Word: mates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Listen to them rag and brag on one another in public. In Austin, Clinton said this about his running mate: "I love to hear him speak, even though when he finishes there's nothing left for me to say. But I do resent the fact that he doesn't have any gray hair -- and I'm trying to get him to use some dye." For his part, the Tennessee Senator confided to a home-folks crowd in Memphis: "Tipper and I have had the wonderful experience of getting to know Hillary and Bill Clinton . . . If there is a subject under...
...month to lead a revival. G.O.P. discontent was surely deepened by images of Bill Clinton and Al Gore bounding through eight states on a 1,240-mile bus tour marked by camera-friendly street rallies and upbeat TV appearances. At each stop, a beaming Clinton showed off his running mate like a new sports car. "Didn't I make a good choice?" became a standard line...
...Clinton on a triumphant bus tour that attracted enthusiastic crowds through the Midwest, Gore managed to excite voters as he seldom did during the 1988 primaries. He deftly fielded questions, deferred to Clinton, turned back attacks from the Bush campaign and provided a remarkably effective complement to his running mate's considerable campaign skills. "Both of the Democratic candidates are young and smart," grumbled a depressed Bush-Quayle campaign official, "and we've only got one of each...
HENRY WALLACE (1944). Overshadowing Roosevelt's choice of a running mate was the suspicion that he might not live to the end of a fourth term. Vice President Wallace's advocacy of civil rights and his utopian rhetoric about a global New Deal made him anathema to big-city bosses and conservative Southern Democrats. F.D.R. toyed with the idea of picking Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to replace him, but finally settled on Missouri Senator Harry Truman...
...PICTURES, of course, only skim the surface, and a choice based on image alone is likely to backfire. George Bush learned this lesson in 1988 when he targeted a young, attractive running mate--who unleashes a stream of garbled English every time he opens his mouth. Dan Quayle seemed to follow the recipe for media appeal; he had the hair, the smile and the political family. Despite the calculations, something went awry...