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...following day Dole conferred with Reed in his Senate office and without preamble said he was going to resign. From the majority leadership? Reed asked. No, the whole shooting match, Dole replied. Reed recognized the "transformational" power of such a move and encouraged Dole to go with his own instinct. As a candidate unencumbered by office, he could follow his own version of triangulation, distancing himself from Newt and attacking Beltway Bill...
That same day Helprin was meeting with John Buckley, the new communications adviser, at Union Station, when Buckley got a message for Helprin to phone Dole. Helprin called from a pay phone, and Dole asked him to take a shot at writing a resignation statement. For the next few weeks the two talked every couple of days, with Helprin faxing Dole versions of the speech. Helprin came up with the allusion to Antaeus, the giant in Greek mythology whose strength was replenished when he touched ground. Dole liked that. But there was much he didn't like. They went over...
...matters slowed after that. One brake on the strategy was Elizabeth Dole. At the outset she was concerned that her husband would be diminished without the mantle of majority leader and that he would be forsaking the limelight of the Senate for the uncertainties of private citizenship. But she was coaxed onto the bandwagon...
...early May, however, party leaders were losing patience with Dole, who seemed to be getting trapped in a legislative spider web of the Democrats' making. Internal Republican polls showed independents tilting dangerously Democratic (only 28% of registered independents said they backed Dole in a recent TIME/CNN poll). Even voters who were disappointed with Clinton were not moving to Dole but shifting to undecided. In a series of private meetings and at various dinners, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour declared that Dole had to focus on the presidential campaign "to the exclusion of all else," a phrase he repeated...
...Dole took Barbour aside and told him he was going to resign both jobs. Barbour was as relieved as he was astounded. Reed pushed Dole to make the announcement on May 7, but Senate business intervened. Instead, May 15 was chosen. Dole, Reed and Helprin all agreed that the speech should be short and poignant. Dole discussed with them whether to include a section contrasting himself with Clinton, but then demurred. Although he was resigning, he had come to praise, not to bury...