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...work was building, the debate was shifting again. The problem is not that too few single mothers are working, the conservatives are saying. The problem is that there are too many single mothers in the first place. To critics like Bennett, author Charles Murray, former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp and their allies in Congress, illegitimacy is the underlying cause of poverty, crime and social meltdown in the inner cities. Far better to discourage people from having children before they are ready, the conservatives argue, than to burden society with weaving the safety net of jobs, child care, Head Start, health...
...JACK KEMP (ex-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
...copies, yet Standing Firm does not appear to contain many fresh disclosures. Only the uncharitable tone is striking. Quayle is hardly the first to notice that Brent Scowcroft, not Baker, was the real architect of most of Bush's foreign policy successes. Nor is it news that Kemp can be an aimless talkaholic or that Baker looks out for No. 1. Even Quayle's closest advisers lament that the book lacks anything approaching a Quayle vision of the future. "It's a funny book," said one of them. "It's less of a positive conservative agenda for the future than...
...JACK KEMP. The former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bush has lined up top fund raisers and will relocate his political-action committee from Washington to strategically important California this week. He becomes the instant front runner if he jumps in, but campaign veterans are worried that he lacks the discipline to hold the pole position for long...
More than half a dozen other players appear far less eager. Former drug czar and best-selling author Bill Bennett would like to be President but would probably take a pass if Kemp gets in. Former Secretary of State Baker has told allies to keep their powder dry, and is believed to be waiting to see what his old pal Cheney does. Pete Wilson, currently seeking re-election as California Governor, has ruled out a race, but could be formidable if re-elected. A host of other Governors -- Massachusetts' Bill Weld and South Carolina's Carroll Campbell, for example...