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...stage is set to keep our crew merrily mesmerized for hours. It's rare that you can pick up a decent TV signal in a moving vehicle, but videos look as clear as they do at home. That's probably a good thing, since we're necessarily in full control of what they watch. We supplement a small library of store-bought videos (including a few never-before-seen titles to ensure maximum attention) with movies and programs recorded from TV. This year, prior to departure, we taped Abby's morning tube routine (Barney, Arthur, Blue's Clues...
After the moneymen, the next constituency to woo were the heavyweights who really control the Republican Party these days--the Governors, with their early-warning systems and their fund-raising networks and their serene distance from the party in Congress. One of the first to sign on was Montana's Marc Racicot, who had called in September 1997 out of the blue and told Bush that if he runs, "I'll be there." You're early, the Governor replied then, given the fact that he hadn't even announced whether he was running again for Governor. "Well," Racicot replied...
Bush and his people talk about currents too powerful for any one politician, however canny, to shape. "A lot of this you just can't control," Bush told TIME. "Like generational change. Like incumbency. Like the tides of history." The tides of history, in 1998, could not have been more helpful if he had aligned the moons and planets himself. A popular Democratic Administration was drowning in scandal. The Republican Party in Washington was obsessed, adrift and seemingly intent on proving to voters that it had no clue about what was actually on their minds. And all the while Bush...
Strong gun control. Limited gun control. Say good-bye to any change in gun control in the near future. By a 280-to-147 vote Friday, the House of Representatives decided to reject the entire raft of gun control measures the chamber had managed to slog through, sometimes in partisan hand-to-hand parliamentary combat, during the week?s blazing shootout over firearms. Democrats voted against the final bill because of a key NRA-backed provision -- approved by the slimmest of majorities -- which would have weakened existing restrictions on gun-show sales. They were joined by a group of conservative...
...Dennis Hastert countered. But as the majority party, House Republicans are the ones who will be charged with explaining why, in the wake of the Littleton massacre, the party could not muster the votes to regulate gun sales in America. When the immediate political dust settles and the gun control issue is revived in campaign 2000, "nobody will remember the fine points of why this legislation went down to defeat," says TIME assistant managing editor Priscilla Painton. They will remember that it did during a Republican watch. If properly handled by the Democrats, whose take so far on the public...