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...early to slap a back in pursuit of a dream. So there was George Bush, just back from an eleven-day official trip to Europe, ensconced in a reviewing stand in Bristol, N.H., in the state that just happens to hold the country's first presidential primary. Congressman Jack Kemp skipped the family barbecue in upstate New York to be in Iowa, traditionally the site of the nation's first party caucuses. After marching in a procession in the town of Clear Lake that included a troop of fez-wearing Shriners on motorcycles, Kemp was approached by a woman...
Besides Bush and Kemp, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole is expected to enter the race. Other possible hopefuls include Howard Baker (who held Dole's job before retiring last year), former Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont IV and even the freshly converted Jeane Kirkpatrick, recently retired Ambassador to the U.N. Yet Bush and Kemp so far best symbolize the struggle for the mantle of Reaganism, the battle between the mainstream of the party establishment and the activists of the New Right. Some Republican strategists even believe that the race will turn into a "cultural civil war," pitting the blue-blooded...
...called survival." Many prominent Republicans in the state were also alarmed. To protest the proposed change, G.O.P. Senator Alfonse D'Amato staged a mock re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party from a 62-foot sloop in New York City's East River. Even ardent Tax Reformer Jack Kemp, a Congressman from upstate, favors adjustments that would ease the tax burden on New York residents...
...many concessions, because for every deduction they put back into the tax code, they must take one out to keep the package revenue neutral. Rostenkowski did not rule out seeking higher rates than the President proposed. But that risks losing the votes of key Republicans, notably Congressman Jack Kemp, who would like even lower rates...
Many of Volcker's former critics in the White House and the Congress have changed their tune, but the staunchest supply-siders have yet to forgive him for the trade-offs associated with his policies. In particular, Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), a possible 1988 presidential contender, blames Volcker for curtailing expansion by keeping interest rates high...