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There's something about the rough-and-tumble of U.S. presidential politics that often makes the wife look better than the husband. Remember Betty and Gerald Ford? Elizabeth Dole is seriously considering a run for president herself. And now comes word that Hillary Clinton may be considering extending her career in politics, too: as a New York senator. Leading Democrats in the state are touting her name, hoping she could succeed to the seat of retiring Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 2000. But don't hold your breath, say TIME Washington correspondents Karen Tumulty and John Dickerson. "It makes...
...Dole brings something to the party's civil war that her rivals do not. A generation of Republican candidates have courted religious activists with position papers; Liddy courts them with piety. She tries to devote 30 minutes to Bible study every day and can move the faithful with her Scripture-packed story of rediscovering God at midlife. She has opposed abortion except in the case of rape, incest or endangering the life of the mother, but she makes the activists nervous. Antiabortion language had a way of disappearing from drafts of her speeches in 1996. Dole is betting that...
What makes Dole a contender with the broader public is her experience using government to make small but highly popular changes in the quality of people's lives--the platform Bill Clinton ran on in 1996. After a stint at the Federal Trade Commission, Dole served as Secretary of Transportation under Reagan and Secretary of Labor under Bush. She can take some credit for air bags, airline safety measures and the brake light on the rear windshield of cars. She helped push for the first minimum-wage increase in eight years. These are badges that could help her bring independent...
...then there's her husband, who was his own worst enemy in three presidential campaigns but has since become a kind of grouchy national mascot. Bob Dole has been gung ho for a race for months, dropping hints, banging the drum and warning his wife that it is physically punishing. After the announcement, he pasted himself to the TV and gamed out how different media outlets would play the story, thrilled to be back. That's a worry too. He's never met a campaign he didn't try to run. He vows to stay in the background but told...
...Dole could at least raise the money to pay for his mistakes; his wife lacks the network for raising $20 million in $1,000 increments. After she made her announcement, Republican National Committee phones lighted up in ways they haven't for months. But those donors were the $10 kind...