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...LUCE III, 51, HAS MADE A CAREER OF CALMING the waters that Perot has stirred up. The founder of a large Dallas law firm, Luce was hired by Perot in 1974 to help dig him out of a disastrous attempted bailout of the Wall Street brokerage house of DuPont Glore Forgan. In 1984 Luce helped Perot negotiate the sale of his EDS computer-services company to GM; two years later, Luce settled a bitter dispute over the buyout of Perot's GM shares. To the general public, however, the Dallas attorney is better known for having been Perot's cerebral...
Gregg predicts that Buchanan will get "a healthy protest vote" and that "others will show their upset by staying home on Election Day." But he is nonetheless confident that Bush will prevail because "there's no serious alternative." If there were, says Edward Dupont, the Republican state-senate president, "we might well have a different story...
...Dupont and other Republicans identify the President's waffling on the issue of extending unemployment compensation benefits as particularly harmful to Bush. "The folks being laid off now are highly skilled, hard-working taxpayers caught in a depression," says Dupont, who has been forced to lay off four employees from his heating-fuel business in order to carry customers who cannot pay their bills. "When they look to the government for help and hear the President say things aren't so bad, their fear becomes anger...
...come-from-behind victory over Senator Robert Dole in the 1988 primary (due largely to a Sununu-directed distortion of Dole's record) revived the President's faltering campaign. "Thank you, New Hampshire," said Bush after he won the presidency. "I'll never forget." As a result, says Senator Dupont, "a lot of New Hampshire Republicans got big jobs in Washington, with Sununu at the top of the list. But what has it done for us?" The answer -- a single word heard from many New Hampshire Republicans these days -- is "abandonment...
...politicians asking to be taken seriously while begging to be liked. Who wants to leave himself or herself open to the sort of antics of elections past -- Ronald Reagan grabbing the microphone he paid for in New Hampshire, Bruce Babbitt comparing himself unfavorably to a talking horse, Pierre Dupont IV pleading to be called Pete -- while the President is welcoming back his victorious troops and addressing a flag-waving joint session of Congress...