Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With only two months to go before Election Day, Dole was finally ready--and the first thing he did was can Sipple. But this wasn't the "Old Dole," who is known for dumping aides when he hits a rough patch. Instead it was campaign manager Scott Reed, who had plotted for weeks to replace Sipple and retrieve control of the campaign's message machinery...
Political Initiation: Age 5, stumped in a skirt decorated with an elephant patch reading I'M FOR MY DADDY...
...Darwin or Einstein comes along and with a flash of insight as blinding as a thermonuclear airburst, clears the entire landscape. Down below, ordinary scientists blink disbelievingly at their sudden ability to see from horizon to horizon. But their sense of wonder is tempered by regret. Tending your tiny patch seems like pulling weeds compared with such intellectual clear cutting...
...against any signs of a creeping Kemp takeover of their campaign. Even before Kemp came on, there were occasional tensions between longtime Dole confidants such as Sheila Burke and Roderick De Arment and newer Dole lieutenants, such as Reed, who have worked for Kemp. Reed has tried hard to patch these differences, secretly dispatching Burke and De Arment to pick up Kemp in Texas late last week...
Dole vs. Couric. Chicken George and Butt Man. Bob Woodward reporting that Hillary communes with Eleanor Roosevelt, and a former FBI man claiming (without evidence) that Bill sneaks out to the Marriott for trysts. The political silly season is upon us--a patch of especially funky Washington weather that is spreading nationwide and reminding Americans why they hate politics. Every election year has one of these strange spells, which always combine high dudgeon and low farce: politicians trading blows over trivial issues while important concerns get reduced to the level of cartoon. What makes this season stand out, however...