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Article: Morris's Tactics Still Hold Sway At White House; Small Initiatives, Trust in Polling Reflect Former Consultant's Style
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 27, 1997
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Dick Morris was purged from President Clinton's political team
after a sex scandal last summer, but the consultant's strategy and
methods still reign at the Clinton White House.
The brand of centrist ideology and poll-based political
positioning that Clinton and Morris fashioned during their
collaboration in 1995 and 1996 is, at least for now, the governing
model for Clinton's second term.
The Wednesday night strategy meetings in the White House
residence that Morris and Clinton began during the early months of
1995, a bleak time for the president, have continued since his
November reelection. Morris is no longer invited, but the two