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Clinton certainly could win in 1996. Former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, Jack Kemp and former Vice-President Dan Quayle have already stepped out of the presidential ring. Quayle's unwillingness to run probably quieted the hearts of several GOP boosters; the public had all but forgotten Cheney. Kemp, on the other hand, symbolized their rising hero...
Quayle now joins Jack Kemp, Dick Cheney and Bill Bennett on the Republican sidelines. That leaves Senate majority leader Bob Dole, Texas Senator Phil Gramm and former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, among others, to fight for Quayle's unexpected leftovers, which include a sizable group of conservative Christians that turns out heavily in Republican primaries. ``If it helps anyone, it helps Gramm, because he's the most ideological in the field,'' says G.O.P. political analyst Stuart Rothenberg...
Kemp joins Dick Cheney, the former Defense Secretary, who quit last month, and conservative idea man William Bennett, who dropped out last fall. Most handicappers calculate that former Secretary of State James Baker will also soon decide to forgo the race. ``It's the incredible shrinking field,'' says William Kristol, a top Republican strategist. ``Others could still jump in, but we probably know who the candidates are.'' Namely: Dole, Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, former Vice President Dan Quayle, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, and possibly Indiana Senator Richard Lugar and one or two G.O.P. Governors...
...Former Insiders: The resumes of James Baker and Dick Cheney can't be beat. Only Alexander has worked as hard as Cheney laying the groundwork for 1996. But the former Defense Secretary is the very definition of dull, and as one big-state G.O.P. chairman says, "We saw with Bush that you need as much spark as heft if you hope to win." Cheney makes Baker look charismatic, and this ex-everything is a world-class fund raiser. Both Cheney and Baker will share a slogan -- "Bring Back the Grownups" -- but since their best credentials are outside the realm...
Charlotte Crabtree, an emeritus professor of education at UCLA and co- director of the National Standards project, answers that Cheney's by-the- numbers critique shows "a lack of understanding of what the standards are about." One aim of the guidelines is to promote "inclusive history" by acknowledging the achievements of Americans -- blacks, Native Americans and women, notably -- who were ignored or marginalized in textbooks of the past. Another goal was to "get away from memorizing mind-numbing names of people, which history students just hate...