Filling in for Lee Atwater
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- On the spot: all the Vice President's men. // Newsweek;8/22/1988, Vol. 112 Issue 8, p21
Summarizes the men in Vice President George Bush's campaign, their careers and strengths, who are at the top of the Bush campaign: James A. Baker III, 58; Lee Atwater, 37; Roger Ailes, 48; Robert Teeter, 49. Campaign jobs.
- Was Lee Atwater a phone fatality? Walls, Jeannette; Gelman, Jan // New York;2/15/93, Vol. 26 Issue 7, p11
Questions whether Lee Atwater's family might have a lawsuit against the phone manufacturers in light of a new controversy about cellular phones possibly causing cancer. Background; Details.
- B.B. King mourns the passing of Lee Atwater. // Jet;4/15/91, Vol. 79 Issue 26, p11
Presents comments made by blues legend B.B. King on the death of his friend Lee Atwater, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee. Atwater's comments on friendship with Democratic National Party Chairman Ron Brown.
- Atwater's legacy. // New Yorker;10/19/92, Vol. 68 Issue 35, p40
Discusses how key Republican Party officials working on the reelection campaign of the Bush-Quayle ticket in the 1992 Presidential election are haunted by the ghost of former Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater, who helped president George Bush get elected in 1988, and who died...
- The many ways the GOP misses Lee. Barone, M.; Gergen, D.R. // U.S. News & World Report;7/16/90, Vol. 109 Issue 3, p43
Discusses some of the media problems in Washington lately that might have been handled differently if Republican National Chairman Lee Atwater had been in good health. Battling brain tumor; Tax announcement; Oil drilling decision; New York governor's race.
- Atwater's frontal assault. Barone, M. // U.S. News & World Report;3/5/90, Vol. 108 Issue 9, p35
Reports how Republican National Chairman Lee Atwater is breaking precedent by taking a strong hand in big-state gubernatorial races. Discusses some of the developments he was involved in.
- The bad ol' boy behind George Bush. Walsh, K. // U.S. News & World Report;6/6/88, Vol. 104 Issue 22, p31
Tells how Lee Atwater, Vice President George Bush's Presidential campaign manager, has worked that campaign into a crisis. Doubts about Atwater's effectiveness; Strategies to handle Governor Michael Dukakis' strong Democratic bid for the nomination; Possibility of Treasury Secretary James Baker...
- Guess who's a tax-and-spend will-o'-wisp...? Walsh, K. // U.S. News & World Report;6/6/88, Vol. 104 Issue 22, p34
Some examples of the low art of attack politics of Lee Atwater, Vice President Bush's campaign manager, for creating a negative image of Democrat contender Governor Michael Dukakis. Attacks on his economic policies as governor of Massachusetts, `permissiveness,' lack of foreign policy...
- A loss that still hurts. Grogan, David; Schlosser, Linda Kramer // People;11/2/92, Vol. 38 Issue 18, p115
Looks back at the life of Lee Atwater, who died of brain cancer in March 1991, at age 40. Atwater was the top strategist for the Republican party in the 1988 campaign. Family; Background; Role; Illness.
- Moderation of abortion debate. // Nature;11/23/1989, Vol. 342 Issue 6248, p327
Opinion. Observes that Lee Atwater, US Republican National Party chairman, has proclaimed his party to be tolerant on the abortion issue. Conditions for abortion in the US. Types of opponents of abortion; Arguments for legalized abortion; Related laboratory issues.
