Word: doles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dole, Bush's strongest adversary, teetered on the brink of withdrawal even as he fought for revival in this week's Illinois primary. Dole cut half his campaign staff and canceled television ads in Illinois while scrambling to broadcast a half-hour final appeal on Saturday night. A frequent adviser who ranks as politics' reigning expert on defeat and redemption, Richard Nixon, wired encouragement: MAKE ILLINOIS YOUR FINEST HOUR...
...frail hope was that Illinois voters, in a sporting mood, would choose to prolong the contest by propping up a fellow Midwesterner. Another thin reed: the possibility that indictments flowing from the Iran-contra probe would somehow slow Bush. Dole was all the more frustrated by his conviction, shared by more disinterested pols, that Bush was winning the nomination for the wrong reasons, that beneath the new veneer of strength old weaknesses festered, waiting to undermine Republican prospects in the fall. Nonetheless, Bush had finally achieved real political momentum, more substantial than his preppie and premature pronouncement in 1980 that...
...feel the speculation has gotten ahead of the story," Bush said as he flew on Air Force Two from Chicago to Springfield, Ill. However, when asked if he were surprised that Dole was staying in the race, he replied, "I'm not sure I understand what he's doing...
...predicting Bob Dole will kiss and make up with Bush to be picked as vice president. With his temperament, he will be picked Sectretary of Defense, but not vice president. Besides, Dole has too many principles to bury his hatchet with Bush the way Bush did with Reagan--unless he aims it at George's back...
...fact, most of the Republicans being mentioned for the vice presidency have too much character to be seen running behind a tumbleweed like Bush. Former cabinet members Elizabeth Dole and Jean Kirkpatrick would both quiet all the hecklers Bush would attract on the campaign trail and Congressman Jack Kemp would embarass Bush in physique alone. A photo opportunity with Kemp passing a football to Bush would end up with someone hurt...