Word: bradley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bradley makes fun of Clinton-Gore policies as "baby steps" and loves to tout his own "big ideas," but he knows the value of legislative incrementalism. Each year between 1986 and 1990, for example, he quietly passed legislation that extended Medicaid benefits to a larger and larger pool of pregnant women and children, lowering the eligibility requirements a little bit more each year. He used the same strategy to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, which puts money in the pockets of low-income workers, and he championed such modest but helpful measures as the mandated 48-hr. maternity stay...
...last race for the Senate, in 1990, Bradley got a comeuppance. While pundits were writing about his presidential ambitions, he was almost beaten by Republican Christine Todd Whitman--then a political novice, now New Jersey's Governor. To many, Bradley seemed out of touch with his state, and he refused to denounce Governor Jim Florio for a series of tax increases that had cost Florio his popularity. "It was a peculiar political price for Bradley to pay," says Torricelli, "because loyalty to local leaders was not his reputation. He didn't understand the sensitivity to these taxes, and it almost...
...Bradley's close call changed him. "He came back a little angry," Biden says. "If he had won big, he would not have been so down on politics, but he had to find an explanation of how the hell this happened." Politics had almost rejected him--it must be broken. He declared it so in 1995, saying he would not seek re-election. He spent two years out of the spotlight and as happy as he'd ever been--making money, giving speeches, getting to know Silicon Valley and Wall Street, positioning himself for an outsider...
...true that people hunt for the person who somehow gets us closer to the dream of who we hope to become, then the gaze of the attractive, petite brunet often at Bill Bradley's side is instructive. From the beginning, academic and author Ernestine Misslbeck Schlant, 64, seemed to see him for who he wanted to be: a thinker, not just a jock; a statesman, not just a pol; sensitive and warm, not just arrogantly bright. Indeed, Dan Okimoto, Stanford professor and Bradley's college roommate, recalls that when Bradley first told him of Ernestine, he didn't start...
...Garden. But while Schlant was many things--a German World War II survivor, a former Pan Am stewardess, an emigre, a divorced mother (she was married to an Atlanta doctor for five years and had a daughter, Stephanie St. Onge, now 40), an older woman (she's eight years Bradley's senior), a comparative literature Ph.D. and professor--she was not a sports fan. She says she had no idea who "Dollar Bill" was. "I saw him once or twice. We didn't even say hello," she recalls. She had taken the year off from her teaching to work...