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...before the election, when he got an assist from the media: press reports revealed that a Clinton fund raiser named John Huang had collected more than $800,000 in questionable contributions from foreign donors. Clinton had designed his fund-raising juggernaut to ensure a big win, but now public disgust with his money machine threatened to whittle down the size of his victory margin. Clinton desperately wanted to get more than 50% of the vote. As some undecided voters broke for Ross Perot, Clinton's own polls showed him hovering just below the magic number. To make matters worse...
...said she left the building in disgust after the confrontation but was followed by Baker, whom, she charged, demanded to know her name and waved his hand in her face...
Still, some continue to sneer at a sport predominantly known more for its violence. Some express emotions "bordering on disgust that a woman would box," Parker says...
...that, we miss it--and not just because we know we are growing older and will soon be banished to sit behind tables in half-empty rooms, for the greater glory of CSPAN2. We can feel the people turning away, not so much in disgust as in boredom. They once were drawn to politics because it provided them excitement, because it brought them out of their lonely rooms and homes into streets lit by torchlight, into halls where bands played, into tents and arenas and along parade routes where they felt connected to something bigger than themselves...
Real rightists thought Nixon too had a squishy center. To the disgust of the Goldwater faction, he had spent much of the 1960 campaign courting Nelson Rockefeller, the lustrous epitome of the party's East Coast liberals. The last straw came on the eve of the G.O.P. Convention. At a meeting in Rockefeller's Manhattan apartment (read: Satan's throne), Nixon agreed to liberalize the G.O.P. platform, in part by adding an unequivocal civil rights plank. Goldwater compared the meeting to Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler at Munich. For the final insult, Nixon chose Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge...