Word: governorship
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Never get tarred as soft on crime. Bill Clinton learned that lesson late, but he learned it well. After regaining Arkansas' governorship in 1982, which he had lost in 1980 to a law-and-order rival, Clinton set 70 execution dates for 26 prisoners over 10 years; three were actually put to death. To reaffirm his mettle as he ran for the White House, Clinton rushed home from New Hampshire to deny a condemned murderer's clemency plea. The brain-damaged killer barely knew his own identity, let alone the fate that awaited him (at his last meal, he saved...
...Massie is running not just on his own attributes, but perhaps even more on his opposition to the stances of present Governor William F. Weld '66. Massie is succinct in his views on the Weld governorship...
Roosevelt, who has both bachelor's and law degrees from Harvard, is seeking the state's governorship on a moderate platform that includes support for increased education reform, reduced taxes and more employment opportunities, as well as opposition to legalized gambling in Boston...
Last week Herbert Hoover's son Allan died, Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis, 41, announced her engagement to a 27-year-old laborer, and George Bush's eldest son George W., 47, declared his candidacy for the Texas governorship. Here's what other children of recent Presidents...
...fraud perpetrated by a vast conspiracy. Virtually everyone you saw on-screen -- reporters, analysts, candidates and their handlers -- knew what everyone else was waiting to hear, yet pretended ignorance. Not just that Clinton would win, but by what margin in which states. And the Senate and governorship results too. All available at the punch of a computer button hours before they were reported to viewers...