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...Perot have been musing about similar -- even identical -- vice-presidential nominees. As political analyst Kevin Phillips puts it, "What Perot needs in a Vice President is someone who's political, yet puts the finger in the eye of the politicians. Someone like Rudman. And Clinton too needs a running mate who reinforces his outsider status with Perot swing voters...
...with Perot represents Kemp's best chance to be elected President himself in 1996. Others counsel caution -- Kemp's favored political style -- contending that bolting the g.o.p. would permanently brand the supply-side conservative a pariah. Kemp's probable reluctance illustrates Perot's quandary in finding a credible running mate willing to risk his political career on one roll of the dice...
Third-party candidates often stumble badly in their quest for a plausible No. 2. Remember General Curtis ("Bomb Them Back to the Stone Age") LeMay, George Wallace's 1968 ticket mate? Perot has already tapped retired Admiral James Stockdale, a conservative former Vietnam pow, as his stand-in running mate to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Perot calls Stockdale his "fail- safe fallback" and has said that he will, if necessary, "just go with the team we have...
Ross Perot is not the sort of politician who would pick a running mate from, say, New Hampshire just to bring geographical balance to the ticket. He'd rather draft a can-do hero. Insiders say Colin Powell has been on his short list. But Perot's greatest ticket-building efforts so far, according to one report, have been spent trying to woo Desert Storm commander NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF. Frustrated voters would be likely to cheer Stormin' Norman as just the sort of guy who could help get things done in Washington. But Schwarzkopf, who reportedly has turned down Perot...
...really. Hazelwood had long been one of Exxon's most accomplished skippers and was acquitted of all major charges against him. Evidence presented at the trial suggested that the actions of the third mate on the bridge as well as the helmsman may have been responsible for the fatal course error. Unlike Hazelwood, who admitted to violating company drinking policy, both these men kept their jobs. Hazelwood, in fact, may be uniquely qualified as an instructor. No one has a more intimate -- or more painful -- understanding of the course material. Cadets should find him a teacher with something...