gorton et al. ultimately salvage the campaign. (Their secret consultancy was a TIME cover story in 1996.) The drama is in how. Facing a suspended election and crackdown if Yeltsin tanks and possible dictatorship if the communists win, they persuade Yeltsin's daughter Tatiana (Svetlana Efremova) to try a modern campaign: focus groups, photo ops and brutally negative ads. She resists their suggestions as "phony American tricks." (One of numerous ironies is that many former subjects of the "evil empire" are more idealistic about...