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Senior White House Aides told TIME Tuesday that despite the Dole camp's aggressive use of negative ads and campaign rhetoric, the Clinton team will not respond in kind. At this point, they don't think he needs to. In a preview of what the President will say when he accepts the nomination on Thursday night, a Clinton aide noted that "people want problems solved. But they don't want big new initiatives." Clinton will present his "think small" approach as a steady process of building growth and opportunity through such measures as tax breaks for homeowners and assistance...
...CANDIDATE] BOB DOLE track, football, basketball...
There's Haley Barbour scripting things. The soothing, silken song he sings: "It seems as clear as heck to me We need a Houstonectomy." Rejecting Mack, the Rust Belt Four, McCain, Dole picked Jack Kemp, a man who shares your pain...
...immigrant or poor or black. Or did, until they made him take it back. But even now Kemp fits the theme: He's nice. Though Dole's nice too this week, and more concise. (Dole's daughter Robin told the crowd he's pleasant. He was a dandy dad, though none too present.) And Dole himself, with admirable pith, Said bigots could just leave the hall forthwith. This showed the Houston spirit was no more: There was no sudden scramble for the door...
...immigrants. The convention opens with prime-time speeches from actor Christopher Reeve, confined to a wheelchair because of an equestrian accident, and gun-control advocate Sarah Brady, whose husband was shot during the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan. Clinton enters with a slight lead on GOP challenger Bob Dole. According to an ABC News tracking poll released Sunday, among likely voters, Clinton leads Dole by a 47-42 margin, with Ross Perot at 7 percent. A CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll puts Clinton leads at 12 points -->