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...year later, Governor Clinton was in the throes of his own presidential campaign. Mondale tried desperately to get on to the podium at the Clinton-Gore rally at Daley Center in Chicago that summer. Unimpressed with her TV credentials, security guards refused to let her through. A flustered Mondale insisted that her father used to be vice president. "Vice president of what?" came the reply. Nevertheless, Mondale closely followed the first successful Democratic campaign for the White House since Carter's; when Clinton won, she wrote Chelsea a letter. "This is a very exciting time in your life," Mondale told...
...first time since 1995, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, and Visiting Lecturer on Government George F. Will are going to share the podium in a debate concerning the state of American politics...
After concession phone calls by Flynn and Bachrach, Capuano strode to the podium in the Essex Ballroom at the Holiday Inn in Somerville just after...
...which Lieberman roasted Clinton's behavior as "immoral" and "disgraceful," will break the spell that has held most Democrats back from putting real distance between themselves and the President. Two other highprofile Democrats, New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Nebraska's Bob Kerrey, followed Lieberman to the podium to say they agreed with him. Lieberman made his speech despite appeals from White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle that he hold off, at least until the President had returned from his trip abroad. But afterward Daschle came up and put his arm around...
Remember this scene? San Diego, 1996. Bob Dole steps up to the podium for his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention. He looks lean and hungry, the faithful are cheering, so midway through the speech, Dole stares into the cameras and decides to uncork. "To the teachers' unions, I say, when I am President, I will disregard your political power," he bellows. "If education were a war, you would be losing it." Dole says he is not talking "to the teachers, but to the unions," but it doesn't matter. Democrats seize on Dole's screed and cast...