Word: nixon
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...wants Bob Dole to be President--but some around her wonder how much she wants to be First Lady. "The Scripture often describes Jonah as a reluctant prophet," says Charles Colson, the former Nixon aide, who has been her spiritual mentor. "I think of her as a reluctant politician." Says the Rev. Edward Bauman, the Methodist minister Dole credits with helping her rediscover her spirituality: "She believes that God is calling her to do this at this time." If so, it may be a temporary assignment. "God doesn't want worldly successes," Elizabeth Dole says in her speech. "He wants...
...them get too close. Her persona artfully conceals what she prefers to be hidden, namely that she is an opportunistic political infighter who has skillfully maneuvered for every job she's ever had. She arrived in the capital as a Great Society Democrat, became an independent during the Nixon years and converted to the Republican Party when she married Bob Dole. (Bedfellows make strange politics.) Her ideological transformations were perfectly in synch with each of her moves up the Washington hierarchy...
When Richard Nixon took office, Dole stayed on at the consumer office, which had moved to the White House, though the new President's policies were oriented more toward manufacturers than consumers. The enterprising Dole visited the home of the new director, Virginia Knauer, and gave her a detailed, unsolicited briefing on the department. Knauer made Dole deputy director of the White House Office of Consumer Affairs, where she looked for common ground between consumers and manufacturers, and helped persuade supermarkets to date products for freshness...
...therefore keep venturing out often among them. "Most polls lately show that her approval ratings are better than Bob Dole's," says White House political director Doug Sosnik. Among the many ironies of campaign '96 is the fact that Republicans are subtly trying to identify Bill Clinton with Richard Nixon. But another irony is that Clinton may turn out to be more like Ronald Reagan, the man everybody called the Teflon President because none of his problems seemed to stick...
...Make Peace?" appears to be a cynical question with regard to the election of Benjamin Netanyahu [WORLD, June 10]. It is better to revisit the elections of Israeli Prime Ministers like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir and U.S. Presidents like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Against heavy odds, they all surprised the world by opening up new avenues to peace despite their political-campaign rhetoric. Even Yasser Arafat proved that one can work toward peace under proper circumstances and receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Instead of being sarcastic about it, let us congratulate the people of Israel who elected Netanyahu...