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morris speaking in 2011 http://www.dickmorris.com/ new york city , new york , u.s. american dick morris 28 november 1946 political strategist , fox news analyst , presidential advisor eileen mcgann dick morris.jpg dick morris
 richard s. morris author columbia university -lrb- 1967 -rrb-
dick morris

richard s. `` dick '' morris -lrb- born november 28 , 1946 -rrb- is an american political author and commentator who previously worked as a pollster , political campaign consultant , and general political consultant .
a friend and advisor to bill clinton during his time as governor of arkansas , morris became a political adviser to the white house after clinton was elected president in 1992 .
morris encouraged clinton to pursue third way policies of triangulation that combined traditional republican and democratic proposals , rhetoric , and issues so as to achieve maximum political gain and popularity .
he worked as a republican strategist before joining the clinton administration , where he helped clinton recover from the 1994 midterm elections by advising the president to adopt more moderate policies .
the president consulted morris in secret beginning in 1994 .
clinton 's communications director george stephanopoulos has said , `` over the course of the first nine months of 1995 , no single person had more power over the president . ''
morris went on to become campaign manager of bill clinton 's successful 1996 bid for re-election to the office of president .
his tenure on that campaign was cut short two months before the election , when it was revealed that he had allowed a prostitute to listen in on conversations with the president .
morris now writes a weekly column for the `` new york post '' which is carried nationwide , contributes columns and blogs to both the print and online versions of `` the hill '' , and has appeared regularly on the fox news for political commentary , frequently appearing on `` the o'reilly factor '' and `` hannity '' .
he is also president of vote.com .
more recently , morris has emerged as a harsh critic of the clintons and has written several books that criticize them , including `` rewriting history '' , a rebuttal to senator hillary clinton 's `` living history . ''
morris said that he would leave the united states if hillary clinton were elected president in 2008 .
morris was the strategist for republican christy mihos 's campaign in the 2010 massachusetts gubernatorial race and supported mitt romney in 2012 , predicting that he would achieve a landslide victory .
blogger andrew sullivan has named an annual award after morris , given for `` stunningly wrong political , social and cultural predictions . ''
after the election , morris did not appear on fox news for three months , and the network ultimately opted not to renew his contract .
