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Until recently, Perot's can-do attitude alone has been enough to satisfy the fired-up volunteers who have already collected enough signatures to place him on the ballot in at least 16 states. He has been vague, to say the least, in specifying how he would go about setting things right in Washington. Perot says he needs time to bone up on the issues with a newly assembled team of experts...
Both of the minority candidates on the Harvard Alumni Association ballot were elected...
After a day of complicated roll-call votes designed to offer political cover to legislators from both parties, the House Democratic leadership muscled its members into providing 150 of the 153 votes opposed to tinkering with the Constitution. The showdown ballot was on an amendment by conservative Texas Democratic Congressman Charles Stenholm that would have required a three- fifths vote of Congress for the government to engage in deficit spending; implementation would have been shrewdly delayed until 1997, when Bush and many current legislators would not have to deal with the resulting budgetary and legal chaos. Small wonder that Democratic...
...waste his time presiding over the Senate, Taft desperately offered to create a special role for him as overseer of military matters, his "deputy Commander in Chief." MacArthur said he would consider that. Taft was still negotiating with MacArthur as Taft's aides worked to bring about a second ballot in the Chicago convention of 1952. But Dwight Eisenhower, another hero, won on the first ballot. If Eisenhower had not entered the race that year, MacArthur might have been our President, since Taft died in the middle of the next term's first year...
...formal passing of the mantle of office, but the moment was telling. Front-running presidential candidate Fidel Ramos was paying a postelection call on outgoing President Corazon Aquino, whose endorsement was largely responsible for the slim lead he now holds in the ballot count of the seven-candidate race. As the pair emerged from their meeting, the normally deferential former Defense Secretary confidently stepped forward to field reporters' questions, leaving Aquino nodding in the background...