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...final decision was made by a selection committee including former presidential candidate Bob Dole, David Gergen, Leon Panetta, columnist Robert Samuelson, historian Robert Remini, civil rights leader Roger Wilkins and journalist Cokie Roberts. Former presidents George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter were honorary chairs of the selection committee...
...breakfast with Bowles in Raleigh, I wonder if the race is between Stiff and Stiffer. Bowles, 57, who dresses and speaks like the banker he was, stresses Dole's opposition in 1989 to an increase in the minimum wage. In a state chock-full of seniors who didn't make it to Florida, he is scoring points with Social Security, which Dole, like Bush, would privatize, after a fashion. She now proposes that a modest 2% gointo private investments, but some worry even that amount could cripple the system...
...Bowles, who trails Dole by just 4 points, wants to hash out their differences inas many as eight debates. She wants fewer. So far, they have agreed on one, on the night the World Series opens...
...issues, the battle lines are clearly drawn. Bowles supported the Family and Medical Leave Act (Dole opposed it, though she now says it has value); he's pro-choice (she's pro-life); he's for coverage of prescription drugs (she's for some coverage); he supports the Brady Bill and closing gun-show loopholes (Dole, on Oprah two years ago, was against assault weapons; in gun-happy North Carolina...
...Dole got flustered when I asked, "Where's Bob?" (Maine, maybe.) She couldn't remember if she'd seen a fax of his schedule that day. He is a far more enthusiastic supporter this time around than during her presidential run, when he contributed to her primary opponent, Senator John McCain. She notes that at least she knows where the family dog is. "Bob left Leader with me," she says. "So I don't have to sleep alone." I take her word...