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...been criticized by his Democratic rivals for the impracticality of his domestic spending programs and for his reluctance to specify how he would accomplish those plans. In a debate among all the presidential candidates last week, Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) called Simon's economic platform "Reaganomics with a bow...
Marvin Kalb's first question to Democratic presidential candidate Paul Simon was a familiar one--how can a man who wears a bow tie, horn-rimmed glasses and two hearing aids be elected president...
Kalb, who does not sport a bow tie, yesterday followed his usual tack in these hour-long interviews sponsored by the Kennedy School's Shorenstein-Barone Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy of firing questions on a broad range of policy questions. But, as usual, the answers he got rarely went beyond campaign rhetoric...
Kalb may recognize this problem in his debates.Even as he jibed with Simon over bow ties andbooks, Kalb seemed to want to move away from thepersonal issues that have dominated the campaign.Before the cameras went live yesterday afternoonand before the former television journalist openedwith his question about hearing aids, Kalbreminded the Kennedy School audience to stay awayfrom "mushy" questions
UPSTARTS SIMON and DuPont didn't fare much better. Simon looked and sounded sickly and got skewered all night for his promise-them-everything-including-a-balanced-budge t program. Reaganomics with a bow-tie, Gephardt said. And DuPont, fresh from an endorsement by the wacky but influential Manchester Union-Leader, is the only guy more annoying to listen to than Bruce Babbitt. When he speaks, the preppified former Delaware governor and Napalm-heir sounds like a Kennedy gargling mouthwash...