Mary Matalin
Mary Matalin
Mary Joe Matalinis an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H.W. Bush, was an assistant to President George W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin has been chief editor of Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, since March 2005. She is married to Democratic political consultant James Carville. She appears in the award-winning...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth19 August 1953
CityCalumet City, IL
CountryUnited States of America
He's a scholar and somewhat of an academic, and has studied our history and America's place in the world, in history, and believes that all the progress of the last century, or a goodly portion of it -- eradication of tyrants and communism and fascism and Hitlerism -- was a direct result of the strength of the United States of America and their willingness to use their strength for good.
We feel like we're in a good position in this debate ... because the president knows what he thinks, why he thinks the way that he does, what he wants to do in the future, where he wants to lead the nation, and that stands in stark contrast to his opponent.
No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.
I have been describing him as Cheney's Cheney. He does for the vice president what the vice president does for the president.
When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.'
I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.
He's almost a principal ... not a staff guy,
He was strategic in thinking that the way to respond to this problem was to take out the reasons and what sustained the enemy.
He is relentlessly even-keeled and is going to do what he's going to do. He's the furthest thing from a whiner.
He is to the vice president what the vice president is to the president.
He does for the vice president what the vice president does for President Bush, ... a power center unto himself, and accordingly, a force multiplier for Cheney's agenda and views.
What he did was not an irrational thing. This was a very close friend this happened to. Everyone was shaken up about it. When I spoke to him, it was all about Harry, worrying about him.
Whoever is sitting in the White House in the winter of 2009 is going to have to deal with this.
You can have sound on one or the other and he found that technically imperfect.