Word: doles
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Another surprise is that neither decision seems to have been quite the betrayal of principle that critics have portrayed. Dole at worst showed a dismaying propensity to convince himself of what he wanted to believe: that he could conscientiously propose a big tax cut while preserving his hard-won reputation as a deficit hawk. Eventually he satisfied himself that he could cut federal spending enough to offset his tax cuts and balance the budget, even though he never managed to fill in all the numbers. His national campaign chairman, Donald Rumsfeld, scoffs that it is "absolutely ridiculous" to think Dole...
Clinton did, to some extent, put personal ambition above party. He signed the welfare bill over the warnings of advisers that it not only would infuriate liberal backers but might hurt Democratic congressional candidates as well. And he certainly was eager not to give Dole any chance to cry that the President had violated his 1992 pledge to "end welfare as we know it." But at the climactic meeting in the White House, Vice President Gore observed that the political arguments cut both ways and were too difficult to gauge, so Clinton should "go with your gut." The clinching argument...
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...Republican candidate began overcoming his deep skepticism about cutting taxes well before he became the Republican candidate. Though Dole once grumbled that tax-cutting zealots would never take over the G.O.P., the 1994 congressional elections showed that they at least had to be appeased. As Senate majority leader, Dole embraced the tax reductions called for in Gingrich's Contract with America. But working up a fervor for sweeping tax cuts, rather than accepting them grudgingly, took longer. In April, with the primaries nearly over, Dole's campaign manager, Scott Reed, had an all day meeting with political and economic advisers...
...process of getting him ready started in earnest at a May 8 meeting that began at 8 p.m. in Dole's Senate office and continued for three hours over barbecued food sent in from a nearby restaurant. Six conservative economists and six Republican Senators, headed by Pete Domenici of New Mexico, had been invited to discuss two questions posed by Dole: how to speed up economic growth and how to raise stagnant wages. They agreed that deep tax cuts needed to be part of a multipronged program that would also stress deregulation, school choice, worker training and enough spending cuts...