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...friend Lott has cautioned Dole that "you'll need to make clear to Jack that there's only one President at a time." Dole is a shrewd enough campaigner to know that. When he called Kemp on Friday, he pointedly recalled an episode from his 1976 experience as Gerald Ford's running mate, when Dole made an unauthorized pronouncement on farm price supports. Ford was on the phone in no time to remind him that Ford, not Dole, was the candidate...
...this campaign, she is so protected by campaign handlers that she is like an unaccompanied minor on an airplane. As an aide turns on a tape recorder and takes notes, Robin repeats well-worn anecdotes. How her Dad taught her to drive in a Ford Falcon. How she wrote a note to her father asking to get her ears pierced, with boxes drawn for his yes or no answer--to which he added a box marked "maybe." When pressed for something new, she comes up with a story about her father bringing home a cat from Kansas that...
...remember it. And there you have the predicament of recent Republican history. From the time in the 1970s when the right wing of the G.O.P. zapped the moderates once and for all--a pivotal moment in that struggle was the substitution of Bob Dole for Nelson Rockefeller as Gerald Ford's running mate--there has never been any doubt as to whether the G.O.P. would be a conservative body. The only real questions have been how conservative and whose notion of conservatism it would be. If Republicans ever find an answer that truly matches the national mood, they might...
...many GOP leaders seem focused now on doing the right thing for Bob Dole while covering their bases with the all-important contributors who are opening their wallets (the GOP gala late last night alone raised $10 million). Addressing a private gathering of big GOP contributors, former President Gerald Ford reminds them that while winning the White House is important, retaining control of the House of Representatives is absolutely imperative. The message behind the hoopla: don't let the guy at the top of the ticket do us too much damage in November. -->