As you might expect, there’s turmoil in the Dole campaign. Last week, national chairman Don Rumsfeld was rebuffed by Bob Dole in his attempt to hire Ron Walker, who was Nixon’s chief advance man. It seems Dole did not like the way the Nixon White House and campaigns conducted business, and wanted nothing to do with Walker, a Bob Haldeman protege.
But Dole aide Jill Hanson did convince the candidate to hire Margaret Tutwiler, the State Department spokeswoman during James A. Baker, III’s tenure, to handle press on the campaign plane. Reporters have been complaining for months about the inaccessibility of not only the candidate but of traveling senior staff as well. The irony is that during her time at State, Tutwiler was viewed by many reporters as aloof and inaccessible herself.
