Word: doles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Silveira says he is counting on many Independents and even Democrats to vote for Dole in the primary...
...hijack crisis began with a rumor broadcast on CNN that top Bob Dole Advisers David Keene and Donald Devine had seized control of the chaotic campaign by taking over the candidate's plane. Campaign Chairman Bill Brock was vexed enough to fly from Washington in order to confront Keene, the apparent ringleader, in Orlando, near Disney World...
...Dole, giving his theory of campaign scheduling during a recent appearance in . . . er . . . Where was it anyway? . . . Someplace near some airport in some primary state...
...Take Dole, probably the most accessible of the major contenders. In three frenzied days last week, he touched down at five separate airports in Minnesota, four in South Carolina, plus one each in North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Florida. His entire campaign swing in Oklahoma lasted 83 minutes. Nine TV cameras chronicled his arrival in Oklahoma City, as he strolled across the airport tarmac, climbed a flight of stairs and held a press conference. He bristled when one reporter tartly suggested that other candidates had seen more of Oklahoma than just the airport. "You got about...
...Dole spent almost an entire day in South Carolina, yet left an airport only once -- to drive about five miles to a press conference in a suburban Charleston motel. Typical of this hello-I-must-be-going style of stumping was the Dole press conference in the airport lobby in Florence, with the fuselage of his campaign plane clearly visible through a wall of windows. When Dole boasted, "I believe I'm more like South Carolinians than any candidate in the race," it sparked the impish notion that the airport lobbies in Kansas and Florence probably do look fairly similar...