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...Clinton's designated interlocutors in Haiti still hasn't signaled whether he's a Republican, much less a presidential hopeful. "In my travels I hear a lot of interest in Powell among Republicans," says G.O.P. strategist William Kristol. "There is a hunger for a fresh face, a nonpolitician...
...honored to accept their request." Then he introduced his running mate, retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale ("a hero's hero"), and only vaguely alluded to his tough economic recovery plan. As in the initial phase of his campaign, Perot played most heavily on his status as a nonpolitician: "The people want a new political climate where the system does not attract ego-driven, power-hungry people." Whether or not he could fairly exclude himself from that category, his statement was at least in keeping with the season's rhetoric...
Back in his suite, Reagan spoke about the future-and, as always, of his credibility. "I still consider myself a nonpolitician, no matter what people think of the Schweiker selection," he said. Now it seemed an almost absurd claim. "My concern through this whole thing," he went on, "has been to retain my credibility." Reagan thought he had done that, but others saw it differently. Said a longtime political supporter in California: "He's lost his place as the high priest of the right. After Schweiker, all he can do is preach unity, not purity." Reagan intends to start...
...succession of Eastern European Jews, including Mrs. Meir, who arrived in Palestine in the first waves of immigration. He is the youngest Premier-designate; almost the age of the state of Israel itself (26 years) separates him from 76-year-old Mrs. Meir. He is also the first nonpolitician to hold the job. He made his reputation first as armed forces Chief of Staff and the architect of Israel's smashing six-day victory over the Arabs in the 1967 war, then as Israeli ambassador to Washington from...
...task of drafting a unifying platform, Nixon tapped as chairman of the ic>3-member Platform Committee a bright young nonpolitician: Charles H. Percy, 40, sometime boy wonder who became president of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras) at 29, increased its sales eightfold and its profits elevenfold in a decade. Loyal to Nixon but leaning toward Rockefeller's liberal brand of Republicanism, "Chuck" Percy had to placate Rockefeller without angering the Old Guard, point forward into the 19605 without repudiating the Eisenhower Administration record of the 19505. Percy and Nixon hoped to accomplish all that with a brief platform...