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...their part, Dole's aides are on guard against any signs of a creeping Kemp takeover of their campaign. Even before Kemp came on, there were occasional tensions between longtime Dole confidants such as Sheila Burke and Roderick De Arment and newer Dole lieutenants, such as Reed, who have worked for Kemp. Reed has tried hard to patch these differences, secretly dispatching Burke and De Arment to pick up Kemp in Texas late last week...
Bill Clinton's advisers profess to be unconcerned that Kemp's arrival will turn the Dole campaign into a serious threat. While Dole and Kemp were performing their delicate courtship, the Clintons departed for a vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where the President will spend this week feigning indifference to the Republican hoopla in San Diego. And Kemp? "We'll kill him on his economic ideas," says a White House strategist. The Clinton campaign was already running TV spots last week blasting Dole's Kemp-flavored tax-cut ideas as a "risky, last-minute scheme that would balloon the deficit...
...Friday night, antennae went up among Dole loyalists at the news that Kemp had already called on John Sears, a powerful strategist for Reagan in 1976 and 1980, to join his team in San Diego. Even Kemp's friend Lott has cautioned Dole that "you'll need to make clear to Jack that there's only one President at a time." Dole is a shrewd enough campaigner to know that. When he called Kemp on Friday, he pointedly recalled an episode from his 1976 experience as Gerald Ford's running mate, when Dole made an unauthorized pronouncement on farm price...
...Kemp get the message? "Jack's got a long history of team sports," says Black, the Dole adviser. "He'll know what to do." True enough, but Kemp was a quarterback. Even on a team, that's a starring position...
...through 1994, Jack Kemp traveled the country helping local Republican candidates while collecting chits for his own presidential bid, which he planned to make in 1996. In late October he was in Birmingham, Alabama. The overflow crowd had come to hear the most publicly irrepressible and optimistic G.O.P. politician since Teddy Roosevelt, and for a time, Kemp delivered as promised. His old football stories were laced with lessons: "I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100." His tales recalled the Gipper's golden age: "The world changed because Ronald Reagan...