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After a rambling monologue of an infomercial by Ross Perot, a sad portrait of a man excluded from the limelight and desperately trying to claw his way back in, the debate began. The air was thick with anticipation: Would the hatchet man return? Would Bob Dole finally go for the jugular, as we suspect he has wanted to all along...
...Indonesian couple. But the town hall format of the upcoming debate may work against the GOP candidate. Wednesday's debate will be conducted in much the same style as the debate in 1992 town-hall meeting in Richmond where Clinton easily and comfortably outshone George Bush and Ross Perot. The format could spell bad news for Dole, both because he is not as accomplished as Clinton in off-the-cuff responses and because audience member might not ask a question that would allow him to bring up the ethics issues. The audience, screened by the Gallup organization to keep...
Foreign policy doesn't interest her; the office manager thinks the country should be run by a CEO. But she isn't sold on Perot, and once again imagines the research she'd do. "I'd like to call one of his companies and speak to 10 of his employees and hear how they feel about...
Your article about Ross Perot's choosing me as his running mate [NATION, Sept. 23] distorted the description of my prior work. You wrote that after I left my position as Tennessee's commissioner of economic and community development, a state audit found that my "office had spent extravagantly (on staff trips and entertainment) and had 'completely violated' laws regarding competitive bidding." You go on to say I was never formally charged. To clarify the record, it was I who fired two employees--one for filing a false travel-expense report and the other for a false entertainment report...
...uncertainty was causing me some concern. It made me wonder, for instance, whether I might have only imagined hearing that Ross Perot was going to be doing a guest shot on Seinfeld. Then I got a telephone call from a friend of mine. "Did you see Elizabeth Dole on the Tonight Show wearing a black leather jacket and motorcycle boots?" he asked...