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...Perot-Choate book excoriating the North American Free Trade Agreement; even some other treaty opponents found it overstated. Perot nonetheless has paid his coauthor--well, not the ultimate, or even the penultimate, but maybe the antepenultimate compliment. After other, bigger names, such as former Senator David Boren of Oklahoma and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, refused to sign on as Perot's vice-presidential running mate, the billionaire turned to Choate, who accepted. Said Choate, the son of a sharecropper from tiny Maypearl, Texas: "It's sort of a Cinderella story...
...Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oklahoma, Choate was once Tennessee's economic-development commissioner: after he left in 1974, a state audit found his office had spent extravagantly (on staff trips and entertainment) and had "completely violated" laws regarding competitive bidding, but he was never formally charged. He later held sub-Cabinet jobs in the Ford and Carter administrations and counseled such national politicians as Gary Hart and Richard Gephardt. He was credited with alerting many politicians to the problems of preserving U.S. competitiveness and maintaining the nation's infrastructure. True, he has a penchant for apocalyptic statements...
...WATKINS Republican--Oklahoma 3rd Watkins is returning to the seat he occupied from 1977 to 1991 as a Democrat. In doing so, he erases the last Democratic congressional toehold in the state...
...microscopic evidence is being treated as such by most of the media. Even if scientists did find a bacterial fossil that was truly from Mars, that's still a long way from E.T. phoning home or from aliens blowing up our major cities. Darn. ROBERT BRENNEMAN Muskogee, Oklahoma...
...side, where he puts his fingerprints on White House initiatives large and small. It was Gore who suggested the best bit of stagecraft in Clinton's virtuoso State of the Union speech: planting in the gallery Richard Dean, a Social Security Administration employee who had heroically saved lives in Oklahoma City. Dean provoked thunderous bipartisan applause--and then G.O.P. consternation when Clinton noted that the Gingrich-inspired government shutdown had later locked Dean out of his office. It was Gore who forcefully advocated the quick appointment of Mickey Kantor as Commerce Secretary after Ron Brown's death; who persuaded Clinton...