Dick Morris (born November 28, 1948) is an American
political author and
commentator who previously worked as a
pollster,
political campaign consultant, and general
political consultant.
A longtime 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 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 convincing the President to adopt Republican policies.
The president consulted Morris in secret beginning in 1994. Clinton's communications director
George Stephanopoulos has said that "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 then turned his focus to media commentary. He now writes a weekly column for the
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