Word: mate
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...whose job he sought. As Senate majority leader, Dole had been asked to join a high-level, bipartisan delegation assembled by Bill Clinton to attend the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister assassinated only hours earlier. Dole had barely known Rabin but viewed him as a soul mate nonetheless--a "no-nonsense kind of guy," he told me as we flew toward Washington--someone "who knew how to get things done." Those words, expressing Dole's highest compliment, were the very ones he was already using to distinguish himself from his Republican rivals, but more important, from Clinton...
...After Bennett criticized Dole's campaign as "incoherent and dispassionate," the candidate recruited Bennett to join him on the road and help frame speeches on cultural issues. So pleased was Dole with the results that he had his campaign manager ask whether Bennett might like to be his running mate. Bennett declined, but suggested his friend Jack Kemp...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Languishing in the polls and turned down by at least three potential vice-presidential candidates, Ross Perot reportedly has settled on political economist and anti-trade author Pat Choate as his running mate. The choice was to be announced in a half-hour infomercial scheduled to air on CBS at 8 p.m. EDT tonight, Reform Party sources tell The Associated Press. Choate is a protectionist and was a strong Perot ally in opposing NAFTA. He co-authored a book with Perot after the Texas billionaire's unsuccessful 1992 presidential run. Choate recently has traveled the country promoting Perot...
...enlightenment. They're right. Any successfully married person should realize that he or she is fundamentally lucky--lucky that his or her parents instilled a sense of commitment, or lucky to have been blessed with a temperament conducive to marriage, or lucky to have found a well-matched mate. Such humble detachment is a hallmark of liberalism; a good liberal can look at anyone--serial killer or serial monogamist--and see how circumstances of birth and upbringing loaded the dice. A guiding insight of modern liberalism is "There but for the grace...
Ross Perot has been breaking promises at such a rate that his Reform Party allies are starting to desert him. First one broken: that he'd name a running mate "in just a few days" after his nomination. Perot has been rejected by House members ranging from Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, a liberal, to Linda Smith of Washington State, a conservative. He plans to concentrate on the 65 members of Congress retiring this year...