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...city on a hill and said, Let's go there. Dole looked back and saw flat Kansas, the boarders living upstairs and the family in the basement. He was emotionally landlocked. Where Reagan had a vision, Dole had only a picture: of Bob Dole sitting at a desk in the Oval Office and doing a good job. But a picture is not a vision, and Dole's picture wasn't enough...
...rainy morning of July 31, Clinton could not put off his decision any longer: a conference committee of the House and Senate had shaped a bill that was about to pass and land on the President's desk within hours. So he summoned 12 or so decision makers--including Gore, five Cabinet Secretaries and five advisers--to a self-consciously historic meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Some thought the meeting was a bit of "Kabuki theater" staged by a President who had pretty well made up his mind; others are convinced Clinton was really undecided...
Coburn broke a 74-year-old mold by winning this seat, which had been the Democrats' since 1920. With no political experience, he promised to read every bill that crossed his desk and burned lots of midnight oil fulfilling the pledge. (He also kept delivering babies on weekends.) A devotee of health-care issues, Coburn promotes the G.O.P. plan to save Medicare by limiting its funding increases to 7% a year...
...which sits across from the checker's desk, is part of a pilot program by Harvard Dining Services (HDS) to increase student feedback on the quality of the service and food...
...voting record for the first three terms of my office was 93 to 95 percent," Thompson said. "Other roll calls I missed were because I had permission from the speaker to vote from my desk...