Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pete du Pont (R-Del.) is campaigning heavily in N.H., spending more than $30,000. "Du Pont is willing to confront tough issues. He thinks the American people want to hear solutions, not feel-good rhetoric," said his N.H. Press Secretary Gordon H. Hensley...
Kalb, who is also Murrow Professor of Press andPublic Policy, is scheduled to interviewRepublican candidate Pete du Pont IV, the formergovernor of Delaware, next Sunday
Besides Kemp, former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, Vice President George Bush, former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and evangelist Pat Robertson already have entered the GOP race. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas has said he will declare his candidacy...
Some Republican wingers have gravitated to Pete du Pont, who has positioned himself to the right of Kemp with his advocacy of drug testing in the schools and free-market nostrums like eliminating farm subsidies. But the former Delaware Governor remains too patrician for most conservatives and too conservative for most patricians...
...Republicans already in the race or about to announce officially are less vulnerable. With the exception of Pete du Pont, they are better known than the Democrats. Voters are thus more likely to balance their stands on issues against unfavorable personal publicity. The G.O.P. may experience some fratricidal bloodletting later; some of the candidates are known to have little use for one another. But so far their campaigns have been rather gentlemanly. Among the Democrats, however, the question is shifting away from how many will survive past Iowa, New Hampshire and the Super Tuesday primaries in the South...