Lee Atwater, who worked for Mr. Bush, spent his days furiously phoning around for information.
" Atwater came back with a challenge: "Why don't you come up here and watch?
Also at the meeting was Ann Atwater, a Black community organizer CP had battled for years.
FORBES: Dr. King and the Klansman -- Love in a Time of Vitriol
"They were more alike than either had imagined--energetic, flippant, irreverent, " says someone who was close to Atwater.
Previous presidents have had indispensable campaign operatives: think of Bill Clinton and James Carville, or Mr Bush's father and Lee Atwater.
The campaign was over the top that later a dying Republican strategist Lee Atwater called Mr. Dukakis to apologize for his tactics.
Stockton joins three other bankrupt California municipalities: Atwater, SanBernardino, and Mammoth Lakes.
FORBES: Stockton, CA: One Of America's Most Miserable Cities Just Got More Miserable
Atwater, the younger sister of the children on the phone long ago.
We paused for a moment alongside the Dequindre Cut path at Atwater Street, where construction is well underway alongside the 43, 000sqft Globe Trading Company building.
Until the school meetings and the conversations he began having with his nemesis, Ann Atwater, in the gym when no one else was around.
FORBES: Dr. King and the Klansman -- Love in a Time of Vitriol
The offer had come from Lee Atwater, the brilliant, erratic young political hotshot Vice President Bush had picked to be campaign manager for his coming presidential bid.
Ms Atwater and her colleagues interviewed 163 workers from a broad range of jobs who had been disciplined in a variety of ways, from being fired to being ticked off.
Bush adviser Lee Atwater also put together a television ad focusing on a program that a Republican governor who served before Dukakis had put into place that granted prisoners short furloughs.
In other words, it was well within the strike zone the Republicans institutionalized in 1988 when they turned the GOP's amiable hitman Lee Atwater loose with his "Willie Horton" ad against Michael Dukakis.
Atwater led the group in approving the idea.
FORBES: Dr. King and the Klansman -- Love in a Time of Vitriol
Atwater saw Junior as a job-insurance policy and a hot line to the candidate, someone who could be counted on to help sway the Vice President to do what had to be done to win.
But it was the efforts of party operatives like Lee Atwater and Harry Dent that not only created the South Carolina primary in 1980 but also made sure it was the first test in the South.
They were thoroughly humiliated by Bush senior's attack dog, the late Lee Atwater, who used everything from the state of Boston harbour to the activities of Willie Horton, a murderer and rapist, to destroy Mr Dukakis.
Reagan, whose state organization was led by Atwater (who, if memory serves, was aghast at Bush's campaign tactics) and freshman Rep. Carroll Campbell, won the primary decisively, and Connally dropped out of the race the next day.
George W. and his brother Jeb--a Florida real estate investor who was generally regarded as the political comer among the Bush kids--had doubts about Atwater's loyalty because his consulting firm was doing work for Bush rival Jack Kemp.
Mr. Romney mobilized support there much earlier than his competitors, securing fund-raisers like lobbyist Brian Ballard and developer Mel Sembler and winning endorsements from establishment Republicans such as Attorney General Pam Bondi and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater.
Was Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour's four-line press release equivalent to then Democratic Party head Ron Brown's flying the flag at half staff over party headquarters and attending services when his counterpart, Lee Atwater, died young of a brain tumor?
According to Republican lore, the first President Bush would never have lost in 1992 if his political rottweiler, Lee Atwater, who died in 1991, had been able to sink his teeth into Mr Clinton as he chewed up Michael Dukakis.
Indeed, a study of gender and discipline at work, by Leanne Atwater, a professor at the School of Management at Arizona State University, and two colleagues, finds that women dislike being told off by another woman even more than men do.
Hundreds of young conservatives flooded into the capital to listen to their heroes (including a wrestler called Warrior), to learn how to identify liberal textbook bias, to visit the White House, and to watch Karl Rove receiving the Lee Atwater Leadership Award.
CalPERS is in the process of setting new rates to close the liability, said spokeswoman Amy Norris, which could further strain cities in financial peril such as San Bernardino, San Jose Compton, Fairfield, Watsonville, Atwater and at least two dozen other cities.
应用推荐