Word: bennett
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PERFORMER: TONY BENNETT...
...crowd in Houston, but polls show most Republicans still consider Quayle unqualified. And a slew of other presidential aspirants are also positioning themselves to run in 1996. Among them: chief of staff James Baker, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, Massachusetts Governor William Weld and William Bennett, former commander of the war on drugs. And Texas Senator Phil Gramm, another 1996 hopeful, hurt himself with a keynote address that delegates judged too long and snoozy. Then again, that was the rap on the 1988 keynote speech of the Democrat who now leads George Bush in the polls...
Representative Vin Weber, a Minnesota Republican whose political advice Bush values, bluntly recalls that Quayle "wasn't a popular choice in 1988, and suffered by contrast with ((Democratic vice-presidential nominee)) Lloyd Bentsen, and it didn't make any difference to the outcome." Says William Bennett, a former Cabinet member who remains close to Bush and Quayle: "When George Bush was at 85% in the polls, was Dan Quayle doing anything differently? No. Quayle has not set the world on fire, but he has done his job. He has been loyal, and he has appeal to the conservative base." Bennett...
More to the point, neither Baker nor most other top Bush advisers consider Quayle to be the President's main political problem. Says Bennett: "George Bush is where he is politically because of George Bush." Weber considers the Quayle debate "a harmful distraction" from "our core problem," which is "the credibility the President has lost on the economy and taxes. There is a strong feeling among the voters that the economy is crummy and that George Bush isn't going to do anything about it. We Republicans are not seen as credible agents of change in economic policy...
...come. A year after announcing his intention to retire as host of the Tonight show at the end of his 30th season, Johnny Carson stepped through the curtains at NBC'S Burbank studios for the last four times. He made wisecracks about Dan Quayle, chatted with guests like Tony Bennett and Robin Williams, and modestly accepted a nightly shower of accolades and standing ovations. The sentimental high point came on Thursday night, when Carson's final guest, Bette Midler, plied him with musical tributes, closing the show with a rendition of One for My Baby (and One More...