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Other possible candidates include Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas, Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Sen. Robert Kerrey of Nebraska, House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who popped in for a surprise visit in Gov. Gregg's office at the state house...
...founder of this enterprise was part storyteller, part flimflam man. Born in Nebraska in 1911, Hubbard served in the Navy during World War II and soon afterward complained to the Veterans Administration about his "suicidal inclinations" and his "seriously affected" mind. Nevertheless, Hubbard was a moderately successful writer of pulp science fiction. Years later, church brochures described him falsely as an "extensively decorated" World War II hero who was crippled and blinded in action, twice pronounced dead and miraculously cured through Scientology. Hubbard's "doctorate" from "Sequoia University" was a fake mail-order degree. In a 1984 case in which...
...good running mate for Gore would be Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, whose Congressional Medal of Honor and loss of a leg in Vietnam would preempt any perceptions of softness on national defense. His "down-home" Midwestern image will retain the Democrats' traditional strength in Minnesota and Michigan...
That's the kind of suicidal challenge that Democrats, who prefer running against each other to running against a Republican, usually rise to. So far, it has not been enough to draw out dark horse Bob Kerrey, the Nebraska Senator whose vote against using force in the gulf is offset by his Vietnam War record. Yet it did bring out one dark, dark horse: former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, who announced he might run while fellow liberal Michael Dukakis was vacationing in Hawaii and unavailable for comment...
...extent of the sedition that actually took place is unclear, but the firm hand of repression was used as a club time and again to ensure unanimous support for the military. The trend started as mere peer pressure. When Republican Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska argued on the Senate floor that American involvement in the conflict would only benefit commercial interests ("I feel that we are about to put the dollar sign on the American flag"), the chamber echoed with cries of "Treason! Treason...