Word: kansan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope for the Kansan may be that Robertson does so well in the South that he also damages Bush. Both Dole and Robertson pulled out of last Friday's Republican debate in Dallas, claiming that their campaigns had received only 60 tickets each for the event and the vast majority of the 2,600 available seats went to Bush supporters. While Dole and Robertson were staying in the same New Hampshire hotel last week, they met to discuss boycotting the debate. The Senator, however, denied persistent rumors that he and Robertson had talked about dividing their resources throughout the South...
...Robert Joseph Dole, the small-town Kansan who rose to become Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, is a remarkable survivor not only of war but of politics. Despite losses in two prior bids for national office, he has steadily been rising in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. ! Yet he still faces formidable obstacles in the 1988 presidential campaign. He has been known as an acerbic Washington insider, a pragmatic, conservative man for all sessions during his 18 years in the Senate. Can such a candidate project a vision of the country's future that will satisfy both...
...Larry headed for the Big Apple and big bucks ($250,000-plus) with Merrill Lynch, a roly-poly, hail-fellow, stogie-smoking Kansan named Marlin Fitzwater, 44, moved into the cauldron. Therein lies one of the most intriguing questions of this age in the presidency...
...could have used a Kansan like Mary Elizabeth Lease, a Populist of a century ago who galvanized the nation by exhorting angry farmers to "raise less corn and more hell." The slogan was ready-made this year for Iowa and Illinois, surfeited with corn by farmers who "farm the Government." No takers...
Robert Dole. Though his party's loss of the Senate will free him to travel more ("I won't have to be here to turn out the lights every night"), the Kansan loses the majority leader's platform that helped turn him into Bush's closest rival for the G.O.P. nomination in 1988. His adroit performance over the past two years was what helped him to seem so potentially presidential...