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...morning after the speech, Dole opened the Senate (old habits die hard), then lit out for the territory--first stop, Chicago. He boarded the plane in his Senate uniform, dark suit, starched white shirt, sober tie, and then--Honey, get me wardrobe!--emerged in Chicago in khakis and open-neck shirt. "Quick-change artist," Dole quipped. Clothes make the new man. It was Bob Dole, Unplugged and Untied...
...Chicago, Dole gave a reprise of his "what I did for love" speech (choking up at the same points) in front of an audience of 500. But it was not just an elegy; he also attacked Bill Clinton as "the champion of the Great Society status quo" and defended the 104th Congress--"We kept our promises. He vetoed them." The event was one of the last pure Dole campaign events paid for with campaign funds. Dole is down to his last $200,000, and from here on out, he will go almost exclusively to state and local fund raisers...
Bill Clinton hadn't believed Dole was resigning until he heard it himself from Dole by phone. The official White House response was muted, gracious; Clinton advisers treated it as a bittersweet retirement party for a distinguished elder statesman. Behind the scenes, however, they cast it as an act of desperation by the loser in the battle for Pennsylvania Avenue. "It affects our plans not a whit," says senior adviser George Stephanopoulos. They know Dole will get a bump in the polls and a push from the press. "The press will be determined to give Dole this moment to tighten...
Voters don't cast ballots because of a single speech--or a change in wardrobe--but a speech can make people sit up and take notice, give a guy another chance. That's what Dole's speech accomplished, at least with fellow Republicans and Washington pundits who were already planning their post-November career moves. But when voters give Dole another look, they must see more than a quick-change artist. Dole's defining moment will instantly become a nonevent if he does not live up to his rhetoric. "Once we had a 73-year-old majority leader with...
...Dole's transformation represents the third "new" Bob Dole of this campaign year. After New Hampshire there was Battlin' Bob Dole fighting for the soul of the Republican Party. Of late there has been Bob Dole, a Doer not a Talker, and now we have Bob Dole, Just a Guy Without a Tie. But Bob Dole, Citizen, may be the real thing, suggests Dole biographer Richard Ben Cramer, author of What It Takes. "His resignation," Cramer says, "puts him in touch with the younger Bob Dole, the Dole of the Russell High basketball team who would go and pat everybody...