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...CANDIDATE] JACK KEMP football...
...coming-out party, orchestrated by Dole's folks, made some Dole operatives nervous, which is why by Tuesday there was talk of shortening Kemp's schedule, limiting his interviews, closing events to reporters. His acceptance speech was viewed with alarm even among Kemp insiders, who kept telling their boss to be prepared to keep it to "300 words." He may have won the fight for the party's soul, but he needed to be humble in victory...
...into the text: "For too long we have had a leadership that has been unwilling to risk the truth, to speak without calculation, to sacrifice itself." And while he may have preached a sermon on Thursday, his aides had already left the church; they're busy scheduling a Dole-Kemp bandwagon that will take the tax-cut promise to every battleground state in the next three weeks, backed by a 20-state advertising blitz. Some supporters aren't even bothering with DOLE-KEMP '96 buttons. Theirs read...
...Jack Kemp is a space invader. Anyone in his vicinity is likely to be hugged, grabbed, patted or poked. He can't see a shoulder without draping an arm around it. Bob Dole is an untouchable. He seems to have an invisible force field around him that repels physical intimacy. What happens when an irresistible toucher meets an immovable untouchable? Reserve begins to melt. After Dole's convention speech and the duo's first rally in San Diego on Friday morning, Kemp grabbed Dole's good (left) arm and lifted it high. Both times Dole kept...
...ever had at a convention. (At that one the G.O.P. took in $6.5 million from assorted contributors, $2 million more than at 1992's largest checkbook jamboree.) One of the busiest hosts was Dirk Van Dongen, president of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors. On Wednesday he introduced Jack Kemp to 3,500 big donors at the outdoor gala, an honor he got for raising $2 million. After shaking Van Dongen's hand, the vice-presidential candidate turned to the audience and quipped, "It's a financial pleasure to welcome...