Word: colins
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Everywhere he goes, Colin Powell is besieged. Bicycle messengers in spandex tights stop him on the streets of Washington and urge him to run for President. Waiters at restaurants advise the retired general to aim for the White House. ceos quietly pledge money should Powell decide to run. Political operatives of both parties would like to ignore Powell-but can't. "I don't think about it a lot," claims a senior White House official, before admitting, "If Powell does run, he will be a significant player." Another in the White House is more fatalistic: "If he runs...
Everywhere he goes, Colin Powell is applauded. In the hall in San Diego where the Republican Party will nominate its presidential candidate about a year from now, the crowd is instantly on its feet as his presence is announced and he bounds down to the podium. He speaks for 50 minutes, without notes, taking the crowd through the cold war, through Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Operation Desert Storm and the occupation of Haiti. Powell, 58, tells moving tales of his upbringing in Harlem and the South Bronx, of sitting in the Hall of St. Catherine...
...Gingrich boomlet, it's that it will raise the Excitement Question: Can Dole generate the electricity needed to motivate masses of voters who are weary of Bill Clinton but may be reluctant to elect a 73-year-old President? One idea floating around the Dole camp is to place Colin Powell on the ticket. Another is to offer Powell, who may be unwilling to settle for the No. 2 job, both the vice presidency and the post of Secretary of State. But that will do little to fend off other G.O.P. hopefuls. Late last week popular Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson...
This is bad news for Colin Powell. He remains an enormously attractive public figure, but his ideological opacity is no longer a political asset. The source of his political attraction is that he represents a kind of respectable Perotism, a national hero without fixed-without known!-ideological convictions who is out to heal and steward the country. But this above-it-all stance is out of place at a time when a genuine reform program is on the table and a genuine resistance has been mounted...
...House bank scandal and congressional pay raise colored the election. In '96 the Contract and budget balancing will dominate. Such is the fallout of the transforming election of '94. The biggest casualty of this transformation is Colin Powell. The biggest beneficiary is the man who lost a Congress but found a role: Bill Clinton, leader of the opposition...