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...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...
...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...
...remember the chaos of picking a running mate at the very last minute: Adlai Stevenson in 1956 throwing the decision open to the convention, with the multiballot fight between John Kennedy, Estes Kefauver and Al Gore Sr. And the night in 1980 when we waited for Reagan to announce that he had chosen former President Ford, only to learn that the deal had collapsed at the last minute...
Such was the case last week as we debated what should be on this cover: the tantalizing evidence of life on Mars, or our Republican Convention package featuring Dole's choice of a running mate. One so timeless, the other so temporal. Other than through jokes about signs of life on Mars and in the G.O.P., it was hard to juxtapose them. And both subjects--the wonders of American politics and the marvels of science and technology--happen to be passions of mine...
...when national political correspondent Michael Duffy called Wednesday morning to say that Bob Dole seemed set to surprise folks by picking his longtime antagonist Jack Kemp as a running mate, we realized that the convention package being prepared by Stephen Koepp, Priscilla Painton and their Nation team was becoming the most fascinating political story of the year. It embodied all the marvelous interplay between politics and personality that has been TIME's franchise for 73 years. If the presidential race is destined to tighten (and I suspect it is), this could do it, and it will help clarify the very...