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Elizabeth Dole has not plotted out her future. While her husband seems carved in stone, she is a work in progress. She regards herself as a recovering perfectionist. "It is something that can take a lifetime to overcome," she has written, and she still has a way to go. "I'm very different than I was 10 years ago," she says evenly. "I thought I had to do everything 100% perfect. Now 98% works nicely." Despite her protestations, Elizabeth Dole cannot stop striving for a perfect solution to her spiritual quandary. A close associate, asked what it is that Dole...
...Reported by Ann Blackman with Elizabeth Dole and Erik Larson/New York
...scene repeats itself over and over on the campaign trail. Elizabeth Dole stands by, beaming, while her host, using talking points prepared by her staff, praises her work as president of the American Red Cross--in particular her role in leading its "most ambitious" effort ever, the "total transformation of the way the Red Cross collects, tests and distributes one half of the American blood supply...
While no one expects full disclosure on the campaign trail, there are crucial elements missing from this image. One of them is that Mrs. Dole's heroic restructuring campaign was largely forced on her by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after its inspectors found the Red Cross to possess dangerously little control over its blood operations. Another is that the FDA became so fed up with the lack of progress in the first two years of her administration that the agency went to federal court to compel the Red Cross to clean up its act. In this juxtaposition...
...Dole took the helm of the Red Cross in February 1991, after resigning as George Bush's Labor Secretary. "I had looked at it very carefully," she recalls. "I had a couple of people go in ahead of me and look at what the challenges were going to be." Indeed, she encountered a deeply troubled organization--far more troubled, according to a source close to Mrs. Dole, than she appreciated. Since the mid 1980s, in response to the onslaught of AIDS, the FDA had begun to toughen its inspection of blood banks. In the process, its field inspectors found widespread...