Behind the Oval Office: Getting Reelected Against All Odds
Given the call-girl scandal that ended Dick Morris's  career as Bill Clinton's chief political strategist, maybe they  should have called this one "Under the Oval Office."  The book is recommended because in Clinton's "Wilderness  Years" of 1994 and 1995, when Newt Gingrich's Republican  Revolution was in full flower, Morris undeniably had  Clinton's ear. And what he was constantly whispering in it--that the president should effect a strategy of  "triangulation," in which he would disassociate himself from  both the Republicans *and* the Democrats in the  Congress--proved winning advice. After all, Clinton was  reelected even though both houses remained Republican.   But perhaps it's a mistake to claim, as Morris does, that the  scandal should be separated from his job performance. Wasn't it a  case of not only compromising his position, but  compromising principles as well? Isn't this the real danger of  relying on nonpartisan political consultants?--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.