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...climactic meeting was on Saturday, July 20, at campaign headquarters, with Senators Abraham, Bennett and Connie Mack of Florida present and many other counselors, like Rumsfeld, participating by speakerphone. Dole this time "moved from interested spectator to clear participant," says Bennett. He and Burke are convinced that Dole decided then on the 15% across-the-board cut. A big reason: the plan applied the same reduction to both the rich and the poor, so he could defend the move as fair...
...true Dole fashion, though, the candidate did not communicate any explicit decision, and so meetings, memos and all kinds of frenzied activity continued. As late as August 1, Dole asked aides to rerun the numbers on no fewer than eight different proposals. "We went over this ground months ago," complained a staff member. The final, official, out-loud decision was apparently communicated to Taylor, but he does not remember exactly when it came or what words Dole used. Aides were still working through the morning of Aug. 5 preparing press-briefing books for the public announcement that afternoon...
...Dole has paid a heavy price for that coyness. It left him and his aides woefully unprepared for persistent questioning as to what spending he would cut to offset his tax cuts and balance the budget. Domenici's folks had suggested some specific spending cuts and the closing of some corporate-tax loopholes. Dole chose not to talk about those ideas, because he wanted to keep the spotlight on tax cuts rather than spending cuts and feared that loophole closing could be represented as a tax increase. Thus he was reduced to asking the public to trust him to find...
...ways--or three or four ways. And on welfare reform, his "I'm all for it, but..." approach had been getting results. Twice he had vetoed Republican bills as harsh and punitive; both times the Republican Congress responded by stripping out provisions the President found most objectionable. Finally, although Dole desired a third veto he could decry during the campaign, Republican members of Congress concluded they would be better off telling constituents they had actually got an important and popular reform written into law. They prevailed on party leaders to continue the federal guarantee of Medicaid assistance to the poor...
What voters think of Dole's tax decision is equally clear. After one rally, the candidate and his entourage passed around signs that had been altered from 15% to read dole 15% behind--which polls indicate is if anything an understatement. The verdict of history? Unless something changes almost miraculously before Nov. 5, there is not going...