Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The somewhat surprising result is that this first-term Senator from downstate Illinois, a college dropout whose education came as a crusading small-town newspaper editor, is suddenly no longer viewed as a presidential ego-tripper, the 1988 version of Alan Cranston. At least for the moment, he is running...
More than ever in the age of Ronald Reagan, television smarts are required job skills for presidential candidates. The Republicans, like the Democratic candidates a few weeks earlier, were articulate, amiable, pat, well coached and sincere as all get-out. It should have been more impressive. Hubert Humphrey or Dwight...
In a great relief to Kennedy and the White House, prominent conservative Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., declared after meeting with nominee, "I think he'll make a fine member of the Supreme Court."
In an attempt to broaden his political appeal the Rev. Jesse Jackson this year is stressing questions of "economic violence" as oppossed to the issues of "racial violence" he emphasized when he last sought the Democratic presidential nomination.
Reagan was once strong enough to keep the party's competing right-wing factions under one tent. But Bush and Dole lack his infectious appeal. As a result, each of their challengers is trying to capitalize on different touchstones of the "True Believers." Kemp is the fervent supply-sider, du...