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...said the best way to beat inflation would be an agreement with Congress to reduce the deficit and called yesterday's report "another clarion call to do something." Negotiators from Capitol Hill and the White House will exchange proposals next week on bringing down the deficit...
...George Bush waved. But Iowans didn't care one bit for the imperial vice presidency. By the time he left Iowa for New Hampshire on the day of the caucuses, he knew he had been beaten in a state he had won eight years before. That night, in the Clarion Hotel dining room in Nashua, N.H., Bush had a somber supper with Barbara. Later, chief of staff Craig Fuller told him he had placed third, with Dole a cocky first and Pat Robertson a surprising second. "It's a humiliation," Bush said...
Eleven a.m., primary day, Nashua, N.H. Lee Atwater, George Bush's campaign ! manager, is nearly beside himself with nervous energy. He has five phones going in his room at the Clarion Hotel. Ordinarily a health nut, he has mooched several cigarettes from assistants this morning, and puffs on them rapidly like a teenager learning how to smoke. An underling calls with the latest intelligence from fieldworkers: "Bush, by a point or two." The news is hardly reassuring, but Atwater keeps talking about a comeback. "One way a candidate, particularly a front runner, gets good," he says, "is to look into...
...neckties worn proudly by presidential confidants. As President, Reagan has fused this faith in the economic invisible hand with the rugged individualism of the "Sagebrush Rebellion." Government is always seen as a rapacious tax collector standing between businessmen and the creation of wealth. The result is an Administration whose clarion call is "Enrich thyself." For Reagan, money is the measure of achievement, and he has left no doubt that he prefers the company of the wealthy. McFarlane, shortly after his suicide attempt in February, told the New York Times of the frustrations he felt as National Security Adviser: "Shultz...
...centerpiece of Dupont's speech was a clarion call that all public high school students be tested for drugs. That's a comical proposal, and what's almost as funny is that it came from a man whose family runs a conglomerate with the slogan "better living through chemistry...