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...cleaves us still." He hoped that "the statute of limitations has been reached" and that "the final lesson of Vietnam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory." Yet in the campaign of 1992, there it was, cleaving and sundering. Bush tried to exploit the issue, but did not introduce it. Bill Clinton did, by being the first member of the Vietnam generation to be nominated for the presidency...
...endorse President Bush, nor did it conclude that Governor Clinton was untrustworthy. In fact, we have at various times been critical of all three candidates, and over the past two years we have produced a number of cover images that any political campaign could exploit to discredit the others. When the Bush-Quayle campaign refused to withdraw the commercial, we filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The case will be heard this week...
...there is a market for it, it's fine for HSAto exploit it," Kostka said. "But I would feeluncomfortable hiring my peers to do that kind ofwork...
...people were paying attention -- except George Bush. In daily meetings with his top political advisers, the President pushed staffers to find ways to exploit Dornan's charges. Most of his advisers, deterred by Dornan's loose- cannon reputation and lack of proof, at first shied away from the allegations. But Bush just "wouldn't let go," says a top adviser, adding that the charges played on the President's aversion to anything he considers unpatriotic -- "like the flag-burning thing...
...office. Given the record of his second term (his fogginess on the details of < Iran-contra, Nancy Reagan's astrologer), these turned out to be legitimate concerns. But they vanished in the second debate as soon as Reagan delivered his practiced crack that he had no plans to "exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience." What was ironic was that Reagan's closing statement in that same debate, a scarcely coherent ramble about a trip down the Pacific Coast Highway, turned out to be a telling illustration of the vagaries of the President's mind...