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...reworking the speech he was to deliver the next morning in Austin, Texas, home state of one of his toughest rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. Huddled with a pair of top aides, Alexander suggested a new introduction: "I've come here today to announce my support for Phil Gramm ... [long pause] ... for re-election to the U.S. Senate." The three men had scarcely stopped laughing when Alexander's cellular phone began to chirp. The caller was Ross Perot, who complimented Alexander on his just announced candidacy: "Keep on going, Lamar. You seem to have a lot of 'em worried...
...President. Alexander is well equipped to sell it. He is statesmanlike and disciplined; charming and even tempered-everything, in short, that Perot is not. Republican theorist Bill Kristol calls Alexander "a gentler, saner Perot" who can run against Washington without scaring voters. Alexander too offers what Dole and Gramm cannot: executive experience, as a two-term Governor who improved the schools and roads of his state while attracting huge auto plants that created thousands of high-paying jobs...
...list of complaints of over-reaching federal intervention. Note the decision of Governor William F. Weld '66 not to campaign for his party's nomination. Republicanism today is dominated by an insular morality which would override any such notion as economic libertarianism, just as the rhetoric of Gingrich and Gramm dominates that of Weld and Wilson...
...full year before the 1996 primary season, nine (count 'em) G.O.P. presidential wannabes bundled off to New Hampshire to strut their stuff at a fund raiser. Led by a schmoozy Bob Dole ("I'm a little more realistic, a little more relaxed"), the group, which included Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, California Congressman Robert Dornan, Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin and ex-State Department official Alan Keyes, took turns bashing Bill Clinton and trying to distinguish themselves from one another...
...affirmative-action programs-some of them in place for more than three decades-under fierce attack by the Republicans, President Clinton put his finger to the wind and ordered "an intense, urgent" review to determine which ones work and which ones could be abandoned. One G.O.P. presidential candidate, Phil Gramm, has vowed to end certain major set-aside programs on-he hopes-his first day in office...