Word: albert
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Dukakis is the only candidate who has run a government. Sen. Paul Simon, Rep. Richard Gephardt, and Sen. Albert Gore '69 have built their careers on Capitol Hill, while Jesse Jackson has never held elected office. Dukakis is the only one who has balanced a budget, formulated a legislative program, led a cabinet, and acted as an executive. He has learned the need for compromise and agreement, which will serve him well in Washington. He has drawn his experience from the act of governing, not sitting in a comfortable Washington office building worrying about PACs and interest groups...
...media candidate. But its grand perfection. For in 1988 we have a political contest in which every candidate, from party hack to civil rights leader to ethnic technocrat, conforms to a well-thought-out media plan. Where a 39-year-old, wet-behind-the-ears legislator like Sen. Albert Gore '69 (D-Tenn) is pushed into the presidential race by the results of a poll which shows that voters surveyed think he most lools like The Commander-in-Chief...
...Jesse Jackson and Sen. Paul Simon (D.-III.) each garnered 13 percent of the Democratic voters, and Sen. Albert J. Gore Jr. '69 was favored by 9 percent. Former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart and Rep. Richard Gephart (D.-Mo.) brought up the rear, with each receiving 2 percent support among Democrats who plan to vote...
Academic Dean Albert Carnesale said Dukakis asked him for his views on the implications of the Chernobyl accident and their bearing on the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire. And Leonard directed Dukakis' task force on assisting families and students to deal with tuition increases, while Reich has advised on economic policy...
...years ago, walking the U.S. Capitol together, debating, opposing, befriending one another for a decade in the mannered legislative rituals of the time. They were A. Willis Robertson, old-line Democrat of Virginia; Prescott S. Bush, Republican investment banker from the moneyed precincts of Connecticut; and Democrat Albert A. Gore, feisty country teacher turned lawyer out of the hills of Tennessee...