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Who Was Lee Atwater?
Harvey Leroy "Lee" Atwater (February 26, 1951 - March 29, 1991) was a Republican
National Committee chairman during the latter part of the 1980s. Atwater was a
trusted advisor of both President Ronald Reagan and President George H. W. Bush.
Atwater's skills at promoting the negative aspects of his opponents, (such as
the tactic of bounce polling, which he invented) brought him and his candidates
success.
His greatest achievement came in the presidential campaign of 1988. A
particularly aggressive television advertisement concentrating on a prison
paroleé who subsequently committed a rape, along with other campaign tactics
against Michael S. Dukakis, allowed George H.W. Bush to overcome Dukakis's 17%
lead in early polls and win the 1988 election for President.
During that election, Atwater was assigned a "minder" by the
Bush campaign, George W. Bush. The younger Bush would later employ Atwater's
tactics against John McCain in the 2000 Republican primary.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, a book by liberal American humorist Al
Franken, mentions some of his other exploits. One recent biography is Bad Boy:
The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater, which was written by John Joseph Brady in
1997.
At the height of his success in 1991, Atwater was diagnosed with an inoperable
brain tumor. He said he had found Jesus, renounced dirty tricks, and announced
his intention to make amends with those he had ruined. Atwater died a month
later.
Those who opposed him described Atwater as "the Darth Vader of the Republican
party", "the happy hatchet man", and "the guy who went negative for the sheer
joy of it." At the same time, there is little doubt Atwater knew the politics of
his generation, and how to act upon them.
Who is Terry McAuliffe?
Terrence McAuliffe, commonly called Terry, is an American political leader. He
currently serves as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
McAuliffe grew up in Syracuse, New York; his father was treasurer of the local Democratic organization. He received his undergraduate degree from Catholic University in Washington, D.C.. Immediately after graduation, McAuliffe took a job in the campaign of Jimmy Carter, who was running for reelection as President of the United States.
After the campaign failed, McAuliffe got his law degree from
Georgetown University, graduating in 1984. After this, he went into private
business in the fields of banking, real estate, and insurance, while also
working in the Democratic party; he has served as the finance director (chief
fundraiser) of the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee.
In February of 2001, McAuliffe was confirmed as the Chairman of the Democratic
National Committee; his promotion was widely seen as a bid to secure more soft
money for the party. With the passage of campaign finance reform legislation in
2002, this source of funds dried up, and rumors have persisted about McAuliffe's
job prospects; however, he has remained in this position. McAuliffe was the
architect of the 2004 Democratic primary schedule, which "front-loaded" the race
with numerous early primaries, ensuring that a nominee would be chosen very
quickly. This was widely seen as a risky move by McAuliffe, but the outcome of
it remains to be seen.
Who Is Richard Ben-Veniste?
(Self Serving Bio Courtesy of the 9/11 Commission) Richard Ben-Veniste is a
partner in the Washington law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. He served as
assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District New York, from 1968 to 1973, which
included service as chief of the Special Prosecution Section from 1971 to 1973.
Mr. Ben-Veniste was chief of the Watergate Task Force of the Watergate Special
Prosecutor's Office from 1973 to 1975 and Special Outside Counsel Senate
Committee on Government Operations from 1976 to 1977. From May 1995 to June
1996, Mr. Ben-Veniste was chief counsel (minority) of the Senate Whitewater
Committee. Mr. Ben-Veniste received an A.B. from Muhlenberg College in 1964, an
LL.B. from Columbia University Law School in 1967, where he was a Harlan Fiske
Stone Scholar, and an LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1968
under a Ford Foundation fellowship grant. He is a member of the bars of New York
and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Ben-Veniste is the co-author of Stonewall: The Real Story of
the Watergate Prosecution (Simon & Schuster), and has been a guest lecturer at
numerous law schools, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown and Fordham.
He is a frequent commentator on current affairs involving the intersection of
law and politics.
Mr. Ben-Veniste has been listed in Who's Who in America since 1975, The Best
Lawyers in America since 1983, and Washingtonian Magazine's Top Lawyers in
Washington, DC, since 1992, when the list first appeared.
Mr. Ben-Veniste is a Presidential appointee to the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese
Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, which is mandated to
review and declassify secret documents relating to World War II era war crimes.
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