Word: gop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America is at peace, and we are prosperous once more....On Tuesday, I hope you will vote Republican--up and down the ticket--to continue the change we began in 1981," said President Reagan in a 30-second GOP television commercial...
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas was going to three states during the day in a bid to help endangered GOP candidates for Congress. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) countered for the Democrats by campaigning in Minnesota, where Hubert H. Humphrey III is a Senate race underdog...
...GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. Dan Quayle (R-IN), a foe of abortion, said he had no quarrel with a medical procedure he described as aimed at preventing conception after rape. Asked pointedly whether he would expect a rape victim to bear a child that resulted from such an attack, he said, "Hopefully they would seek medical attention immediately, and under normal medical procedure, life and conception would not even begin...
...GOP nominee spoke briefly to reporters outside the residence of Roman Catholic Cardinal John Krol, where he attended a private Mass with his wife, Barbara, and grandson George P. Bush...
...Fresno news conference, Dukakis said he decided "it was time to set the record straight" after President Reagan said last week that if Truman was alive today he would support Bush and the GOP...