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...telegraph what an Administration of adults--as opposed to baby boomers--would look like. But Dole, broke and exhausted, had the stomach for none of it. And so he watched from the sidelines with scarcely an answering volley as the Clinton machine--flush with funds because no other Democrat had risen to challenge the President in the primaries--filled the airwaves with a massive ad strategy that would define the coming general-election campaign: Let Dole have the White House, the Democrats argued, and Newt will be running the country; let us keep it, and Clinton will brake the Gingrich...
Perot chose to ignore the advice, and in doing so he squandered what might have been one of the most powerful opportunities in modern political history. The majority of Americans have consistently said they would welcome a President who is neither a Republican nor a Democrat. Distrust of government, while down from peak levels, is still staggeringly high. Perot, the consummate gadfly, could have been a contender...
ROBERT ADERHOLT Republican--Alabama 4th Replacing 15-term Democrat Tom Bevill, who is retiring, 31-year-old conservative Aderholt gave the G.O.P. a "pickup" victory...
Bennett, though frank and provocative, has a keen sense of marketing and showmanship. While he upholds the value of religious faith, he distinguishes himself from TV evangelists and reaches a larger audience by keeping his discussion of virtues accessible even to secular readers and listeners. Reared an Irish Catholic Democrat in a broken home in Brooklyn, New York, he marries the instincts and grammar of a populist to the convictions of a social conservative. And he blends intellectual sweep with the physical presence of a prizefighter. It makes for quite a package. His speeches shift seamlessly from anecdotes told...
...U.S.A.?") Bennett opposed the Vietnam War, but he respected the men who served there. He grew sickened by much of what he saw at Harvard: privileged youth skipping class to smoke dope and watch soap operas, and twisting the antiwar movement into an attack on America. Like another former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, Bennett thought less that he was turning right than that his party was turning crazy...