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Lamm, the former Colorado governor who challenged H. Ross Perot this summer for the Reform Party nomination, spoke with humor on entitlements, slow economic growth, health care, the trade and budget deficits and Social Security, which he called an "actuarial nightmare." He also focused on his pet issues of "generational inequity" and "generational malpractice...
Adopting a method of communication used by his nemesis Perot, Lamm spoke not with notes, but with slides. With numerous quotations and a seemingly endless knowledge of statistics, Lamm conveyed the images of both grass-roots politician and public-policy wonk...
Lamm said in an interview after the speech that he never considered accepting the Reform Party's vice presidential nomination. He added that he had made an agreement with Perot, who promised not to seek out Lamm for the position...
Last Sunday's presidential debate was something of a dud in the ratings, drawing only three-quarters of the audience that saw the first Bush-Clinton-Perot encounter in 1992. But no one who missed the event could possibly have felt left out--not if they glanced at a newspaper the next morning, or watched television news, or listened to a radio talk show, or tapped into any one of dozens of computer Websites. In fact, for the next 24 hours they could hardly escape the darn thing. Just a random sampling...
...mate. If the election was decided at the cash register, Dole and Clinton would be also-rans to General Colin Powell, who has achieved the equivalent of a literary landslide (2.6 million copies in print) with his pre-election teaser. And what of that other man of letters, Ross Perot? He's rushing his "me too" autobiography to bookshelves this month...