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...values, along with the great economic changes caused by an industrial society giving way to the information age, and weave everything into a coherent national challenge with a language of hope and inspiration. Only one President so far has managed to do that. He was the muscular Theodore Roosevelt--rancher, explorer, author, hunter, warrior--who defined by his intelligence and personal exuberance America's arrival as the world's greatest mover and shaker. But even T.R. confessed that his success was based on the fact that the U.S. was in a "heroic mood" that came 20 years after Hayes...
Many in Utah are similarly unpersuaded by the suggestion that they will benefit from an increase in free-spending tourists. Rancher Dell LeFevre, whose land is surrounded by the monument, was told by an entrepreneur that he could get $5 million if he sold his spread to a developer. "I don't give a damn if they offer me $10 million," he asserts. "I just want to be a cowboy...
After one-term incumbent Wes Cooley withdrew from this race amid controversy over his past, Smith, who gave up the seat in 1994, was wooed back to electoral politics by an offer from Newt Gingrich to chair the House Agriculture Committee. A former rancher, Smith is a conservative westerner who wants endangered-species laws loosened and federal land opened to more development...
BORN: Dec. 28, 1956, San Angelo EDUCATION: U of Texas, B.A. 1980; Baylor U, D.D.S., 1984 FAMILY: Wife, Janice Van Amburgh; two children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Dentist; cattle rancher POLITICAL CAREER: San Angelo City Council, 1992-95 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 5516, San Angelo...
BORN: Nov. 19, 1947, San Antonio EDUCATION: Yale, B.A. 1969; Southern Methodist U, J.D. 1975 FAMILY: Wife, Elizabeth Lynn Schaefer; two children RELIGION: Christian Scientist MILITARY SERVICE: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer; rancher POLITICAL CAREER: Texas House, 1981-82; Bexar County Commissioner's Court, 1983-85; U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 6155, San Antonio...