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...think more about leading the country," the President told Time. "I have to make clear where I stand, but I can't let that get in the way of doing what's good for the country." Clinton's most formidable rival on the Republican side, Senate majority leader Robert Dole, referring to Perot's legislative agenda, grumped, "It seems he has a checklist, and if we don't get it all done in a week, he's going to run for President...
...Perot's new party, and the group started plotting how to respond. Buchanan, however, joined Perot's attack on lavish congressional pensions, an issue stirring fresh voter outrage since the disclosure that disgraced Senator Bob Packwood will receive $89,000 a year for life. Referring to his rival Dole, a 35-year veteran of Congress, Buchanan quipped, "They'll probably have to increase the federal debt limit when he retires...
Alexander, a former Governor of Tennessee, warned that if Republicans nominate another Washington "insider" like Dole or Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, protest votes will flow to the third-party candidate and deliver the White House to Clinton in "a rerun of 1992." Meanwhile, Charles Black, chairman of the Gramm campaign, sipped a Diet Coke and tried to do his bill paying while watching Perot's announcement, but had to put the checkbook aside and take notes. "By the end of the show," he said, "I'd written down a dozen potential election-law violations" in Perot's announced plans...
...least soothing. Only California Republican Bob Dornan, who has nothing to lose, was brazen: "I think it was a racist decision." Pat Buchanan, the candidate many say is the product of white anger, stoked that resentment: "I don't respect the verdict because I think it was wrong." Bob Dole was empathic: "It is very important at this time that we use all our energies to find ways to understand each other." Lamar Alexander tried to have it both ways: "I believe it is important that we support our system of trial by jury, even if we have great doubts...
...Daschle was forever telling reporters how much he liked George Bush—and got occasionally “disappointed” by him. Dole and Gingrich and Barbour never pretended they were fond of Bill Clinton: They opposed him, and everything he supported. They didn’t disingenuously run away from “obstructionism”; they embraced...