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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavy schedule of howdying was blocked out for Vice President George Bush. Congressman Jack Kemp was one of the chief draftsmen of the platform's economic planks, including its stand against a tax increase in the near future. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and Kansas Senator Robert Dole were honing their prime-time speeches, as was Dole's wife Elizabeth, the Secretary of Transportation. "We're trying to coordinate them," quipped the Senator. "So far hers is done and I haven't started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Party Time in Dallas | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...Hill at year's end to position himself for a run at the White House. Says a Baker aide: "The bottom Line for him is to walk out of the convention having shown that he has a little more fire in him than people thought." Kansas Senator Robert Dole, Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976, and New York Congressman Jack Kemp will each have about five minutes in the spotlight Tuesday night. Kemp, who is best known for his supply-side economics and tax-cutting fervor, will have a chance to look statesmanlike in his role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coronation in Prime Time | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...platform will be considered on Tuesday morning, out of the glare of TV, and disgruntled factions are unlikely to muster the 25% vote necessary to take a squabble to the floor. Says Dole: "The President is the candidate this year, not Jack Kemp or Bob Dole. We do have to protect the President in that platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coronation in Prime Time | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...Congress to pass such a bill this fall. The President would then have faced the choice of seeming to follow the Democrats' lead or casting a veto that would anger older voters shortly before the November election. "It was going to happen anyway," insists Republican Senator Robert Dole. "Now, politically, the President comes out ahead." Still, contends a House Republican leader, "it was a dumb move. He shouldn't have done it." It sends the wrong signal, the Republican explained, about the party's intentions to hold down Government spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posturing, Not Legislating | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Several members of Congress, including Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, are concerned that issuing bearer bonds would mean that some Americans would evade taxes by buying the securities through foreign sources. West European governments have informally urged the U.S. not to resort to bearer bonds. Admits a Treasury official: "Going to that kind of bond might be seen abroad as an admission that we can't finance our own deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America the Tax Haven | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

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