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Clinton continued revising his speech, adding a few lines inviting Perot's followers into the Democratic fold. Late in the afternoon, when some aides complained that the speech was too long, the candidate defended it by claiming that it had fewer words than Michael Dukakis' 1988 oration. Actually, the Massachusetts Governor's text was shorter, and his lightning-fast diction made his delivery time shorter still. In his own laid-back drawl, Clinton took about 55 minutes to deliver his address. Recalling the fiasco of Clinton's interminable 1988 speech, his verbosity last week seemed on the verge of losing...
...relate to and trust. "When they know me better, they will know that about me." Just by making it to the arena, after all the rough and bitter days and nights when he did not skulk away, Clinton has shown that there is some iron in that core. Unlike Perot, he does not quit when he tires of the ordeal or blame others for his troubles. Clinton will find out in November whether the public came to know him better this week and liked what they...
...team of Bill Clinton and Al Gore aimed to repeat the Carter performance by using Clinton's strong base among Southern blacks, while benefiting from a three-way split of the white vote with George Bush and Ross Perot. Clinton, says senior strategist James Carville, "is the first candidate since Carter to have significant black support in his own right. He has the network. He has the record." Some key Southern Democrats, including Carter's former press secretary Jody Powell, estimate that with Perot in the race they needed only about 20% of the white vote, plus the black vote...
...those alternatives vanished last week as Ross Perot shut down his campaign with all the brutality of a plant manager pink-slipping loyal workers at Christmas. His method confirmed the worst assessments of his character. Without warning, Perot stranded the millions who had poured themselves into his effort, whom he had repeatedly promised to "serve" selflessly if only they would follow his lead...
...many reasons posited for Perot's decision, the most laughable was Perot's "conclusion" that his continuation in the race would throw the election into the House of Representatives, thereby depriving the next President of the time required to prepare for office. Oblivious to the stunned cries of betrayal, Perot insisted, as he tiresomely does with every gesture, that he was interested only in the good of the country. The most probable explanation for Perot's reversal is simpler: he couldn't take the heat. Politics is perhaps the only professional game amateurs truly believe they can win. "Even professionals...