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When Clinton ran again as an incumbent, he might have been expected to face a Fifties Guy--some 58-year-old Governor or 61-year-old Senator or Jack Kemp (Occidental College, class of '57) who got the vice-presidential nomination. Instead, the Republican ticket was led by Bob Dole, another World War II Guy, who was running for President in his 73rd year. Now the leading candidates for 2000, Bush the Younger and Al Gore, are both Boomers. After 1996, we Fifties Guys had to face the cold, hard fact that our one shot at the White House might...
...Republican working for Bush conceded that some 40% of those who picked Bush in the early days thought they were voting to bring back the Old Man, not Junior. But that was also the summer when the giants started to fall and the party cracked wide open: Jack Kemp and Colin Powell weren't in the game, Newt Gingrich was nearly toppled in a coup attempt in the House, and the other candidates seemed to have been running since the dawn of time without getting anywhere. "There was this vacuum," says a Republican strategist, "and it became like space...
...meet the staff that would run his campaign. George W. and his brother Jeb--a Florida real estate investor who was generally regarded as the political comer among the Bush kids--had doubts about Atwater's loyalty because his consulting firm was doing work for Bush rival Jack Kemp. George W. asked him, "How can we trust you?" Atwater came back with a challenge: "Why don't you come up here and watch? And if I am disloyal, you can do something about...
...Shawn Kemp led Cleveland with 22 points and 16 rebounds. He was 6-of-21 from the field but made 10 of 13 free throws...
...Sophomore defenseman Patricia Kemp struck first for the Big Red with 7:52 left in regulation on a wrist shot immediately after a faceoff in the Harvard zone. Cornell's leading scorer, junior winger Colette Bredin, pulled her team to within one goal 1:53 later when she skated around the Harvard defense and into the right doorstep for the easy score...