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...Quayle, Gore took control of tactics and strategy. He told his team he wanted to perform in the debate like the newspaper reporter he once was, raising questions and hammering his opponent with facts. He came up with the idea of presenting Perot with a framed picture of Hawley and Smoot, the architects of the 1930 economy-crippling tariff. "Our principal mission," said Gore's chief of staff Jack Quinn, "was to demonstrate that the stuff Perot has been putting out about NAFTA was garbage." Gore spent most of Tuesday reading alone. Meanwhile, in an effort to set the volatile...
...Smoot-Hawley...
United States trade representative Mickey Kantor's cautious approach to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in last week's negotiations laid to rest persistent rumors that he was the bastard offspring of Smoot and Hawley...
...Clinton's and Kantor's differences with their predecessors are not only political but generational as well. George Bush and his closest advisers were raised in the Great Depression and seared by World War II, and they blamed both calamities in large part on what Bush called "those Smoot-Hawley days" -- a reference to the protectionist 1930 U.S. tariff that crippled the world trading system. Under Bush, says one of his former economic advisers, "the Europeans and Japanese knew that if they held out long enough, we wouldn't retaliate in any serious way, out of fear that we might...
Some have even gone so far as to label Harvard's cafe scene the "graduate student grotto," says Hawley G. Russell...