Word: midwestern
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MILWAUKEE: In a three-day Midwestern tour outlining his proposals for revamping education in the U.S., Bob Dole on Thursday proposed a "G.I. Bill" for school children. He would offer as many as 4 million lower- and middle-income Americans cash scholarships of $1,000 to $1,500 to send their children to the public, private or religious schools of their choice. The response drew quick and sharp condemnation from the Clinton Administration, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. "Bob Dole wants to tear down public education by pitting teachers against parents and dramatically reducing...
Much of what has kept Lindsey at Clinton's side over the past 28 years is an inner confidence that comes from his family's Midwestern Presbyterianism--"a sense of predestination," as White House senior aide Mack McLarty once put it. Lindsey is often the one in high-level meetings who speaks only if he has to. That sense of security will come in handy as he adjusts to a role reversal--watching the President defend him instead of the other way around...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bob Dole is in a bind. Just as he was planning on a hard campaign in Midwestern swing states, the Southern territory that Republicans have long taken for granted is slipping. A few days after the GOP rejoiced that Dole had closed the polling gap with President Clinton from the double digits to 6 percentage points, a New York Times/CBS poll shows that Clinton enjoys an overall lead of 6 percentage points in Dixie. "The only reason a few more Southerners, who are traditionally solidly Republican, are open to Clinton now is because he is a Southerner, regardless...
...riveting sight: there, in the capitol itself, a U.S. Senator often mocked for his halting, inarticulate speaking, reached deep into his Midwestern roots and spoke eloquently, even poetically, about who he was and what he believed, stunning politicians and journalists alike...
...Lincoln was a prominent railroad lawyer in 1860, but he campaigned for the White House as the simple Midwestern rail-splitter. And his last moments were spent watching a play, Our American Cousin, in which an unsophisticated rustic journeys to Britain, where he gets the better of his highfalutin relatives...