Longtime Clinton aide Ickes is back in battle

[Gunny]

By Adam Nagourney
New York Times
updated 11:25 p.m. CT, Wed., Feb. 27, 2008

ARLINGTON, Va. - Harold M. Ickes may be Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s last hope for winning the Democratic presidential nomination.

Nearly 40 years after attending his first Democratic National Convention, Mr. Ickes — who has survived losing presidential campaigns, grand jury investigations and a tumultuous stint in Bill Clinton’s White House — is back at another campaign. He has a good 30 years of presidential history on nearly everyone in the Clinton campaign headquarters, but he is as sassy and dyspeptic as he was when he worked for Eugene J. McCarthy.

“I’m a little dismayed by the lack of fight on the part of our staff,” Mr. Ickes, the assistant to the campaign manager, scolded an audience of Clinton staffers dispirited after Mrs. Clinton’s losses last week, before beginning a roll call of the presidential campaigns he had helped win and lose.

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I actually almost feel sorry for Hillary. She was heir apparent 2-3 months ago and her fans were legion. All it took was someone further to the left to unseat her.