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"The only one I know of is Gary Hart--he did not take PAC money in 1984 and will not take it in 1988," Roeder said in an interview from Des Moines. "The others either haven't said, or they are accepting PAC funds."
Before Ronald Reagan achieved fame as a movie star in Hollywood, Dutch Reagan was an enormously popular baseball announcer and newspaper columnist in Des Moines, Iowa. Iowans followed the fortunes of the Chicago Cubs, and Dutch was their favorite play-by-play man. Yet Reagan had never seen a big...
Reagan described the games from a room in Des Moines. An accomplice with a wire set hooked up to Wrigley Field handed him slips of paper after each pitch: "double," "strike, inside corner," "foul ball". It was Reagan's job--and particle of talent--to fill in the rest. Then...
But a group calling itself the "Draft Mike Committee" recently placed two full page ads in the Des Moines Register, urging voters to consider Dukakis as a candidate.
However, the two full page ads that haveappeared in the Des Moines Register in the lastweek have definitely had an impact on Iowans, saidThomas A. Fogerty of the Register. "Dukakis hasbroken out of the pack in making himself known,"he said. Neither of the ads were officiallysanctioned by Dukakis.