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...Idea that Gary Hart contributed this time around was the quaint notion, Let the people decide. In his case they did, decisively. The people of New Hampshire and Iowa also rendered verdicts on Babbitt, whose graceful exit showed him to be a class act to the very end; Pete du Pont, who was never all that convincing as a right-winger; and Alexander Haig, who was never all that convincing as someone who should be in charge...
...wheelchair than Ronald Reagan on a horse." Virtually all have come out in support of the long-term health- care bill now stalled in Congress, which, if it ever passed, would cost the Government tens of billions of dollars over the next five years. Only Republican Pete du Pont has proposed radically restructuring Social Security, a notion that George Bush boldly dismissed as a "nutty idea...
...last place) quit the race last Friday with a parting shot at Bush -- and, indirectly, at the Reagan inner circle that had ousted him as Secretary of State. "From my point of view," said Haig, "Bob Dole is head and shoulders above George Bush as a potential President." Pete du Pont (7%, fifth place) will soon be heading back to Delaware's chateau country. Jack Kemp (11%, fourth place) had counted on outflanking Bush and Dole on the right as the true-blue conservative candidate. But Robertson's message of moral regeneration proved more appealing than Kemp's pep talks...
...Du Pont, whose provocative ideas about fundamental change in Social Security and abolition of farm subsidies failed to attract much voter support, announced his withdrawal in a news conference in Wilmington, Delaware. The heir to the chemical-company fortune finished fifth in Iowa and fourth in New Hampshire...
...America we do not promise that everyone wins, only that every-one has the opportunity to try. You have given me the opportunity... You listened, considered and chose. I could not have asked for more," du Pont said...