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Though Bush and Quayle were both stumping too, their efforts to portray the Clinton-Gore team as liberals in moderate clothing were constantly deflected by questions about their own prospects and record in office. In a week when Bush faced hecklers at a gathering of POW and MIA families, quayle gritted his teeth and denied that he was on the brink of being dropped from the team. When he turned up on CNN'S Larry King Live to repeat that line, however, he seemed to provide his own escape clause. "Believe me, if I thought that I was hurting...
...that crowd hissed George Bush. In fact, much like Carter, Bush can't seem to get a break the summer before what he hopes will be his second election to the White House Just last Friday, family members of POW MIAs--another group Bush advisers thought would be polite--jeered the president at their annual meeting in Crystal City, Va. Now Dukakis-like, Bush was left angrily defending his patriotism and war record...
Third-party candidates often stumble badly in their quest for a plausible No. 2. Remember General Curtis ("Bomb Them Back to the Stone Age") LeMay, George Wallace's 1968 ticket mate? Perot has already tapped retired Admiral James Stockdale, a conservative former Vietnam pow, as his stand-in running mate to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Perot calls Stockdale his "fail- safe fallback" and has said that he will, if necessary, "just go with the team we have...
Billy Hendon, also a former Republican Congressman, currently heads the POW Policy Center. For several years, the group has offered -- over U.S. government objections -- a $2.5 million reward to anyone in the region who can deliver a live American POW to safety. This effort has so far produced no results...
Eugene ("Red") McDaniel, a retired Navy captain who heads the American Defense Foundation and its educational arm, the American Defense Institute, came to the POW issue the hard way -- he was once one himself. After his release in 1973, he resumed his military career, ending up at the Pentagon, where he concluded that "the U.S. government would never do the job" of tracking down the POWs who he became convinced were left behind. McDaniel's group has been the conduit for a number of photographs of alleged POWs that ^ have been made public recently, including the now famous picture that...