Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope that machine-stamped politicos are listening to Pat Buchanan's message. He is speaking about American concerns." MICHAEL STATON Gallup, New Mexico...
Three days later, the groundwork for Gingrich's Air Force One pique was laid when the Speaker was told by Pat Griffin, the President's top lobbyist, that Clinton would discuss budget issues on the return flight from Israel. So on Nov. 5, Gingrich spent more than four hours huddled with advisers at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, preparing one-page statements for use during the in-flight negotiating session. Gingrich even had an exit line ready to be declared upon touchdown at Andrews Air Force Base: "If they can make peace in the Middle East...
...played touch football on the frozen turf and came to the table sweaty and in high spirits and kept our eyes open for flying food. My sister had good moves; you'd look away for an instant, and she'd flip her knife and park a pat of butter on your forehead. Nobody throws food at our table now, but in the giddiness of the festive moment, I have held a spoonful of cranberry for a moment and measured the distance to Uncle Earl, his gleaming head, like El Capitan, bent over the plate...
...DECLARED PRESIDENTIAL candidates today, only Pat Buchanan has the courage to attack the real sacred cows of U.S. politics [COVER STORIES, Nov. 6]. One does not have to be a rocket scientist to see that American jobs were sacrificed on the altars of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the interests of increasing corporate profits. Nor does one need 20/20 vision to see that the motivating factor for these ill-conceived and damaging agreements was the pervasive and corrupting influence of campaign donations from Big Business. Only Buchanan has aggressively addressed...
Alan Keyes was the big surprise in Florida's Republican straw poll on Saturday, taking 266 votes, or 8 percent of the vote, nearly as much support as fellow anti-abortion candidate Pat Buchanan drew. GOP frontrunner Bob Dole won the heat with 1,104 votes, or 33 percent of the vote to Phil Gramm's 26 percent second place showing (869 votes). Lamar Alexander, who garnered a respectable 749 votes, or 22 percent, was quick to claim he's gaining on Dole. Keyes, an African American radio personality and former Reagan Administration official, impressed many delegates with his fiery...