Lost in all of the reporting about former domestic policy advisor Claude Allen’s trouble with the law is his remarkable political career, which got going with his work as spokesman for Sen. Jesse Helms’ re-election campaign in 1984 and reached its height with his position as the abstinence czar in the Department of Health and Human Services during Bush’s first term. Much more on that later in the day.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=183894