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...Harvard economics professors met Wednesday with Republican presidential candidate Robert J. Dole and seven top-ranking Senate Republicans to offer advice on economic proposals for the fall elections...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: "There are very few surprises in Washington," says TIME's Laurence Barrett of Dole's announcement. "This was a genuine surprise. This is as big as Lyndon Johnson's decision to pull out of the race in 1968." Those who know Dole and know how closely his identity is tied to his political career also know how difficult and wrenching was his decision to wager all on his third attempt to win the presidency. "This must have been an agonizing decision," says Barrett. "But he was finally forced to do something dramatic to save his floundering campaign." Barrett...
...Congress. He is a political workhorse who has no hobbies, except an occasional inclination for sunbathing, and no outside interests. He spends his time in Congress, working the halls of the Senate building, getting things done, pushing bills through, convincing colleagues to vote this way or that. And when Dole is not in the Senate, he is attending fundraisers, gathering money for his campaigns or helping out fellow Republicans. When Dole regained his seat as Senate majority leader after the 1994 elections, everyone agreed that he is one of the most successful leaders the Senate has ever...
...also one of six top aides profiled in Birnbaum's book Madhouse: The Private Turmoil of Working for the President, published this week by Times Books. As Birnbaum reports in this issue of TIME, Sperling and Bruce Reed (also profiled in his book), have been tying Bob Dole's campaign in knots by instantly counterpunching his every initiative. Birnbaum was one of the first to realize how high campaign counterattack was on the Clinton agenda. "The White House is always a madhouse," he says. "But when Sperling cleans up his act, that's a story...
According to a 1994 Washington Post-ABC News survey, 59% of people who have reported encounters with flying saucers prefer Ross Perot to Bill Clinton or Bob Dole. When I read that not long ago, in a New Yorker piece by Michael Kelly, I told myself that the important thing was to avoid panic. There was no reason to go around clutching perfect strangers by the lapels and shouting, "Do you realize that if only people with flying-saucer experience vote, Ross Perot will be President of the United States...