Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been alerted to Gramm's stunt, and urged Dole to comply. "What they wanted," says a friend of Dole's, "is for Bob to have said something like 'I've been waiting to sign this pledge before friends, and you're friends.'" But Dole said no. Chief campaign strategist William Lacy tried to reverse Dole's decision. When Lacy appeared at Dole's Capitol Hill office, Dole stiffed...
...renowned. In Syria his job was to slither up telephone poles and cut the wires so the pro-Nazi forces of Vichy France could not send for reinforcements. By 1944 he had been promoted to deputy battalion commander and had developed such a reputation as a shrewd military strategist that senior officers regularly sought his advice or opinions...
...task force of House and Senate leaders designed in part to ensure that the Senate majority leader and other moderate Senate Republicans would not unilaterally trade away elements of Gingrich's revolution in the final days of congressional bargaining. The Speaker also anointed himself the Hill's master strategist and tactician. When the time came for Republicans to take a harder line toward Bill Clinton, it was Gingrich, not Dole, who set the tone. And when the time came to secure a powerful ally for the G.O.P.'s embattled overhaul of Medicare, it was Gingrich, not Dole...
...September. It is the self-styled voice of the conservative revolution. The headline emblazoned across the magazine's cover was PERMANENT OFFENSE. But the most notable article was a virtual endorsement of Powell for President by William Kristol, the Standard's editor and the G.O.P.'s most influential strategist. So much for the revolution...
...shortfall in finances and polls, at the heart of Wilson's problems is a scabrous disunity among his chief lieutenants amounting to a civil war. It pits a former George Bush operative against a tight inner circle of long-standing Wilson loyalists and, more precisely, political manager against political strategist. On one side is Craig Fuller, a former tobacco-company executive and chief of staff to then Vice President Bush. On the other is George Gorton, a longtime Wilson political consultant who has shaped the strategy for all Wilson's campaigns with a talent for crystallizing hot issues, from three...