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WASHINGTON, D.C: After watching Bob Dole surge to within five points of him in the latest polls with a strong post-convention bounce, Bill Clinton began his counterattack Tuesdayby signing a bill increasing the minimum wage to $4.75 an hour. The ceremony on the White House South Lawn, attended by cabinet officials and minimum wage workers, is part of an elaborately scripted legislative run-up to the Democratic National Convention. Later this week, the President will sign a welfare overhaul bill and a measure that enhances health care coverage for working Americans. How will the Dole camp counter? "Dole will...
...hasten to say I don't care whether Susan Molinari smoked pot in college. I say this as someone who, being closer in age to Bob Dole than to Susan Molinari, has passed blithely through successive national crazes for marijuana and white wine and Perrier water and microbeers without wavering for a moment in a lifelong loyalty to Scotch whisky...
Apparently Bob Dole doesn't care either. To his credit, his statements in the past reflected a clear understanding that, considering the prevalence of marijuana on campuses during patches of our recent history, eliminating from public office everyone who tried it would leave us with only the sort of people who were elected to Congress as freshman Republicans...
...nailed later for lying. Now she understands the drill. When she followed the prescribed script, she instantly became virtuous enough to open the convention. There were no complaints, even from those militant Christian-morality monitors I have come to think of as the Khomeini wing of the Republican Party. Dole and I went back to our Scotches...
...trying to arrange $3 million in fraudulent loans from two federally backed banks, including his own Arkansas savings and loan. Theres no finer gift than this to the Republican Party," says TIME's Janice Castro. "As he convention ends up, it has started serious talk among people here that Dole could actually win. If you see enough pictures of Clinton friends and associates in court, it brings the issue of character back to the campaign and starts raising questions once again about Clinton." -->