Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secretly dispatched his campaign manager, Scott Reed, to meet with Kemp and "test the waters." Reed was a logical go-between. He had worked on Kemp's 1988 presidential campaign and then served him as chief of staff when Kemp became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under George Bush. But at that early meeting, neither Kemp nor Reed was able to take seriously the prospect of Kemp's joining the ticket. The ideological gap between Dole and Kemp was too wide and there had been too much bad blood between them...
...Reed asked, then who? Again Bennett told him, "You oughta look at Jack." More and more, that was the thought in Dole's mind as well. His other potential choices were not panning out. For a while he had been keen to reach back to the Bush years for former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, but the onetime Wyoming Congressman, who has had a coronary bypass, wanted to remain in retirement. Michigan Governor John Engler got on Dole's bad side when he urged Newt Gingrich to shut down the Federal Government, a move Dole thought rightly would come back...
...perceived as the class brain. That's partly why some say Jack Kemp tries too hard. But the point is, he tries, and never stops trying. Through nine terms in Congress from suburban Buffalo, New York, and four years as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Bush Administration, Kemp was that rare, even unique thing in Republican politics, an economic and social conservative who yearned to genuinely make the Republican Party the party of Lincoln by embracing minorities, union workers and immigrants. As Jack Kemp has said, he has been to places other Republicans have never dared...
...when to stick to the script no matter what? Maintaining a strict posture on his message and delicately balancing competing agendas are the essential first and second positions of presidential ballet. And it is vital to have a merciless coach or two. Ronald Reagan had them. So did George Bush. And as his campaign gathers speed, so does Bill Clinton...
...outsiders as the Navajo code talkers were to the Japanese military. He rarely praised his staff members, even when he liked them; several left the leader's office frustrated and convinced he didn't, only to be surprised later when they got a call out of the Reagan or Bush White House from someone saying Dole insisted they be considered for a job. Some Senators still haven't mastered the signals. Florida's Connie Mack recalls that after pitching Dole on a series of economic issues earlier this year, he left the meeting dejected, certain Dole had been unimpressed...