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...Gingrich's Congress who dared propose cuts in Medicare, Dole does not plan to meddle with entitlements. And on defense he's promising to spend "too much" rather than too little. So what's left on the table accounts for only about 23% of the budget. Analysts at the nonpartisan Concord Coalition, co-founded by Dole adviser Warren Rudman, the former Senator from New Hampshire, predict that by the year 2002, this slice of the pie will have to be slashed more than 40% in order to meet Dole's objectives...
...Democrats get the funds for their big party? Partly from organizing one-night stands. The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, has tracked 75 individuals who have contributed to Clinton's various campaigns or, since 1992, to the Democratic Party. They have all been rewarded with a stay in the White House, most of them in either the Lincoln Bedroom, right, or the Queen's Bedroom. Among the donors are such Hollywood luminaries as Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw ($236,500, Plus $44,850 from his companies), Barbra Streisand ($81,500), Chevy Chase...
...Human Services offered to add $40 million more. Soon after, as the new a.p.a. chairman, he flew to Puerto Rico and helped raise $600,000 at a benefit. Last week he was host of the Paralympics in Atlanta. Next week he addresses the Democratic National Convention with a nonpartisan appeal for research support...
...that still possible? Dole's advisers talk up voters' lingering doubts about Clinton's credibility. But the Republican hopeful could be creating a credibility chasm of his own. His proposed tax cuts are so enormous--$551 billion over six years, according to the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee--as to leave him wide open to charges that they will cause the federal deficit to balloon. And thanks in no small part to the decades-long preaching of a former Senator named Robert J. Dole, polls lately indicate the public prefers lower deficits to lower taxes. So, in fact, do Republican Convention...
Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace: To remain nonpartisan, I racked my brain for a presidential library honoring a Democratic president and found that there are none in the Los Angeles area. Focusing little on the Watergate scandal while emphasizing his prowess in foreign affairs, the library states simply that Nixon "chose to resign" from the presidency...