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...will take more than just the doffing of a tie to make voters see Bob Dole, Kansan, instead of Bob Dole, Capitol Kingpin. But there is consolation if they don't. Now that he has, as he put it so eloquently, left "behind all the trappings of power, all comfort and all security," he can ascend to what Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter called the highest office in a democracy, above even that of the presidency: citizen...
...Reported by Michael Duffy, J.F.O. McAllister and Eric Pooley/Washington and John F. Dickerson with Dole...
From faculty lounges to garrets to the watering holes of writers across the nation, the unsettling news spread that the script for Bob Dole's best speech ever, his not-a-dry-eye, "White House or home" abdication address, was the work of a Wall Street Journal columnist listed as Mark Helprin. Come again? The Helprin known by starving artists and threadbare assistant professors of English is, after all, an aesthete hatched at the New Yorker and renowned as the writer of eloquent, rarefied novels. And as a tormentor of reporters, who in his early years invented an ever changing...
...conservative political columnist. He has expostulated for the Wall Street Journal off and on since 1985, in style and tone closer to Rush Limbaugh than George Will. As a contributing editor to the Journal in 1992, he evaluated the man now running as the party's candidate: "Senator Bob Dole, the grand old rhinoceros of the G.O.P., is in his fury and in his wisdom a natural for the presidency, but by the time he assumed it, he would be 73 years of age." Depending on how you feel about rhinoceroses, that could have been an endorsement...
Ouch. Block that bloomless rose. But among subsequent columns was one in February titled "Let Dole Lead." Helprin recommended there that Dole, the wily legislative fox, drive Clinton bonkers with bills he would look bad vetoing. By this time the G.O.P.'s future was in danger and whether it was lost was pretty much up to the old rhinoceros. Dole read the column and liked it. In April he met with Helprin, an aloof, inscrutable character who lives on a 200-acre farm in New York's Hudson Valley, and Helprin became the first person in years to give voice...