Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beaming countenance of a man blessed with faith in the righteousness of his path, the campaign workers leaped off their feet in joy. Leaning forward with the mild-mannered charm of a televangelist talking to a camera, yet drawing on the rhythmic cadences of a polished preacher, the Rev. Pat Robertson delivered an ecumenical version of the message that has attracted such a fervent cadre of crusaders to his Republican presidential campaign. "Whether we're rich, whether we're poor -- whether we're management, whether we're labor -- whether we're black, whether we're white -- whether we're educated...
...church and state but also impose a cross of his special design on society. Robertson complains that the press fixates on his religious views instead of his whole record. "What we have to do," argues his communications director, Connie Snapp, "is change the focus . . . let people know the whole Pat Robertson story...
Robertson counts among his ancestors Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison; his late father A. Willis Robertson served in the House and then the Senate for 34 years. Young Pat won a Phi Beta Kappa key at Washington and Lee University in his hometown of Lexington, Va., served in the Marines and earned his law degree at Yale. But he never worked as a lawyer. While living in New York City with his bride Dede, a nurse, Robertson was trying to succeed in the electronics-components business when his religious calling overtook him. By his account in Shout...
...CANDIDATES, of course, are packaged by themselves and their handlers. The same was true in George Washington's day. But this is especially true for Biden. Before the 1984 campaign, Democratic campaign guru Pat Caddell wrote out a scenario for how "Candidate Smith" could win the Democratic nomination and hopefully go on to victory in November. Candidate Smith was supposed to be Senator Biden...
...candidacy went nowhere. So he decided to take on a different role and portray "a middle-class guy" who wasn't "big on flak jackets and tie-dye shirts" in the '60s. (Presumably because he was too busy screwing up in law school.) Now an adviser, probably Pat Caddell, is saying that Biden's latest troubles will "free" him to "get into being himself." The new self is an aggressive "populist, anti-Establishment" candidate and arch-defender of the middle class. Who knows? Maybe he'll bounce back, stay in and run a strong race. If he does, I have...