Word: kempe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knowing all the dangers, Dole had been playing with the idea of Kemp for some time. Since June the Dole team had been running background checks on a short list of Republican Governors and Senators that did not include Kemp. But from time to time Dole would startle some aides by asking, "What about the quarterback?" During the last week of July, Dole secretly dispatched his campaign manager, Scott Reed, to meet with Kemp and "test the waters." Reed was a logical go-between. He had worked on Kemp's 1988 presidential campaign and then served him as chief...
...press secretary Nelson Warfield and California campaign chief Ken Kachigian also in the room, Dole talked mainly about his upcoming tax-cut proposals. When he asked Bennett how best to sell them to the public, Bennett was ready. "The person to push this economic plan," he said, "is Jack Kemp...
...first reaction all around the room was skeptical. The memory of Kemp's endorsement of Forbes, among many other slights, was still fresh. Bennett pressed on. "You've all worked with Jack," he told them. "I've worked with him. We all know he'll drive you crazy. But he believes in this stuff, and he sells it like nobody else." Bennett was nearly through when he added, "The main rap on this party is that we exclude people. Jack Kemp is the best antidote to that." Without specifying what he had in mind, Bennett urged Dole to think...
Around the time of that meeting, Dole also telephoned Trent Lott to ask what he would think of a Dole-Kemp combination. "Lott was stunned," according to one of the Senator's advisers, but spoke warmly of Kemp. Meanwhile, Dole seemed more interested in the possibility of bringing Bennett aboard. Grownup without being elderly, the best-selling author of The Book of Virtues possessed not only the intellect but the gravitas to shoulder the Dole campaign into a debate on values, where Dole himself moves reluctantly. Bennett is a Catholic, and the Dole team badly wants the Catholic vote...
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...