Word: kempe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America, he needed something more upon which to build a mass movement. In place of the old conservative caution, Gingrich, one of the most absorbent if not always discriminating minds in national politics, has concocted a stew of beliefs that blends the sunny economics of Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp, the stern moralism of the Christian right and enough giddy futurism either to excite or to frighten his followers. He dubbed himself a "conservative revolutionary," one of the greatest political oxymorons ever invented. He saw that it simply wouldn't do to carp about the Great Society. He invented something...
...about his message or campaign that suggested the politics of division. He avoids the hot-button social issues harped on by his rivals: he would not ban abortion, gun control or affirmative action. He is a sincere seeker of answers, a man genuinely concerned about social pathologies. He cites Kemp's policies of enterprise zones and tenant control of public housing as partial solutions to inner-city devastation...
Forbes said he decided to enter the presidential race in order to fill the void left when former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp decided not to run for president...
...exciting to think about these possibilities to tap and unleash the talent in this country," Kemp said. "And I'm very optimistic. After all, how can you play quarterback in the NFL for thirteen years and be a pessimist...
...Kemp's lecture, entitled "America on the Eve of the 21st Century," was part of the Gustav Pollack Lecture series. The series is designed to "be given from time to time by a qualified person" to stimulate interest in government