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...fight over who controlled the message masked a sharper debate over what Dole's message should be. Sipple & Co. wanted a clean shot: tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts. Reed argued that Sipple should sell a broader vision, the whole picnic of budget balancing and tax cuts and spending proposals that Dole laid out before the convention. Dole himself wanted to do the hard thing, offer not just the tax cuts but the specific plans to pay for them. When the ad finally aired, tax cuts were third on the list after spending cuts and a balanced budget, and Sipple...
...convention was the culmination of that Clinton-Morris calculation. The message was: We don't have parties, we have relatives, a big national family picnic. Which is why on the first day, politicians were banished from sight. Actor Christopher Reeve barely mentioned Clinton in his speech, and when he talked about government, it was to describe it as the benign paternalistic arm ready to embrace America's civic life as a mirror of the homes baby boomers grew up in. Sarah Brady, the gun-control advocate, brought her wheelchair-bound husband onstage to deliver another above-the-fray message: Guns...
Today's Olympics are reminiscent of a labor-union picnic: sack races, rolling-pin-throwing contests, you name it. We should return to the classic Olympics, to the original Greek concepts--wrestling, swimming, track and field--and forget the embellishments. ROBERT E. DAEHN Sanford, Florida...
Other notables making appearances were City Councillors Timothy J. Toomey, Michael A. Sullivan and Kathleen L. Born as well as former mayors Kenneth E. Reeves '72 and Alice K. Wolf. Alfred E. Vellucci, who as mayor helped host the first Harvard Senior Picnic in 1975, was also in attendance...
Rudenstine then introduced a "special guest" to the picnic--a little girl wearing a paper birthday cake, complete with candles, who did a tap-dance as the crowd sang "Happy Birthday" to the city. Rudenstine clapped and sang along with the crowd...