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Clinton and Dole will meet again Oct. 16 in San Diego, where they will both participate in a "town-hall" style debate to be moderated again by Lehrer
...surprise this fall in California, in fact, is what isn't happening: Bob Dole and Bill Clinton aren't talking about the initiative. It is not as if they are not interested in the subject of affirmative action. Clinton is the only American President ever to have devoted a major public address to affirmative-action policy--his "mend it, don't end it" speech of July 1995. Dole is the author of federal legislation to abolish affirmative action, explicitly modeled on the California initiative. Polling shows that the initiative has the clear potential to affect voter behavior in other races...
People were thinking along those lines inside the White House in 1995, and also in Bob Dole's presidential campaign. Having supported affirmative action for years, Dole reversed his position and endorsed the California initiative, and then proposed similarly worded federal legislation. The issue seemed to be perfectly teed up for his use in the fall...
...retrospect, however, the fit between Bob Dole and the anti-affirmative-action cause was not a natural one. Prop. 209 came from outside the normal political channels--and those are the channels where Dole has spent his whole career. Prop. 209 is really a by-product of the political-correctness wars in universities. These spawned an anti-p.c. organization called the National Association of Scholars, through which two academics, Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, met. Custred and Wood had separately got the idea of an abolish-affirmative-action ballot initiative, and in 1991 they joined forces and began actively...
...months of 1995, their cause transfixed the country. The national press and academe, two subcultures where the level of interest in affirmative action is high, undertook the debate on the subject that had never occurred when affirmative action was quietly instituted by Executive Order back in 1965. Republican politicians--Dole, Newt Gingrich and California Governor Pete Wilson, who had just been re-elected on the strength of his support for the anti-illegal-alien Proposition 187 and was now launching a presidential campaign--became champions of abolishing affirmative action. Finally, President Clinton responded to the storm rising in California...