Word: pols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whoever is chosen to replace Rich Bond as party chairman next January will face the task of reuniting the fractious G.O.P. Departing Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber seems the favorite for the job, partly because he is a straight-talking pol who kept his head above water while the President was drowning in his futile re-election bid. Du Pont also wants the party job, and has hinted he would forgo another run at the White House if he got it. Gramm and many moderate Bush operatives believe Labor Secretary Lynn Martin would do a better job of preventing the party...
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...equivocal on the issue of slavery. He was nominated by one of the most corrupt conventions ever held. And he hid his views so carefully that he issued not a single statement, gave not a single speech, between his nomination and the 1860 election. He was a good pol. He could never have been a great President -- or a President of any kind -- unless he had been a tough and flexible pol...
...would have to make some sense of its "proposition that all men are created equal." He reached into the childhood memories of his audience, to all those Fourth of July orations they had absorbed. He was appealing from one set of prejudices to a nobler set, as a shrewd pol should...
...gravel-voiced, tough-talking street pol from Chicago who learned her trade under Lee Atwater, Matalin, 38, oversees the Bush campaign's links to 50 state operations while helping to hone its message machine. Carville, 47, is a Louisiana Cajun with a taste for the jugular. According to an article in Vogue, when Carville informed Matalin at a Washington dinner party that he was going to work for Clinton, she excused herself and promptly threw...