Bush, Aides Huddle on Reelection Drive : Politics: The President hears views of 30 advisers on campaign themes and organization. Fund raising for ’92 run is likely to get started in the fall.

President Bush on Saturday held the first strategy session for a 1992 reelection campaign, meeting at Camp David with about 30 close advisers to hear their views on the themes and organization his team should use.

In a three-hour session at the Maryland presidential retreat, Bush conferred with a group that included Commerce Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher, Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady and campaign advisers Robert Teeter and Fred Malek on “general issues relating to the campaign,” White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said in a statement.

“Although the President made no specific decisions at the meeting, it was understood political organizing and financing will begin in the fall,” Fitzwater said.

Mosbacher, Teeter and Malek are expected to be named soon to top positions in the President’s reelection organization.

Bush is likely to conduct some fund raising in the fall but not formally announce his candidacy until early next year, keeping overt campaign activities to a minimum for as long as possible, advisers said.

Bush himself chaired Saturday’s meeting, according to participants who spoke on condition that their names not be used.

Discussions covered such technical details as timetables required under election law for fund-raising reports and possible campaign themes and issues, the participants said.

They said that there was no action agenda or specific strategy resulting from the meeting. Bush was expected to consider the issues during his vacation this month and tap aides to begin the preliminary campaign work.

After returning Friday from the Moscow summit meeting, Bush announced that only health problems would keep him from running for a second term, adding that “I don’t have one right now.”

Bush, who plans to leave Tuesday for four weeks of vacation in Kennebunkport, Me., will hold more campaign sessions with Republican leaders in the fall, Fitzwater said.

Also at Saturday’s session were Vice President Dan Quayle and his chief of staff, Bill Kristol, White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu, Bush media adviser Roger Ailes, Republican National Committee Chairman Jeannie Austin and campaign advisers Peter Teeley and Craig Fuller.

At Friday’s press conference, Bush attacked Democrats who have charged that he has no domestic policy, asserting that the Democratic-controlled Congress blocks his programs. The same theme was struck Saturday afternoon by House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) in an appearance on Cable News Network’s “Evans and Novak” show.

The President, Gingrich said, has an economic program in the capital gains tax cut proposal that he said would create half a million jobs.

“The Democrats kill it, then they say, ‘There is no growth plan,’ ” he said. “Same thing on crime, the same thing on education, the same thing on housing reform. . . . The congressional Democratic strategy is to kill the President’s proposals and then claim, having buried the dead, that there must never have been anything there.”