Word: gatherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Biloxi, Miss. The predawn fog creeps across the Hilton hotel parking lot where a dozen perky volunteers gather to prepare for the Vice President's visit that afternoon. Scott Walker, 22, who has taken a semester off from the University of Central Florida, leads a group that will plant another 100 BUSH FOR PRESIDENT signs along Highway 90. The others head for the the Mississippi Coast Coliseum to inflate 1,000 red, white and blue helium balloons. They work in the men's bathroom, where the ceiling is low enough to allow the balloons to float within reach. Logistics...
...L.S.U. Doffing his jacket, he phones Atwater in South Carolina. Atwater says reporters are asking lots of questions about the Dukakis statement. It seems that while Dukakis did say he would cancel two new carriers, he added that he would not scrap any already afloat. Teeley is dispatched to gather the facts and smooth things over. Atwater also tells Bush that Dole has promised a "major announcement" for the next day. Bush: "What is that all about, do we have any idea?" Atwater doesn't. (It turns out to be an endorsement from Jeane Kirkpatrick...
...Baton Rouge. Two thousand people gather on the floor of L.S.U. Assembly Center, where the Fighting Tigers play basketball. The scoreboard reads DOLE: 0 BUSH: 88. Bush's talent for tortured syntax and mixed cliches comes through when he says, "I'm disturbed when Congress pulls the plug out from under the contras." But he is having a good time -- as is the crowd -- and he dons a "Bushbackers '88" apron to serve platefuls of jambalaya to the faithful...
...more embarrassed than upset," Greene said. "In the shower I tried to gather myself together. When I realized that I was in eighth place in a competition I should have been winning, I realized there was nothing left to lose...
...tightly knit Bush family, on the other hand, is clearly a source of joy and strength to the Vice President. When the three generations gather at their summer home in Maine, they spill off the veranda like an all-American tableau. Barbara Bush, mother of five, grandmother of ten, helpmate of 43 years, has the expectant look of a First Lady in training, holding the Nancy Reagan gaze before there was a Nancy Reagan gaze...