Morris's Tactics Still Hold Sway At White House; Small Initiatives, Trust in Polling Reflect Former Consultant's Style

The Washington Post | January 27, 1997| | Copyright

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 ...

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