Word: heirs
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...Republican ticket of George Bush and Dan Quayle snickered in unison yesterday at Gov. Michael Dukakis' late-campaign declaration of liberalism in the race for the White House. Dukakis was running as heir to a great Democratic tradition of "caring government" as he struggled to gain ground...
...similar worries: that either party might resort to raising the national cigarette tax, which has already gone up from 8 cents a pack to 16 cents in the past five years. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco channeled $100,000 to the Republican Party, but that was offset when a Reynolds tobacco heir, Smith Bagley, donated $100,000 to the Democrats. "Many big corporations give both parties $100,000," says a Republican fund raiser...
...even Dukakis' chance to inspire a late-inning rally to win the election -- may have been lost in those opening two minutes. George Bush strode onto the stage in Los Angeles determined to prove with an avuncular assortment of smiles, chuckles, winks and asides that he was the affable heir to Ronald Reagan. But even when Dukakis tried to compete in this smile-button sweepstakes, his eerie grin had the spontaneity of a Dale Carnegie student practicing before the mirror. Asked why he did not appear more "likable," Dukakis felt compelled to launch into a petty aside disputing Bush...
MISSISSIPPI. Republican Trent Lott has been the heir presumptive to John Stennis' seat ever since the venerable Democrat lost a leg to cancer in 1984. The only question was when. Now that Stennis has retired, there are new questions. Democratic Congressman Wayne Dowdy is backed by the popular Stennis. But Dowdy, who enjoys strong support from blacks (one-third of the voting population), must cut into the white vote...
JOSEPH KENNEDY--As the heir to what is regarded as the first family of Massachusetts politics, the freshman Congressman won a tough primary fight in 1986, beating out a crowded field of candidates in a bitter campaign where the inexperienced Kennedy was generally considered a political lightweight. Shortly after the election, the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics sponsored a week-long seminar for incoming congressmen. Kennedy was described by participants as inattentive, impatient and flippant. After skipping a speech by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Voloker to attend a Boston Celtics Game, Kennedy told the press that "I didn...