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When Pierre Samuel du Pont IV told his father that he wanted to go to law school, Pierre Samuel du Pont III was baffled. Du Ponts, after all, did not become lawyers, they hired them. Twelve years later, after du Pont had finished law school and fulfilled his filial obligation by working in the family business -- the country's largest chemical company -- he went back to his father. He was restless: one of his more memorable company tasks was assessing whether du Pont should manufacture peanut butter and jelly in an aerosol can. He wanted to try his hand...
Twenty years later, Pete du Pont's ambitions are again being met with incredulity. Surely, when the former Republican Governor of Delaware called a press conference last September in the Hotel du Pont and announced that he was running for President, he had to be kidding. When even the urbane Robert Dole contrasts his plebeian Kansas roots with the preppie background of the front runner, George Bush, a du Pont of Delaware hasn't got a chance. What skeptics do not understand is that, in his own mind, Pete du Pont is a self-made man, one who rebelled against...
Other Republicans seem in no danger of that. Senator Bob Dole has raised $3.7 million and is also drawing on funds collected for his last Kansas campaign. Former Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont, though still a distant figure in polls, has pulled in $2.3 million. By contrast, New York State Congressman Jack Kemp has been trying to shuck a reputation as the tin-cup candidate. Though he has collected $3.3 million, much of it comes from direct- mail solicitation, a high-cost technique that helps explain why he had a mere $150,000 balance after allowing for pending bills...
Kemp joined former Gov. Pete du Pont of Delaware and former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. as announced Republican candidates. Vice President George Bush, Senate GOP leader Bob Dole of Kansas, former Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada and the Rev. Pat Robertson also are expected...
First, as I clearly stated to your reporter, the comments were my own and should in no way be taken as the view pont of the Catholic Student Association. Recognizing the variety of opinions which exist among Harvard Catholics on most issues, it is unreasonable to expect that one person could characterize those perspectives, and I do not attempt or claim...