President Bill Clinton
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Dick Morris's account of what he refers to as President Bill Clinton's comeback in the presidential election of 1996--in the wake of the 1994 midterm elections in which the Republican Party took over a majority in both houses of Congress--is part melodrama, part history, and part confessional. Most of all, however, it develops into something of a handbook, or instruction manual, for shaping strategy, or the big picture, and tactics, or implementation of big-picture goals, during the American electoral process. That is not to suggest that Morris's information, the strategies he developed, and the procedures he adopted to assist Clinton in being reelected to the presidency in 1996 could be guaranteed to work for any particular candidate, since each national election--indeed every election anywhere--is at some level sui generis. Nevertheless, in the context of America's political history during the mid-1990s, Morris argues, his approach to campaigning and positioning Clinton with the voters turned out to be effective. Accordingly, Behind the Oval Office is offered by Morris as the most satisfactory account, in his eyes, of what it took for Clinton to hold on to his office.In the background of this overview of Morris's book is development of a narrative thread that focuses on the key issues that surfaced in the US after the 1994 midterms. However, Morris's own background is also relevant to the themes that he sought to focus on for 1996. Indeed, the foundation on which Morris w
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d Morris's evolving role be revealed too soon in the game. That risk was amplified because Morris's position made him vulnerable to being fired from Clinton's campaign, and if that, plus Morris's defection from Republican arms, were to become public, his career would definitely been over. That set of circumstances helps explain the rather theatrical and covert way in which consultation took place; Morris did not have a White House office, and when he and the president talked they used a somewhat elaborate coded language. For example, "P" was the code name for Robert Dole, the Republican presidential candidate of 1996. Morris's code name was "Charlie."
Morris's account of how he structured his advice to the White House from 1995 onward highlights the methods he used to foster an image for Clinton that emphasized his status as a political moderate. To do that, he created alliances in what may seem unlikely ways. He first targeted Lott, for whom he had worked and who was newly selected as majority leader in the Senate, to review legislative priorities that would be most likely to enable both Democrats and Republicans to claim legislative victories, notably welfare reform and telecommunications deregulation (p. 74-76). Clinton was w
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