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Still, he made enough of a reputation for himself that in 1991 he was wooed by both the Bob Kerrey and Clinton campaigns. Stephanopoulos recalls the instant rapport that he felt during his first meeting with Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg. "Midway through the interview," says Stephanopoulos, "I started working...
...entire process. Senior writer Walter Shapiro, Washington deputy bureau chief Margaret Carlson and contributor Laurence Barrett also roamed widely, exploring the different candidacies. As the Democratic race heated up, various bureau chiefs were enlisted: Jordan Bonfante zeroed in on Jerry Brown's campaign, Jon Hull tracked Bob Kerrey, and Sam Allis followed Paul Tsongas, while Michael Riley scrutinized Clinton's Arkansas record. In Washington, correspondent Nancy Traver kept tabs on Tom Harkin...
Tsongas did not make the final list of six candidates: Harris Wofford, who had pulled an enormous upset by winning a Pennsylvania senatorial election in 1991; Florida Senator Bob Graham; West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller; Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton; Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, a war-hero opponent of Clinton's in the early primaries; and Al Gore. The Tennessee Senator seemed an unlikely choice. A Southerner from a neighboring state, he hardly gives the ticket much balance, and Clinton had refused Gore's bid for support in Gore's 1988 presidential campaign. This time, though, Clinton developed such deep rapport...
...lose," concedes a top G.O.P. official. "But he may be on the verge of doing just that, and on the very issue we've been pushing -- trust. Clinton could have come clean months ago, or even last week. Every day that he doesn't, we'll do what Bob Kerrey predicted we'd do: we'll take Clinton's draft record and open it and him like a soft-shelled peanut. It's that simple...
...wife Lynda Bird Johnson's family holdings). Among the other wealthiest Democrats: Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island (net worth: $13.7 million), Herb Kohl of Wisconsin ($12.7 million), Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia ($8.7 million), Lloyd Bentsen of Texas ($5.8 million), Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts ($2 million) and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska ($1.5 million...