Washington, DC
Mary Matalin keep her word in spades, offers me opportunity to work in White House speech writing or at the Bush/Quayle reelect on L Street downtown.
I opted for the campaign thinking that’s where the action would be. Wrong.
Regardless, after starting out as the national director of state press and managing regional staff, I also ended up helping to lead bracketing operation; managing national surrogate press; and led state press and surrogate operations at the GOP Convention in Houston and the presidential debates in St. Louis, Atlanta and Richmond.
While more and more management responsibility came my way — and kept getting more notice from GOP VIPs — it was still a desultory campaign we deserved to lose.