Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Republican challenger Pat Buchanan has promised to refrain from Bush bashing, the White House can afford to reach out to more moderate voters. Among them: pro-choice Republican women. That was the political explanation behind the Administration's decision last week to allow patients in federally financed family-planning clinics to receive abortion advice under limited circumstances...
Successful male spouses, on the other hand, often get the benefit of the doubt, though there are exceptions to the rule. James Schroeder, whose wife Pat, a Colorado Congresswoman, once ran for President, says his legal career has not suffered and he has never been accused of a conflict of interest. But investment banker Richard Blum, husband of former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, says his firm was hampered because he turned down some clients to avoid the appearance of impropriety. "Could I have done better if my wife was home baking cookies?" asks Blum. "I think so." Another Californian...
...Palm Desert, Calif., digs, awaiting an artificial right knee to match the left knee he had inserted two years ago. Unable to get to his native Michigan to plug Bush for this week's primary, he boomed his message over the phone to several old friends in the media. "Pat Buchanan has had his run," said Ford. "It's time for him to get out of the race so the President can spend more time dealing with a Congress that is in total disarray." If the economy is improving, then Bush will win handily, insisted Ford...
...Give Pat Buchanan this much: he has propelled himself out of the Crossfire thunderdome and into the first tier of G.O.P. hopefuls for 1996. He has jerked a nervous President hard to starboard and roused the Bush-Quayle campaign from groggy complacency. And he has singlehandedly destroyed the incipient threat Bush faced from Louisiana's David Duke. Not bad for 13 weeks' work...
...1970s Brown the thinker was often so far ahead of the curve that he was in danger of hurtling into orbit. But in many ways the times have caught up with his fear for the planet and the people on it. Still, like Republican Pat Buchanan, he may have turned into the candidate for people who are sick of politicians-as-usual. If that's the case, it's a wonder Brown doesn't get more votes than he does...