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Biden's mouth is both his greatest asset and his greatest liability. During a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year, Biden came across as a hothead seeking hot headlines as he relentlessly badgered Secretary of State George Shultz over U.S. policy toward South Africa. The day after, he approached a friend on the Senate floor and asked sheepishly, "How much do you think I lost on that? I guess I made a fool of myself...
...economic summit in Venice, Ronald Reagan is upstaged by an absent adversary, Mikhail Gorbachev. -- Fawn Hall reveals details of a cover- up at the end of the first phase of the Iran- contra hearings. -- A sharp tongue may be Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden' s greatest asset -- as well as his greatest liability...
Democratic Senator Joe Biden, on CNN's Larry King Live, wondered if relentless interrogation along personal lines would "make politics like a circus." Emphasized Biden, whose strong family life has been a political asset for years: "I don't have anything to worry about in the sense that there is a culpable act in my background or that I have a promiscuous life- style...
...Hart had one asset that was never mobilized until it was too late: the spunky loyalty of his wife. Lee Hart was one of the first people the candidate phoned when he learned of the Herald story late Saturday night. Her friend Sally Henkel recalls that Lee's immediate reaction was "concern with the story and the journalistic ethics involved." According to another friend who was with her during the early days of the ordeal, she never expressed any anger or disappointment in her husband. Other visitors to the house on Troublesome Gulch Road expected her to behave like...
...Michael J. Fox, who stars as Brantley Foster in The Secret of My Success. The film resembles a financial fantasy from the mind of Alex P. Keaton, Fox's Family Ties character, with Brantley blasting up the corporate ladder in a relative nanosecond. With creativity as his only asset, Brantley parlays his way from the mailroom to the boardroom of his uncle's conglomerates...