Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before the National Guard convention in Salt Lake City. Even the Clinton team admits that Bush played like an international grand master. The first move belonged to the President, who announced at the last minute that he would speak to the National Guard, presumably to attack Clinton on the draft. Clinton responded by scrambling his schedule and racing to Salt Lake City...
Bush, speaking first, surprised Clinton by taking the high road, skirting the draft issue while making an eloquent case that combat experience helps forge a better President. In what Clinton aide Paul Begala calls a rush "cut- and-paste job," the Democratic nominee then deleted an elaborate defense of his draft record from his own speech to change its emphasis to (surprise!) the economy. The result: a drawn game...
...face of it, negotiations have broken down over the issue of which political body is to draft the new constitution. The NP, the party of the majority of whites, and the IFP, the Zulu's party, insist that the constitution should be written at Codesa, where each of the three major organizations has an equal...
Clinton's draft dodges play into Bush's hands...
...Shultz after Bush told the Washington Post he had been in the dark about this. "Why did he say that?" the Shultz memo asked. Last week Bill Clinton challenged reporters to examine Bush's truthfulness about Iran-contra as carefully as they had probed Clinton's statements about the draft...