Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER his Iowa showing, Bush called together some Republican media big-wigs to plot strategy. These media big boys determined that Dole had won Iowa because he had a good slogan. "Bob Dole--One of Us," it said. Knowing a good political slogan when he sees one, Bush snapped it up. All over New England "George Bush--One of Us" signs sprouted up. Bush won the New Hampshire primary, and coasted into Super Tuesday...
George Bush called on his opponents to abide by the GOP's eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican." When polls showed the VP behind Dole, however, he abandoned the commandment and came out swinging. Bob Dole was, George Bush insisted, a "sunshine patriot." Dole spent two years in a military hospital recuperating from wounds received in World...
Iowa's winners. On that heady morning of Feb. 9, they could have been excused for addressing themselves in the mirror as "Mr. President." Bob Dole and Dick Gephardt had just won the Iowa caucuses (remember them?) and had every reason to expect a surge that would carry them to their nominations. But the glow did not survive Super Tuesday, and last week they bowed to the inevitable and quit the race. More than 3,000 reporters covered the Iowa campaign. In the end it turned out to be less important than the Michigan Democratic caucuses, for which nary...
Bush was winning 85 percent of the vote, to 7 percent each for Robertson and recent campaign dropout Sen. Robert Dole...
Tuesday, 8--The newly rejuvenated presidential candidacies of Gray Hart and Bob Dole receive an additional jolt of energy from their stunning victories in today's Super Tuesday primaries. "I'm a sarcastic guy, so I better not comment." Dole said...