Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bob Dole, Bush's strongest adversary, teetered on the brink of withdrawal even as he fought for revival in this week's Illinois primary. Dole cut half his campaign staff and canceled television ads in Illinois while scrambling to broadcast a half-hour final appeal on Saturday night. A frequent adviser who ranks as politics' reigning expert on defeat and redemption, Richard Nixon, wired encouragement: MAKE ILLINOIS YOUR FINEST HOUR...
...Bush to exploit the royalist genes that linger in the Republican bloodstream despite the transfusion of Reaganism. None of his rivals could make a convincing case that the normal line of succession should be suspended in 1988. On Tuesday night one of Dole's Democratic friends, Party Elder Bob Strauss, was visibly saddened by the G.O.P. election returns. Then he brightened and observed, "The Democratic Party may be better off with this result." However, such doubts about Bush's ability to defend the Reagan palace, either in November or in the White House, were invisible among Republican voters on Super...
Eighteen Ivy Leaguers, two more than last year, earned places in the top six of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships, which were held at Syracuse University two weeks ago, For the second year in a row, the Ivy matmen were led by Brown's Bob Hill, who defended his title at 150 pounds by defeating Paul Radomski of Navy...
...over for Bob Dole," he told the Executives' Club of Chicago. And later at a news conference, Dole reiterated his determination to continue beyond today, "I've made a judgment that after Illinois, whatever happens, we're going to keep going...
...predicting Bob Dole will kiss and make up with Bush to be picked as vice president. With his temperament, he will be picked Sectretary of Defense, but not vice president. Besides, Dole has too many principles to bury his hatchet with Bush the way Bush did with Reagan--unless he aims it at George's back...