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...knows Bill Bennett, 44, doubts that. Nor has there been much doubt where he has been headed in the cross-country whirl that has taken him to 102 elementary and secondary schools in three years -- plus scores of service clubs and state legislatures. Watch him as he visits No. 88, the Amherst Middle School near Nashua...
...kids love him. So does the rest of the school, which roars happily at the award ceremony. Then, running late, he makes a wild, 85-m.p.h. run to Concord to address the New Hampshire legislature. In Governor John Sununu's office, Bennett asks Senate President Bill Bartlett, "How long shall I do?" "Three minutes," says Bartlett, "plenty of time for some guy from Washington...
This close family life is precious to Bennett, a Catholic whose parents divorced 40 years ago, when pious folk did not. His mother, who disliked the rich and called the family "us common folk," moved Bill, an older brother Bob and their Hungarian grandmother from Brooklyn to Washington. There, Bennett flourished at Gonzaga High, a Jesuit school. "The only guy in the honors class to be starting on the football team," he brags. But he chafed under the discipline of the fathers. "They regarded me as a smarty-pants, and they were absolutely right," he says...
...Bill Bennett may be leaving this Administration, but when he says things like that, he does not sound like a man who has given up public service for good. So what might lie ahead for him? "Right now," he says, "if I were going to run for anything in the future, I'd want to run for President...
Depending on who is counting, there are about eight contenders now, give or take a reluctant Senator or two. Although interviewed by Dukakis and high on his wish list, Senators Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Sam Nunn of Georgia have taken themselves out of the running. While Democrats seem to be content to take Nunn at his word, visions of a Bradley draft now excite Democrats almost as much as a Mario scenario did several months ago, though some think two Northeasterners on the ticket could be a fatal liability. Jesse Jackson is nominally on the list, largely because...