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...American banker and a Mexican homemaker, he grew up in Mexico City and played baseball well enough to be drafted by the then Kansas City Athletics after attending a prep school in New England. At his father's insistence, Richardson left baseball behind and chose Tufts University, ending up with a master's degree in international relations. After a three-year stint as an aide on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he moved to New Mexico to run for Congress...
...thought it was an SAT prep thing but it turns out to be UC advertising," he said...
...many ways. "I spent my whole life in the private sector, he in the public," observes Bowles. "Some of my greatest strengths are in organization and structure; he is a freer thinker than I am." Clinton has always been a showboater; Bowles was forever modest. One of his prep-school teachers stuck a note in his school file praising his respectful manners with a prescient metaphor: "When you're in a duck blind with him and he shoots the bird out from under you, he will make you feel like it was your shot at the bird...
...first debate handily, but the consultants were worried that unwinnable questions might dominate the second, a town-hall format in San Diego with questions from voters. The atmosphere was shifting. Dole ratcheted up his rhetoric and vowed to go after Clinton hard on character. At the first prep session, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Clinton tried hitting back, rebutting Dole's criticisms and calling him hypocritical. But everyone could see it didn't work, so Penn proposed a strategy of benign neglect: "Clinton Soars, Dole Whines." Answer attacks when you must, he told Clinton, but end each answer with a short...
...That was also the year his brother Frank signed with the Boston Braves. Six years later, Frank was in the World Series with the Braves. Because their mother and father had separated, Frank, nine years older than Joe, became a surrogate father, paying Joe's way through St. Francis Prep and giving him his 1958 World Series ring. The ring, unfortunately, was stolen from a New York hotel room in 1971, the year Joe hit .363 for the St. Louis Cardinals...