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...class on the 8:15 a.m. TWA flight from St. Louis to Washington after the first presidential debate. Seems he took a lot of heat for it from the bigwigs back in coach class, including White House chief of staff James Baker, presidential pollster and official campaign chairman Robert Teeter and Budget Director Dick Darman. "I've visited 35 states since February," Bond says, "and I've accumulated several hundred thousand frequent-flyer miles, which we're using to upgrade me at no expense to the party or the campaign...
...beneath the fog, there is a real debate, as St. Louis somewhat unexpectedly revealed. In the end, however, the vote for the presidency is a complicated, subtle act. "People vote for President by feel," says Robert Teeter, the President's campaign chairman. "There are hundreds, maybe thousands of subconscious factors that create a general perception of a presidential candidate." Unfortunately for Bush, many of those subconscious factors are working against him. Many things the President has said and done over the years appear to have settled negatively in the electorate's brain, an accumulation of winces ready to cause...
...deeper one looks, the more doubt and qualification one finds. It was far from Matisse's mind to impose an artificial certainty on the flux of vision. The resolution of his great 1914 still life, Goldfish and Palette, is provisional; on either side of the black central column things teeter and lean; even the curlicues of the black iron balcony seem held in a fragile equilibrium...
...attorney in Baker that told Teeter two weeks ago to take another look -- "the way a trial lawyer would" -- at Clinton's contradictory descriptions of his draft record. Baker felt that the real value of the draft issue was not so much Clinton's behavior as a 23-year-old but his waffling and incomplete accounts of his actions and motives, and the questions they raised about his trustworthiness...
...past the Bush team had undercut its attacks on Clinton's draft record by couching them in ridicule and bombast. Under Baker's orders, Teeter asked campaign counsel Bobby Burchfield to pull together the record in a clear, undramatic fashion and let the public judge. Burchfield turned out a lengthy, side-by-side comparison of Clinton's comments over the past year that fueled numerous news reports. "Basically," says Burchfield, "this is a situation where the histrionics could very easily get in the way of the message we're trying to put out, which is look at what...