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Bush called a series of Cabinet-level meetings of his Economic Policy Council, attended by a dozen Cabinet secretaries and other top advisers. They put forth several ideas for boosting the economy, but Brady and Sununu shot them down as economically unnecessary or politically risky. Frustrated, Housing Secretary Jack Kemp warned, "Mr. President, the American people will forgive us if we try a program and it fails, but they will not forgive...
...middle-class taxes rather than reduce the deficit. On the other hand, the volunteers found the Bush team vague on entitlement cuts and short on evidence to support their claim to drastic deficit reduction in five years. + Perhaps the strangest point of the meetings came when Jack Kemp, the excitable Housing Secretary famous for abandoning Bush whenever the urge hits him, bounded to his feet and exclaimed, "Run, Ross! Run, Ross, and let the chips fall where they...
That pitch roused the crowd in Houston, but polls show most Republicans still consider Quayle unqualified. And a slew of other presidential aspirants are also positioning themselves to run in 1996. Among them: chief of staff James Baker, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, Massachusetts Governor William Weld and William Bennett, former commander of the war on drugs. And Texas Senator Phil Gramm, another 1996 hopeful, hurt himself with a keynote address that delegates judged too long and snoozy. Then again, that was the rap on the 1988 keynote speech of the Democrat who now leads George Bush...
...Quayle appeals strongly to the social-agenda crowd, but has such heavy liabilities elsewhere that he could survive only if a second Bush term proved highly successful. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp, the optimistic supply-side advocate, draws the economic boomers and is politically correct on social issues. Texas Senator Phil Gramm has a strong regional base and conservative fiscal credentials but may suffer from the perception that he has cuddled up too snugly with the party establishment. James Baker is even more alien to the wingers than Bush. Baker would have a shot at the 1996 nomination...
...Democrats' interest in Black Americans is "the biggest sham in the modern history of the country," says Kentucky delegate Al Brown, pausing to cheer for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp. "The Democratic party has no greater love for African-Americans than does the Republican party. However, they have given all of the lip service, all of the unworkable social programs...