Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right example of how to run for President without spending exorbitant sums. Perot's political instincts were probably correct when he refused a Rollins-recommended campaign that would have cost $147 million. In view of Perot's military background, his choice of a retired vice admiral for a running mate did not offer balance to his ticket. But it was his bowing out of the race, in deference to his family, after pledging that he would stay in the campaign all the way, that cost Perot his credibility--permanently. GUNNAR S. JENSON South Bend, Indiana
...Eagleton reached a career peak. Senator George McGovern, the Democratic candidate for President, picked him as his running mate. Less than three weeks later, however, Eagleton was forced to withdraw after confirming reports that he had received electroshock treatment for depression. McGovern and Eagleton's replacement, Sargent Shriver, went on to defeat. Eagleton remained in the Senate, retiring in 1986, unwilling to undertake campaign fund raising. He serves on a presidential advisory board overseeing intelligence agencies; in 1995 he was instrumental in persuading the Los Angeles Rams to move to St. Louis. Would revelations of psychiatric treatment sink a candidacy...
...riding in to rescue the man he had long opposed. The Reagan-Kemp message was always that there is nothing wrong with America that a good tax cut won't solve. When Dole adopted that message two weeks ago, even before he announced his choice for a running mate, Kemp's wife Joanne told him, "Jack...
...Friday morning, Kemp grabbed Dole's good (left) arm and lifted it high. Both times Dole kept his arm up for fewer than 10 seconds before wriggling free. But by afternoon, under a bright sky in downtown Denver, as Dole and Kemp came onstage, Dole reached for his running mate's passing arm and raised it into the air, held it there, then held it there some more. This time Kemp let go first. Dole even did a soft-shoe shuffle to the strains of Soul Man and smiled at his running mate, who was clapping along. The two seem...
...declared that the GOP will never be whole without the support of African Americans. Addressing the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists, Dole said that Republicans mean to earn the support of blacks by creating opportunities for minorities and eliminating discrimination. Both Dole and his running mate Jack Kemp suggested that the GOP would address racial inequality with outreach to minority communities, not with affirmative action quotas or set-asides. "I've supported race-based preferences in the past," said Dole. "But over time, I realized that preferences created with the best of intentions were dividing America...