Word: lugar
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After a late night of wooing New Hampshire Republicans, Senator Richard Lugar is up early at the Manchester Holiday Inn for a sensible breakfast of All-Bran and whole-wheat toast. It is part of an unvarying routine that includes yogurt and two apples for lunch daily and meticulous markings on a chart tracking his morning run. Such a creature of habit is now doing the most insensible thing by jumping into the G.O.P. presidential primaries in a way the political oddsmakers see as quixotic: he is already vastly out-financed and out-organized. Until he decided to test...
...Lugar believes a strong message trumps early organization, and that voters are offended that $20 million is the cost of admission to the race. His candidacy, which he will officially announce on April 29, rests on two pillars: a President must have the foreign-policy experience to define the role of a superpower lost in a post-cold war, multilateral world; the other is the discipline to cut the deficit...
When he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar managed a fractious group of Senators through a thicket of contentious issues like aid to the contras. He persuaded Ronald Reagan to get the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos to leave office but lined up votes to override Reagan's veto of a bill imposing sanctions on South Africa. A supporter of the defeated balanced-budget amendment, he is rare among his colleagues in proposing specific cuts that hurt a powerful constituency that happens to be his own: farmers. He is leading the charge against farm subsidies, proposing cuts...
...stuff at a fund raiser. Led by a schmoozy Bob Dole ("I'm a little more realistic, a little more relaxed"), the group, which included Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, California Congressman Robert Dornan, Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin and ex-State Department official Alan Keyes, took turns bashing Bill Clinton and trying to distinguish themselves from one another...
...Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) made it official: he is running for president. The former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, who said he wants to be known as Dick, portrayed himself as a trustworthy international affairs expert who is better qualified than President Clinton in that area. "I'm somebody who tells the truth, points out what our problems are . . . and is prepared to offer recommendations about how we solve them," Lugar said. He chastised the president for his "bogus" portrayal of Republicans as isolationists. Lugar also said he is confident that he will be able to compete on the campaign...