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...competence vs. ideology," which meant "Whom do you want behind the desk when the phone rings and the Soviet empire collapses?" Then in 1992 we got "change vs. the status quo," which meant "Isn't it time to host a revolution of our own?" But now, as Bob Dole cinches his party's nomination to do battle with Bill Clinton, we find that the race is between two middlemen with rather similar ideas about what government should do, both committed to change only at the margins. And so voters are left with a different kind of question...
...sincerity, his sweet tooth for books, ideas, intimacy, an appetite that powers his presidency and also frustrates it. He leaves the impression of a man who thinks conversation is a form of leadership and speechmaking a form of decision making. It's hard to imagine such a session with Dole, beyond a tour of the Senate bill hopper. He has said he hasn't seen the movies he attacks. He is allergic to rumination. The emcee for his rally in Biloxi, Mississippi, warmed up the crowd by chanting, "Dole's not dull. Dole's not dull." But Dole, whom G.O.P...
When it comes to making the case for character, both men are blessed and cursed by masterly biographers--David Maraniss for Clinton, Richard Ben Cramer for Dole--whose mesmerizing accounts of their lives will provide the road map to voters and scribblers for years to come. Bob Dole of Russell, Kansas, grew up with a strong family in the kind of small town that Bill Clinton pretends to come from. The Man from Hope actually grew up in Hot Springs, a resort town of healing waters and racetracks and churches built on gambling money. Both had powerhouse working mothers--Virginia...
Clinton was the overachieving, overcompensating favorite son; reliquary for his mother's hopes, he got the master bedroom. In exchange, he became his mother's gladiator--to the degree that Clinton ever went to war, he did it in his own home, against his own stepfather. For Dole, growing up in Depression-era Russell, every day was a fight for survival, before he even went off to war. Cramer describes Russell as a town proud of the fact that everyone there had been broke at one time or another. When it stopped raining for a few years, the dust grew...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Now that Bob Dole has wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination, he must begin contemplating his choice for running mate. On Wednesday, Gov. Christie Todd Whitman said she told the Dole campaign she wants to remain governor of New Jersey and has no interest in joining Dole on the GOP ticket. "I told him that I appreciate all this discussion that was going on, but indicated that I still wanted to stay in the state of New Jersey," Whitman said. "So I'm going to continue to be governor of the state of New Jersey...