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...collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. can lay claim to that title. And the Bush Administration, like the Pentagon's professional warriors, aims to keep it. "We need to speak up for the military muscle that gives meaning to America's moral leadership," the President told the American Legion in Chicago last week. On this front, challenger Bill Clinton is in full agreement, promising to be "a resolute leader who will wield America's might and marshal our global alliances to defend our nation's interests...
...Republicans roll into Houston this week, they will get a steamy reception from the city's legion of TOPLESS DANCERS. Rick's cabaret is distributing White House-style invitations that promise "an evening of politically correct fun and excitement." "I'm making more than a brain surgeon right now," boasts one entrepreneurial "lap dancer." Other club owners offer fax machines and conference rooms to customers seeking to mix politics with pleasure. But Houston authorities are ready to pounce in case drug dealing or prostitution occurs. "For anyone with an elephant badge who thinks they can violate the law," warns Harris...
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...seems to have left two imprints on Clinton. One was a driving ambition to get out and make something of himself in the big world, initially by being the perfect student. As a high schooler, he was selected a senator in Boys Nation, an annual promotion by the American Legion in Washington, and he got to visit the White House and meet President Kennedy. He came home starry-eyed and fixed on politics as his career. He enrolled at Georgetown University largely to be near the Congress he hoped one day to enter. Then came Oxford, on a Rhodes scholarship...
...turn into the noisiest and naughtiest kid in the territory. After the game, the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...