Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...action behind the scenes borrowed from chaos theory, Dole's performance on the stump has not been much better. He spent the week doing town meetings before kindly audiences handpicked by local Republican leaders. "Listening to America," the campaign called it, without a trace of irony. The questions were such softballs that even Dole joked about the crowd's "objectivity...
Meanwhile, Dole hasn't had a real press conference in months. And there's a good reason: on the rare occasions when he gets loose, he gets in trouble. As with his ads, he can't seem to keep straight which is his first priority: tax cutting or deficit cutting. He recently described the economy as being "in the tank," although each new piece of economic data suggests otherwise. The lack of discipline reached the point where policy czar Donald Rumsfeld, a former Nixon aide, urged Reed to put a stronger handler--plus four personal secretaries--on the plane with...
Though Bennett this year has declined to climb into the political arena, he has been coaching candidates of both parties--including Bob Dole and, indirectly, Bill Clinton--in the politics of virtue. Each time Dole criticizes the harm done to children and society by violent and sex-drenched movies, he travels a path pioneered by Bennett. After Bennett criticized Dole's campaign as "incoherent and dispassionate," the candidate recruited Bennett to join him on the road and help frame speeches on cultural issues. So pleased was Dole with the results that he had his campaign manager ask whether Bennett might...
Working for Phil Gramm last winter, Alex Castellanos spent a lot of time figuring out ways to force Bob Dole into early retirement. But Gramm fizzled out early, and although Castellanos maintained good relations with the Dole camp, he figured he was finished for the rest of 1996. Then last week Dole tapped him to lead the advertising war against Bill Clinton. "It all proves that old Cuban saying," he said last Friday. "Never spit straight up in the air." And he never...
...untrue," said Mandy Grunwald, Gantt's media adviser. "Alex has a crisp, clear way of going for the jugular." Castellanos believes in finding what he calls "the truest thing you can say about someone. If you find the truest nugget, it will resonate." But Castellanos knows how hard Dole can be to please. He worked for Dole twice during the 1988 primary campaign--once until Dole fired him and once a few months later, when Dole brought him back from exile...