European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                All s fair1 in love and the War room by John King a political writer hey Are arguing again. Or still. One min Ute it s Over whether president Bush should have dumped Dan Quayle the next Over whether an election night Call was to console or to gloat. I was worried he says. I Felt like you were calling to rub it in she sniffs. I would never he shoots Back. James Carville and Mary Matalin Are this Way Over lunch on the phone in the car and now All the Way through 478 pages of their new Book All s fair ran Dom Housea running account of the 1992 presidential election from America s political Odd couple. He was the master strategist of Bill Clinton s Campaign she was political director of the Bush re elec Tion Effort. She hated Clinton to the Point of calling him a philandering pot smoking draft dodger.",he says simply i love the  somehow through All this they kept their relation ship together got married and decided to write a Book. But for All their behind the scenes knowledge All s fair is no kiss and Tell collection of Embarrass ing tales about Clinton and Bush. Did i intentionally leave things out because of my loyalty to the president Carville said recently. The answer is obviously yes still All s fair offers intriguing glimpses at How each Camp viewed critical moments along the Way and How both Carville and Matalin and those around them in the Clinton and Bush campaigns grossly underestimated Ross Perot s Appeal. Never in our wildest dreams did we think voters would actually believe the Crackpot Matalin writes. Another intriguing Nugget the extent to which leaders of the Bush Campaign considered urging the president to replace Quayle As his running mate. Although Matalin arid other Bush aides Vehe mently denied any dump Quayle movement was afoot during the Campaign she acknowledges in the Book that there was such talk after the Campaign re viewed a Bombshell poll showing that replacing Quayle might bring Bush a handful of Points in the polls. But Quayle s staff got wind of the movement and snuffed it out. Throughout the Book Matalin is highly critical of her own Campaign for its shortsightedness from underestimating the Appeal Pat Buchanan would have in Republican primaries to its stage management of the conservative dominated gop convention in. Houston and she is brutally harsh about the Bush White House operation particularly during John Sununu s tenure As chief of staff. The most frustrating miser Able Teeth gnashing problem for a re election Campaign is weaving into the existing government Struc Ture she writes. Carville on the other hand repeatedly talks about the organizational disarray in the Clinton Campaign. And he offers a firsthand account of the stress and fear inside the Campaign in the Early primaries when controversies Over Clinton s Vietnam draft record and allegations of womanizing nearly drove Clinton from the race. Carville recalls waking up at 4 30 . The Day the Clinton were to appear on 60 minutes to discuss their marriage "1 could not Stop crying. I Don t mean tearing up i mean sobbing for hours drained weeping  he writes of his Awe at Clinton s doggedness As a campaigner and knowledge of issues and offers Only a few complaints Clinton talks too. Long when he Speaks has a temper left his Best debate lines in the rehearsal room. James Carville and Mary Matalin in new Orleans French Quarter after their wedding on nov. 25,1993. Of and the Blind spot. Everybody s got one says Carville. Twice in the Book Carville recounts occasions when Clinton appeared disconnected from reality. First when the draft and character controversies were sending his poll numbers plummeting in new Hampshire Clinton blamed his to ads. Later Clin ton s team showed him a tape of a focus group in which participants used dial meters to Register their support or opposition to something or somebody. Hillary was not particularly popular at this Point in the Campaign and when she appeared on screen the dials just plunged. All of them i mean they dropped into a Trench Carville writes. Clinton looked at the chasm line and said you know they just Don t like her hair i Dove under a Coffee table. You know How you laugh so hard you re scared you re not going to catch your breath people were collapsing now married Carville 50, and Matalin 41, Are hoping to have a baby. And to work against each other again in the 1996 presidential race. But both say they Don t want jobs As intense As they had in the last go round. Carville talks of being a roving adviser to Clinton not the Day to Day orchestrator of the Headquarters War room again. Matalin has been approached by several of the 1996 gop prospects and says she would Welcome some role in the unfinished business of defeating Clinton. Carvise squirms at that remark squinting his maniacal stare across the table. Matalin can Only laugh. To maintain Domestic Tranquility we Don t talk about polities she said. But i Don t see How either o. Is could sit one  from Carville Matalin excerpts from All s fair by James Carville and Mary Matalin on picking a candidate politics is about winning. There Are no pyrrhic victories or honorable defeats. Everyone i knew wanted to be on the Bush team. In the 1988 culture Bush was the  Matalin. If you ask me if i have Ever been in a situation where i worked for a candidate who i May not have voted for i would demur on answering. I will work for a Democrat i can get along with who is Nei ther a bigot nor a  Carville. On Perot dropping out that giant sucking sound we heard was All those Perot voters going in Masse to  Matalin. On Perot getting Back in As we say in Louisiana he s got a Mouth like Catfish he can talk out of both sides of it and whistle out the Middle All at the same time but you have to give Perot his   the results. I am nowhere near in love with Victory As i am fearful of defeat. My overwhelming feeling the morning after the election was not thank god we won it was thank god we did t lose " car Ville. The president walked to a podium in the Middle of this sea of people and said goodbye. He thanked us for All we d done for fighting the Good fight. This was far worse than the night before and far worse than anything that followed. How he got through it without tears himself i will never know. The secret service was  Matalin. Page 24 sunday september 18, 1994