Word: honors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accident that Travis Tritt sang, in the convention's closing hymn, "I wish I could turn the clock back/to the way my daddy said it was before." Nor that the most powerful moment of Bob Dole's acceptance speech came when he invoked the honor of the father he loved, standing all the way on the train from Kansas to Michigan to visit the son he thought was dying in the hospital. For months the campaign has been played as a custody fight--who would be the better father of our country; whom would you trust, Clinton or Dole...
...moral "tests," unless they substituted what is hard and right for what is easy and fun, the nation's best days were past. The mere act of voting for him, suggested Dole, would be morally renewing because he was asking them to make hard choices: courage over comfort, honor over wealth. Whether or not the polls bounce and the mood changes, Dole tried to frame the election as a choice: I am older, wiser, firmer and better, while my opponent--so flush with easy promises--is younger, weaker...
...KANSAS DELEGATION: U.S. Grant Hotel; downtown. Built by U.S. Grant Jr. in 1910 in honor of his father. Price...
...Russell, Kansas was a very important place for Bob Dole and I think the committee wanted to honor the people of Russell, Kansas for being such a big part of getting Bob Dole where he is today...
...other ways. They simply do not want an undivided city." At least an agreement would buy a minimum of two months of valuable time. International mediators, determined to preserve the Dayton peace accords that ended years of war in Bosnia, fear that unless the Croats can be convinced to honor the Mostar election, a dangerous precedent would be set jeopardizing the integrity of Bosnia's September elections. Says Stiglmayer: "Mostar has a huge impact for the rest of the Muslim-Croat federation -->