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...Americans, easily defeated former Governor Dick Thornburgh. As the 1992 presidential campaign gathers steam, every Democratic candidate is putting universal health care at the top of his agenda. While Nebraska's Bob Kerrey proposes a comprehensive plan that would require substantial new taxes, others, including Bill Clinton and Tom Harkin, are fashioning less costly approaches that emphasize preventive care. Says Harkin: "We don't have to spend a nickel more. We just have to spend it smarter." Congressional Republicans, sensing that the White House is moving too slowly on the issue, offered their own plan earlier this month to provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Health Care Condition: Critical | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

Hearing Brown tell more than 500 state Democrats they constitute "a greater political mass" people sitting with House Minority Leader Mary Chambers, a supporter of presidential hopeful Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, exchanged knowing looks...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Brown Sending Angry Message | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

George Herbert Walker Bush will never be able to claim the trendiest qualification for high office: childhood deprivation. It worked for Clarence Thomas. Mario Cuomo rattles on about it (the apartment-over-the-gr ocery-store bit). Tom Harkin now hopes to ride it to the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Nov. 11, 1991 | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

SOMEHOW, Thomas Richard Harkin hopes to make this into some sort of campaign issue--he never refers to the president by anything short of all four names. (The New Republic joked that Harkin should be "Tom William Jennings Harkin," but I know two people who didn...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: What's in a (Middle) Name? | 11/6/1991 | See Source »

...just Harkin who's being silly. In the anti-Washington, anti-aristocracy populism that defines presidential politics today, none of the candidates uses a middle name. Or an initial. In fact, they've even taken to truncating individual names. Have you ever heard of William Jefferson Clinton? (Or even William Clinton?) How about Joseph Robert Kerrey? Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.? Perhaps, Lawrence Douglas Wilder...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: What's in a (Middle) Name? | 11/6/1991 | See Source »

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