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...administrator in Century 21's lobbying office. "I'm very content, but there's a small, medium area I would like to fill," she says. Like many children of divorce, she loves the idea of family and hopes for the opportunity to have a child. She jokes that the Doles' dog Leader is "my stepbrother." On the first Mother's Day after her father remarried, she took flowers to Elizabeth Dole, who, she says, cried because she didn't think of herself as a mother figure...
...Dole's daughter makes her first prime-time speech on Wednesday, addressing the convention in her gravelly, husky voice. Despite months on the campaign trail, it will be the first look many voters get. In the video called An American Hero, intended to reintroduce the real Bob Dole, Robin ended up on the cutting-room floor...
...that sometimes so are those who remember it. And there you have the predicament of recent Republican history. From the time in the 1970s when the right wing of the G.O.P. zapped the moderates once and for all--a pivotal moment in that struggle was the substitution of Bob Dole for Nelson Rockefeller as Gerald Ford's running mate--there has never been any doubt as to whether the G.O.P. would be a conservative body. The only real questions have been how conservative and whose notion of conservatism it would be. If Republicans ever find an answer that truly matches...
...Dole has been struggling all year to drag the Republicans back to the center, trimming on abortion and tacking on gun control. And whenever he does, explosive factions blow up in his face. Today Republicans are divided between socially moderate suburbanites and Ralph Reed's cultural conservatives, between supply-side tax cutters and old-fashioned budget balancers, between Pat Buchanan's protectionists and everybody else's free traders. In some ways the G.O.P. is like some massive geological formation. Each postwar upheaval--the cold war, the civil rights movement, the expansion of the Federal Government, the sexual revolution--left behind...
...party that Dole will stand before this week started to take shape more than three decades ago, at about the time he arrived in national politics. Dole was first elected to the House in 1960, the year Jack Kennedy regained the White House for Democrats, who already controlled Congress. The conventional wisdom foresaw a new era of liberalism and activist government. For once the conventional wisdom was right. But most of the 40 or so G.O.P. House freshmen were so right-leaning they were called the Young Fogeys. That was fine with Dole. During his eight years in the House...