Word: lott
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...make peace with your past. To arrive at the astonishing choice of Jack Kemp as his running mate, a man who has spent a good part of his political career spearing Bob Dole, required both. Dole admitted as much in a Thursday-night phone call to Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, his successor as majority leader and a good friend of Kemp's. If Kemp was the one, Dole told Lott, it would be a signal to everyone of how seriously Dole wanted to win, for there could hardly be a tougher choice for him to accept...
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...
...have been ceded to his onetime protege Steve Forbes. Only three weeks ago, at one of the regular dinners of the pro-growth gang known as the Five Amigos--Kemp, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Connie Mack of Florida, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber and Senate majority leader Trent Lott--Kemp got in a shouting match with Gingrich, claiming that the party was forsaking its Reaganesque message of growth. So alienated was Kemp that, earlier this summer, he allowed his name to be dangled before the Reform Party as a possible nominee...
...Friday night, antennae went up among Dole loyalists at the news that Kemp had already called on John Sears, a powerful strategist for Reagan in 1976 and 1980, to join his team in San Diego. Even Kemp's friend Lott has cautioned Dole that "you'll need to make clear to Jack that there's only one President at a time." Dole is a shrewd enough campaigner to know that. When he called Kemp on Friday, he pointedly recalled an episode from his 1976 experience as Gerald Ford's running mate, when Dole made an unauthorized pronouncement on farm price...
...Republicans not to be "shamed into silence" over the party's controversial 1988 Willie Horton ad. Said he: "This is one Republican who won't be cowed." The son of Richard Nixon's physician, he served 10 years in the House, forging ties with Gingrich, Senate majority leader Trent Lott and other conservatives. The 49-year-old is now openly running to succeed Governor Pete Wilson, mainly by showing off the state's declining crime rate since Lungren took office...