Word: doles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday's presidential debate, Bob Dole is likely to demand that Clinton rule out any pardons. But a frontal attack on Hillary could make the G.O.P. look like a gang of male chauvinists beating up on a woman who dares to be independent and powerful. They can only hope the media keep the Whitewater issue alive. Hillary's inaccessibility to probing journalists does not make that easy...
This election season, the Dole campaign is depicting the presidential race as a battle between a Republican hedgehog and a Democratic fox. Republicans portray their candidate as a homespun political hedgehog, a man with a simple, overarching view of America, while representing Bill Clinton as a sharp-eyed political fox, a candidate who has, as Bob Dole says, "a million little plans." Dole repeatedly contrasts his "one big plan" with Clinton's "inch-by-inch" approach. The subtext of Dole's message, beginning with his Senate resignation speech, in which he described himself as "just a man," is that...
...Dole, by nature as well as nurture, is a fox. When he was lambasted during the primaries for lacking a vision, it was another way of saying, Bob, you're no hedgehog. Dole's beloved job of majority leader is the ultimate fox's occupation. "Bob Dole knew more about more things than anyone else in the Senate," says Lawrence O'Donnell, former staff director of the Senate Finance Committee. "And that was the source of his power." The fox incarnate...
...result of his hardscrabble upbringing and his war wounds, Dole is a man who trusts in the concrete, the empirical, a man who distrusts philosophizing and grand theory. Economics is not an imaginary curve scrawled on a napkin, but nickels and dimes plunked in a glass jar. Dole's 15% tax cut is his one big idea (the symbol of less government and more individuality), but he is so uncomfortable with it that he has trouble keeping it at the forefront of his campaign, not to mention persuading voters that he actually believes...
Ronald Reagan was the great postwar hedgehog, and candidates ever since have of necessity sought that same aura. George Bush was as poor at managing "the vision thing" as Dole. In this presidential parlor game, George Washington was a hedgehog, John Adams a fox. Abraham Lincoln was a hedgehog, Harry Truman a fox. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a fox who grew into a supreme hedgehog. Richard Nixon lost as a fox in 1960 but won as a hedgehog in 1968. National crises both demand and create hedgehogs, and hedgehogs go down in history as the great Presidents. And in this...