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Besides Bush and Kemp, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole is expected to enter the race. Other possible hopefuls include Howard Baker (who held Dole's job before retiring last year), former Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont IV and even the freshly converted Jeane Kirkpatrick, recently retired Ambassador to the U.N. Yet Bush and Kemp so far best symbolize the struggle for the mantle of Reaganism, the battle between the mainstream of the party establishment and the activists of the New Right. Some Republican strategists even believe that the race will turn into a "cultural civil war," pitting the blue-blooded...
...immobile basing system makes the MX vulnerable, and a likely target for Soviet attack. Since March, Nunn has proposed limiting the number of silo-based MX's to 40, and last week he offered an amendment to the pending $302 billion defense authorization bill. When Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole realized that Nunn had enough support to win, he alerted the White House that the missile was in danger. "They were not paying attention," said a Republican Senator...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was in Europe at a NATO meeting, so National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane was dispatched to Dole's office on Capitol Hill to bargain with Nunn. Despite the aggressive lobbying effort, the Administration gave in to Nunn's insistence on only twelve additional missiles in fiscal '86. The twelve to be produced will give the Air Force a total of 54 MX's. Of those, 50 can be deployed and four used either as spares or test vehicles. Under the compromise, the Air Force can order production of twelve to 21 more MX's in fiscal...
...than reform, a tax increase cloaked as tax reform has great appeal. Though few will come right out and endorse a minimum tax at this stage of the budget process, congressional leaders are not + disavowing such a strategy either. "It's a live option," says Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, whose own aspirations for the White House are tied closely to his effort to slash the deficit...
...Wednesday afternoon Stockman transmitted the numbers to Lisbon by electronic facsimile, and Dole, Domenici and Friedersdorf placed a this-or- nothing conference call to Regan. The chief of staff took the news to Reagan as he was dressing for dinner with the President of Portugal. "Is this the best deal we can get?" asked Reagan. His chief of staff replied that it was. Regan phoned Dole Thursday morning with the President's acceptance, and the last roundup of votes began. Four Republicans who could not accept the civilian spending reductions voted against the budget resolution. Dole won over only...